Acupuncture Plus Traditional Wisdoms

18/08/2026

A story. Long piece. Hopefully enriching. My first city clinics 1979- 83. 4 locations - went from my own space, to working in another massive acup clinic on the days the Vietnamese guy was not there, so I had 5 rooms if I wanted - I used 3 - to sharing a space in a chiro level of a building, where I had 3 rooms, to another, where I also had 3 rooms.

That sets the scene. Greetings to all who have questions. I know that my mind never shuts up. Always another solution to find. How did I approach this brand new life? Panache. No dogma.

As a beginning praccie in central Brisbane city in 1979, I found myself stuck with a mishmash of classical ideas from Dr van Buren, the 5 element and Stems and Branches models, and a need for this venture to work as I was a single mother of a 2 year old, in a foreign land, no family, no car, no back up. Do or perish.

Having an understanding that we all need to feel better, and that everyone was coming in seeking hopeful help, they all needed to walk out feeling uplifted, and eager for the next installment.

Trained 2.5 of my 3 years in acupuncture by an innovative chiro (Brisbane's first womb worker/fertility focus) in lymph, adhesions and structural integrity, I knew I needed to get Qi circulating. After taking an extensive case history, I chose to calm them after they had downloaded their lifestory to me (inquisite female wanting to get to what broke them). Now what? Love them up. Mothering essentially, as was/is my mission.

Dr John Shen (one of my early masters) said "first get the patient's love" I imagine Shen to Shen was my first awareness. I connected. Trust. Tending. Authenticity.

PROBLEM: everyone was desperate. Prior to HRT, endo diagnosis (not that that helps), laproscopies, arthroscopies, anti inflammatories, hormonal implants etc, there was acup, moxa and touch. No herbs yet. No medical solutions - told after a handshake to go home and put affairs in order.thus - anyone offering real comfort was a magnet. Female? Huge bonus.

MY SOLUTION: I had them lie face down, did a very gentle whole back rolfing style tension release, and nattered gently, whilst asking Quan Yin for help. (Her essence embeded in a gift I received from a close friend on the opening of my business). After their top layer tension of getting to me (central city, finding a parking spot) and unloading their burden), the gentle background music, warmth and touch took them elsewhere.

NEEDLING (note - Triage- calm the Shen). No 'diagnosis'. No need. Yet. They were upset. What would my stunning (back then) pulse diagnosis pick up? That. Heart lament. After 'grooming', ( we are all primates) I then placed hardly-in tiny needles in the second run of Bl yin Shu points.

Left them in total healing ambience, I had 2 rooms running concurrently. Went to the other, returning when calm was king. Settled. Palpation my signature. How does it feel? Not in my head with clever. In my ❤️ with compassion.

Did they have sore intevertebral spaces? Moxa - punk - burning on needles, plus added Bl 11, 17, 40 in to cool any excess. Rolled them over, all got lymphatic drainage done (after offering water, always hydrating, as changes need to be acknowledged - body has new instructions), then and only then - pulses.

Sore points revisited. Tongue reinspected. What changed? Dynamic. If calming worked, then clear out the cold that was wasting their Yang Q was next. Moxa queen in residence, I had listened in a way my now famous peers did not.. I have covered reset metabolism elsewhere. Then - what is impeding Qi/lymph/life flow? Life Residue. Starting with visible scars.

WHY? Body designed to heal itself, and to be in my company, it had not. Find out why, remove these obstacles, and let it do its thing. Assist. Not micromanaging. Back then, we had formulae. Passed down. Not 'protocol'

As a woman, new mum, in a space where all were at a loss (women' woes ignored, as esp in Qld, for this feministly motivated kiwi, who was super sensitive, the aussie culture was anathema to me.

Having a super chauvanistic, ( ended up imprisoned for r*ping students, assistants and patients - Mr Inappropriate) - though totally inspring teacher, I was on my own. I answered my own questions. Surely, if they felt happier, life would flow better?

What with the 3 'causes' of disease, in mind, getting the inner climates moving (yes, many tears with realisations as they surfaced), undoing the Yang Qi wastage - stored cold begone), and then - obvious blocks to flow, creating damming, as with a river obstructed.

One of the many queries I had, unanswered - was - what does a healing body look like? Are we mistaking what is happening? Sure, there is Western and eastern pathology. But, what about salutogenesis? Tao awareness?

I go back to soul.
Connections
And living in a body, that, as a car needing all wheels facing the same way, if misaligned- trouble.
Yes, we can 'diagnose'
But.
What with all the cleverness now egoically running the show - could we perhaps retreat back into being in service? Highest Good Of All Concerned?

