Classical Five Element Acupuncture
An ancient system of medicine
You are part of nature.
Classical Five Element Acupuncture recognises five elements within each of us - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Each is connected to different organs, seasons, emotions and qualities of life.
Just as nature moves through cycles of growth, expansion, stillness, letting go and beginning again, so do you.
When these natural rhythms become disrupted, you can feel it in your body, your energy, your emotions and how you experience life. Pain, dis-ease and discontent can arise.
Acupuncture works with the elements and the patterns showing up in your body, supporting you to return to your natural rhythms.
How acupuncture can support you
Emotional
Emotional challenges, overwhelm, stress, fatigue or simply feeling like you're not quite yourself.
Rest and Recovery
Poor sleep, feeling run down, overwhelmed or like your body is struggling to keep up.
Physical
Physical symptoms, muscle/joint pain, chronic pain, headaches, digestive concerns, skin issues or hormonal imbalances.
Support
You don't need to have a specific symptom. Sometimes you simply know that something feels out of balance and you want to understand why.
You are more than the symptom you experience.
Five Element Acupuncture looks at the bigger picture - your body, your energy, your emotions, your patterns and your individual constitution.
Rather than simply treating the symptom in isolation, we look at what may be contributing to something feeling off
within you and work with your body to support its natural ability to find balance again.
Every treatment is completely individual to you. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.
Nature gives us a language for understanding ourselves
Have you ever watched the ocean on a stormy day? Wild, unapologetically chaotic, a magnificent display of untamed beauty.
And then stood in the same spot on a calm day and watched the waves roll rhythmically, their smoothness like silk, the peacefulness washing over you?
Both impact you. Both stir emotion. Both make you feel in different intensities.
But you never question the ocean. Its vastness. Its array of emotion. Its display of its trueness. It just is all of itself
.
And yet you question your own self every single day.
Maybe you feel disconnected.
Maybe you feel exhausted.
Maybe you have lost touch with who you really are, you just don’t feel like yourself anymore.
It has become ‘normal’ to wear your hustle and your exhaustion like a badge of honour.
To judge and demean your emotions and your body.
To push through chronic pain.
To toss aside what you really want for yourself.
But…
What if what is true for the ocean is true for you?
You can embody it all.
What if you don't need to pretend and push through?
What if you can simply return to yourself again?
Meet Hilary
Acupuncturist and Body Listener
Hello, and welcome to my world,
I created Slánú Draíochta (Slaw-noo Dree-uck-tah) because I wanted to create something that brings together the different threads of my work and, more importantly, the way I see healing.
I am a Five Element Acupuncturist and holistic therapist based in Co. Wicklow
and after more than 10 years of working with the body through massage
and movement, and through my own experiences of change,
burnout and finding my way back to myself,
I began to see things differently.
We are part of nature.
Our bodies have their own wisdom.
We are not designed to push, perform and stay the same all the time.
Slánú Draíochta is my way of bringing that understanding into my work.
Five Element Acupuncture is at the heart of it, with the other things I have learned
along the way - massage, reflexology, yoga, strength & mobility training, human design and
intuitive body awareness -all naturally woven into how I work.
Slánú Draíochta means “magical healing”.
And that is really what Return to Your Magic means to me - returning to your own wisdom and believing in your own magic.
I can't wait to welcome you,
Hilary
Words from my clients
Deborah
Receiving a treatment from Hilary is like sinking into your favourite bed on a winter evening. It feels safe, intuitive and like magic. She is so experienced and naturally intuitive. A Magic combination.
Vicky
My treatments with Hilary are so much more than just self care. The safe space she holds allows me to completely surrender and receive. They are a place for me to fully relax and turn off so that I receive exactly what my body needs.
Yvonne
Having experienced pain for over a year, now being able to say I feel myself again is so amazing. A truly gifted practitioner.
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