Sarah Junor Lic.Ac. MAcS. AcuC

My journey with Acupuncture began in 2003 at The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine where I completed a year of the degree course before family commitments interrupted my studies. I returned in 2010 for another year.

In August 2017 I qualified as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine ‘TCM’ from the ‘Bodyharmonics’ school of Acupuncture.

I am a member of The Acupuncture Association and The Acupuncture-Acutherapy Council.

I have also been a practising Sports Massage Therapist for 20 years and am a member of The Institute of Sport and Remedial Massage. I have loved my career and have been totally committed to it, with much more to offer yet. Practising sports massage alongside Acupuncture, I feel able to access healing on a far greater depth, enhancing the treatment I can give ‘on the surface’.

TCM is one of the oldest healing systems which has been in continuous practice for thousands of years and can be effectively applied to heal anyone. It is a holistic approach, treating the patient as a whole, not just the symptom. Symptoms are seen as messages that we often ignore until something more serious presents itself.

TCM diagnosis can piece together a ‘pattern of disharmony’ to help root out deep imbalances which lead to the presenting symptom. The result is a treatment that triggers the body’s self-healing ability and regenerating capacity. This ability may appear to be lost or difficult to access but it is never gone.

Western Medicine can be driven by suppression. ‘Remove symptom’ can be the primary aim rather than ‘cure symptom’. This can promote a period of time where symptoms are ‘pushed back inside’, only to reappear at a later date. Or, worse still, medication may alleviate the symptom but create a whole new set with the contraindications/side effects of the drug/remedy.

Acupuncture can draw out ‘illness’ by healing from within. Points along the 12 main channels that map the body can promote healing; it could be a point in the foot that relieves a headache by ‘pulling energy down’ from the head where it has got ‘stuck’.

Re-addressing balance in the body, which is a landscape that suffers its own version of flooding, drought, wind, cold, heat and damp is the basis of how TCM is applied. All those factors upset the smooth flow of the natural rhythm of life.

Muscular pain, joint pain, IBS and all stomach/digestive disorders, headaches, menstrual/menopause issues, fertility, anxiety, depression, sadness, insomnia, Raynaud’s disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, skin disorders, loss of ‘mojo’ all are examples of the depth of issues Acupuncture can be applied to.

Maggie Perrins Lic.Ac., Raw Dip., I.T.E.C.

I am an Acupuncturist, Aromatherapist and Reflexologist. I trained at the Raworth Centre in Dorking in 1993 and at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading from 1995 to 1998. I worked for some years at a health farm in Hindhead as well as at clinics in London, Guildford, Billingshurst and Southwater. I spent some months on the cruise liners in the Caribbean islands in 2007 giving regular talks about Acupuncture and treating the passengers on board. I have treated all sorts of people from all walks of life and have had a lot of success treating people will illnesses such as arthritis, insomnia, depression, ankylosing spondylitis, stress and M.E.   I have even had personal experience of Acupuncture curing my under-active thyroid gland disorder from an Acupuncturist who uses the stems and branches method.

There are several different styles of Acupuncture, including, Stems and Branches, Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Five Element theory as well as others which work very well in their own way. I am trained in a combination of TCM and Five Element styles of Acupuncture which in another way of putting it is the Yin/Yang and 5 Main Emotion theories.  

I feel Acupuncturists make the connection between the internal organs and the emotions as well as having a natural philosophy of working with nature and the seasons, for example, maintaining an understanding of the importance of eating the right foods in the right season and knowing the effect that different foods have on us, being either warming, cooling or damp forming. The cliché goes that an Acupuncturist treats a person who is suffering from a disease not the disease itself.