TRANSFORMATIVE HEALING OPTIONS
Now open. If intrigued, perhaps ask me about Triage, unschooling and wombwork.

03/08/2026

Womb work
Beginning of first session
End of first session
End of second a day later.
How can hormones be made, transported and run a woman's life, when the factory - ovaries - is out of order?> (No flows flowing).
What has happened? Retrieval of the viscera back to position where she can function again . . interested to know more? If not in the local area (FNQ, Australia) you may find I am also here
wombynsways.com/timelines/

01/08/2026

Case #2
Various gyne operations as this was a BIG case - and you see the residue - she had 3 children. The ops started 13, most at 20ish. .
Softer - was hard and fibrous . .she was rapt .
Perineal steaming, and needllng and adhesion work plus the womb work I could do - it was so entangled. . .
maybe see what I mean?
https://wombynsways.com/courses/

01/08/2026

Would you like to be able to add this to your toolbox?
So needed - I am calling for apprentices . .
The marriage of Qi moving and womb work
Magic does happen.
40 y.o. after 4th child, deep wounding emotionally - during the Covid times: when her newborn had a PCR test as soon as born! Mum (R) was attended to by a midwife who had had her next jab the day before. R was then in the same state the viral myocarditis people were - 300+ heart rate, in and out of A & E: told that she had anxiety - yes, she did. 2 years later - I came into her life. She also had this complete inner collapse - no prolapse. I have no idea where her bits went.
You could say 'out of scope of practice'. Sending them to a pelvic physio, etc. BUT. This is fusion work. Learning the names of ligaments is not the same as evaluating and fixing . . on the spot - as you see below
When we combine Qi moving, and allied, experience the Arvigo/Maya and the Mercier hand work I have woven into what only we can do: Qi and body aligning.
Pic 1 - beginning of 1st session
Pic 5 - end of 2nd session (next day).
I was not pressing into her belly - there was nothing there . .
Her belly became resilient - still more work needed.
I dearly wish to teach those who have women's interests at heart and want to use their hands, and world wise women's wisdoms to help at least one broken heart, one fractured belly and one apparently hopeless case, at a time.
Would you like to outrageously improve your results?
We all are worked on - and thus can embody this work.
Not academic, not written about, in men's ways, but felt and passed through the generations - sacred circle/initiations. READY to know more? Please DM me . . .

20/07/2026

Welcome to possibly your new career turn
Last week was Birth Trauma Week. Asking for apprentice, instead I was inundated with stories of birth injures I had not heard of before. What is it with the system of 'safe' birthing practices now? Maternal carnage - forever after - unless someone knows what I have created.
Maybe what you have been waiting for. These new times need practical, clinical wisdoms, especially if women's care is where you are, and life and birthing damage is your workspace.
Maybe you are exiting midwifery/doulaing or other modes of serving women and wonder - where next?
Same with what you imagined studying acupuncture would give you. I have a happy mix of it all - right here - in a one time only, apprenticeship of a few women into the healing arts that I found to work when the men's ways did and could not.
Following nature, retrieving lineage, with oral traditions woven into the best of series - what I gleaned from traveling through five decades and globally to find new concepts and techniques.
Being woman was not supposed to hurt. I offer womb work and associated ways to short cut being stuck in sick/misaligned. This is an accelerated intensive including a week of practicals in FNQ - Ravenshoe area (2 hours north west of Cairns) 29th August - 3 rd September.
If you wish more than you have in your tool box: if touching is your thing: maybe if you know that YOU need this (we work on each other in this retreat at my place) then maybe talk with me. .
Drop everything and retrain, as the world needs more womb workers. Just with the birth injuries alone. Or the life long aftermath of s*xual frights and assaults, or being treated as less than and of not having someone in your corner - so all sorts of mechanics have been 'having a go at/in' your most sacred places.
The endo, the bladder woes and the prolapses, the gut and the structural issues plaguing you may be easily corrected using the fusion of my Moving Blockages approach with the Maya/Arvigo and Mercier womb work, plus all that I found made 'diagnosis' and neng in my head redundant - this is body work.
Many would have known my clinics in Brisbane and prior to the 2020 business were likely aware when no one else could help, I worth a try.
In 1981, I co-developed, co-wrote and co-taught what became eventually Endeavour College of Natural Medicine. I have been a critical thinking force helper across the generations . .and now, in FNQ am spending my time writing and gardening
I have an apprenticeship offer if you act now, as there is 1, maybe 2 spots left. Online - a vast array of background self paced courses as well as the self clearing that all must enter, to feel their own way through letting go the programming that we may be unaware of - yet keeping us out of balance.
The intensive apprentice course is here You will be busy fulfilled and have your joy return in being of service
https://heatherbrucehealing.com/awakenings/

