Sarah Elcome
Sarah Elcome Bsc Hons, Lic Ac, MBAcC
I have been helping people for over 23 years, initially with hands on bodywork therapies, easing superficial tension and fatigue, then as a Five Element Acupuncturist and Coach and more recently as Face Reader. Over time my healing career I have gained intuitive sensitivities, where I am able to feel a clients emotional and energetic body. This empathic quality has allowed to resolve core issues of mind body health and lifestyle complaints. Realising that health and life are inextricably linked has been the key for life changing appointments where clients are able to reconnect to their true nature, awaken their heart to their potential and become empowered with self knowledge and inner wisdom.
Five Element Acupuncture
After years of bodywork therapies, I wanted to deepen my healing abilities and trained to become an acupuncturist and qualified in two styles of Acupuncture Traditional Chinese Medicine and Five Element Acupuncture. I was deeply drawn to Five Element and its ancient blend of treating the energetics of mind, body and spirit, with an insight to behavioural patterns and personality traits and its connection to the seasons.
Five Element Acupuncture allows for deeper work with the emotional body too, releasing old or repressed emotional patterns that can effect the physical body, allow mind, body and spirit to flow again.
Knowledge & Wisdom
Over my years of healing mind body health ailments as a Five Element Acupuncturist and Coach it became increasingly clear that the root of most conditions is what blocks a person to live fully and realise their potential in a heart lead life.
I trained with the Lotus Institute with the late Lillian Pearl Bridges in the Master Face Reading Programme. This year long training had been an area of study I have longed to do since meeting Lillian in 2013. Its rich background in Chinese medicine, five element philosophy and her Chen family’s linage provided me with deep wisdom of root cause imbalances of both health and life and allows clients to align to their true nature to live a rich and rewarding life.
Professional Face Reader
Sharing your face to you is a deeply unique healing modality, it is the most profoundly effective by way of touching the heart of what it is to be you. This powerfully accurate tool allows for immediate transformational change.
Added with many years of hands on experience, study and constant self practice, I have a plethora of tools that are able to help support, maintain and clear energy that is blocked or lacking for each and every client, making a face reading a life changing experience and a return of your youthful glow
Behind The Scenes
I have been drawn to embodiment practices since my early twenties and have experienced many healing therapies from Alexandra technique to Shiatsu and Reflexology to Cranial osteopathy.
I have a regular yoga practice that supported my work as a massage therapist and later arrived to mediation and breathwork practices that grew when working on a yoga retreat in Italy a few times a year.
Qi Gong, Yin yoga and skeletal movement practices have bought me deeper understanding of channel led movement. I combine my love of the natural world and Five Elements to create Seasonal Breath and Movement which I teach online weekly.
I also receives regular five element acupuncture, massage and cranial sacral therapy for continued energetic support. This deepens my own internal energetic experience, that informs my practice when treating patients in clinic.
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At the beginning of 2023, I enrolled in a year long course with The Lotus Institute to receive the teachings of Lillian Pearl Bridges family linage in The Master Face Reading Programme.
I have wanted to immerse myself with Lillian’s teachings for over ten years after a one day workshop, where her wisdom and insights of the face, awakened my heart.
Face readings are based on a background of chinese medicine, five element philosophy and my teachers family lineage.
Relatively unknown in the UK, face reading allow you to be more you and look younger because of it. I
can read your face and validate your unique strengths and gifts, clear old emotional blocks and traumas and enlighten you to your health concerns, traits and true nature.
By understanding your unique energetic shaping and emotional imprinting you will have the knowledge, clarity and direction for better health and life and a return of your youthful original face.
Face Readings are offered Online or In Person in Lancaster. Due to its powerful and effectively healing abilities, Face Readings are now my main focused service.
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In 2013 I undertook a BSc (hons) degree at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in Reading. My studies combined theory, practical application and covered both the five element and traditional Chinese medicine. My innate interest in people’s physical and emotional wellbeing drew me to focus entirely on five element acupuncture.
