Het Vuur-element (Hart & Dunne Darm): hoe deze organen je circulatie, vreugde en vermogen tot verbinding bepalen — en hoe acupunctuur helpt bij disbalans.

Het Hout-element (Lever & Galblaas): hoe deze organen je spierspanning, boosheid en richting bepalen — en hoe acupunctuur helpt bij disbalans.

Het Water-element (Nieren & Blaas): hoe deze organen je energiereserves, angst en wilskracht bepalen en hoe acupunctuur helpt bij disbalans.

The Metal element (Lungs & Large Intestine): how these organs shape your breath, grief, and capacity to let go, and how acupuncture helps restore balance.

The Earth element (Spleen & Stomach): how these organs shape your digestion, thoughts, and sense of grounding and how acupuncture helps restore balance.

The longest day of the year marks the exact peak of Yang energy in traditional Chinese medicine. Discover what that means for your body and why this is the moment everything starts to turn.

You've seen the symbol. Black and white, curling into each other, a dot of each in the opposite half. Most people read it as contrast: light versus dark, good versus bad, masculine versus feminine. A symbol of duality. But that reading misses the most important thing about it.

Most of us were taught to think of our cycle as something to manage. Track it, suppress it, push through it. At best, something to be aware of. At worst, a monthly inconvenience that gets in the way of normal life.

Spring is a season of movement, growth and letting go. But that doesn't happen automatically, especially if your body is still in winter mode after a long, grey few months.

You sleep seven, maybe eight hours. Your schedule doesn't even look that full. And yet you wake up feeling like you've just run a marathon. The day hasn't started and you're already tired.