20/07/2026

Womb work
Staring at the obvious.
Question: "Are 'our' ways needed in every person who walks in?"
Or are we trained to see what the tools we have as being all there is? What about - structure determines function?
Knowing there was more, I actively sought the missing pieces - as I could see IVF especially had gone through its glory days by the early 2010's .. AND as my initial acupuncture training came through the life experience of an innovative chiropractor who was womb centric, and as I had developed my own answers to undoing the STUCK - esp past life residue gently at home through the What Dads Can Do work, and as I was then called in for the 'hopeless' 'high risk' obstetric cases in the NZ community that was farming babies - at least 10 expected for each woman - and broken down they all were - I had reason to keep searching.
Prior to any ART (talking late 70's here) there was my initial teacher - and me in Brisbane working to create free flowing from the body being aligned. Easy circulation is only possible when all is where it is designed to be. Easy periods, easy s*xuality, easy fertility, easy pregnancies, easy birthing, easy babies, easy being woman. The womb is the centre of her body, and when it is out of balance, so is she. All aspects of.
This became personal - birthing physical injuries - supposedly rectified. As I was the gyne multi modality, everyone's 'too hard basket' in clinic consultant, and teaching internationally - I can attest to older women being ignored. Pelvis and bladders - not only swollen prostates - real saggy, adhered within and weakening structural deficits all traceable back to our birthing (or assaulted through life) years. C sections especially. What the pelvic physios etc are not taught (womb work) thus doing. As their scope of practice they are not taught what womb workers are.
Bladders - as women's bodies have been used (and lived in, hopefully not abused) and have gone through decades of being there for others - now also surviving the fertility/pregnancy/birthing and changes in the vehicle they inhabit - no one seems to be paying attention to what began all initially - that fall, incident, accident - often before they were 10.
The sacral and tailbone injuries with any fall (that sacral hinge is helpful only in birthing), and ligaments and STUCK Liver Qi render havoc within. The womb is mobile, and retreats. Ovaries no longer supported with the blood in and the wastes/lymph out.
Right here - the basis of the impossible to correct with TCM case. Go off and learn ligaments? the men;'s way again - female bodies are the default setting - but unless you have lived decades in one - you may not see the importance of this.
If the womb is not the centre of the conversation, the real 'cause; is missed. as when you go study Netter's (only anatomy book useful) you find it is all the peritoneal and the fascial connections - and womb is the hub of this wheel . Men and their prostates (as they are mammals, they were to be wombs) .
Back to the young girls in their lovely primes. . . There is concurrently the unwanted attention as maidenhood beckons. So much abuse. Hidden. Forgotten. Not acknowledged in any text. Basis of all that can't flow - especially in birthing. This and the structural issues lead to 'correct' TCM diagnoses of Stuck Blood in whatever form. And not where to start if you wish to be thorough as the body can't heal itself when in 'wonky' mode.
Shall we put it all back in alignment and then see if that wheel at an angle is stopping forwards movement, as would be so evident in a car? Do we begin with what tertiary education and being 'up there' infertility' the first step - or do we ask - why is this not self correcting?
Said differently:
Are needles the right course?
Will herbs realign the womb?
No.
A recent set of cases - all 3 had stunning cyclic recurrent dramas. 2 over the handlebars falls off bikes at 6 years old. Multiplied by both being avid horse riders - uncountable falls. Both had astonishing gyne troubles.
One with outrageous bowel adhesions creating 5 days in bed and constant loo trips in vast pain as well as the womb distress. Even after a year's worth of Stuck Blood resolving herbs, diligently taken (as she was 3 years into not conceiving). Another had a gymnastics incident at 10. Screaming in agony as her mum drove her 2 hours to see me. Now 13, all cycles unlivable. And instantly FIXED. 3 hours in my care. Profound changes not necessarily in and out for health funds.
Womb work involves gently undoing what holds her hostage. In most cases - the obvious sacral displacement, and tailbone misaligned. HINT - can not be forced back. No chiro/physio could undo - as the body holds on. Nutrients needed to assist where the depletion held all change impossible.. Peristeaming a must in clinic - before and during sessions, plus all the gentling ways that do the trick - over several hours in a session. And needles (my Stuck Belly Blood 'protocol' being only after many other lymph and structural clearances.
How? Simple Third World women's ways - and not taught in the written tomes from the male and medical models in whatever format. If this resonates, if it calls you - as it did me - do reach out. Some of this (especially immediate now only training opportunities) is being added to my new site (which will in time hold all that was on my three phone apps (2o14 vintage - tech dinosaur)

16/07/2026

Wombwork training
Multi modality/lineage transformative Qi & body aligning begins now. 2 places left. Is one yours?