The roots of five elements or the ‘five phases’ are found in the traditional philosophy of Daoism and are centred on the principles of harmony and balance. The five elements, Wood (spring), Fire (summer), Earth (late summer), Metal (autumn), and Water (winter) are derived from our internal energy sources, yin and yang.
Each element is defined by distinct characteristics, energetic resonance with behavioural patterns, emotional vices and virtues and personality traits. By focusing on the element most out of balance, I am able to restore clients health and wellbeing bringing them back to balance.
I am a member of the British Acupuncture Council and offer a minimal clinic currently.
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I experienced the benefit of coaching first hand in 2010 when I began weekly one to one sessions. Over time these sessions allowed me to better understand my emotional triggers and recognise patterns of behaviour both positive and negative that were contributing to my personal narrative.
Coaching enabled me to develop simple techniques to use in everyday life which embrace the positive and allow me to remain connected to my emotional self.
Around the same time I recieved coaching sessions, I began having regular acupuncture treatment. Experiencing first hand how much the two practices complimented each other inspired me to explore coaching on a deeper level, resulting in my own unique style of treatment.
My coaching is connected to the five element framework helping patients to explore the links between physical and emotional health.
Using my empathic sensitivity to discern the root causes of imbalance allows me to work with patients to address negative emotions and develop a healthy connection between their external and internal self.
I offer a minimal service with coaching directly but offer coaching support with Face Reading if needed.
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Breathing and moving practices such as mediation, qigong, yin yoga and hiking in nature has been a continued support in balancing my energetic flow.
Living in harmony with the seasonal shifts and phases of a year support health and wellbeing. Each season activates energetic organs, I created a class that would incorporate my love of natures rhythms and cycles to offer people the opportunity to attune, move and breathe seasonally and connect their nature to nature.
During a class I share wisdom with life cycles, the solar terms, seasonal energetics, and insights into physical and emotional health whilst guiding a combination of breath practices and channel led movement.
Reconnecting mind and body allows for healing, the classes offer a deeper connection to nature and the best healer of them all, the natural world.
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Qualified and experienced massage and reflexology since 2001. I have a background of treating the muscular skeletal system for aches, pains, discomfort and tension. Many years of experience allowed me to develop an intuitive style of practice that can locate, release and relieve discomfort and pain whilst listening to and connecting with the patients emotional body.
I recognise thoughts and emotions create a disconnection between mind and body, leaving patients in pain.
Although massage and reflexology treatments gave patients relief it was my practice in five element acupuncture, coaching and my empathetic sensitivities that allowed for effective healing.
Even though I no longer work with massage and reflexology, I have been able to use my intuitive hands on skills to locate pain and its root cause. I also have an eye for seeing and understanding the body's energetic muscular skeletal frame too.
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I have had a strong connection to the natural world ever since I can remember.
Fifteen years ago my appreciation of nature was reinforced when I worked at a yoga retreat in the Tuscan hills of Italy twice a year. Yoga and hiking, two aspects of the retreat gave me first hand insight into the healing practices of movement in nature. Removed from the distractions of everyday life, I was able to attune into much joy, peace, balance.
I maintain a consistent yoga practice and continue to hike often in the Lake District.
Studying five element acupuncture also intensified my connection to the natural world. I have learnt to observe the arc of each season’s energetic resonance, noticing colour, sound, smell and its quality of energetics.
Listening closely to the changes of the seasons I am able to balance my own internal landscape with the external environment. This has helped me live in harmony with the rhythms and cycles of the days, weeks, months and years.
Finding quiet and connecting to natures five phases has enhanced my understanding of the law of nature, and its ability to cause illness and disease when out of balance.
Qualifications & Experience
Massage A&P ITEC Diploma
qualified & experienced since 2001
Reflexology ITEC Diploma
qualified & experienced since 2006
Yoga Hikes Retreat Tuscany Italy - Massage Therapist completed yoga meditation & hiking 2009 - 2018
CICM Acupuncture Bsc hons degree
qualified & experienced since 2016
Nora Franglan Five Element Acupuncture workshops 2017 - 2020
Master Face Reading Program at Lotus Institute
2023 - 2024 Professional Face Reader