MKE MindBody Wellness

Acupressure for stress, anxiety, and emotional distress. Knowing how to calm down when the body is winding up is a strategy for keeping peace when feeling out of control.

Heart 7 (HT7): Can help with emotional issues related to the heart, insomnia, poor memory, and more
Pericardium 6 (PC6): Can help regulate the heart, calm the mind, and relieve chest oppression
Lung 9 (LU9): Can help with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma

📍Use your finger or other blunt tool (like a pen cap) to apply pressure to each point.
Stimulate each point for as long as feels good for you – most people find 30 second to 2 minutes manageable for each point.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine observes a close relationship between the human and natural environment. The seasonal patterns can be seen in the seasonal symptoms we experience. Summer grows into a peak heat in July, and with that heat the humid weather manifests as damp conditions in the human body. As we approach the greatest- Major Heat of the year, it is common to feel more digestive issues. A damp body feels heavy, lethargic, swollen, inflamed, puffy, and digestion feels "stuck". While it may be tempting to try to cool off with iced beverages, cold foods, more air conditioning, and less activity- those are all habits that will make it worse! Even more aggravating are greasy, fried, rich and creamy or heavy dairy foods.

What to do: Sip on warm ginger tea, lightly cook seasonal foods, and get out for a walk every day before or after the peak heat. Try to acclimate to some warm temperatures and let yourself sweat. The body can cool off, but cold food, heavy food, and cold indoor temps will make the body work overtime to stimulate digestion and keep up with the demands of so many extremes.

Eat breakfast every morning and drink warm ginger tea if digestion is sluggish.

• Foods to Include: Warm, cooked foods like ginger, garlic, and bitter greens. Seasonal produce. Lightly cooked grains such as quinoa and barley can also help to dry dampness.
• Foods to Avoid: Dairy, fried foods, sugary and greasy items, and excessive cold and raw foods.

If this all does not seem to be enough, get some acupuncture.

Summer is in full bloom! Flowers can provide us with more than beauty. We can also make delicate floral teas with medicinal qualities. Sometimes we may look no further than our own garden for valuable remedies.

Be sure to only forage plants you are familiar with and always make sure medications will not react to herbal medicines. Additionally, healthy plants are free from pesticides and industrial contaminants.

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🌞 happy solstice!

Link for booking in bio or on the MINDBODY app.

All in correct time. The body has a rhythm just like everything else in nature. By returning to, or even just acknowledging this cycle, we can reconnect with our bodies and have a better understanding of how to support ourselves for optimal health. Split into 2 hour intervals, each time frame correlates with yin or yang, a time of day, an element, each organ and its biological function, an emotion, and a season.

Learn more about your daily body rhythms~ 🔗 link to article in bio

🔥 Summer is for sweating!
We are now offering 30 minute sauna sessions.

Regular sauna sessions encourage a good sweat and summer is the season for it!

Infrared sauna use can improve skin health, relieve joint pain, improve circulation, and enhance detoxification in the body.

Book using mindbody app or give us a call (414) 367-7023

Missing Dad–Circle of Support

Open to anyone who is grieving the death of their Dad.

With Father’s Day approaching, you may notice heightened emotions and sensitivity since your dad is no longer living life alongside you. For many fatherless people, holidays like Father’s Day bring large waves of grief, feelings of isolation, and yearning for more time together. You don’t have to go through this time alone.

In this therapeutic circle, you will have the opportunity to share stories about your dad, allow your grief to move as it needs to, gather with fellow fatherless grievers, and leave with ideas of how to honor your dad as you move forward. Beverages provided.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 5:30 - 7:00pm

Location: MKE MindBody Wellness 3174 S Howell Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53207

Space available for the first six registrants

Cost: $25

Contact: [email protected]; (414) 275 - 8159

Please register by June 6, 2024

This healing circle is facilitated by Madisen Stoler, a Licensed Professional Counselor. Madisen has been engaged in group work for over 10 years and weaves together her training in Grief Counseling support groups, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills groups, and Restorative Practices.

Treat your mom, your dad, your spouse, your self!

Let's celebrate spring together 😊

Open to anyone who is grieving the death of their mom.

Mother’s Day can feel exceptionally emotional and challenging when your mom is no longer living life alongside you. For many motherless people, holidays like Mother’s Day bring large waves of grief and feelings of isolation. You don’t have to go through this time alone.

