Dogwood Studio is excited to present our collaboration with Acupuncture Healing Center in Chapel Hill, NC.
“Do you believe your body has the capability to heal itself? I do. For the past 25 years, I have been studying and practicing non-invasive, drug-free ways to help my patients heal themselves, and to improve their health and overall well-being.” Carmela Mager, L.AC.
We interviewed Carmela Mager, L.AC., from Acupuncture Healing Center of Chapel Hill to learn more about their practice and how Dogwood Studio fits in with their vision. Carmela explains a little bit about her love for the medicine and her commitment to her community.
Here’s a little taste of the vast knowledge Carmela shared with us. Feel free to listen or read the full interview on our Acupuncture Healing Center Collaboration page.
“The moment the client comes into the practice, this is the moment of me connecting with them. When we think about words, the word speak, you think about the voice of somebody or the speech but another way of thinking about it is, the body and how the body is holding its first impression, when I look at the person.”
“Chinese medicine is a complete system. The practitioner learns how to diagnose and then how to provide or execute treatment. And treatments can come from herbals or nutrition suggestions. Could even be movement therapy. “
“Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine sees yoga as part of the ancient wise tradition. It is a very old tradition. Both of these medicines, Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, develop types of therapies. Chinese was much more toward Chi Gong and Tai Chi. And yoga was much more toward the Indian medicine, Ayurvedic medicine. But the necessity of movement is a medicine. It's very clear that the two medicines understood that movement means you move your Chi. You move your blood. You move your energy. You move your stagnation. Sitting and not moving is basically stagnation. It can be emotional stagnation. It can be body stagnation. When you move and you stretch, you move energy, Chi, stagnation.
Yoga tradition calls it Prana. Chinese culture called it Chi. It is actually the same concept in many ways. The old practitioners or the old medicine doctors understood the uniqueness movement and the need of movement. That is one thing that is in this movement, that it's important to explain to a client.“
A big thank you goes out to Carmela for taking time to talk to us and explain how Chinese Medicine and acupuncture connects with Yoga and Yoga Therapy. We appreciate all that Acupuncture Healing Center does for the community.
Learn more about Acupuncture Healing Center at: https://www.acupuncturehealingcenter.org/.
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SAM Sather, founder of Dogwood Studios, is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT), individualizes the yoga practice with appropriate modifications for participants’ unique bodies and medical histories with a focus on finding calm and improving health. She offers several live, online and in person yoga classes as well as private sessions so you can focus on your needs one-on-one.