Nashalla began her journey with the Classical Five Element Acupuncture lineage at age fifteen. This connection to receiving began a lifelong devotion to this system for personal self care, health and mental wellbeing. In fact, she credits this style of acupuncture for helping her accomplish the impossble task of fully studying Tibetan medicine log before online or in-person classes or courses were offered to those outside Asia.

Thirty-one years later, Nashalla completed her Masters of Acupuncture from the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture. She is now currently learning the modern day TCM version of acupuncture in order to take the three national board license exams.

WHAT MAKES FIVE ELEMENT SO DIFFERENT?

The Classical Five Element style follows the ancient Taoist princibles for life and heath laid out in the text known as the Huangdi Neijing (often given the title: The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine) an ancient treatise on health and disease. Attributed to a famous Chinese emperor, Huangdi who lived around 2600 BC. What makes this modern day style unique was due in large part to a man known as J.R. Worsley. It was professor Worsley who synthesized this classical Taoist viewpoint of working totally within nature’s natural laws, not focusing on symptoms as seen in modern TCM acupuncture. It is within natures own laws of how energy flows and can balance one another that addressing illness and disregulation within the Body-Mind-Spirit is addressed at the very root level of causation.

The result is an elegant system, one that works within the laws of yin and yang, and the five elements own natural patterns of creation and/or control and destruction in order to address disharmony on any level of the Body-Mind-Spirit. The result is not only helping patients be their best selves, but deep interpersonal transformations.

Pre-1950’s Chinese Medicine was heavily influenced by the Taoist system of nature working in harmony with a person’s Body-Mind-Spirit. The elements of water, wood (air), fire, earth and metal (space) are worked with to create balance. The Law of the Five Elements and their association to the Body-Mind-Spirit are the essence of Ancient Chinese Medicine. The modern TCM will use ,multiple approaches and script of what a point can do to treat signs and symptoms, while with the Five-Element approach we trust in natures ability to heal itself. IN this way the deeper root causes of disease and disregulation of a body, mental/emotional or spiritual issue are addressed as priority, rather than treating symptoms alone with recipes of how to effect with a point. WE honor and utilize the full spirit of a point and what it has to offer humanity. This alternative and yet very ancient paradigm creates lasting results over time and serves to create the best version of the full YOU possible.  We do not work with Chinese herbs.

Acupressure / Acupuncture: Please Note - Until Nashalla passes the NCCAOM board exams she will NOT be using needles on anyone.

Moxa, acupressure, and plant spirit medicine are used in place of needles until her board license has been issued. While she has completed requirements for a Masters of Acupuncture degree, with over 660 hours of internship with needles, she cannot use needles in her private practice within North America until she has received her national license from NCCAOM. Instead she will offer acupressure methods.