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This week on Macro Beauty, we follow Janae as she prepares to get an acupuncture treatment for the first time. Her goal is to treat pain and anxiety in this holistic session. Watch this episode to see what acupuncture is really like.   Watch more Macro Beauty here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJEQBmLpTgd-CBXV3mEjkiR0xBS3ZVSgl  https://viehealing.com/  ABOUT SERIES We're getting up close and personal into all things beauty. Have you ever wondered whether or not waterproof mascara really works? Or been intrigued with tattooing your eyebrows? We'll show you this process like you have never seen it before!    ABOUT REFINERY29  Refinery29 is a modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-rounded life. http://refinery29.com/  RELATED CONTENT Why I Got This 15 Minute Nose Job  https://youtube.com/watch?v=_TGq8Uuvf0w I Got A Nose Job To Match My Identity https://youtube.com/watch?v=CyZfYuYyTfY Why You Need To Get Your Belly Button Pierced By A Professional https://youtube.com/watch?v=h3_2xuao1Sg  SUBSCRIBE TO REFINERY29 Subscribe to the Refinery29 channel: http://bit.ly/subscribe-to-r29 Follow Vie Healing on Instagram: https://instagram.com/viehealing/ Follow Refinery29 on Instagram: https://instagram.com/refinery29/ Follow Somos on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29somos/ Follow Unbothered on Instagram: https://instagram.com/r29unbothered

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00:01Acupuncture is the modality of placing hair thin needles under the dermis layer

00:05of the skin to create a nervous response. It helps with increasing blood

00:09circulation which helps improve everything from our physical, mental,

00:13emotional, spiritual well-being. I'm Janae and I'm getting an acupuncture

00:19procedure done today. This is definitely my first holistic treatment experience.

00:25I consider myself to be a little bit of a skeptic. People have told me to get

00:29acupuncture because I've been suffering from insomnia for as long as I can

00:34remember. Like after I went through puberty pretty much I am just like an

00:38anxious person by nature. Also I get allergies that I've never gotten before

00:43in my whole entire life. I've just gone through a lot in the past year or so.

00:48Everyone has and this opportunity came for me to do something for myself. So I'm

00:53gonna like shake off the skepticism. I'm going to open my mind and I'm really

00:58excited about this especially if it has some positive results and it actually

01:01works then amazing. I'm Ona Dan, founder of V Healing and practicing acupuncturist in LA.

01:10I studied Chinese medicine about a four and a half year program and have been in

01:15practice with V Healing now for about ten years. And it became really my mission to

01:21one create a really safe space for real medicine of our sort but also to give a

01:29position for acupuncturist that really want to be proud of where they work and

01:33what they're doing. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to open the

01:37capillaries, increase oxygenation in the body, get the blood circulation and get

01:40things flowing. Okay. I focus on master tongue treatments so this is an ancient

01:44technique. Okay. So what it is is we do a polarity treatment. So imagine like you pull a

01:49rubber band back it goes further. The same thing you want to go to the furthest

01:54point of your body to get the blood flow to come all the way down and then shoot

01:57up back to the main part of your body which is your organ system and then

02:01you'll get a nice little reset. Wonderful. Okay. The thought of having a bunch of

02:07needles sticking out of your body it sounds terrifying like it sounds absurd

02:13why would someone do this to themselves but people have been doing it for such a

02:18long time that there's got to be something there. So I'm not worrying

02:22about all of the needles that are going to be poking out of me but thinking

02:25about how it's going to help me in the long run.

02:30Janae told us today that she had difficulty staying asleep so we're going

02:34to be focusing on the liver and the gallbladder supporting her hormones to

02:37help her with her menstrual cycle so they're not as painful and also to keep

02:42the blood circulating throughout her body to keep her body relaxed I will start

02:50by needling the area of tension which is her back but I'm going to be doing it on

02:55her legs. We have tendons within our body that directly communicate with

03:00different areas of our bodies so top treats bottom bottom treats top left

03:05treats right and right treats left it's called a polarity treatment so because her

03:09scapular area is in pain I'm going to be around the lower aspect of her knee the

03:15lateral side aspect and we're going to be placing the hair thin needles right into

03:21the tendon lines of her body

03:39what happens is our two nervous systems the parasympathetic which

03:43relaxes us and the sympathetic which excites us need stimulation to kind of

03:48level out and balance out a lot of times our parasympathetic nervous system

03:52that's there to relax us help process emotions food the list goes on goes to

03:57sleep and then we're in this fight-flight mode and we're just like frantic through

04:01life so with the insertion of the stainless steel needles our body responds

04:05to it because it's a foreign object the water in our body responds to the metal

04:09creating a different flow of electricity in our body creating a beautiful

04:14nervous system reset so as I put the needle into the tendon area that I feel the most tightness

04:27what's going to happen is Janae should feel a little bit of a sensation a different sensation

04:32in the scapular region where she's feeling the tightness and tension so I'm going to ask

04:37her how she's feeling as I stimulate these points okay so move your shoulders while I'm doing this