In this therapeutic circle, you will have the opportunity to share stories about your mom, allow your grief to move as it needs to, gather with fellow motherless grievers, and leave with ideas of how to honor your mom as you move forward. Beverages provided.



Saturday, May 11, 2024, 1:00 - 2:30pm

Location: MKE MindBody Wellness 3174 S Howell Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53207

Space available for the first six registrants

Cost: $25

TO REGISTER:
Contact: [email protected] (414) 275 - 8159

Please register by May 7, 2024

This healing circle is facilitated by Madisen Stoler, a Licensed Professional Counselor. Madisen has been engaged in group work for over 10 years and weaves together her training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills groups, Grief Counseling support groups, and Restorative Practices.

Madisen Stoler, LPC, will guide us through the complex feelings that can linger in times of existential stress. Gathering in community and learning how to cope with this heaviness can root us in a space of connection. Alisyn Benkowski brings the ambiance and healing energy of sound that can relax the somatic tension created by stress. Join us at the Heart Revival Center

Register :The Heart Revival Center for Yoga & Buddhism
www.theheartrevival.com/grow


The Golden Alchemy

This warming, digestive tea smells bright and tastes fresh. Ginger is the top digestive aid used in traditional Chinese medicine. It warms the body and eases digestive stress that stems from cold or slow digestion. Orange peel is invigorating and helps dry up excess phlegm and damp. With rainy weather and allergies, this combination can really ease wet coughs and sluggish digestion.

Inner wellness glows and shines in our outer appearance. Our face is a map for the stress that we carry around in our body. Physical tension, emotional stress, and limiting beliefs can reflect on our face as inflammation, acne, rosacea, brown spots,dark circles, wrinkles and more.
💆Facial reflexology works by balancing the autonomic nervous system and allowing the face and entire body to achieve a natural and powerful state of healing, recovery, and wellbeing. 🌺Zen Glow is designed to improve facial appearance by stimulating the production of collagen and elastin and increasing blood flow to the facial muscles and skin. This includes facial cupping, facial gua sha, facial reflexology, and add-on options of rose quartz face mask or LED light therapy. 🏮Celluma Pro light therapy is a FDA cleared LED device that utilizes near-infrared, red, and blue light to bring circulation to the complexion, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and decrease inflammation.



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Seasonal tea recipe: Types of massage for mental wellness: Collab with Heart

Allergies, headaches, pain, insomnia, constipation, indigestion, anxiety, depression, eye twitching, irritability.... These are all common imbalances occurring in the Spring season.

Acupuncture can help recalibrate these disharmonies and our Chinese medicine healers can guide you with lifestyle, dietary, and herbal recommendations to help you feel better.

Join us for a blissful spa night tailored for women seeking deep rejuvenation and spiritual nourishment. Immerse yourself in an evening of relaxation and self-discovery with our healing environment:

☯ Unwind with massage, sound healing, hot tub and sauna
💫 Gain deeper insights with a personal astrology chart reading

We are hosting at Mother Lion, a healing house in the city of Milwaukee (Bay View). The space is curated for tender care and creative exploration of the inner self.

Space is very limited~ Come with a friend and experience it as a pair for a unique bonding experience

🦋 Sign up on our website : www.mkewellness.com (link in bio)

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Join Madisen Stoler, LPC, and Alisyn Benkowski, Reiki + Sound Vibrational Therapy, of MKE MindBody Wellness for their gorgeous offering, Releasing Existential Grief and Stress, on April 27th at 11am. They will provide various practices for reflection, sharing, and skill building, centered around coping with the heaviness of existential grief and moving through the emotions that present. Alisyn compliments the experience with multiple elements of sound healing to assist in the releasing of what we may be holding in our bodies, hearts, and minds.

Group size is limited to just 14 people.

Participants may provide an exchange via our sliding scale of $25-$40, based on economy. If this still presents as a barrier, we welcome you to reach out directly to the center director, Meg Lucks at [email protected].

Please dress comfortably and bring a journal/writing utensil. Hot tea and chocolate will be provided.

Cold rain can weight heavily on the body. People with cold hands and feet may be really feeling the chill. Foot baths are really helpful for warming the blood and acupuncture channels in the feet that flow all the way up the legs and into the abdomen. Old pain and osteoarthritis can settle deep in the joints in cold damp weather, so spending time warming the feet can also promote the flow of warm blood to the joints. Warming Foot baths can help sleep, menstrual cramps, cold hands and feet, and cold painful joints.