This is composed of accelerated online self paced classes/Zoom meetups leading into a whole week (29 August to 3rd Sept) of working on each other near Ravenshoe. FNQ. Australia. Or, 3 days including Effective Healing from birth/life injuries in Christchurch, NZ, 12-14th September. Both have maximum 6 particupants, as this is doubles as sacred women's healing.

You could begin with the first 2 days of Reconnecting Heart and Wombspace practicals, plus the following day of Healing After C Section and other surgical Incursions, and complete the Womb Woes to Womb Wisdom later. In late October, or/and mid January when offered again in FNQ. January advanced class goes into the prolapses and bladder horrors. So many - including me with interstitial cystitis after multiple birth injuries - carry these forever. Something those choosing C sections and other pelvic ops can look forwards to.

Over the decades, I have taught body work as integral in all my gyne/ reproductive and 'high risk' pregnancy challenges, easy structural magic and spiritually connected releases.

The major focus is using your presence and fingers as your eyes. Adhesions, scars, sacrum and tailbone damage need gentling back to alignment. These left in place, are ignored as the texts are too busy in clever prescribing missing the fact that the person has lived a life. This sets the scene for nothing seemingly "working'. A sample case I will add in tomorrow. Esp in any gyne, 'fertility' troubles. Structure determines function.

We begin with ourselves as our first patient. (We all have had lives. We all wish we had a wand). Maybe it is time to let go what was, and embrace radical change. Courage to shed what no longer fits, to begin yourself in my secrets of clearing inner debris. For all structural concerns -womb/prostate at the centre.

This would suit any wishing a career turn. Acupuncturists wanting more hands-on; midwives who feel to slow down to deeply tend, to touch, to correct, to relieve more; massage/body workers who want to branch out; or those who hear the call and are intrigued. This is super large investment.
Aimed at giving all at every age and stage of life, real alternatives.

If you have space to grow into a fusion of the Maya and Mercier work through my Moving Blockages to Healing lenses (50 years in the making), DM me for more.

This is intensive, experiential, and instantly transferable. Short cuts gleaned from multiple masters, my decades of correcting hard, often hopeless cases. Key word? Gentle. Not massage, not head/ not talking related. No diagnosis, no protocol. Thorough presence with ❤️ ful hands.
Shall we chat?

10/07/2026

Wish to do more? Womb interested?
(That would be everyone's fluids/'hormonal'/ structural/belly/life matters not resolving)
This is a programme of accelerated intensive Qi Moving, soul aware. For body workers, or those who wish to change direction from midwiving or other woman centred caring).

Are there expressions of interest, as I offer transformational Qi and body practical hands-on apprentice womb workers? Whilst I have been known for over the past 48 years for my innovative natural reproductive solutions, I added in womb work 2014 by merging my decades of Moving Blockages to Healing with the Arvigo/Maya, then 2016 the Mercier work. The moves and associated paradigm shifts are not age or gender specific. Multi modality, soul based, nutrient centred, holistically grounded cross cultural knowings instantly usable on your body, family, and the next day in your practice.

'Effective Healing A Woman's Life' from the festering residue of frights, incidents, assaults and surgical incursions is my focus.
If this intrigues you, I am not using AI or fancy marketing. Take this opportunity as it is brief. Intimate classes going deep, as we uncover why this is work we cannot not do. Online, self paced, with group tutorials and lessons towards experiential intensive 28th August - 3rd September FNQ rural location.
12-14 September Chch NZ

Reconnecting Bao and Dai Mai (Heart and Wombspace) is profound gut/musculoskeletal/gyne healing. If this is your thing, the following day we take out our needles. 'Effective Healing A Woman's Life' - no diagnosis needed. We follow discernment, from opening channels after the previous day of experiencing vast inner personal shifts as we work with hands, and heart on each other.
Clearing Triage - shock, cold and scars - into fascial, visceral, sacral, coccygeal tangles into the womb focus.

Your journey in Gentling Ways may answer your own quest, which may have had you begin the healing journey in acupuncture, and now assisting others as the world we knew shifts into other dimensions - and you seek more to do and be more. DM me - if you feel that this is your calling

We begin with 'Love Your Womb' online and 'Awakenings' (includes 10 additional online courses) - to undo our own 'stuff' plus gain an appreciation of the work involved in being human on the path FIRST.

