Karen E. Giles, Five Element Acupuncture

11/14/2025

As Autumn continues its journey, I share the wisdom and gifts of this sacred season as taught by Professor Worsley...with gratitude to the Worsley Institute for providing this special video. 🙏🍁🍂

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10/23/2025

This week, I joyfully began a gradual return to my treatment room after receiving a new hip on September 3rd.

I am thankful for the MRI technology that solved the mystery of some ongoing pain, as well as consults that helped guide my next steps. Reflecting on these last weeks and months, I am in awe of the pieces that seemingly just fell into place…medical information, appointments, consults and a surgical date that opened up for me earlier vs. later. But also, so much support and love as I recovered at home.

I am also thankful for the powerful blend of modern/western medicine, my path of Five Element acupuncture and Ayurveda medicine. Being able to travel through this experience with all these gifts has given me a healthy outcome. I have learned so much for myself, but also for those I serve in my treatment room. It has certainly been a “healing sabbatical!”

As Autumn and the Metal season continues to unfold…I am breathing in Divine gratitude! 🙏🍁🌞🍂❤

10/16/2025

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"Here [in Autumn] we can watch as the world is transformed into a quieter more meditative time where our vision grows as the trees clear their view of the heavens with each new fall of beautifully coloured leaves"

08/08/2025

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Earth is our mother and she gives all life the ground on which to grow. She also nourishes everything that grows on the surface with the most she can give. At this time of year there is this rich fullness of nourishment and a golden ripening of everything around.

07/11/2025

At the end of June, I attended Self Realization Fellowship’s Worldwide Convocation in Los Angeles. What a powerful time! It’s taken me a while to settle back home (in all ways) from such a profound experience. Lectures and classes for “how to live” in this ever-changing world, meditations, kirtans, community events and pilgrimages. All rooted in how to merge a more deeply spiritual life with this material world…and how to radiate that positive energy, love and peace to others. All very much needed in our world today.

What a Divine adventure - and a blessing to be a part of! 😍🙏💜🌹🌞🕊🌺

07/02/2025

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"It is important to consider that the Fire Element is the presence of heaven within us. It is through our own hearts that we are one with the heart of heaven. As there is only one north star, one sun, one emperor, and one heart, there is only one fire in this universe."

05/02/2025

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Every seed grows into exactly what shape or form it is meant to be. The master plan of its creation is put into action with hundred of detailed decisions and adjustment to what the weather brings. Spring is an expression of hope and growth.

04/27/2025

Finally got to share this special place with my dear friend and colleague Kim Vecchio. We toasted to the memories of my time here with Mom over the years...and to creating some new memories now! Many thanks for Kim's friendship and professional counsel over the last year as my family worked through the sale of my mother's home. Quite blessed...🙏🌷🥂💜

04/16/2025

From my retreat week at the end of March...as Winter and Spring "danced" a bit more in their transition. Such a blessing! I had some much needed time for rest, reflection and being in nature. And for reconnecting with healing practices in Ayurveda, meditation, pranayama and yoga. For my Self...and to share with those I serve in my treatment room. 🙏🌞💜

03/16/2025

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The seasonal shift has begun as we move into the start of Spring. This transition time often feels like a wobbly dance, as the progression from Winter through early Spring can show up with some powerful fluctuations in the natural world. At times, it can feel a bit jarring as the low energy of Winte...

01/27/2025

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"Great stillness and meditation comes with Winter. The landscape is frozen and all the trees and bushes are bared limbed like great bones. It is the time when the blue black turtle of the north meditates within its shell while the seeds of late summer sleep deep within the earth. Winter silences the...

01/02/2025

Happy New Year! Such gratitude to spend hours on the trails here welcoming in a new year. A beautiful mix of nature's divine expressions all around me. New Year blessings to all! 🥳🍾🥾🙏☮️