Ancient warmth for modern healing
A traditional therapy that uses heated mugwort to stimulate acupuncture points — promoting circulation, reducing pain, and enhancing overall healing and vitality. The gentle, penetrating warmth reaches where hands can't, performed by Joshua Jimenez, LAc.
Heat where the healing stalls
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, pain and stagnation often come from cold and blocked flow. Moxibustion burns dried mugwort (moxa) near — never on — specific acupuncture points, driving deep, penetrating warmth into the channels. The heat moves qi and blood, relaxes tissue, and awakens the body's healing response where circulation has stalled.
Joshua selects the acupuncture points your condition calls for — often alongside a needle treatment.
Dried mugwort is shaped and lit, held near the point or atop a needle — warmth builds slowly and deeply.
Heat moves qi and blood through the channel — circulation improves, tissue relaxes, pain eases.
Warmth with a purpose
Moxibustion is usually woven into an acupuncture session — the needles open the channels, the moxa warms them. Ask Joshua whether your treatment plan calls for it.
Questions, answered honestly
No — the moxa is held or placed near the point, never on bare skin. You feel a deep, pleasant warmth; your practitioner monitors the heat constantly.
Burning mugwort has a distinctive earthy, herbal aroma — most clients find it calming, and the room is well ventilated.
Usually together — moxibustion amplifies an acupuncture treatment by warming the points the needles open. Joshua will include it when your plan calls for it.
Anyone with cold-type pain — stiff joints that hate winter, chronic low back pain, poor circulation, digestive sluggishness — plus fatigue and general vitality support.
No — we practice indirect moxa: the burning mugwort never touches you. You feel a pleasant, penetrating warmth over each point, and your practitioner removes it well before it's ever hot on the skin.
What to expect
Come a few minutes early, settle in, and share your goals — every moxibustion visit starts with a short, unhurried check-in so the session fits you, not a template.
Your provider tailors the work to your body and comfort as you go — speak up anytime; adjusting is part of the craft.
You leave with honest aftercare guidance — what to expect tonight, and how to keep the benefit building between visits.
One roof, every discipline
Clinical services run under the direction of Ashley Sutton, FNP-MSN — spa comfort with medical standards behind it.
Day spa, medspa, Western medicine, and Eastern medicine under one roof — your plan can draw from all four.
Every visit ends riverside — linger in the River Room or on the rooftop instead of rushing back to the car.
Pairs well with
Moxibustion slots naturally into a larger plan — many clients stack these in the same visit or alternate them through the season.