Awel Acupuncture

21/01/2026

Hellooo Chinese baddies 😜

You might have seen the slightly bizarre joke online right now that everyone is Chinese?! 🥲

People are sharing that they are in a ‘very Chinese time’ in their lives’ and ‘becoming Chinese’ 🤔

Basically non-Chinese people are embracing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) inspired wellness habits 🍐

This trend reflects a general growing interest in wellness practices rooted in Chinese culture and Traditional Chinese Medicine – a health system stemming from thousands of years of East Asian medicine that encompasses acupuncture, cupping and gua sha massage (oi oi!!), as well as food therapy, herbal medicine and movement like qi gong 🌸

We obvs want to be mindful of cultural appreciation over cultural appropriation and remember that Traditional Chinese Medicine is no way just a trend or a fad! It’s something super solid and for life and I am obvs obsessed 4eva 💗

I’ve got a degree in acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine and am continuing to learn sooo much every day since graduating. I’ll never know it all. It’s amazeballs 🤯

The trend is a little bit odd but generally seen as positive Chinese representation and not mockery 🫶

Some easy Chinese wisdom tips we can respectfully incorporate into our lives…

✿ Keep your feet warm…House slippers all day, every day 🔥
✿ Daily, gentle movement…Shaking, tapping, qi gong 🙌
✿ Gua sha your face in the mornings 🧖‍♀️
✿ Warm drinks 🍵
✿ Savoury warm breakfasts like congee 🥣
✿ Sleeeeeep 🛌
✿ No to cold / raw food and drinks, 5am starts, HIIT workouts, fasting and cold plunging ✋
✿ Book a treatment with me 😉

It’s cool to be Chinese honeys 💅 xoxo

22/12/2025

✧༺♥༻ WINTER IN CHINESE MEDICINE ༺♥༻✧

This season corresponds to the Water element 💦

“Water is the softest thing, yet it can pe*****te the Earth and mountains. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.” ~ Lao Tzu 🍚

Winter is a time for slowing down and going inward to preserve energy and seek warmth ❤️‍🔥

Water relates to the Kidneys and is associated with wisdom, stamina and endurance. It is quiet until overwhelmed…too much activity, overdoing it and too much focus on the outer world will deplete Water and lead to imbalance. When your Water element is unbalanced, you might feel isolation, absentmindedness, detachment, or fear 😳

Winter is the most Yin time of the year but our culture makes it hard to slow down as our calendar isn’t in line with the seasons 🙃

New year’s resolutions may not feel natural to you and that’s ok! It’s fine not to be actioning loads atm 🦔

When Spring comes in March (the season of the Wood element) we’ll be more likely to feel like hopping forward and embracing Yang. We’ll probs want to do more things, make more changes, stretch and expand 🐰

For now, let’s glide along and try not to feel pressured. We’re all lil buds waiting to bloom 🌸

Sleep and eat well, keep cosy, get out in the sun when you can. Stay nourished and grounded, strengthening your roots ready for them to spread and grow when the time is right 🌱 xx

22/09/2025

Hi autumn 🫠🍂

In Chinese medicine, autumn is the season of the metal element, contraction and moving inward, and it corresponds to the lungs and large intestine 🖤🔗

Emotionally, the metal element is associated with grief, sadness and nostalgia and as we move into autumn, we may find ourselves feeling these feels a bit more 🥺💕

When our metal element is in balance, we can hold onto what’s important to us and let go of what’s no longer needed ✌️ Just like the trees shedding their leaves at this time of year 🍁

This is a perfect time for releasing and decluttering both physically and mentally 📦

If your metal element is out of balance, then you might find it hard to let go of things, people or places. Or, you might be too quick to say goodbye!? 💨

We can support ourselves as we move into autumn by…

✹ Consuming seasonal, warm foods and drinks 🍵
✹ Feeling the feels 🥲
✹ Practicing gratitude whilst also thinking about what may no longer serve us and letting go 😘
✹ Keeping cosy from head to toe 🧦
✹ Consciously breathing for a couple of mins a day 😌
✹ Booking in for a treatment with me 🧚‍♂️

Please get in touch with any questions and I’ll be happy to help 🙂 xx

03/09/2025

Hiii 🙂

I’m enjoying being properly back to work this week after the school holidays! Been a busy bee welcoming old and new clients into the studio for treatments 🧚‍♂️

On Friday I’m excited to be back at for the day! I’ll be treating guests to cosy, glow boosting facials ✨
~ acupuncture, gua sha, cupping and LED = dreamy times ahead 💕

Then next week I’m back to school 🤓
…Off to the midlands again to complete the second part of my massage for acupuncturists training with one of my old acupuncture tutors 🤗

Looking forward to incorporating my new skills into some of your treatments very soon 🤩

