"I've had therapy and acupuncture separately- my session with Jeremy was the best of both- visualization and energy work combined with acupuncture and deep tissue massage work. I felt lighter than I have in as long as I can remember after my session- and loved that he combined the letting go of old emotional/mind patterns with their release physically."

Keri L., San Francisco, CA (Yelp.com)

"I left my first acupuncture session totally relaxed and focused, a feeling that stayed for about a month. In my second session, he incorporated more pulse reading and energy work that was, in one hyphenated word, MIND-BLOWING."

Allison Y., San Francisco, CA (Yelp.com)

Somatic Acupuncture

Your body is an energy system. There are many layers and wavelengths of energy that can become imbalanced and cause pain or discomfort.

Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine are excellent at resolving imbalance and restoring health.

However, at a very deep level, your body is "programmed" to respond to stressful situations that acupuncture alone can not reach. These are the situations that result in whether or not you feel happy and at ease or stressed and bothered.

It is this level that Somatic Acupuncture works.

Programming

We essentially self-program ourselves, with the help of parents, friends, teachers, and society at large. But it is we who make the decision on how to respond to certain situations.

We do this as children. The results carry through the rest of our lives.

Unfortunately, Children are not terribly good programmers.

Somatic Acupuncture is about finding the triggers to stressful events and disabling them.

Autonomic Nervous System

Somatic Acupuncture works at the level of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). The ANS is part of the Central Nervous System that essentially "runs" your internal organs.

When you encounter an emergency, the ANS sets off a cascade of hormonal and other physiological changes that enable you to FIGHT the lion in the jungle, or RUN away as fast as you can.

This is known as the FIGHT OR FLIGHT response.

After you're done with that extremely stressful situation, you want to relax, eat a meal, digest (manufacture Qi & Blood from food), sleep and rejuvenate.

This is what's known as the REST AND DIGEST response. Your ANS changes the message to your heart, lungs and adrenal glands (among others) so that you can rest.

Somatic Acupuncture is about finding the triggers that cause FIGHT OR FLIGHT in everyday situations and "reprogramming" them, or in many cases, simply disabling them.

The result is that you reclaim your ability to choose how you want to respond to situations and not be a virtual slave to your early programming.

You become free to be how you want to be in the world.

A Session

A Somatic Acupuncture session begins exactly like a regular acupuncture treatment. Points are chosen to help your physical energy system balance appropriately.

Instead of leaving you to rest with the needles, we have a dialogue while you are in a deeply relaxed state. It is from this "healing state" that we can access the triggers.

The session is, in essence, you doing energy work on yourself. I help bring you into the proper state and help you feel where these triggers are in your own body through our discussion.

With me as a guide, you are able to understand where the trigger/response is in your body, where it came from initially, and how to release/reprogram it.

These sessions are powerful and yet it is really you who does all the work. I am simply a facilitator.

The result of an individual session is to feel light, vibrant, and joyful. Sometimes one session is all that is required for dramatic personal change.

Over time, these sessions instil a deep sense of peace and "knowing" who you are and what you're capable of.

When you encounter the same stressful situations in life - which you inevitably will - you will have more awareness and the ability to choose how you want to react.