earth & sky oasis

06/19/09

Awesome Massage

by suvts5 at Citysearch

I am so lucky to have been introduced to Earth & Sky Oasis. I received a gift certificate for a massage and made an appointment with Kate. What a great gift and what a great way to relax. Kate was awesome. I have not experienced a massage this great in a long long time. I have gone back several more times since then and the quality of the massage has been consistent every time. I work just blocks from here and this is a nice get away from the busy city life. Every time I step into Earth & Sky I'm asking myself why I have not come back sooner.

12/19/08

Great acupuncturist!

by CecileElina at Citysearch

I wholeheartedly recommend the acupuncturist, Anna Hsieh Gold! Thanks to her knowledge of acupuncture, as well as her warm and calm presence, I was able to have a non-medicated delivery.

I first went to see Anna a week before my due date as acupuncture had been recommended by my doula as a way to get my body ready for birth. It was my first time getting an acupuncture treatment and Anna made sure I was very comfortable (which was no easy task as I was so huge!) During the treatment she explained very clearly what she was doing and why, and again went out of her way to make sure I was in a comfortable position. Immediately after the treatment, I felt very relaxed and calm, and that following night I slept super well and woke up with a lot more of energy than the previous days, which at 39 week pregnant felt really, really good. A week and a half later my labor started. After more than 24 hours of contractions and slow progress, I started to get discouraged and wondered if I would ever give birth! Anna came to my house, this time for a treatment that would help my labor to speed up a bit. Two hours later I was on my way to the hospital with intense contractions and finally felt things were progressing. My healthy baby girl was born 6 hours after seeing Anna. I am completely convinced by the effectiveness of acupuncture (hmmm, yes, I had some doubts before I tried it) and now recommend it to everyone as a way to cure whatever ailment they might have!

06/27/08

Anna Hsieh Gold: Great knowledge and suggestion for a breech pregnancy. Thanks!

by baronmind at Citysearch

My wife is currently pregnant with our 2nd child (32 weeks and counting) and the baby was breech - feet down (actually butt down, but was feet down for a while). Our doctor told us that he would monitor the situation, but if the baby didn't turn by 36 weeks, he recommended that my wife go into the hospital for the baby to be turned manually, which is pretty uncomfortable from what he described. He also warned that if that didn't work, he couldn't do it again and at that point we would have to have a Cesarean. Both options didn't sound appealing so we came to Anna Hsieh Gold, and she recommended Moxibustion (sp?) - applying heat to the little toes by using a kind of pressed-coal herbal stick - for a specific time for 10 days.

I was skeptical, because we tried every other alternative we could find on the internet and by word of mouth with no success, but I figured it couldn't hurt to try this. Amazingly, after 5 days of the Moxibustion treatment, the baby has now righted herself and is head down in the launch position.

This has not only helped to put the baby in the correct position, but it has relieved a lot of stress and anxiety over how the delivery would play out. Thanks Anna!

06/20/08

Healing Acupuncture

by mhirsch at Citysearch

I am very happy to write this review for Anna as she helped me through a prolonged illness..all the way through to regaining my health at long last..Anna is a talented, compassionate, sage beyond her years, acupuncture professional. She has mastered the field of acupuncture has a sense of intuition as to how to proceed...Anna is also a Ashtanga Practioner and teacher and perhaps it is this that is at the root of her spirituality and emotional maturity...

06/12/08

Love your new acupuncturist!

by gbiddle at Citysearch

Anna is a wonderful and very accomplished practitioner of acupuncture (and her technique means you hardly feel the needles!). I first began seeing Anna after a series of stressful events in my life left my adrenals fried. Anna restored my energy and balanced my emotions in about 12 sessions...I felt so much better that I actually began to crave the tonics and bitter herbs she prescribed. If you've never been cupped (don't mind that bit of fire), you have no idea what you're missing! Anna also does this very cool thing where she uses a needle to coax tight shoulder muscles into complete surrender...absolute bliss! It was a huge loss for all of us in LA when Anna moved up north...take advantage of your good fortune to have such a healer in San Francisco!