Lorie Eve Dechar, M.Ac. developed Alchemical Acupuncture as a way to help her patients move more deeply into their healing processes. She has found this practice particularly well suited to Western patients. Alchemical Acupuncture allows Lorie to guide people beyond the thinking mind and through various levels of the psyche without losing touch with their own identity. The wisdom of the body is brought to the level of awareness in the form of conscious insight, and it becomes possible to heal challenging, multi-faceted symptoms that cannot be sharply defined exclusively as either physical or psychological. It is only through such a descent into the fertile, chaotic waters of the deep unconscious that permanent changes and healing at the level of behavior, identity, and vision can occur.

Alchemical Acupuncture works on every level of the body, mind and spirit. Shock, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, insomnia, stress-related chronic pain, depression and allergies are just a few of the common symptoms that respond well to this form of treatment. However, while Alchemical Acupuncture is effective for many specific symptoms, it is also a way to optimize health, get to know yourself more deeply and discover how to live in harmony with Tao.

In addition, Lorie uses the principles of Alchemical Acupuncture to go beyond the needle! Her work helps individuals, couples and groups to transform problems into opportunities and to experience more authenticity and spontaneity in their relationships and their lives.

Alchemical Acupuncture:

• is a system of psychological and psychosomatic healing organized around the Five Spirits of traditional Chinese medicine, the Taoist alchemical map of the human psyche.
• follows the Tao of each patient individually, avoids expectations, views chaos and surprise as openings through which new possibilities emerge.
• combines traditional Chinese medicine, Taoist alchemical principles and insights drawn with modern Western depth psychology and somatic psychotherapy.
• is especially effective for the psychosomatic and psychospiritual problems of modern Western patients.
• does not fix something broken or find something lost but supports transformation, the constellation of a completely new integrity made up of the disintegrated fragments of the old.
• leaves nothing out, treasures irritating symptoms, contradictory signs, chronic pains, obsessions and compulsions as the raw material of transformational processes.
• uses the tools of traditional Chinese medicine as well as active imagination, meditation, visualization, and archetypal amplification to move qi and support transformational processes.
• is a creative process in which both practitioner and patient are actively engaged.
• uses skillful means, follows the flow of the life force using the Five Elements and Five Spirits of Chinese medicine as guides.

If you would like to experience Alchemical Acupuncture and Lorie’s work, contact her for more information.

Here is a case study that will give you a more detailed picture of how Alchemical Acupuncture works.

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