Acupuncture Collective Blog

Well we all know that there are four seasons. In Calgary you can get all four in a 24 hour period. Most of us have a favourite season and often it’s not winter...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is about 3500 years old as we know it today.  It stems out of a rich tradition of observing the natural world and all of its interactions, along with the human body and the correlations between the two. Through trial and error the medicine became perfected over the course of literally billions of treatments.

Have you ever noticed your acupuncturist just staring at a random part of your body for no explicable reason? Only to suddenly light up and go after one more needle in just the right spot. The icing on the cake!

Emotional resilience is a necessary skill for all people in navigating their daily life experience. In times of triumph we give little thought to the impact that our emotions have on our life experience; but as we move through the day, confronted by little or large frustrations and turmoil these negative emotions have an impact on the experience of our life.