04:42tell me if you feel relief it's a little warm yeah yeah let's love okay she told us that she's

04:50feeling warmth which is perfect because that means the blood is circulating to the right area

04:58I'm gonna also do points on the spleen channel which helps support blood flow put some needles in the

05:08liver corresponding area and also the kidney area to support her hormones and her adrenals because

05:14I'm noticing a lot of symptoms that show that there are signs of adrenal fatigue

05:25I'm gonna match a point on her hand to match the liver point on her toes this is a nice

05:31little

05:31nervous system reset the two points are the furthest points from the nervous system so we're

05:35just gonna stimulate them after I'm done with her hand I'm gonna pop to the center of her chest

05:43to calm her heart move up to her forehead to relax her mind

05:56add a few needles in for beauty because we all need that and top off with a point on top

06:03of the

06:03head called do 20 to bring clear energy to the mind so that she's thinking clearly and feeling relaxed

06:11with v-healing we just came out with our new light therapy it's based off Nassau technology light

06:17therapy helps with penetrating different vibrational energies below the skin level red light helps with

06:25inflammation increasing blood circulation so we're gonna have her relax a little bit under the red

06:29light today so that she gets an extra boost of blood circulation I like to leave the needles in

06:36for a little bit over 26 minutes so I round off to 30 minutes so the patient has a nice

06:41amount of time

06:42to relax and to get their blood flow going and for their body to respond nicely to the needles and

06:48that

06:48way the patient can really take their time to soak up all the healing and relax so now we're gonna

07:00gently remove the needles the needles we use are disposable hair thin needles so we get rid of them

07:09after the first use they're usually about two inches long and we penetrate the skin about an inch

07:15depending on the area if it's a bony area and we just put very little bit in if there's more

07:20room

07:21we kind of go in deeper it really depends on the patient in Chinese medicine we say that when we

07:28see

07:28blood it feels like a window opened and you get a fresh breeze internally in the body really only few

07:35points do hurt your practitioner should have a really good communication with you and tell you

07:40what points they are that will be a little more sensitive so Janae that was your first acupuncture

07:49session what's gonna happen is you're gonna feel pretty good for three days your shoulders are

07:53gonna be nice and loose you should sleep better tonight if you feel like it starts wearing off

07:58after three days then we would want to see maybe twice a week in the beginning okay but we can

08:02definitely

08:02develop a treatment plan once you kind of check in with us and tell us how you're feeling wonderful

08:06awesome thank you so much my pleasure oh all right that felt pretty good actually I feel relaxed that

08:19was definitely surprising and I feel surprisingly well about it it was a lot of anticipation but

08:26actually getting the procedure was very relaxing Mona was great she was very informative and I had a lot

08:33more information so I think maybe I was a little bit more nervous than I needed to be Janae was

08:39great she

08:40was so good at communicating what she knows and what she doesn't know what she needs and what she may

08:44not know she needs which is the perfect patient for me I love giving some education some background some

08:51information about what we do how we do it and how it helps and I feel like she was soaking

08:55it all in I

08:57didn't really feel the initial prick of the needle when it was going in but after it was in for

09:04a while I

09:05definitely started to feel it I could tell where it was on my body and I could tell actually where

09:10it was on two parts of my

09:11body so that was very surprising there were two in particular that I did feel

09:18um one was the one that was directly on the center of my head I felt it and then I

09:24felt a whole bunch

09:26of sensation in my head which was so weird the other one that I felt was on my leg the

09:32first one that she

09:33actually positioned that was in my tendon and directly connected to my shoulder I felt that one

09:39go in and then I actually felt warmth in my right shoulder which was bizarre after care for acupuncture

09:46really you want to follow what your body wants some people might leave feeling really tired and super

09:52relaxed and for those people I suggest that they go home and rest or at least try to rest throughout

09:57the day if you have a lot of energy after your session that's great your body's ready to go I

10:01would

10:01suggest keeping your body warm a warm bath keep yourself hydrated but you can do everything and

10:07anything after your sessions you can eat you can go to the gym you can relax you can go for

10:11a run just

10:12listen to what your body wants and kind of follow the flow of your body so the most painful area

10:16that

10:17I had coming in to the procedure was my shoulders there was a lot of tightness and a lot of

10:22just being

10:23uncomfortable and now the area feels warm and loose and that there's not as much pain when I move it

10:32around whereas there was pain and tension before even if I would just like lift my shoulders a little bit

10:38a lot of have

10:39people have a misconception that with acupuncture they'll get the relief later but they can actually

10:44definitely get it in the treatment room with us it's always so incredible seeing the patient have

10:48quick relief and release a session usually lasts about 15 minutes of intake 5 to 10 minutes of needling

10:55and 20 to 30 minutes of needle time please only go to a licensed acupuncturist for your acupuncture

11:03needling I do think I'll get acupuncture again I'm really interested to see what the effects are

11:08after this time if I get home and I feel amazing I'm definitely going to want to do this again

11:13for

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