Join Raj for a FULL MOON Gong bath this Sunday, January 12th @ 2:00 p.m. She will also offer gong baths on Sunday, February 9th & Sunday, March 16th. Sign up under classes or call the office.
A full moon gong bath is a unique and deeply meditative sound healing experience that uses the vibrational energy of gongs, often aligned with the powerful energy of a full moon. Participants are “bathed” in sound waves, allowing their bodies, minds, and spirits to relax, heal, and reset. It is a holistic practice rooted in ancient traditions but has gained popularity in modern wellness practices for its profound physical and emotional benefits.
What Happens During a Full Moon Gong Bath?
Preparation and Setting:
The session typically begins with participants lying on mats or seated comfortably. They are encouraged to relax, close their eyes, and focus on their breath.
The space is often dimly lit, with candles or crystals used to enhance the ambiance.
The Gong’s Vibrations:
A gong master plays one or multiple gongs, producing resonant tones and sound vibrations. These sounds range from deep, grounding tones to high, ethereal pitches.
The sound waves penetrate deeply, creating a physical sensation that many describe as soothing or transformative.
The Full Moon Connection:
The full moon is believed to amplify the effects of the gong bath. Traditionally associated with heightened energy, intuition, and emotional release, the full moon adds an extra layer of potency to the experience.
Practitioners may incorporate themes of letting go, setting intentions, or connecting with cosmic cycles.
What Does a Gong Bath Do?
Physical Benefits:
Stress Reduction: The deep vibrations of the gong stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing stress and promoting relaxation.
Improved Sleep: Many participants report better sleep after a session due to the calming effects on the body and mind.
Pain Relief: Sound waves can help release muscle tension and improve circulation, reducing physical discomfort.
Emotional Benefits:
Emotional Release: The vibrations can bring suppressed emotions to the surface, facilitating catharsis and emotional healing.
Clarity and Balance: The gong bath helps quiet the mind, providing clarity and a sense of inner balance.
Spiritual Benefits:
Energy Alignment: The sound frequencies help balance chakras and realign your body’s energy.
Connection to the Universe: The full moon adds a spiritual dimension, fostering a sense of connection to larger cosmic rhythms.
Who Can Benefit from a Full Moon Gong Bath?
Stressed Individuals:
Anyone dealing with high levels of stress or anxiety can benefit from the relaxation and grounding effects.
People Seeking Emotional Healing:
Those looking to release emotional blockages or gain clarity in their lives often find the gong bath transformative.
Spiritual Seekers:
For individuals exploring spirituality, the full moon’s energy combined with the gong’s vibrations can deepen meditation and foster a sense of universal connection.
Insomniacs:
The calming effects of a gong bath are particularly beneficial for those struggling with sleep issues.
Creative Thinkers:
Artists, writers, and other creatives may find that the meditative state induced by a gong bath inspires new ideas and fresh perspectives.
How to Prepare for a Full Moon Gong Bath
Wear Comfortable Clothing: Loose, breathable fabrics will help you fully relax.
Bring Essentials: A yoga mat, blanket, and pillow will ensure you’re comfortable throughout the session.
Set Intentions: Reflect on what you’d like to release or invite into your life during the experience.
Stay Hydrated: Drink water before and after to support your body’s natural detoxification process.
A full moon gong bath is more than just a relaxing experience; it’s a holistic journey that nurtures the body, mind, and spirit. Whether you’re seeking stress relief, emotional healing, or a deeper connection to the universe, this ancient practice offers profound benefits that resonate on multiple levels.
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With shorter days, lower energy levels, and pressure brought on by the holidays contributing to feelings of sadness or lack of motivation. Acupuncture offers a natural way to lift your mood, improve focus, and help you feel like yourself again. By supporting your body’s stress response and improving circulation, acupuncture enhances mental clarity and emotional resilience. Many patients notice better energy, reduced anxiety, and improved mood after regular treatments.
We often help patients struggling with:
? Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
? Low motivation or energy
? Stress-related fatigue
? Feeling overwhelmed
? Difficulty concentrating or staying focused
? Emotional imbalances related to winter blues
Find your balance this season. In addition to acupuncture, find a little something daily to boost your mood. Do you like to read, paint, converse with friends, cook, exercise–whatever it is, make time to replenish your energy. Winter is a season for hibernation. It’s OK to stay in and re-cooperate, re-balance, and rest. But if you choose to go out, we are ready to help you manage the long, dark, cold days of winter!
