Spring Wellness Fair

Mystic River Acupuncture and Everything Zen are collaborating once again to bring you a Spring Wellness Fair. Stop in to try a sampling of reflexology, massage, and acupuncture. Or come by just to chat with us about what we do and how it works. We’ll have some light snacks waiting for you. We hope the evening will be every bit as enjoyable as out last event was.

Spring Wellness Fair will take place at Everything Zen, 156 King’s Highway in Groton. RSVP to Holly Potter at 860-861-8978.

Everything Fun at Everything Zen

Last Friday Mystic River Acupuncture went to Everything Zen for an evening of “Radiant Beauty From the Inside Out”. I talked about the Chinese concept of beauty being the direct result of how we feel and how healthy we are. Beauty formulas and healthy eating are a part of radiance as much as cosmetics and facial care are.

Holly and I served up an “immune” promoting broth adapted from a recipe in “Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen: Recipes From the East for Health, Healing, and Long Life”. Organic chicken bones, herbs and vegetables were stewed for 24 hours to make this delicious stock that can be taken either as a broth or used as a base in any dish calling for chicken stock.  Bone marrow is rich in nutrients and stewing for a long period releases the essence of bones and their marrow into the soup. A crockpot makes the whole process easy.

Next we sampled a classic Chinese formula that is traditionally taken as a draught with wine. A gram of herbal granules was stirred into bit of warm water in our Dixie cups. We drank this down, then chased it with wine as I passed around a plate containing the same formula in raw form for everyone to see. Taking herbs to keep qi (energy) and blood circulation flowing is essential to a good beauty program, especially in cases of dry skin, acne, and other skin problems.

We finished the evening with a demonstration of wrinkle reducing acupuncture while Holly talked about the importance of using organic paraben free products on the skin. She and showed participants the special herbs I powder up for her to use in facial masks for her facials. Holly and I have been collaborating for the last year on different herbal face masks for various skin problems.

We were running out of time and didn’t get to drinking the special relaxing tea I mixed. Luckily, I had made little bag of these tea herbs for each person to bring home to make for their tea breaks during week. This tea was a relaxing blend that also “vents” or dissipates stress energy and is particularly good for tension in the body caused by stress. It’s a calming refreshing tea that taken with lemon, mint and honey.

By the time we were done, the class had renamed Everything Zen to “Everything FUN” and Holly and I were pleases and honored. It’s important to put some fun in our busy lives.

Check News and Events to learn about the Radiant Beauty specials Holly and I are offering so you can keep having Radiant Beauty and Everything Fun.

Kathleen Poole

Surprise Mom with Radiant Beauty

Mystic River Acupuncture and Everything Zen are collaborating to offer you a Radiant Skin Beauty Package just in time for Mother’s Day.

Holly Potter, LMT of Everything Zen will give your favorite mom an anti-aging Vitamin C facial peel and Kathleen Poole will provide a wrinkle reducing acupuncture treatment for only $115. Mom can make a day of it. Visit Everything Zen, then have a bite to eat at one of the areas many restaurants before your wrinkle reducing session at Mystic River Acupuncture. For best results, these treatments can be scheduled up to one week apart.

A full package of six of each is also available for $660, and the sampler pack can be applied towards the full package of twelve sessions. With the full package you can take advantage of special discounts on herbal consultation with Kathleen and an assortment of upgrades from Holly.

What more perfect and unique gift is there for that Special Mother in your life?

Relax With Chair Massage

We are pleased to announce that Chair Massage is once again available at Mystic River Acupuncture. Stop by for fifteen minutes of stress-draining body work and meet our new Licensed Massage Therapist, Sarah Hartford. We are excited about Sarah joining our staff. She has plenty of experience and worked at the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy for many years.

Chair massage is most often available on Tuesdays, but please call to check the week’s schedule. You can make an appointment or come as a “walk-in” on Chair Massage days. It’s a wonderful followup to acupuncture, although you can come just for the massage. And at $1/minute it’s so affordable.

Stay tuned to learn more about Sarah Hartford, LMT. Meanwhile, pop in for a mid-day chair massage break or treat a friend to one.

Radiant Beauty at Everything Zen

Friday April 29 at 6:30 Kathleen will present a workshop about Chinese “beauty” formulas, herbal remedies that promote healthy skin. Beauty is more than skin deep, and beauty is best when it comes from the inside out.

