Fertility Services
"To know the male yet keep the female is to become the valley of the world."
—Chuang Zi
Chinese medicine is an extremely effective treatment and often cures infertility. We help women and couples to achieve pregnancy and sustain term gestation. Our methods of fertility acupuncture, acupressure, nutritional counsel using a fertility diet, herbal medicine, and health exercises form the cornerstone of our treatment plan and marked success rate in helping women and couples become parents.
Fertile 'til Forty-Nine
We treat the full range of women in the first phase and second phases of reproduction, women with marked physical Western medicine gynecological disorders, as well as women who are having difficulty conceiving for unknown reasons and unexplained infertility. We even have very good success with disorders that Western medicine views as unchangeable such as poor ovarian reserve, low AMH, high FSH, PCOS and endometriosis.
Our central belief that there are three main ways that the body becomes imbalanced: exhaustion, stagnation and/or toxicity. Our work is to access how to best nourish, circulate, and purify the body and mind that then allows the body to return to its own intelligence, its birthright, to be able to allow life to move through, to become fertile. It is our opinion that there is no fixed state of infertility. The question is what can we do together to move towards fertile life.
Active Relaxation
Relaxation is a major part of healing, especially naturally healing infertility. But our view at Nourishing Life is a little different. While most natural fertility programs emphasize relaxation, we recommend 'Active Relaxation'. This is the key and is desperately needed by modern women to bring about harmony and balance: by bringing together some activity and some stillness. The balance of opposing energies is a fundamental difference and attribute of the Nourishing Life programTM and threads its way through all of our services: Fertility acupuncture, Fertility Yoga, Fertility Diet, and Fertility herbal medicines. This forms the entry point, the beginning of returning the body back to its natural fertile state rooted in the rhythms of nature.
Life Touching Life
Fertility is the natural capability of giving life. It is innate in all living beings. A flower doesn’t need to be told how take in sunshine or water or nutrients. A seed knows how to sprout and grow. But if you’ve ever tended a garden, you know some plants spring out of the ground tall and bright; others, if the conditions aren’t just right for them, don’t make it.
Fertility is about embracing the natural order of things, embracing the invitation to be in this life. Not everyone will bring another life forward, but we can bring our life forward, and stand full and square in the invitation to be here. Fertility is being at home in our bodies and lives—not changing or fighting—being present as life unfolds in front of us, even if it doesn’t unfold in the way we want it to. Fertility says yes to that life, too.
When we live stress-filled days, eat unhealthy foods, or have imbalances of any kind, we lose that place germinating seeds demonstrate as “it does it by itself.” Traditional Chinese Medicine is about making one, wholly integrated, pulsing organism that knows what to do. That same deep wisdom, the innate fertility is part of our essential being. The Chinese call this essence Jing.
If you don’t have robust essence, you are not going to be fertile; you’re not going to be reproducing anything—because all reserves are going into base survival. Fertility is vibrating life-making-life, life-touching-life.