“In Chinese medicine, we have a constitutional type that is one of the five elements—water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. We're all born with quite an equal distribution of chi through all the elements, like uncarved stone. It’s not about having this perfect balance between the five all the time. But, at that first point of shock or disconnection from the original nature, we have one element that tends to step forward. Within each element, there is this dual organ system that's working for that and denotes a bit about what your life purpose is, what you're here to experience, your personality, and what your physical, mental, emotional, and psychological development will be. How you present in the world and how you receive the world can be seen through the eyes of your element. The elements have really different presentations in a room. I work with the psycho-emotional presentations, and the journey is to work back to the core aspect, nourish that, and balance it up.”

“Acupuncture is a bridge between the different sensations within a person's system and outside of it. This sense of chi and vitality. I'm using points that are precisely what is required for a person in the exact moment. We have to hone in, feeling the pulses, and listening to what's going on in the room. The magic of acupuncture can be experienced in many different ways depending on the style. But, essentially, acupuncture brings somebody home to their heart, to their body, and to a sense of what's going on around them. It's a realignment of everything. We’re able to reassign chi, where there has been a misalignment, shock, or trauma. We can pull down the bricks of a dam and let the nourishment come through the whole system.”

“When you have an acupuncture treatment, you come into mending and healing the bits that have been rubbed a bit raw from what's going on in the world. You get soothed, put back together so you can influence your life and communities in a centered and heartfelt way. You have growth and progression of your vision, and can live it properly as opposed to coming back to the same cycles of stagnation or incompletion of your goals and dreams. The habitual patterns that we get stuck in can be signs of disharmonies within our bodies that just need a few release points. The liver may need a bit of tonifying to action your dreams, or the stomach and spleen in order to properly absorb the joy and nourishment from all of your labor. You're getting into balance so that you can live through what you've signed up to do, and be able to share that with joy, laughter, and abundance.”

“With Chinese medicine, we’re merging the internal and external cycles like archetypes. Indigenous medicine acknowledges inherited cycles from the womb, and works to clear ancestral trauma. When I'm in the room with a client, it's not just you on the table. There are a few people that are showing up through you.”

“Chinese medicine has been talking about the gut-brain connection for thousands of years. The brain is a curious organ, and it's the stomach and spleen that does a lot of the thinking and the intellect work. It’s important to get the bacteria into the gut and small intestine, working at that highest form of intelligence through food, nature, and the seasons.”

“When I turn up to work, I know I've done my meditation in the morning. I've wiped my feet clean of as much of the gunk that I'm going to be bringing into the room. I do continuous study because I never assume that I know enough. I want to be turning up as a practitioner that is intrigued by every symptom that you're having, in your history, who you are, and how you're turning up in the room. The less attached to my knowledge or center, the more I can hear what's going on for you, and what we need to work with.”

“What's meant for you won't pass you by. If it's not a mentor giving you a push forward into it, then it's going to be something else in the universe.”

“In the dance of any partnership, you've got to have that different way of seeing things. If you've both got the same lens, stagnation can happen.”