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Nicholas Sieben Acupuncture Treatment Session.

Aromatherapy & Acupuncture: Shifting Consciousness to Change Our Lives.

Aroma-therapy is an empowering, consciousness-shifting modality. I was taught through my Chinese medicine training to construct essential oil blends like herbal formulas. In my own experience, they are surprisingly effective in treating both body and mind.  The practice of Chinese herbal medicine encompasses many things, including...

Nicholas Sieben Healing from the root of the issue.

Mind, Stomach & Rebellious Energy: Acupuncture for Reflux, Pain, Heaviness & Fixated Thought

I consider the Stomach and its energetic functions most important to maintaining balance in the body. Clinically as an acupuncturist, I use the Stomach’s acupuncture channel constantly to treat a multitude of symptoms and conditions.  I’m not the only acupuncturist who considers the Stomach the most...

Communicating with the Depths of Our Being: Acupuncture and Pulse Diagnosis

As an acupuncturist, the major tool I use for diagnosis is the pulse. Everyone is fascinated by this process. For good reason: a tremendous amount of information can be gathered by feeling a person’s wrist. Pulse diagnosis is thousands of years old. Along with diagnosis of...

Strength in Body & Mind: Acupuncture & Herbs to Deal with Challenge & Change

Many healing traditions believe illness is a call for change. The most ancient of Chinese medical texts call this the metaphor of “wind.” There is a transcendent learning opportunity inherent in illness and challenge. This is a common spiritual view. “Wind” is something agitating us...