Relief awaits you here at Awakening Balance Acupuncture! We specialize in full-spectrum Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which restores health and balance to the whole body. PAIN RELIEF is one of our top specialties!

There is nothing that acupuncture cannot treat! Even if you have an "incurable" diagnosis, we can help you feel much better. You don't have to live with a diminished quality of life. We have had tremendous results with our patients.

If you're ready to feel better, we're here to help you! Please reach out to us. We serve the greater North Denver regional area.


Phone: 720-936-4822
​11160 Huron Street #35
Northglenn, Colorado 80234
info@awakeningbalance.com

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Awakening Balance is a preferred provider for many insurance companies that include acupuncture as a benefit, allowing the option for a naturopathic method of treatment.

Acupuncture ~ Medicinal Herbs ~ Qi Gong ~ Acupressure & TuiNa Massage, Facial, & Bodywork

At Enliven Health and Wellness in San Antonio, TX we offer acupuncture, herbal therapy, diet, and lifestyle advice to help you attain the best performance or address underlying issues. Using the backdrop of Chinese Medicine and Functional Medicine, we will help you understand and address blocks or weakness in your body that are preventing you from achieving optimal health.

Think of us as health detectives, using clues from your symptomatology, your pulse and tongue diagnosis and functional medicine test to help understand what is happening internally that is limiting your natural state of health and wellness.

Utilizing the comprehensive combination of therapies from Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM), as well as science-based emerging care in nutritional therapies of Functional Medicine, we can uncover what ails you, be it fertility concerns to digestive complaints and headaches or insomnia. As part of assessing your complaint, we will commonly examine wide parameters such as digestion, detoxification, elimination, regardless of whether your issues are migraines, constipation or infertility.

John Howard completed his degree in acupuncture from the Maryland Institute of Traditional Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. John holds two professorships; one in Traditional Chinese Medicine and the other in Western Medicine from George Washington University (GWU). Professor (Prof) Howard lectured on suturing and minor trauma management.

Upon completion of his degree Prof Howard entered into a five-year fellowship with the US military under the direction of Dr. Richard Niemtzow, MD, PHD. Prof Howard is both a clinician and an Academician. As an academician, he provides national and international lectures in acupuncture and auriculotherapy. He has authored five books and 21 articles on these two fields. He is also dedicated to the promotion of knowledge and has been awarded the dissemination of seminal works of Dr. Raphael Nogier (The RAFT (Radial Artery Food Test) and of Dr. René Bourdiol (Elements of Auriculotherapy).

In 2014 Prof Howard served as the vice president of the 8th International Symposium of Auriculotherapy in the United States. In 2016 Prof Howard became a consultant for ZeroMed (a holistic medical goods company) to design auriculotherapy protocols. Currently he is the President of the United States branch of the Raphael Nogier School of Auriculotherapy.



Research

John is currently conducting studies on the use of Auriculotherapy in distance runners to enhance performance. Some of men on team USA who won the world 100k gold medal in the Nederland’s in 2011 used his protocol.

The following services are available at our office:
1. Acupuncture (including body acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, laser acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, acupressure, scraping therapy (Gua Sha) etc.)
2. Chinese herbal medicine: we prescribe herbs, or patent herbal medicine and compound herbal formula.
3. Counseling regarding lifestyle modifications and therapeutic use of foods and supplements.