Suzi Kirk Five Element Acupuncture

Trigger warning…

Alcohol-free life 🫶

I’ve had many conversations with sober friends AND patients in recent years, which have contributed massively to this shift.

Working in the realms of health and healing, drinking alcohol suddenly seemed like a misalignment.

(This is no judgement on anyone else’s choices, or to say that alcohol can’t be enjoyed and savoured as one of life’s pleasures and great joys.)

Sometimes it’s necessary to take stock and reassess what is and what isn’t working for you in your current stage of life, and adjust accordingly.

This is not a “never again”, it’s just a no for now. ✨

Soaking up the Elements of beautiful Crete! The colours here are something else 🤩✨

There comes a moment in every change of season, when the energy suddenly shifts.

In Five-Element Theory, seasons are not governed by specific meteorological calendar dates, they belong to a feeling. There is an innate inner shift that is mirrored in the body.

In the coming days or weeks, we are about to see the sharp push of Spring 🌱 soften into something more fiery 🔥

Wood / Spring is the force of growth, ambition, vision and direction. It belongs to the Liver and Gallbladder, who enable us to plan, push forward, dream and create movement.

But although Wood was never meant to stay in striving forever, many of us get stuck here. Always improving. Optimising. Achieving. Holding tension in the jaw, shoulders and living as though rest, softness or pleasure must be earned.

The invitation of Summer / Fire, is to connect to the Heart - to be open, visible, expressive and playful.

It asks us to stop pushing and soften into joy✨

To sit outside longer.
To speak more honestly.
To laugh more freely.
To let ourselves be seen.
To remember that healing is not only about discipline - it’s also about delight.

Nature is already making the transition.
Your body is trying to as well.
Allow it🔥

Many of us wait until we’re at crisis point before we look towards “alternative therapies” like acupuncture. And many still think it’s simply for pain management, injuries or when we have specific symptoms.

But honestly, you do not need to be “unwell” to benefit from acupuncture. Far from it!

This system of medicine has always been more about prevention, than cure - to gently guide the body, mind and spirit back into a state of balance before patterns of adaptation turn into screaming symptoms.

What I have observed through my time as a practitioner, is just how many of us are living in survival, spinning plates and pushing through exhaustion, until our bodies all of a sudden say “no more.”

But what if it were possible to be an active participant in your own life again, rather than a spectator?

What if you were able to access real presence, pleasure, play and joy again?

The truest gift of Five-Element Acupuncture is not just about living symptom free, it is about being able to move through life with greater awareness, authenticity, connection and ease.

Not just surviving, or getting by.

But actually thriving and FEELING your life as you live it.

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Everyone is talking about Facial Cosmetic Acupuncture. Through working with clients over the past year since I trained in this branch of Acupuncture, I have developed my own 90minute Signature treatment, incorporating the power of Red light therapy AND the magic of Five-Element Acupuncture as well!

Thank you to my wonderful clients who have allowed me to share their before and after pictures here. The depth of this treatment however, has to be experienced!

Keen to try? Drop a double heart ❤️❤️ and I’ll send you availability and answer any questions you may have. Xx

Welcome to my TED talk… I put this out there with FULL disclosure that I’ve committed to doing a half marathon in September and entered the London Marathon ballot for next year 🫣…

This is definitely not me saying “don’t do the hard thing.” It IS me saying, do not mistake such physical extremes as being “healthy.” Unless there is proper nourishment, rest and recovery, to help repair and rebuild, they are not!

We should be in awe of such feats and definitely not normalise them. 🙏

Another wonderful day of learning today, with my incredibly wise teacher and mentor, Gerad Kite. If you’ve ever walked through the black door of the Kite Clinic in Wimpole Street, you know, this is where the magic happens ✨

I’m very grateful to still have the opportunity to gather with other advanced practitioners each month, to continue to refine the art of Five-Element diagnosis and deepen the treatments I offer my patients.

In this system of medicine, diagnosis cannot be concluded from a patient’s symptoms, pulses or pattern analysis. Neither can it come from intellectually understanding / knowing “more” about acupuncture.

It arises through a vibration, a movement of qi that can only be received through the senses.

And through the diagnosis, lies the golden key to transformation 🔑

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Let me help you rebuild self-trust.

You have ALL the tools, sometimes we just need help to hear our body’s messages.

If this post resonates, I see you. And you don’t have to do it alone. This is the work I hold space for in clinic.🤍

You can find me: Monday-Saturday (by appointment only)
Sucklings Yard, Ware, Herts.