Medical & cosmetic acupuncture with Marilyn
Marilyn is a Registered Acupuncturist and is graduate of the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. She brings a toolbelt full of modalities with her to SOHO such as Medical and Cosmetic Acupuncture, Acupressure Massage, Facial Micro needling, Cupping, Gua Sha and more!
Marilyn is passionate about treating pain, PMS, mental health, and skincare concerns. She tailors treatments to meet a person’s individual needs and looks forward to helping you look and feel better.
Acupressure massage
Treatments that are tailored to you! Acupressure massage is a therapy that uses a variety of hand and finger manipulations applying pressure to acupoints of the body to address various health concerns or promote general relaxation. It promotes appropriate blood circulation and helps to regulate the parasympathetic nervous system. It also promotes the viscosity of the blood and appropriate dilation of blood vessels. Overall it’s a rejuvenating therapy.
Specific areas can be focused on, based on the client’s concerns.
Acupressure massage
PricesAcupuncture
Acupuncture is a therapy that brings homeostasis to the mitochondrial cells of the body, and anyone can benefit. It provides deep relaxation comparable to the feel of putting your feet in warm sand and is a great tool for self-care and healing. Provided with a Traditional Chinese Medicine approach where treatment is done with thin, sterile needles inserted by hand at specific acupoints of the body to achieve healing through activating a parasympathetic response. Acupuncture is well-known for its ability to relieve short and long-term pain. Many who receive acupuncture use it as a therapeutic treatment for specific conditions such as neck and back pain, joint pain, anxiety and insomnia. The range of conditions where acupuncture can help is limitless due to its natural effectualization of healing from within.
Cosmetic acupuncture
Ultra-fine needles are used at specific acupuncture points on the face to stimulate facial muscles, collagen synthesis, fibrin, elastin, and allow for lymph drainage; some acu body points are used to effect a natural healing response. The list of complaints that cosmetic acupuncture can treat is very long. Whether it is acne, fine lines, droopy eyelids, puffy eyes, dark circles, smoker’s lines, smile lines, crow’s feet or eleven lines. There’s essentially no end to ways this therapy can help achieve a youthful, clear and glowing skin.