Back by Ginger McGuire
The Santa Fe New Mexican | January 12, 2005
This is one way Danielle Hampton described her practice at the Eldorado Acupuncture and Wellness Center. Hampton, a doctor of oriental medicine, compared one of her forms of treatment, the NeuroModulation Technique, with a book by Masaru Emoto, a Japanese researcher, who claims to show how thoughts, speech and emotions can affect the nature of water.
The Eldorado Acupuncture and Wellness Center in the Agora Shopping Center offers a medi-spa approach to alternative medicine. Treatments include acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, various types of therapy, nutritional programs, massage, Shiatsu and skin care.
Combination health center, spa offers alternative treatments
If you can change the energy of something or someone, you can alter its substance.
This is one way Danielle Hampton described her practice at the Eldorado Acupuncture and Wellness Center. Hampton, a doctor of oriental medicine, compared one of her forms of treatment, the NeuroModulation Technique, with a book by Masaru Emoto, a Japanese researcher, who claims to show how thoughts, speech and emotions can affect the nature of water.
Because the body is mostly made of water, Hampton said it could change when exposed to different elements. Emoto, in his book Messages from Water, says frozen water samples changed forms when exposed to different stimuli -- both positive and negative.
"I actively work with each of my patients on several levels simultaneously," Hampton said. "Every treatment considers your physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual health. This holistic viewpoint creates a healing environment, where you can learn more about yourself.
"I like the way Chinese medicine looks at the whole body as part of nature, part of the universe," she added.
The Eldorado Acupuncture and Wellness Center in the Agora Shopping Center offers a medi-spa approach to alternative medicine. Treatments include acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, various types of therapy, nutritional programs, massage, Shiatsu and skin care.
Hampton has been working in Eldorado since 1997. She once was a graphic designer, but Hampton said she was not happy. She had a vision of her wellness center before the Agora even existed. Even though she has many clients in Eldorado, she gets quite a few from town and from across the country.
"When I first opened my doors, I had people say 'thank you for just opening a wellness center here,' " Hampton said. "We really tried to create a healing environment."
She said the medi-spa approach is important because someone who comes in with a sore back and wants a massage possibly could have a medical issue the center can address.
Two massage therapists and several practitioners work out of the center. John Browning, a spiritual adviser and educator, provides his energy-healing technique called Noetic Field Therapy. This therapy helps clear blocks in the human energy field, according to a brochure in the office.
Another therapist, Win Hampton, also practices the Noetic Field Therapy along with spiritual mentoring and parenting education.
New to the center is Ruth Brown, a licensed massage therapist, who offers medical deep-tissue work and Shiatsu. The goal in Shiatsu is to "balance the energies," she said. The points and meridians used in acupuncture are the same used in Shiatsu, but finger pressure is used instead of needles.
Brown said Shiatsu helps relieve stress, anxiety, depression, attention deficit, menopause symptoms, chronic headaches and fatigue.
At the same time, the center offers organic facials, using the Jurlique product line whose ingredients are grown "using the rhythms of the earth," according to Hampton. Waxing and lash or brow tinting is also available.
David Johns, who recently began acupuncture with Hampton, said the pain he has in his legs that makes it difficult to sit down has decreased with his treatments. He has been to regular physicians about his condition and they prescribed pain medication.
"I hate taking pain medication," he said. "It doesn't take care of the actual illness. It only takes care of the symptoms.
"This really works," Johns added. "There is still a small pain, but it is nothing like it was before I went to (Hampton) last week."
Johns said he also has signed up for a kind of treatment that is supposed to help with balancing his emotions. He said many members of his family never dealt with emotions, such as anger, and they have dealt with consequences he does not want to endure.
The other treatment Hampton offers, NeuroModulation Technique, or NMT, was developed by Dr. Leslie S. Feinberg. The therapy produces instantaneous and profound results in many cases of illnesses provoked by faults in the autonomic control system of the body, according to the literature.
"Our bodies, like anything in nature, will choose health over illness for survival purposes," Hampton said. "With illness, there is some confusion in the body. The body thinks there is a reason (for illness)."
She said NMT helps find the reason for the confusion in the body and then helps the body fight that confusion. She said she has treated a number of illnesses, including chronic pain, allergies and arthritis. The NMT Hampton offers is something that makes her center unique, she said, because it is not offered in many places in town.
For more information about Hampton or the Eldorado Acupuncture and Wellness Center, call 466-2676 or visit their Web site at www.soul-centered-healing.com. Most insurances are accepted for Hampton's services. If you buy any five services (excluding Hampton's therapies) at the center, you can receive 10 percent off the final price.
(Copyright 2005 Santa Fe New Mexican)
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