Samantha Hamilton-Stent Acupuncture Reigate

20/10/2026

Celebrating 400 five-star reviews this week! I cannot tell you how much it fills my 💓with joy when people have a great experience with us, and then tell us about it 😍 If you are one of our reviewers, thank you so much ☺️ If you have not tried acupuncture in our beautiful clinic, we cannot wait to welcome you. Acupuncture: getting real, tanglible results every day 🥰

07/10/2026

21/09/2026

It is a misunderstanding to think of yin and yang as describing perfect balance, the truth is that fundamentally yin yang describes CHANGE / TRANSFORMATION / MOVEMENT. When things don’t move, or do so in a staccato sense, health cannot properly flourish. When things move and change (as they do in our bodies, on the earth and in the cosmos ✨) they are expressing their nature, and that nature is, at heart, one of transformation.

When people say to me that they don’t like change or are scared of it, it is a problem because we are built to change, living on a changing world, in an ever-changing universe. If there is one thing that is certain, (well 2 things actually…) change is always going to happen (it is happening RIGHT NOW) and arm in arm with that, NOTHING in permanent

15/09/2026

I am learning how to do handstands with my trainer Thomas . It has made me think a lot about balance, and in particular that balance often looks effortless but the reality is the opposite; balance requires constant adjustments, sometimes tiny ones that you can't even see, but they are there. Health is a bit like this; our bodies are constantly working to keep us in the state of balance, and mostly they do pretty well at this.
When we apply Acupuncture, it is about guiding the body back into balance, but this is not a one off thing because the body needs to keep making micro adjustments to keep this state more or less constant. This I think is what Health really is.

26/08/2026

I think we vastly underestimate the importance of play once we become adults.

For me, the best kind of play is also difficult — something physical and technical enough that it demands my complete attention. Ring work does exactly that. Strength, balance, timing, coordination… there simply isn’t any spare brain left for tomorrow, yesterday or the endless internal chatter.

And somewhere in that combination of effort and play, I find a wonderfully meditative state.

Completely present. Completely absorbed. And having big fun hanging upside down 🙃

25/08/2026

Drug-free way to swipe away headaches

24/08/2026

There is something rather beautiful about an ephemeral pond.

At the moment, this one is almost entirely Yang: baked earth, heat, sunlight, contraction and dryness. The cracked bed looks lifeless at first glance, but of course it isn’t. It is simply waiting.

In Chinese medicine and Daoist thought, Yin and Yang are not fixed opposites but continually changing states. Yin is the cool, moist, nourishing, receptive aspect of nature; Yang is warm, dry, active and expansive. Neither is “good” or “bad” — life depends upon their movement into one another.

Here, Yin is temporarily depleted. The water has gone, the soil has contracted and hardened, and only a few determined plants remain. But the potential for Yin is still held within the landscape: in the dormant seeds, roots and organisms beneath the surface, and in the earth waiting for rain.

Eventually the balance will turn. Rain will fall, the cracks will soften, the basin will fill and this apparently barren ground will become a pond again — cool, wet, abundant and alive.

A lovely little reminder that absence is not always loss. Sometimes Yin has simply withdrawn for a season, waiting for the conditions in which it can return. ☯️🌱💧

13/08/2026

Tuning forks with different vibrational frequencies placed on acupuncture points across the body, can soothe the parasympathetic nervous system, which means you feel beautifully calm ☺️