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Discover the power of your chakras! ? Hands-On Chakra Workshop
Overview:
This immersive workshop offers an exploration of chakra balancing techniques. Through a combination of color therapy, crystal therapy, aromatherapy, sound healing, mudra practice, muscle testing, and guided meditation, participants will gain a deeper understanding of their energy centers and learn practical tools for self-care.
Workshop Outline:
Introduction to Chakras:
A brief overview of the seven chakras and the importance of balanced chakras for overall well-being.
Color Therapy: The significance of colors in chakra balancing. Guided meditation using color visualization to activate and harmonize the chakras.
Crystal Therapy: The energetic properties of various crystals and their alignment with specific chakras. Practical techniques for using crystals to balance and enhance chakra energy.
Aromatherapy: The therapeutic benefits of essential oils and their connection to the chakras.
Sound Healing: The vibrational effects of sound on the body and mind. Guided meditation using sound instruments (e.g., singing bowls) to harmonize the chakras.
Mudra Therapy: The practice of hand gestures (mudras) and their impact on energy flow. Learning specific mudras to balance and activate the chakras.
Muscle Testing: A kinesiology technique to assess the strength of the body’s energy field and identify chakra imbalances. Using muscle testing to guide chakra balancing practices.
Guided Meditation: A deep relaxation and visualization practice to connect with the chakras and promote energy flow. Guided meditation to balance and activate each chakra individually.
Workshop Benefits:
Increased self-awareness and understanding of personal energy centers.
Improved emotional well-being and stress reduction.
Enhanced physical health and vitality.
Practical tools for daily chakra balancing and self-care.
A supportive community of like-minded individuals.
Join Raj and dig deeper into the 7 chakras, connecting with each of their symbols, elements, colors, petals, and more. Explore different healing techniques and learn various methods to open, clear, and balance each chakra. With her expert guidance, Raj will guide you through Mudras and teach you how to activate your chakras with special hand positions. These hand positions called Hasta-Mudra send energy to specific chakras. Additionally, you will learn to activate your endocrine glands and organs with color and crystal healing. Raj will also cover aromatherapy and how to integrate essential oils to effectively balance and align your chakras.
No prerequisite class is required. Anyone can benefit from the knowledge gained by attending a Chakra Workshop. Participants who learn to balance their energy centers can:
1. Improve physical & mental well-being
2. Enhance intuition for spiritual growth
3. Connect to inner wisdom
4. Build stress management & relaxation skills
5. Find inner peace & fulfillment and
6. Develop tools for self-healing and personal empowerment
Limited spots available. Book your spot now by clicking the link below (or call the office) and embark on a transformative experience on Sunday, September 22nd from 2:00-4:30 pm.
Energy exchange: $108 or EARLY BIRD (until September 16th) $98
The Trager® approach (TA) is a unique form of bodywork developed by Milton Trager that utilizes gentle, rhythmic, rocking motions to help reset the body from a state of tension to a state of relaxation. When the body is injured or tense, it adapts by guarding the area. This can result in decreased range of motion, increased tightness in muscles, and resistance to change. TA recognizes that the unconscious mind is directly linked to how we feel about and move with our bodies. Our physical, mental, and emotional health are all intricately connected. Trauma can manifest in our bodies in the form of physical ailments, disorders, or imbalances. Once we create patterns or feedback loops in the nervous system, they are difficult to disrupt.
The goal of TA is to smooth out the wrinkles in the system; to promote “freedom of movement, freedom from pain, and comfort within the body.” TA practitioners, like Mary, observe how the body is moving and work with you to assist it in moving more freely. This approach aims to optimize relaxation and ultimately re-pattern the way the body moves. Using lateral, side-to-side, swinging motions, the practitioner is coaxing the brain out of holding patterns that manifest in the body causing pain or decreased range of motion. Do you remember the calming effect that swinging had on your nervous system as a child? TA taps into the visceral response we have to feeling our body’s weight as it rocks, sways, jiggles, or moves freely.
As the practitioner facilitates a series of gentle, non-intrusive movements, we can begin to recall feelings of playfulness and a sense of how our bodies felt in childhood-more free. Once given the choice between tension and freedom of fuller movement, the mind (& nervous system) will choose the more pleasurable option. The unconscious mind is reminded that it can move freely, without pain, and enter a more relaxed state.
Mary says, “When I am receiving TA, I feel like I’m in my baby body. There is a feeling of soft, fullness, and freedom.” If this sounds like something you’d like to experience, all you have to do is schedule a massage with Mary and ask for this approach.