☺️ Warming Foot Bath

Ingredients:
Ginger slices (姜)(1/4 cup)
Epsom salt (1 cup)
optional: white rice wine (白酒)(50ml)

Directions: Boil the ginger in water for a few minutes. Add ginger (and rice wine) to hot water in a basin. Soak for 15-30 minutes or until there’s a slight sweat.

■ Bring 2 liters of water to a boil, add herbs, reduce to a simmer for 15 minutes.

■ Remove ginger add herbal liquid to basin with 1 cup of epsom salts and enough water to cool the liquid to desire temp for soaking

■ Soak for 20 minutes or until sweating

As your body warms up you may start to sweat. Some mild sweating is good, but you should stop before an excessive sweat begins.

Soaking in hot water activates blood and energy throughout the body.
Soaking until there’s a sweat can relieve symptoms of cold, flu and menstrual cramps.

3/7/2024 🌷Spring Transition + Fatigue - https://mailchi.mp/d7acd3f3c2bd/372024-spring-transition-fatigue

Acupuncture is a gentle, relaxing, and incredibly effective modality for treating most conditions of the emotional and physical body. By maintaining the connection between mindbodyspirit, the web of interconnected symptoms, illnesses, and pathologies can be woven together into one cohesive system of treatment.

☯️ We look forward to helping you feel better.

Spots are filling up for our Spring Healing Circle~
Join us to learn more about how to regulate your mind, body, + spirit as we shift from winter to spring. Spring can be a particularly tricky season with slow progress and big anticipation of the warmth and life that is coming!

Release irritability, tension, impatience
Practice mindfulness skills
Tune into lessons from the slow months of winter

Learn ways to emerge with intention

💟 Be in community

This healing circle is facilitated by Madisen Stoler, a Licensed Professional Counselor. Madisen has been engaged in group work for over 10 years and weaves together her training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills groups, Grief Counseling support groups, and Restorative Practices.

▶️ Choose one date: Wednesday 3/20; 6-7:30pm or Saturday 3/23; 10-11:30am

Location: MKE MindBody Wellness 3174 S Howell Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53207

Space available for the first six registrants on each date

Cost: $25

▶️ Contact: [email protected] to register ◀️

▶️ Register by March 13, 2024

Waking the deep energies in our body, spring ignites a primal need to expand and stretch after the cold slumber of winter. Stretching after a long rest can open a lot of spaces with pent up energy that feels difficult to release. Supporting the body with subtle practices that encourage better liver function, lymphatic drainage, and smoother blood flow will promote a harmonious transition into spring.

Rachel joined our community in January and is already helping so many people feel better! Spring can be a season of tension and impatience.... massage can help smooth those knots and reset an irritable mood.

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🏮💮 Happy Lunar New Year 🐉 🏮
Rising with the spring is the green Wood Dragon.
It is time to embrace and release our power. Fresh qi is blooming with all of our potential. We are being called to open our minds and begin a new cycle 🐲

"2024 denotes the Year of the Yang Green Dragon. The dragon (chen) is the fifth earthly branch, and it calls us to first embody our innately powerful qi, and then use spiritual brightness to release those aspects of life that no longer serve us. Letting go of this xie (negative) qi allows our hearts to swell with enjoyment and love. The dragon gifts us with a makeover that shifts our being ‘like a revolutionary power about to change the entire world.’ (Wu and Wu 2014, p.122) This is a time to cleanse your body, mind, and spirit before a metamorphosis, and ultimately tap into your internal power and activate your consciousness. The year of the dragon symbolizes the time of growing from a teen to a young adult. As we awaken to this new stage of life, like the mystical dragon, we transform. The dragon emerges on February 4th and celebrations begin on February 10th."

CT Holman, The Lotus Institute 🪷
Go to our bio for a link to get an in-depth reading about this new Dragon year

Punch cards are back! This time we are rewarding all massage, reiki, and sound healing sessions on one card. Once you have completed 10 sessions of any of those services, you get $20 off the next one.

Don't worry about keeping track of another card- we will hold on to it for you and track your sessions.

Punch cards are only used towards massage, reiki, and sound healing sessions. Feel free to see anyone who offers these services to get a punch on your card.

*Discount only applies to these services. Cannot be used for sauna or any of our other services.