中醫經絡刮痧療法

Traditional Meridian GuaSha Therapy

Activate your body's self-healing ability

What is Gua Sha Therapy?

Gua Sha is an ancient healing technique that began in China around 13th century. It is used in Asia by practitioners of Traditional Medicine, in both the clinical setting and in homes, but is little known in the West. "Gua" 刮 means to scrape or rub. "Sha" 痧 is a reddish, elevated patch of skin. It involves palpation and cutaneous stimulation where the skin is pressured, in strokes, by a round-edged instrument, such as a ceramic Chinese soup spoon, a well-worn coin, or, even honed animal bones, water buffalo horn, or jade. It results in the appearance of small red patches (“Sha'”), which are believed to remove blood stagnation, promoting normal circulation and metabolic processes.

Gua Sha is valuable in the prevention and treatment of acute infectious illness, upper respiratory and digestive problems, and many other acute or chronic disorders.

Head/Neck/Shoulder Gua Sha Therapy

Your head and neck are vital parts of your body, with the neck serving as a bridge connecting the head to the trunk. Your shoulders and neck bear the weight of the head and facilitate communication between the blood vessels, nerves, and meridians of the head and the rest of the body every day. Having issues in these areas can impact your daily life quality. Traditional Chinese medicine scraping treatment, also known as Gua sha, can help clear the meridians, stimulate blood circulation, and prevent lymphatic blockage. Therefore, the health of your upper body, especially our breathing, can better serve for the rest of your entire body.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the human body is divided into three cycles: Qi (Energy) circulation, blood circulation, and water circulation. The most vital is Qi circulation because if Qi, or the energy does not flow, the blood will not circulate. If the blood does not circulate, the water/liquid will not flow. If the water does not flow, toxins will not be eliminated, causing blockage in some way.

$95.00 for 90 mins (Warm up muscles 20 mins+ Gua Sha 45 mins+ Meditation 15 mins + detoxifying herbal tea)

We first make our habits, and then they make us. - John Dryden

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What problems can be caused by blockage of qi and blood in the shoulder/ back region?

Head: Insufficient Blood Supply

  • If the qi/blood in the shoulder and neck are blocked, nutrients cannot enter the head, and waste cannot be removed. This can lead to a series of problems in the face like acnes.

    ① Headache, dizziness, migraine; lightheaded, having hard time concentrate

    ② Insufficient oxygen supply to the brain, memory loss, forgetfulness

    ③ Insomnia, poor sleep quality (frequent dreams, easy to wake up, difficulty falling asleep).

Shoulder & Neck Energy blood Blockage

  • ① There will be pain/ stuffiness/ sourness when your hand touches it (muscle hardness is due to fatigue, bone pain is due to proliferation);

    ② Pain in the shoulder blade seam, frequent numbness in the limbs, cold hands and feet;

    ③ Poor resilience during the day, easy to show fatigue in a short time.

Hormone Secretion Imbalance

  • ① Endocrine disorders, psychological and nervous sensitivity, irritability, lack of self-confidence, and suspicion; cervical deformity, causing lumbar deformity, lumbar deformity will compress the sciatic nerve, the sciatic nerve will oppress the pelvic cavity;

    ② At the same time, it triggers endocrine disorders: low back pain, leg and foot weakness, easy fatigue, endocrine disorders, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, easy gain weight.

Who is suggested to have a shoulder/ neck Gua Sha treatment?

Gua Sha can excrete these metabolic wastes

Benefit 1, Warm up musscule around sthe neck and shoulder with deep tissue massage, and Gua Sha on the neck and shoulders promotes metabolism. Nowadays, our bodies are constantly undergoing metabolism, and many toxins are precipitated in the pores under our skin. Gua Sha can excrete these metabolic wastes, make the blood flow more smoothly in the body, and restore the natural metabolic vitality.

Promote whold body blood circulation

Benefit 2, Massage pressure point along the Meridian path, and Gua Sha the shoulder and neck can dredge our shoulder and neck meridians, clear congestion, break up nodules, promote blood circulation, and metabolize toxins and waste in the blood.

Release Anxiety, depression, and promote hair growth

Benefit 3, Gua Sha the face, head and scalp can promote hair growth, release stress, anxiety, depression, dredge our shoulder and neck meridians, clear congestion, break up nodules, promote blood circulation, and metabolize toxins and waste in the blood.

$95.00 for 90 mins (Warm up muscles 20 mins+ Gua Sha 45 mins+ Meditation 15 mins + detoxifying herbal tea)

  • - If you had a heat stroke or heat cramps should not do **Gua Sha**

    - If you are pregnant: It's not recommended to have large fluctuations in Qi and blood

    - If you have coagulation problems or currently taking coagulation drugs

    - If you have poor liver or kidney functions

    - If you have cardiovascular diseases

    - If you are a cancer patient

  • 1, Take a at least 20-minute hot bath before scraping session, or apply a hot compress, or steam in a sauna, so that the effect of scraping will be better. Why is that?

    **Because taking a hot bath can raise body temperature, accelerate blood circulation, relax nerves, and then scraping can better dredge meridians, expel evil spirits, enhance body immunity, especially for chronic neck, shoulder, waist, diseases.

    2, Have enough sleep

    3, Have sufficient hydration

  • It should be noted that scraping will dilate the pores, and it is not advisable to bathe or apply heat within 4 hours. After scraping, you should keep your emotions calm, avoid anger, irritability or anxiety, and avoid eating raw, cold and greasy food. The next scraping should be spaced 3~6 days, based on the fading of the marks on the skin.

Student’s Feedbacks

  • Natalie

    “Hi Christy, I felt a release of tension in my lower back almost immediately. I usually have pain in my lower back when I stand or walk that gets worse the longer, I have been standing up. After the session, I didn’t feel as much pain and still feel that way. On an emotional level, I’m feeling like I’ve broken through another barrier in front of the person I want to become. I think it’s been a work in progress since we first started, but I’ve felt a larger and stronger shift in my way of thinking and progressing. I let my emotion get the best of me so when a negative emotion comes into my mind it can send me on a downward spiral pretty quickly. I can spiral down and stay down for a very long time depending on what happened to trigger me. I think maybe our last session released something in my throat that enabled me to communicate differently. And my non-verbal communication was also different also because the tension in my face and shoulders had decreased.” - Natalie

  • Will

    Hi, Christy, the gasha session was very helpful for me. I've had a history of cluster migraine headaches and then recently had bad neck shoulder head & back pain. The symptoms I had prior to your session were sharp pain in my neck & back when walking or driving. It started to go down my right arm. The session with you felt like electricity going all over my head & muscles and it was sometimes painful in a good way. It opened up and loosened me up. I had been in bed about the last 4 days prior to seeing you and then since seeing you the pain has lessened. I'm using my yoga balls & birthday gift and they feel great. I'm excited to see where this goes and I feel blessed to be part of the journey. You keep giving me tools that address exactly what I need.