Rest and touch are so magic and we forget to slow down and chill the f**k out enough don’t we really?! 😝

Book yourself in with me for some nurturing, healing time! It’s the best thing for yourself and those around you 😉 xoxo

15/08/2025

Hiii! 🙂

Welcome to Late Summer ~ The season of the Earth element 🌾

Chinese Medicine has a cheeky lil fifth season 😏

This is a time for slowing down, nurturing, nourishing, resting and reflecting 😌

~ A time to gather and ground our minds and bodies as we begin to move from the vibrant, energy packed summer towards the slower, calmer autumn 🌀

~ In late summer you’ll sense a shift from yang energy (more outward and strong) to yin (more inward and soft) ☯️

The organs associated with the Earth element are the Stomach and Spleen 💛

~ Seasonal, yellowy veggies with subtly sweet flavours will support your Earth element and we should be moving towards cooked, warm foods ~ away from cold, raw summer salads and sugary / icy drinks 🌽

Let this be a cute reminder to take extra care of yourself and reprioritise ritual for your body, mind and spirit! ✨ You can’t pour from an empty cup 🫶 xoxo

23/06/2025

21/06/2025

It’s Fire season hotties!! 😏💥

Summer is the season of connection, joy and exploration of the Heart ❤️‍🔥
~ The time of peak warmth, light and energy ☀️

Living in harmony with nature and the seasons is a fundamental part of Chinese medicine 🌸

Good health at this time of year manifests as quality sleep, meaningful relationships and a zest for life 😜

Imbalances may show as anxiety, heart palps, poor sleep, struggling to connect with others, a lack of joy or cold hands and feet 😬

To help bring balance ~

𖤓 Spend a little time each day consciously breathing and moving 🧘‍♀️
𖤓 Make time to celebrate the new season (summer solstice is today!)🍻
𖤓 Light a fire or candles 🕯️
𖤓 Look inwards and open your heart ❤️
𖤓 Practice gratitude 🙏
𖤓 Work on your relationship with yourself 🫶
𖤓 Book an acupuncture treatment 🧚‍♀️

Ask yourself ~

𖤓 What makes your heart sing? 🤩
𖤓 What ignites your inner fire? ⚡️
𖤓 What fills you with joy? 🥹
𖤓 What sparks connection in you? ✨
𖤓 What connections do you have in your life that fill you with joy? 🥰
𖤓 Do you share your heart and its desires in a balanced way or are you too open? 🫢
𖤓 Or, are you too closed off and so find it hard to connect? 🤨

All of us need warmth, a sense of excitement and joyfulness 😇

Summer is a great time to nourish Heart and Yang energy by socialising, spending time with loved ones and having a laugh 😅
It can get busy and intense though so just remember to balance your Yin energy by checking in with yourself and taking time to rest when needed 😌
You don’t wanna crash and burn 🔥🫠 xoxo

12/05/2025

“𝒲𝑒 𝑜𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓃𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒. 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝑒𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓊𝓈. 𝒮𝑜 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓌𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓃𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒, 𝓌𝑒’𝓋𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈.” Andy Goldsworthy 🌸🫶

Hi! 🙂

Thanks for all the love for mine and .jones__’s giveaway. 💖

Lots of new faces here and I’d love for you to stay so I thought I’d do a little re-introduction. 👋

I’m Maggie and I’m an acupuncturist based in my dreamy little studio space in Cardigan. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Acupuncture is about finding the underlying root cause of health concerns and treating the whole of an individual rather than symptoms alone. It’s preventative medicine which recognises that body, mind, and spirit are made up of the same five elements found in nature, and that our health and wellbeing are dependent on them co-existing in balance and harmony. ☯️

It’s such a rewarding job and I especially love when people are so relaxed they fall asleep and have a lil acu-nap, or say that they feel trippy af in a good way hehe. 😜

I also offer moxibustion, cupping, gua sha, holistic facials, cosmetic acupuncture, microneedling and LED light therapy. 🪄

I honestly love seeing you all and hearing such positive feedback from treatments makes it extra special. 🥹

Best. Job. Ever. ❤️‍🔥

If you’d like to find out more about the services I offer and how I may be able to help you feel more sparkly then please get in touch for a lil chat. ✨

There’s no better time to invest in your wellbeing and bring yourself back to a place of balance 🪷 xoxo

20/03/2025

Spring is springing!! 🙂👋

I like to think of tomorrow as the first official day of Spring cos it’s my birthday hehe 🐰🎈

In Traditional Chinese Medicine Spring is the season of the Wood element which signifies birth, creation, new beginnings, growth, development, vision and expansion 🐣🌱

In the body the Liver and Gall Bladder are the organs associated with the Wood element. The emotion is anger, the colour connected is green, the taste is bitter and the sound is shouting 🌳🪵

The liver is one of the most important organs for renewing, cleaning and energising the body. When our liver is running smoothly, energy will flow with ease 💧🌀

