🔘Cupping🔘

Chinese medicine theory is put into practice through many modalities. Cupping is one of my favorite vehicles for moving qi and blood, it was the modality I first fell deeply in love with when I began my studies almost a decade ago in 2014.

The cups work via suction, either fire is placed inside the glass cup to remove the oxygen before skin placement or a pump is used. By reversing the gravity in a given spot, the stagnation underneath (i.e. inflammation, scar tissue, chronic tension) is lifted to the surface where the body is signaled to remove it and begin to heal the area. Fresh blood flow arrives at the scene and opens up pathways for better blood and lymphatic circulation of the entire system.

Stagnant tissue acts like traffic within your body, congesting flow both locally at the site of pain and distally where it is needed. Similar to traffic packed cities, pollution and pathogenic heat start to build in the environments where flow is most idled and the ripple effect can be felt throughout the entire region and beyond.

I like to utilize cupping as part of most sessions unless contraindicated. The cups are powerful unblockers and the resultant marks act as windows into the state of our internal world.

Plus they just feel really freaking good.