Brisbane Acupuncture

Toyohari Acupuncture is a gentle yet extremely powerful treatment.

It is great for treating children and individuals who don’t like the sensation associated with needling in other forms of acupuncture.

It can be combined with other styles of acupuncture or other forms of treatments where it’s use mat enhance or expedite recovery.

The unique diagnostic techniques developed in Toyohari enable practitioners to work to address problems that may respond more quickly to Toyohari than other treatments. In particular musculo-skeletal problems especially around the neck and shoulders can be very responsive to this treatment.

How is Toyohari Acupuncture used?

The practice uses innovative new techniques, including the use of needles made of different metals such as silver, gold, copper and zinc, and “contact needling”, where a silver needle or probe is held on or over the skin, without penetrating it.

A Toyohari treatment is a very relaxing experience, with most people feeling a deep sense of calm and wellbeing.

The practitioner will gently palpate your abdomen and feel the pulse at the wrist to highlight imbalances, before setting to work on these underlying imbalances with contact needling over selected points on the body or stroking the skin with a rounded silver Toyohari instrument called an enshin (it looks a bit like a solid silver lollipop!) or sanshin (like a tiny silver cone).

A technique called moxibustion may also be used to apply warmth to certain points. Clients often experience little more than a sensation of warmth or tingling as the points are stimulated. A Toyohari treatment typically takes between 1/2 an hour to an hour.

Toyohari is often used as a way of maintaining health and well being, as well to address specific health issues. Typically, treatment is required once week for 10 weeks, at which point your condition would be reassessed. After your condition has stabilised you may only need to be treated once every 4-8 weeks for continued health maintenance.

History and Background

Toyohari was founded by Kodo Fukushima, a well known blind Japanese acupuncturist. Today there are over 1,000 Toyohari acupuncturists in Japan and in recent years a number of practitioners have been trained throughout the west. Once qualified, a Toyohari practitioner makes a commitment to continuing professional development and attends monthly study groups allowing them to remain a member of the Toyohari Association.

Japanese Acupuncture is an extremely gentle but a highly effective form of treatment, using very fine needles, which are inserted very shallowly or not inserted at all.

The main differences between Japanese and Chinese style acupuncture are:

• Japanese style tends to use needles three to four times finer than Chinese styles, enabling a painless insertion.
• Needling in Japanese style usually remains very shallow, about 1-2mm, without the need to manipulate needles, rather relying on location, direction of needle and the breath to create the required effect. Other times the needles do not even penetrate the skin, but rather simply touch the points.
• Points are located by palpation, not purely the anatomical location.
• The pulses as well as the abdomen are palpated to indicate patterns of imbalances so the practitioner can understand their treatment principles.
• The Japanese style has unique variations and refinements in the development and usage of cupping, moxabustion (thermal therapy), bloodletting and physical therapeutic movements (Sotai).
• Treatment is directed at harmonising Ki (Qi) in the body through the meridian system instead of using herbal diagnosis methods.

Clients may experience little more than a sensation of warmth or tingling as the points are stimulated.

The whole process is very relaxing. Most clients feel a deep sense of calm and wellbeing. The session itself is normally half an hour to an hour long.

Acupuncture is used to treat millions of people all around the world.

Acupuncture has been used to treat common, complex and chronic conditions for thousands of years. It eases symptoms to help you feel better while you get better.

Your acupuncturist aims to identify the cause and underlying factors affecting your condition. Most people notice to a change in general health after their first treatment.

Your acupuncturist aims to identify the cause and underlying factors affecting your condition. Most people notice to a change in general health after their first treatment.

Sleep, digestion, energy and mood improve after acupuncture treatment. Some people respond quickly to treatment while others gradually improvement over time.

We understand that your symptoms are not just painful and frustrating, they are exhausting and can deeply affect important areas of your life.

1. Relieve

We work on easing your symptoms to start elevating the things impacting your health and happiness.

Get a clear idea of what is driving your symptoms and what can be done to get rid of them.

Targeted strategies that aim to get you the quickest outcome to help you feel better.

2. Restore

You transition from the relief phase to restoring normal body function so you can do more of the things you love.

Gather a understanding of the interrelationship of your symptoms and other aspects of your body.

Start building strength and resilience in the body to help you get better.

3. Renew

You’re back in control of your health and can make choices based on what you want out of life.

Gain better health through multifaceted treatments that help balance your body.

Renew energy and vitality regularly so you can live the life you want, and enjoy doing the things you love.

Acupuncture is used to support the general balance of the body so its systems can become more efficient and restore optimal function.

This can lead to improvements in the cycles of the body like, sleep, mood, period, breath and bowels.

As these things improve so can your energy, wellbeing, resilience and sense of calm.

• Low energy
• Pain
• Anxiety
• Stress
• Poor sleep
• Fertility
• Digestive issues
• Menstrual issues

The goal of Acupuncture is a way to help the body help itself.

Pain is considered a blockage of energy, blood or water (lymphatic) which can give the sensation of dull ache, sharp pain or stiffness.

It is important to remove these blockages to help the body restore optimal function and pain-free harmony.

There are specific acupuncture techniques and points that would support this idea and change should be demonstrated within a session.

• Neck pain
• Lower back pain
• Nerve pain & sciatica
• Persistant body ache
• Headaches
• Joint pain
• Abdomen pain
• Period pain

“Why something starts isn’t why it stays”.

Chronic and complex issues are created in the body over time as the body tries to adapt to different crisis.

A digestive disorder could lead to inflammation in the body and then muscular pain which leads to disturbed sleep. The role of an Acupuncture therapist is to read the body and help unpick the layers of dysfunction that have been created over time.

With this approach the change is led by the body meaning you have the potential to get results you didn’t think were possible before.

• Fertility
• Insomnia
• Generalised Anxiety
• Cancer support
• Trauma
• Stress
• Chronic pain
• Burn out

As with complex conditions, dysfunction can be built in the body over time.

Chronic conditions remain as the body doesn’t have the capacity to change the cycle of illness. This can be due to many factors.

The role of an Acupuncture therapist is to read the body to better understand why then apply treatments to support the body to break this cycle and return to optimal function.

• Chronic Pain
• Chronic Fatigue
• IBS
• Arthritis
• Cancer support
• Migraine
• Fibromyalgia
• Depression