Specialties
Pain is one of our specialties. Maybe you strained a knee during exercise, or threw out your back doing housework. It happens. Acupuncture has great techniques for helping deal with pain, and for rehabilitating range of motion and strength issues. However, not all pain is recent. Some pain is old, deep, chronic, and relatively unresponsive to conventional therapies. This is a place where acupuncture can be transformative. We also specialize in stress management. Stress comes from tension, resistance, or pressure - it tends to be oriented to life circumstances, very often centered work, finances, family, health, etc. In this sense, stress is necessary and healthy. The difficulty arises when stress becomes unrelenting or overwhelming, and there is no opportunity to restore, to rest, no way to rejuvenate. Acupuncture cannot change your circumstances, but what it can do is help your body and mind learn how to rest, to let go of tension, and re-establish peace in your life.
Meet the Business Owner: Pete T.
I have a lifelong passion for traditional medicine, martial arts, and meditative disciplines. I have lived in Gainesville, FL since 2000, working as a web and application developer, and as a local small business owner and consultant. In 2012 I earned a Masters of Arts from the Latin American Studies program at the University of Florida focusing on ritual and medicine in Peru and Ecuador. However, as much as I deeply loved the people I met and the experiences I had been a part of in the Amazon, I knew that what I found most meaningful for me personally was an opportunity to actually help real people, day to day, with traditional forms of medicine, beyond a strictly academic study. Having spent years as an amateur reader of Chinese medical theories along with martial arts study, I was excited to realize that I had the opportunity to study this form of traditional medicine right here in Gainesville. In 2016 I earned my Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Dragon Rises College.