11/06/2026

There is so much more than TCM and needles. . Life happens. .
In learning the Mercier (Dr Jen does not mention) and the Arvigo womb work, I watched no one speak much of him. As an Arvigo Self Care teacher, in the class of 2015, I was tasked with the men's equipment info. So - here we are - miscarriages/IVF fails . .

Before pregnancy - there is quality baby making - or not.
Losing babies. . . or IVF failures, not even getting out of the gate?
Before 2014 and meeting up with womb magic, I was doing my own thing with what I had clinically gleaned . . and the men - so important - prostatic drainage as I was taught in 1977 by my chiro acup teacher. Done on all men - and magic happens - sometimes even losing their varicoceles. .
Avoiding Early Pregnancy Loss - mostly depends mostly on HIM - who here is touching the men? Their womb (prostate) needs help also.
I present clinical experience - not who said what . . (there are more than enough doing this) and that men matter

REASONS FOR NON-CONCEPTIONS
This is not an exhaustive list - is what comes to mind top of head
(also losses included in these)
Not making babies. . .
*BOTH*: Likely the usual 5 flows (Qi, red, blue and clear blood (lymph), and nerves flow interrupted, and the 6 ‘T’s’ not being addressed: (Temptation to believe what is currently topical is real /truthful for life), tension, temperature, torpor, trauma and toxins).
1 - Blocked tubes
2 - Not good enough quality
3 - Making anti life components:
Anti s***m antibodies/hostile mucous
4 - Effect of the gene modification – regardless of being personally jabbed or not
Modern life – bequeathed
Modern life – personally ingested
Modern life – being actively, intentionally messed with – spraying, EMF etc
5 – Not compatible reproductively

*HIM* - above PLUS, creating low S***m quality
1 - Hot te**es (May or may not include varicocele)
2 - Metabolism fails
3 – General health (other)
4 – Life habits

*HER* - couple factors above, plus
Likely driven more by early life incidents and how she feels about herself through the life residues including all incidents and falls/resultant interventions.
And the medicos labeling the consequences of her life dramas as being conditions to be banished through medication/laser/surgical means - all back again as who thought to undo the body instructions - as above??

We can do so much in reproductive matters.
If we open our eyes up to HALF the baby and often 90% of the no baby presenting itself (from my 50 years of practical clinical life). I wonder - are you treating the wrong person?
What to do about this?
At least teach her how to work on him . . . .
Maybe express interest in what else YOU could do in clinic?

09/06/2026

In the pregnancy series: last few days on my page Heather Bruce
# 1 - Too many, no one wants them (Foundlings)
# 2 - C sections - what to do when you feel broken forever after by this often life saving procedure.
# 3 - Maybe baby making . . . and loss
In the last few days, I have edited the 2015 version of my large eBook Avoiding Early Pregnancy Loss.
I am truly shocked
I looked up Wikipedia - I know - but so many go there.
Where is what I found in clinic? Fix the lad and all is well?
No mention, except of chromosomes. Surely there are wanting-to-be dads out there who know they have something to do to assist the baby making project?
There maybe some here in this category.
IVF fails? Losing - or no conceptions at all?
What to do - you can't keep staying positive.
Maybe find out why not babies and the medical excuses given . . .
As I wrote this eBook in 2012, I revisited the cases I put in there - hope? No - Real results. . and the entire process is straight forward - calm and settle you whilst explaining WHY babies so far are missing in your arms.
Clear out what is in the way
And make the garden ready for the right season - sound flowery?
Yes - life - and nature wins, when you work with her.
If this sounds like you may need. . Perhaps you may wish to learn how to help others as this is a huge handover . .
I will put up an offer for those who wish to HELP in all matters of the heart and pelvis - tomorrow.
If you know anyone who wants to learn how to really help others ..
Womb work - for men also - massive shifts are possible with intensive bundles of care offered
The merging of the Mercier and the Maya womb work with my decades of Moving Blockages to Healing - across multiple modalities. We start the classes SOON.
Centred in FNQ - we begin online with self paced and group tutorials leading into hands-on each other practicals up here in the beautiful Tablelands.

Welcome to Womb Care Ravenshoe (Ravens-Hoe)Atherton Tablelands, Australia Q – Why RAVENSHOE? I live here. (See map at the bottom of the page). I see a need. When nothing else has helped. . . . shall we start with the beginning – is all where it is supposed to be? Q – Why WOMB? Is […]