Every treatment at Bliss Clinic begins the same way — with an unhurried conversation and a careful reading of the pulse, tongue, and what the body has been trying to say. Everyone begins with an initial consultation. From there, Yasmin shapes each visit around your plan and how you are responding.
Where every patient begins. An unhurried conversation to take your full medical history and understand what you need from treatment. Yasmin puts together a treatment diagnosis and reads your internal needs — taking the pulse, examining the tongue, and palpating certain areas — and finishes with a short initial treatment tailored to what she finds.
A chance to discuss ongoing issues and how you are progressing. By this point Yasmin will have put together your treatment plan, and gives the appropriate treatment for the day — which may be any combination of cupping, acupuncture, gua sha and more.
A longer, unhurried treatment for established patients — more time on the table for deeper or more involved work, drawing on the full range of therapies your plan calls for.
Each treatment is tailored during a gentle intake conversation. First-time visitors are encouraged to begin with a consultation so we can meet you properly before anything else. Depending on your specific diagnosis and health requirements, your treatments will consist of a personalised combination of the following techniques.
Fine, hair-thin needles placed precisely along the meridians to restore the body's own regulating currents. Suited to chronic pain, digestive troubles, fertility, sleep, and long-standing patterns.
Most people feel only a faint tingle as each needle settles, followed by a spreading heaviness the classical texts call de qi — the arrival of the body's own current. Needles rest for twenty to thirty minutes while you lie warm and undisturbed; many drift into a deep, restorative doze.
Rather than chasing a single symptom, each point is chosen to nudge the whole system back toward balance, which is why acupuncture so often eases the things you didn't come in for — steadier sleep, calmer digestion, a quieter mind.
Glass or silicone cups used to gently lift the fascia, release deep muscular tension, and move stagnation. A quiet, surprisingly restful treatment — particularly good for tight shoulders and low backs.
Where massage presses in, cupping draws upward — a soft suction that lifts the layers of skin and fascia, floods stiff tissue with fresh blood, and coaxes stubborn knots to let go. Cups may stay put or glide slowly across oiled skin along the length of a tight muscle.
The circular marks it can leave are not bruises but a picture of where stagnation sat; they fade within a few days. Most people leave feeling loose, warm and unexpectedly light.
Traditional Chinese therapeutic massage that works along the body's channels — pressing, kneading and rolling to move stagnant qi and ease held tension. Well-suited to musculoskeletal troubles, everyday stiffness, and recovery from injury.
Tui Na — literally "push-grasp" — is the hands-on branch of Chinese medicine, older than acupuncture itself. It reads the body through the same map of channels and points, then works them directly with the thumbs, palms and forearms: rhythmic pressing, kneading, rolling and stretching that reaches both muscle and meridian.
Firmer and more purposeful than a spa massage, it is done clothed and tailored to the problem at hand — a frozen shoulder, a stubborn neck, the residue of an old injury. You feel worked on, then noticeably freer.
Smooth, repeated strokes with a edged tool coax long-held stagnation to the surface and free the fascia beneath — easing tightness, encouraging circulation, and releasing the tension that settles deep in the tissue.
Using the smooth edge of a gua sha tool, the skin is stroked in short, firm passes over oiled skin until a temporary flush — the sha — rises to the surface. That redness is the point: it marks blood and heat that had been trapped in the tissue finally moving, and it settles within a day or two.
Often paired with acupuncture, gua sha is especially good early in a cold or when tension has hardened across the neck and upper back.
The gentle warming of acupuncture points with smouldering mugwort, drawn on where there is cold, deficiency or stagnation in the body. It brings a deep, penetrating heat — and smells, pleasantly, of a well-kept fire.
Dried mugwort is rolled and lit, then held a careful distance above the skin — or perched on the end of a needle — so its warmth soaks slowly into the point beneath. Where acupuncture moves what is stuck, moxa adds what is lacking: a nourishing heat for bodies that run cold, tired or depleted.
It is a mainstay for period pain, poor circulation, low energy and, famously, for gently encouraging a breech baby to turn. You feel only a comforting, radiant glow.
Deep, penetrating warmth from infrared light that reaches beneath the surface to ease stiffness, encourage circulation and support the body's own repair. Often used to round off a treatment, leaving the muscles loose and calm.
Infrared is the one modern instrument in an otherwise ancient toolkit. Its warmth travels past the skin to reach muscle and joint directly, widening the small vessels there so blood, oxygen and repair can flow where the body has grown stiff or slow to heal.
It sits naturally at the close of a session — after needles or cupping have done their work — melting away the last of the tension and leaving you warm, loose and quietly restored.
If you are unsure which treatment is right for you, simply book an initial consultation. We'll find the way together.
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