We’ll talk about the factors contributing to healthy skin from a Chinese point of view and address problems such as dry skin, acne and premenstrual skin changes. Kathleen will bring a sample formula to show you and to try, and she’ll make a special tea for the Sin Ni San ladies’ (you’ll have to come to find out who you are). She will also demonstrate facial acupuncture for wrinkles.

Come have a fun evening at Holly Potter’s fabulous studio, Everything Zen, 156 King’s Highway in Groton. Call Holly 860-861-8978 to RSVP.

Alternative Medicine – How to Choose

On April 11, 2011 Kathleen will present ‘The Jungle of Chinese Medicine: Which to Use and How To Choose a Practitioner’ to the Mystic Rotary at its monthly luncheon at the Mystic Hilton.

She will discuss the various alternative medicines and therapies available in southeastern Connecticut, what they are used for, and how to find a practitioner. She’ll talk about which professions are licensed and which are unregulated and the educational requirements for each. Kathleen did extensive research of schools, programs, and the state statutes regarding the professions. Handouts outlining this research will be available and  she will accompany her lecture with a slide presentation.

All are invited to attend. If you’ve ever felt confused about alternative medicine, now is the time to get the facts.

Mystic Hilton is located at 20 Coogan Blvd, Mystic.

RSVP: Laureen Morley at 860-536-4140.

Receive 5 Massages and Get the Sixth Free!

We have a New Year’s gift for you — our new Massage Punch Cards. We want to make it easy for you to stay healthy this year, and massage is a great way to deal with stress and day-to-day aches and pains. It’s also an excellent way to deal with injuries, and it goes so well with acupuncture. Come into day and get your card. We’ll even keep your card here for you, so you won’t have to worry about forgetting it. Call us today and start collecting those punches. Feel your body melt into total relaxation under our massage therapists’ capable hands. You only need five punches for a free massage. It’s the deal of the year!

Acupuncture is great for athletes.

Today the NY Times published an article about NFL players using acupuncture. Acupuncture can be a real asset to any athlete. It can help them maintain peak performance and enhance their immune system.Acupuncture is a wonderful therapy for sports injuries. It can be used alone for minor sprains and strain or as an adjunct to standard treatments for serious injuries. At our clinic we treat professional, amateur, college and local high school athletes. I often see athletes before an event to give them a sense of well being and focus. After performance they return to ease the aches and pains of competition. Many use acupuncture during training. Like massage, acupuncture is an essential tool for athletes of all ages and types.

Acupuncture and the NFL

We welcome ESCU medical anthropology class.

On November 14, Eastern Connecticut State University’s Medical Anthropology Class visited Mystic River Acupuncture. Kathleen spoke to the class about the history of Chinese Medicine and how acupuncture works. She demonstrated how to put an herbal formula together and weighed herbal ingredients out on both an ancient style scale and a modern digital one. The class had a tour of the facility, with plenty of time for questions. Kathleen explained the ins and outs of practicing in this country and  outlined the requirements for becoming a Connecticut licensed acupuncturist. She told the class about how the profession has changed in the past twenty years.  She described the steps she took in establishing her clinic and its growth over that time period. In past years, Kathleen has demonstrated acupuncture by giving mini-treatments to willing students. Professor Joan Greene includes a trip to Mystic River Acupuncture in her annual curriculum in order to show her students how ancient medical traditions are practiced in the modern western world.

Acupuncture is a perfect baby shower gift!

Because Acupuncture is a pregnant woman’s best friend. There are so many aches and pains that might go along with her pregnancy, and acupuncture is a very safe, drug-free way of dealing with them. Morning sickness, swelling, back pain, fatigue, anxiety, all of this and more can be alleviated with acupuncture. Overdue babies can be encouraged to come with acupuncture (with approval of the midwife or doctor), and breech babies will often turn within a few sessions.

There is an entire branch of Chinese Medicine devoted to pregnancy and birthing. If you gift your favorite mother-to-be with acupuncture, she can use it whenever she needs to, before or after the baby. If she brings the new father or her birthing couch along, Kathleen is happy to show them where to apply pressure to help her when the big event comes. While you are here, be sure to pick up a packet of special food herbs you can add to homemade chicken soup — a wonderful dish for postpartum recovery. Acupuncture is a unique baby shower gift, and she’ll remember you warmly for it.

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