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Which Element Are You? A Quick Guide to Your Five Element Type
Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water — which one are you? In Traditional Chinese Medicine, your dominant element shapes how you move through the world and where you tend to get stuck. Take the quiz, find your type, and see what your body's been asking for.
Spring Wellness + the Wood Element
The Wood energy of the season wants to rise up, push through, and get things done. It’s active and energetic, and supports vision, creativity, and leadership. This is the time of year we would work on any blockages so we can have access to all that great energy. After all, the themes of the season are growth, rebirth, and renewal. When this energy is thwarted or constrained, the result is Qi stagnation.