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Ms. Verity Allen
Verity Allen Acupuncture
Acupuncture in Bristol and Cornwall
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Acupuncture: £45.00/session
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Therapy Provides:
Acupuncture
Therapy Provides:
Acupuncture
About Verity Allen Acupuncture
I qualified from the world renowned College of Integrated Chinese Medicine gaining a Batchelor of Science in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. After 4 years of study supplemented by further specialist courses I am at the forefront of modern approaches and best practice. A crucial part of my training was in conventional medicine giving me a broad understanding of medical conditions and how acupuncture in particular can provide an alternative approach to treatment.Further Information
My relationship with acupuncture was not of conventional beginnings.I remember sitting in a circle amongst other fresh-faced, budding students during my first lecture at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading. We were asked to share with the group why we had chosen to study acupuncture. People were talking about their positive experiences having received acupuncture themselves. Others were talking about how much evidence-based research there was backing acupuncture to be an effective treatment. I only really had one answer… I wanted to help people.
At the time, I had a very limited understanding of how acupuncture really could help. I was sceptical, (like most who are new to acupuncture), and I couldn’t understand how using a few needles could really help anybody but I was drawn to it because I was so fascinated by the concept.
As the study progressed, I came to realise just how involved I was going to need to be. This was no part-time, something for the weekend hobby – this was fast becoming a very demanding 4 year commitment! I had no idea of the science behind it, the thousands of years old system that kept the medicine alive all these years. I also had no idea of just how holistic the approach seemed to be. This idea that everything about you is so interconnected, that something so minor as a mild change in your emotional state, or even a mild change in the weather, pulls on your body’s resources to adapt and deal with the changes. And it’s how your body adapts that is so key.
When a person can change with the wind, experience the many emotions that come to us all at times; move through feeling worried without over-thinking, move through fear and anxiety without becoming paralysed, move through anger without getting stressed, then life becomes that much easier. Our health is less compromised by draining its precious resources on these feelings that, try as we might, just won’t go away.
Acupuncture teaches that these emotions are only ‘qi’ (chi) in different forms: Energy, just bundled in separate packages. When we start to worry, qi becomes knotted, we can’t think or do anything until this worry has been resolved, it’s as though the qi just goes round and round in circles with no purpose and all the while gathering more momentum. When we become fearful or anxious, qi contracts into ourselves. It becomes frozen and we can’t move forward. When we become angry our qi expands (and the steam is directed often at the poor unsuspecting person who happens to be in the firing line). We can’t control it, it lurches from us and takes every ounce of restraint to hold it in. It is natural and human to experience these emotions but when they become a problem, is when you need to call for a ‘qi buster’.
The practice of acupuncture, in its simplest form, is to instruct qi. The needles are simply facilitators for this. They provide us with a connection to the exact area where qi is in abundance. Acupuncture points (of which there are 361) are specially chosen because they are areas where little pools of qi form. They lie in the fascia between skin and muscle, which is why the needles don’t need to be inserted too deeply in order to have an effect. An acupuncturist will be able to feel when the needle has reached its destination. The qi from the patient and practitioner will have made a connection and the patient will definitely be able to feel it. It’s unlike any sensation they will have ever felt and can best be described as a dull ache or a radiating sensation. It’s not painful, just different. Once the connection is made, the magic happens!
Languages
- English
Other concerns & issues I deal with
Concerns & issues I deal with
- Fertility
- Back Pain
Therapy Provides
- Acupuncture
Price List
- Acupuncture: £45.00/session
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