Dragon energy in Chinese Medicine speaks to your ability to harness your yang energy; masculine power, creative fire, and sexual energy, all while doing no harm. It's also speaks to the ability to own and share your gifts while keeping an eye on your grandiosity.

For many of us this underworld journey is a rite of passage and initiation, and if met with a compassionate guide can make all the difference in how we alchemize our experience. At the archetypal level, it is the decent into the shadows that opens a person to the wealth of the inner world.

A Healing Room devoted to raising consciousness, understanding the seasonal rhythms of the body, and investigating how energy moves through the Chinese Medicine meridians and the Chakras.

Treating 'Gu Syndrome' is a long game that can take months or years, especially as the Gu are evolving with us. Consistent and diligent detoxing of Ropeworms is the most effective method we've found to do this.

If you are a client with any sort of mild reoccuring digestive issues or long-standing grief and other unresolved emotions, you may have heard me talk about doing a Parasite Cleanse. This is an intestinal cleanse that can jumpstart your intestines and help resolve the emotional body.

Here at Refuge Marin we recommend a Parasite Cleanse in autumn to coincide with the Chinese Medicine season of the Intestines. Chinese medical research has a rich history and understanding of treating what they call the 'GU.'

It's springtime here in Northern California and it's impossible not to notice the incredible amount of energy rising out of the earth right now. We call this Yang rising in eastern practices, and as voyagers into our bodies one remembers as without so it is within. This is a wonderful time to connect with your own precious lifeforce.

On the body there lies an acupuncture point called Gate of Hope. This point is located on the liver meridian and addresses the physical transformation of toxins, emotional transformation, and the bursting forth of springtime and new life.

Acupuncture needles can draw one's consciousness to the thoughts of the mind, track their path into the body, and bring awareness to the place that’s still wounded. With enough practice you draw the light of consciousness to the dark recesses, allowing them to heal.

This is a true story about the Golden Buddha, a massive and holy relic that lives in Thailand. It is an archetypal tale to lift the spirits