Spring is the perfect time to rebalance by setting fresh intentions and learning something new 🧠✍️

Here are a few tips to help keep you flexing like sexy, bendy bamboo this season 🎋🫦 (nobody wants to be a brittle, snappy old sad sap do they?!) 😂

✿ Soak up the extra sunlight ☀️
✿ Sleep before 11pm 😴
✿ Journal your thoughts ✏️
✿ Clean out your cupboards 🗑️
✿ Organise your clothes 👡
✿ Change up your skincare routine 🧖‍♀️
✿ Walk and explore 🥾
✿ Repot your plants 🪴
✿ Eat plenty of spring greens (bitterer the better) 🥬
✿ Start a new project 🎀
✿ Book a treatment with moi to help reset the body and release tension 🧚‍♀️

Please get in touch with any questions and I’ll be happy to help!! 😽🧡 xo

12/02/2025

Hiii :)

Thank you everyone who’s come to see me over the last couple of weeks! 💫 Especially appreciate the continued support since I’ve increased my prices a little. You’re all the best and I love seeing and treating you! 🧚‍♀️

I thought I’d start sharing some info about some of my fave acupuncture points with you. 🌀
This will probably be random and sporadic but today we have The Wind Pool aka Gates of Consciousness aka Feng Chi aka Gallbladder 20 (GB20)!! 🌪️🧡

some info ~
✹ reflects the gallbladder meridian
✹ point where wind and cold pathogens can easily enter the body through the skin
✹ wind pathogens are responsible for the common cold, neck pain, and sudden onset of symptoms like headaches, achiness, or chills
✹ many headaches, migraines, eye pressure and stress are a result of stagnation in the gallbladder channel
✹ this point can help relieve stress and tension, and promote relaxation and a good nights sleep
✹ on a mental level, can help issues with clarity, lack of concentration, being unable to see or form judgements
✹ brightens the sense orifices so they function better at all levels

location and acupressure ~
✹ located at the back of the head where you can feel the dip between the skull and the neck…the 2 points are to the left and right of that dip in the neck and will probs feel tender
✹ stimulate in small circular motions with your fingers or a gua sha tool for a minute or 2, a couple of times a day
✹ using a lush oil down the back of the neck will further activate qi energy, move blood and expel cold
✹ avoid in pregnancy

Let me know if you have any questions or if there are any other points you fancy learning about? 👋

I’m looking forward to doing some mini teaching at the second Heal and Awaken retreat with .jones__ at .wales this weekend 🙊 It’s gna be dreamy! ☁️☁️☁️ xoxo

29/01/2025

Happy lunar new year!! 🧧

We’re entering the year of the wood snake so you may be feeling a shift in energy? 🐍

The snake is a powerful symbol of healing and personal evolution. In shifting scales, shedding skin and taking new forms, the snake reminds us that the medicine we seek is already within us. ✨

The year of the wood snake represents wisdom, transformation and growth, flexibility, renewal and tolerance. 🎋

Snakes thrive on patience and careful planning and represent intelligence and introspection. You may find yourself on a journey of deep self-discovery and learning. You can expect a stronger connection to your instincts, guiding you to make the right decisions. ✌️

Relationships may be intense and magnetic with passions running deep and possibly some secrets surfacing. The strongest connections will survive the test of trust and transformation. ❤️‍🔥

It’s a lush time to shed some stagnant energy and find your flow 🌀 xoxo

21/01/2025

Heal and Awaken retreat 🫶💕✨

Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th February at .wales 🎟️

Join us for a transformational weekend. Weaving somatic healing practices, creativity and self-care. 💘

Kundalini Energy Healing ~ Yoga & Movement ~ Creative Workshop ~ Nourishing Food ~ Self Massage ~ Acupuncture ~ Meditation ~ Breathwork ~ Journaling

✿ Are you ready to step into the fullest version of you? ✿ To shed those limiting beliefs, narratives that have been holding you back?
✿ To manifest your dreams?
✿ To heal old wounds and rewrite the story?
✿ To feel confident and whole?
✿ To re-remember?
✿ To realise that you are worthy of all you desire?
✿ To let the magic unfold even more sweetly than you could ever have imagined?

Loved being part of the last retreat like this alongside .jones__, .ladd, and all the lush attendees 🧚‍♀️

I’ll be back on the Sunday with a nourishing self-care workshop where we’ll be chatting Chinese medicine and Winter rest, doing some self-massage / facial practices, and juicy gua sha too. Then there’ll be optional acupuncture and calming assists with the yoga nidra to close the beautiful weekend 🌀

Have a little look at the schedule on the .wales website and get yourselves and your loved ones booked in as it’s going to be another magic weekend not to be missed! 🧘‍♀️🧖‍♀️ xoxo