September 2014

Many people have found establishing a daily yoga and meditation practice to be very healing mentally and physically.  Especially when dealing with grief, depression, addiction, major changes in our lives, and for general overall mental and physical health.

Tera and Malarie Matsuda are both certified yoga instructors through IKYTA and the Yoga Alliance.  We both offer private yoga and meditation consultations.  During a consultation a specific yoga set and meditation will be taught based on your individual needs and desired outcomes.  

These specialized consultations can help you move gracefully through the energetic blocks in your life.

This is a 90 minute appointment and includes a ten minute Gong Relaxation, a module of sound healing.

Malarie also teaches group classes, special series classes, and workshops.  Check our blog for any announcements.  

Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine can help a woman transition smoothly through her many cycles.  PMS, pre and postpartum, and menopause are often large obstacles that can be helped with Oriental Medicine.

Anxiety, fatigue, irritability, depression, insomnia, head aches, PMS, dysmenorrhea, and menopausal symptoms are just some of the conditions effectively treated with herbal medicine.

For many women these issues start from pregnancies, childbirth, or blood loss through monthly heavy periods. The body is not able to keep up with the continuous loss of vital nutrients and health issues arise. When treating this pattern it is necessary to stop the heavy bleeding, supplement the body with blood building foods, and heal the digestive system so it can absorb the nutrients and turn them into rich blood. Traditional Chinese Medicine classically says that the richness of the blood gives richness to life!

We also offer a complete Pregnancy Package.  Check it out!

Five Element Theory is one of the oldest diagnostic methods from China.  In observation of the natural world patterns emerge.  These patterns are used to explain the relationships both healthy and diseased within the human body, mind and spirit.  

• Acupuncture is one of the most used modalities in Oriental Medicine, a ten thousand year old system of health care.  In a time where we live such fast paced lives many people have been turning to this reliable and soothing healing practice to de-stress, heal what ails them and to integrate more fully into their authentic selves.  
• How does it work?  Thin disposable needles are inserted into the body at specific points.  This creates a reaction in the body.  Through thousands of years of investigation the acupuncture points have been found to create specific reactions like increasing circulation, reducing inflammation, regulating the temperature of the body, improving digestion, calming the mind, and stimulating the release of natural pain relieving chemicals from the brain.  Modern research is starting to show that acupuncture helps pain by deregulating the pain sensing areas of the brain.  
• How many treatments will I need?  It’s different for everyone and we can give you an idea when you call for a free consultation.  In the beginning of treatment patients benefit from receiving acupuncture twice per week. Because acupuncture helps your body heal itself getting frequent treatments helps you gain healing momentum.  Then, once you start to see changes in your symptoms, weekly treatments will keep the momentum going.  After your condition has improved 80-90% treatments will be spaced out to every other week or every three weeks, and when you are feeling 100% better maintenance treatments every 4 to 5 weeks will help you from losing all the ground you have gained.  Taking herbal formulas can speed up the time it takes for your body to heal and therefore cut down on the overall expense of treatment.  Dietary changes and appropriate exercise programs can also cut down on the overall cost of treatment.  

Tera draws from a variety of different acupuncture styles including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Japanese Meridian Therapy, and Five Element Classical Theory to provide you with a customized health care experience.

It’s not all about needles though.  There are many different treatment methods.  Click on this link to learn about moxabustion and cupping.

Known as the gentlest form of acupuncture.  Treatment with Japanese Meridian Therapy uses soft touch and the thinnest needles inserted mere millimeters into the skin.  This form of acupuncture was traditionally practiced by the blind in Japan and this diagnosis is performed mostly by touch.  This means patients can quickly lay down and start relaxing with out many questions being asked.  

Chinese Herbal formulas have been used for centuries to treat everything from the common cold to bleeding disorders.  Herbal medicine can be used alone or in conjunction with acupuncture treatments.  After detailed questions and physical examination a formula will be made specifically for the patterns that you are currently presenting.  For acute conditions a new formula may need to be adjusted every week.  For chronic diseases, ailments or constitutional patterns, an herbal formula can be prescribed for two to four weeks at a time.

We use only the highest quality of herbs that are independently tested for quality assurance.  The herbs come in concentrated powder form that are as easy to make as instant coffee.  The formula can also be encapsulated at your request for a small additional charge.  Unlike many prescription drugs Chinese Herbs address both the symptoms and the cause of the disease.

An herbal formula will be prescribed and recommended during each acupuncture appointment.  You may also book an appointment specifically for an herbal formula.  

Food is very powerful.  The body is continuously regenerating.  As they say, “You are what you eat.”  This is one of the most basic practices of Oriental Medicine.  Knowing what to eat for your particular body type or disease patterns that are presenting is a way to heal yourself daily on a cellular level.  Nutritional consultations are diet counseling sessions where we take a look at what foods would be best for you to eat and which to avoid.  

This appointment would be a 60 minute session. 

Luke Matsuda, known as Tera (Tayra) to friends, was born in Price and raised in Helper, Utah as well as Longmont, Colorado. Tera has deeply cared about people for as long as he can remember and has always sought out ways to serve them.

He began studying and practicing yoga seventeen years ago which lead him to an ashram in New Mexico. It was there that his chronic back pain was healed through acupuncture. After that profound experience he felt it was his calling to become a practitioner of Oriental Medicine.

Being deeply connected to his roots, this path was very fitting for him.  After all, his family had been using aspects of oriental medicine at home in Carbon County for four generations!

Tera, decided to first become a certified yoga teacher, where he studied, traveled, and volunteered in India for four months.  Then he continued his education receiving an Associate Degree from USU- Eastern.  After that he moved back to New Mexico for three more years of education and clinical practice to become a licensed acupuncturist.

Along the way he married his wife Malarie Matsuda and together they have one son.  He has had many different positions that have allowed him to help people.  He has a worked as a surgical technician at Castleview Hospital, as a wilderness field guide for an adult drug rehabilitation program, and as a Yoga teacher at USU-Eastern.

Tera, graduated from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he earned a Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine. Tera is happy to be home and is eager to help the people of Carbon and Emery counties feel better by providing them with a local, affordable, quality acupuncture and herbal medicine clinic.

    Malarie is the office manager for Matsuda Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine. She is the wife of Tera Matsuda, mother to Sage as well as a former second grade teacher at Pinnacle Canyon Academy and Sally Mauro Elementary.

    Malarie has over ten years of yoga practice and training. After her life was greatly transformed from yoga she decided to become an IKYTA and Yoga Alliance certified Kundalini Yoga teacher so she could share the teachings with others. In alignment with the Kundalini Yoga tradition she has learned how to play a symphonic gong for meditation and sound healing.

Malarie is passionate about pregnancy and birth and joined forces with the Sacred Living Movement and is now a certified Sacred Pregnancy instructor.

    She is interested in sustainable systems and holds certification in Permaculture Design from the Permaculture Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

    Please check our Facebook page and Blog for information on yoga workshops and gong meditations with Malarie and special guests.