The style of acupuncture I specialize in is known as Toyohari, which is a form of Japanese Meridian Therapy. The needling is very gentle and almost always completely painless; in fact, often I don't need to insert the needle at all, I can stimulate the point on the skin surface.
We Meridian Therapy practitioners can be that gentle and still be as or more effective as practitioners of other styles of acupuncture because of the accuracy with which we find points and the subtlety of our needling techniques; rather than just finding the point from a standard book, we're trained to find the "live" point that will be most effective for the person at the time.
We go through intense hands-on training in the Toyohari association in order to become that accurate. Many of our teachers are blind, and in fact Toyohari's founder, Kodo Fukushima, lost his sight during World War II; they've trained their palpatory skills to a very refined level, and I feel privileged to have studied with them.
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Manu is the sole proprietor of Agape Acupuncture. He became interested in the field of
acupuncture through his practice of Tai Chi Ch'uan (with Sifu Maurice Haltom), other martial arts like Aikido, and the study of ancient Chinese philosophy while at Cornell University.
Manu also earned a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Washington,
where he was an instructor for several years.
Manu began studying acupuncture in Seattle at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in 1993. He
is a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Washington and nationally certified by the NCCAOM. He has
also studied and received certification in Toyohari acupuncture by the international Toyohari Association.
Manu has studied Toyohari in Tokyo, Japan on several occasions and received certification as an instructor in Toyohari. He has served on the national board of the North American Toyohari Association, taught acupuncture in the Toyohari training program in Seattle, Colorado, and Florida, and served as a member of the Japanese acupuncture faculty at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
He is well versed in three different styles of acupuncture: traditional Chinese acupuncture, Manaka-style acupuncture (another Japanese style of acupuncture), and Toyohari Meridian-style acupuncture. In addition, Manu has experience with craniosacral therapy and various massage techniques, including Shiatsu and Chinese Tuina. He specializes in helping people enhance their health with Chinese medicine. Individuals with painful neuromusculoskeletal disorders, allergies, emotional challenges, and in particular children are frequent clients. Toyohari practitioners use a gentle method of treatment especially for children called Shonishin, which is entirely painless and yet very effective.
My Mission:
Inside everyone, it is said, there is a seed of Heaven, a divine essence that is meant to grow and flower and thereby express our unique gifts to the world. However, in most of us this growth is blocked or thwarted before it can come to full bloom: false judgments from others or ones we make ourselves distort our understanding of who we really are.
In my practice, it's my goal to help people nourish their destiny, to help them to re-acquaint and re-align themselves with their inner spark. Whether it's some simple back pain that's keeping you from doing what you love or something more emotional in nature, whatever's holding you back from expressing yourself completely or experiencing life fully, my mission is to help you overcome it.
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