Kokin Healing Blog
Fertility Acupuncture: A Healthy Alternative to Expensive Fertility Drugs
For some women, the ability conceiving comes easy. For others, it can be a much more difficult and stressful problem. We know that often it's easy to get emotional and feel like it's your fault that you can't conceive. Sometimes, you feel like you'd be willing to try...
Acupuncture: More than just needles
Most people have heard of the field of acupuncture by now, but did you realize the scope of the practice encompasses Chinese medicine, which includes so much more than needles? Let’s explore this ancient therapy. First of all, the practice of Chinese medicine starts...
5 Fitness Benefits of Using a Health Coach
Have you been struggling to lose those last 10 pounds? Maybe you're new to fitness and don't know where to begin. Or perhaps you're not sure how dieting and food modification fits into the equation? Whether you're a complete newbie or a seasoned veteran, there are...
Using acupuncture to treat drug addiction
Addiction is defined as the compulsive physiological need for and use of a habit-forming substance, which means addiction can manifest in a lot of different ways - compulsive social media use, overeating into obesity, gambling away your life savings, or recurrent use...
Does Your Liver Need a Spring Tune-Up?
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, each season is ruled by a particular organ system and spring is connected to the liver. What does this mean? Well, you probably notice changes in the way you feel, both physically and mentally, as the seasons change. I know I tend to...
4 ways acupuncture can improve your health
For 3,500 years, we have used acupuncture as a form of treatment and therapy. Acupuncture is the process of activating your internal self-healing mechanisms by applying stimulation such as needling, moxibustion, cupping, and acupressure on specific sites of the body....
How prenatal massage helps you and your child
Your body encounters enormous challenges during pregnancy. Aside from the obvious physical changes to your outward appearance, your muscles grow stronger, tendons and ligaments soften and begin to stretch to accommodate a growing baby, and hormones flood your system....
Election-induced anxiety
One of the most common complaints we've been seeing in the past month has been a serious mental health issue: election induced anxiety. The American psychological Association says that 52% of American adults are coping with high levels of stress brought on by the...
Yes, We Do Cupping!
As expected, because so widely publicized by Michael Phelps this week, I have been getting numerous questions regarding cupping: what is it? when do you use it? does it hurt? should I do it?Cupping is not a new fad! Medical texts documenting cupping have...
Ayden's Story
It's not every day that you get to meet a boy like Ayden! Ayden is one of the happIest children I have ever met, and what a blessing it is to have him in my practice. Ayden is 5 and has muscular dystrophy and scoliosis. He suffers from tight muscles and joints and...
Meet Marin L. Kokin, L.Ac.
Marin — acupuncturist, nutritionist, and owner of the Kokin Healing Center — is beloved by her patients. Read about patients that have found success at the Kokin Healing Center in Calabasas.