Original Nature
ACUPUNCTURE
Let me help you navigate your health picture with time and consideration for the many aspects of you.
With one hand in the green world of plants, and the other hand turning the pages of the Huangdi Neijing (one of the foundational classical texts), Calyx Donna Kuprowski earned a Dual Diploma of TCM Acupuncture and Western Phytotherapy (Clinical Herbalism) from Pacific Rim College in Coast Salish Territory (Victoria, B.C.).
Creative practices (B.FA., Emily Carr University of Art + Design) and therapeutic nature excursions with youth in addiction and mental health recovery, gave Calyx the experience to navigate the terrain of peoples’ significant life events. When change comes, whether through pain, fatigue, chronic conditions, or unanticipated emotions, it is helpful to have a collaborator who is skilled in observing, listening, asking questions, and applying knowledge.
Confidentiality and compassion are Calyx’s core values, while fostering an intelligent understanding of our strengths and wounds, as well as the physiological processes and environmental factors that are contributing to your whole health picture. The treatment room is designed as an atmosphere where you can return to your original nature (yuan benxing).
Through the lens of Chinese Medicine, we are a symphony of elements, meridians, organs and processes:
Creative, dynamic, & interdependent
In Chinese Medicine, the patterns in nature, their seasonal cycles, can be applied to how we observe and diagnose the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. We can also understand our disruptions to our inherent vitality through this diagnostic viewpoint. The thousands of years of observation of humans and our relationship to the world surrounding us is the true gift of Chinese Medicine.
Acupuncture aspires to facilitate the smooth flow of Qi, our lifeforce.
Qi is the enlivening force of muscles, tendons, circulation, breath, fluids, and movement. Qi is the animating flow of life. When Chinese Medicine speaks of Qi, we imply that an individual’s Qi is in relationship with the network of all life.
Specialized Trainings
Two day, 16 hour in-person seminars, with the exception of **16 hour online seminar
Red Cross First Aid CPR-C with AED - current
Community Acupuncture: Business + Methods - Michael Lium-Hall
Acusculpting Cosmetic Acupuncture - Illya Borreson
Acupuncture in Addiction Treatment - Ted van Hemert
Inclusiveness in a Clinical Setting: Implementing Best Care Practices for Trans Patients - Bryn Eliot
Advanced Myofascial Needling Techniques - Rory Knapp-Fisher
**Tui Na + Moxa for Menopause - Sarah Pritchard
Women’s Health Treatment Protocols + Diagnostics with Cycle Tracking - Bev Maya + Krista Poulton
Aromatic Medicine: Clinical Protocols for Immune + Nervous Systems - Peter Conway
Collaborative Oncology: A Phytotherapy Perspective I + II - Chanchal Cabrera
Medicinal Mushrooms of Western Canada: Materia Medica and Field Day - Robert Rodgers
Systemic Inflammation: Food Intolerances + Autoimmunity - Paul Bergner
Diagnosis + Treatment of Psychological Disorders with Shen Hammer Pulse Diagnosis - Brandt Stickley
Mindfulness and Neuroscience: How Healing Happens - Michael Stone
Masters in Counselling Introductory Colloquium - Prescott College
8 hour in-person seminars,
Additional Training
Intergenerational Trauma, Mahmawi-Atoskiwin - Casey Eaglefeather
Approaches to Addiction Treatment Edmonton and Canmore - Dr. Gabor Mate
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - Dr. David Burns
3 hour in-person seminars
Somatic Interventions for Healing Complex Trauma - Dr. Janina Fisher
Working with Complex Couples: An Introduction to PACT Therapy - Dr. Stan Tatkin
The Heart of the Matter: The Science of Emotions - Dr. Gordon Neufeld
The Treatment of Trauma and The Internal Family Systems Model - Dr. Richard Schwartz
Original Nature
ACUPUNCTURE
Shiya’hwt/SYWOT/Ganges,
Salt Spring Island,
B.C., Canada
t. (672) 204-9929
originalnatureacupuncture@
protonmail.com
To collaborate in creating the picture of health
that is specific to you:
It is an honour to live, learn and practice on the traditional, unceded territories of the Hul’q’umin’um and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples. Two percent of the profits from Original Nature Acupuncture will be donated to the Stqe’eye Learning Society, which is an indigenous-led organization. Stqe’eye is facilitating the return of Quw’utsun elders to Xwaaqw’um to live on the land, and pass knowledge to youth and others in a circle of cultural and environmental restoration. As the clinic increases in capacity, donation amounts will increase.