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When you walk through the door of Mountain Path Healing Arts Studio, the soothing environment tells you it's time to relax. The traffic and noise of the square are replaced by soft music, air plants, hot tea and comfortable couches.
This is the Healing Arts studio created by Brian "Bashi" Guanzon, LAc, who has been practicing acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine in Woodbury since 2013.
Offering acupuncture, massage, yoga classes, somatic education, meditation and Reiki sessions, astrology, hypnosis, Qi Gong and plant medicine, Mountain Path employs 6 practitioners who provide a multi-collaborative effort toward healing, combining different ancient modalities to bring about long lasting good health.
"There is bio-electric energy in every person, in our cells," Brian explains. "When a person is in pain, this energy is being blocked. Acupuncture can adjust this energy to ease pain, cure insomnia, treat anxiety and depression, and help make people feel better immediately."
The healing practices are ancient, but the people who benefit have an array of modern problems. Over half of Mountain Path's clients are US Veterans who have found that acupuncture gives them relief from both physical pain and other deep wounds of war, such as PTSD.
Daniel Sellars, an Iraq war veteran, has been coming to Mountain Path once a week for acupuncture and massage. "I suffered migraines, I have knee and shoulder injuries, it was hard for me to walk and I was on pain medication daily," Daniel recounts. "I've been getting treatments at Mountain Path for about a year, and it's been life changing. I'm off the pain meds, my whole body has loosened up and it's made a world of difference in my day to day life."
Some clients come for help with anxiety, sleep disorders, insomnia and nightmares. Others have arthritis, metabolic issues, back pain or stress.
River Joshua Williams, LMT, practices massage at Mountain Path, and focuses on long-lasting healing from injuries, posture issues, chronic back pain and anxiety.
"Pain and stress keep you in a chronic 'fight or flight' mode," River explains. "I like to listen to what the body is saying and offer people a safe space where they can relax."
Irma Preikschat is a yoga teacher, Reiki Master and wholistic health consultant who leads yoga classes at Mountain Path on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m.
"I'm a big fan of making yoga accessible," Irma says. "People will say 'I don't belong here! I'm not flexible.' There's an intimidation factor. But all my classes are catered to the ability level of the room."
"We work together to create the most effective healing plan that addresses a person's issues from many different angles," Brian continues. "We encourage blending eastern and western medicines, and will collaborate with a client's primary care physician in order to be most effective. We like to look at the whole person rather than just at their symptoms. And we accept major insurance plans including CIGNA, BlueCross BlueShield, Veterans Choice Program and United Healthcare."
For more information visit www.MountainPath.co.