Mary Sinclair has been a LMT since 1996. She has recently acquired her Trager® Approach Practitioner Certification through 300+ hours of class study and fieldwork. She has been blending TA into her massage work due to the efficacy of the work and the fortifying effects it has on her own body while working. She is now also offering TA sessions here at UAC. A TA session includes 5-10 minutes of Mentastics or Mental Gymnastics to help create the same types of feelings in the body that are experienced while receiving table work. An essential and unique aspect of TA is recall or realizing that once a more pleasurable sensation has occurred within the body, that experience will always be with us–just waiting to be re-lived.
Watch a Video about the Tragar® Approach:
For More Information about the Tragar® Approach:
https://www.tragerapproach.us/
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Reiki is a natural holistic healing system that re-balances your entire being.
It is a spiritual practice which helps you connect to your intuitive abilities and the energy in the surrounding environment. Learning Reiki can also help balance you physically and emotionally while simultaneously providing mental clarity. It is a hands-on, healing practice and a wonderful self-care tool. If you’ve ever been curious about Reiki and wish to learn how to do it for yourself, friends, family members & pets, Beth will be offering a 2-day workshop July 13th & 14th at Urban Acupuncture from 2:00-5:00 pm.
Reiki has many benefits and people come to receive it for different reasons. It is not limited to those who wish to practice it professionally. Beth suggests some of the following compelling reasons to step into this transformative journey of energy work:
1. Support a family member or yourself through illness
2. Provide Reiki as a preventative measure against sickness
3. Support yourself and others during stressful periods
4. Reiki allows you to induce relaxation & peace whenever needed
5. Has the potential to aid the body’s natural ability to heal
6. Supports you in going deeper with your own healing journey
7. Compliments other holistic modalities
Beth Broadnax is a traditional Usui Reiki Master and Licensed professional School Counselor. When she is not working at Urban Acupuncture Center, she is the District Elementary Resource Counselor for Columbus City Schools. Beth discovered her passion for Reiki after an initial experience in 2019. Her heart-centered approach comes from a place of deep empathy and caring. Her main goal as a practitioner is to assist clients with the balancing of trapped energies so that healthy ones may come in to allow for support, peace, balance, and well-being. As a Reiki Master, Beth can provide Reiki sessions to clients, and also teach Reiki to others and give attunements to open students.
Beth says, “the beauty of Reiki is that it will enrich you, your surroundings, and everyone with whom you interact. It is a beautiful healing practice that will help you discover and uncover your true nature.”
Cost Per Person is $320 and includes all materials, handouts & book. The course will also include monthly meet-ups via Zoom with Beth & other workshop participants afterwards and the opportunity to practice Reiki on friends, family, and other Urban Acupuncture staff. For more information, feel free to call the office at (614) 725-2488.
She will also offer gong baths on Sunday, February 9th & Sunday, March 16th. Sign up under classes or call the office. 
Winter can be emotionally challenging.
This immersive workshop offers an exploration of chakra balancing techniques. Through a combination of color therapy, crystal therapy, aromatherapy, sound healing, mudra practice, muscle testing, and guided meditation, participants will gain a deeper understanding of their energy centers and learn practical tools for self-care.
Join Raj and dig deeper into the 7 chakras, connecting with each of their symbols, elements, colors, petals, and more. Explore different healing techniques and learn various methods to open, clear, and balance each chakra. With her expert guidance, Raj will guide you through Mudras and teach you how to activate your chakras with special hand positions. These hand positions called Hasta-Mudra send energy to specific chakras. Additionally, you will learn to activate your endocrine glands and organs with color and crystal healing. Raj will also cover aromatherapy and how to integrate essential oils to effectively balance and align your chakras.
The Trager® approach (TA) is a unique form of bodywork developed by Milton Trager that utilizes gentle, rhythmic, rocking motions to help reset the body from a state of tension to a state of relaxation. When the body is injured or tense, it adapts by guarding the area. This can result in decreased range of motion, increased tightness in muscles, and resistance to change. TA recognizes that the unconscious mind is directly linked to how we feel about and move with our bodies. Our physical, mental, and emotional health are all intricately connected. Trauma can manifest in our bodies in the form of physical ailments, disorders, or imbalances. Once we create patterns or feedback loops in the nervous system, they are difficult to disrupt.
Reiki is a natural holistic healing system that re-balances your entire being.