A CHINESE MEDICINE & INTEGRATIVE HEALTH
CLINIC IN ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA

Purnima is located on Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas. We offer tailored and compassionate fertility care and holistic relationship coaching for individuals and couples.

EMBRACE YOUR WHOLENESS,
NURTURE YOUR NATURE.

Women’s Health

No matter where you are in your fertility or reproductive health journey, from puberty to menopause, we’re here to offer compassionate and integrative care rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Cycle Support

Come away with a deeper understanding of your cycle, along with a personalized treatment plan, and compassionate care tailored to address your unique needs. 

Amenorrhea

Defined as the absence of menstruation for three months. With acupuncture, you can restore regular cycles, promote hormonal balance, and enhance overall reproductive health.

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine are evidence-based treatments for PCOS that enhance quality of life by managing symptoms, promoting optimal ovulation, and regulating monthly menstrual cycles. 

Endometriosis

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers evidence-based, low-risk treatments, such as acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, to alleviate symptoms, improve conception opportunities, slow disease recurrence, and support hormonal balance. 

Post Pill Support

Begin treatments at least one month (ideally three months) before stopping the OCP to restore your body’s natural rhythms. Treatments address ovarian health, uterine lining, and the hormonal interplay that creates smooth ovulation & menstruation.

Fertility Acupuncture

Receive tailored fertility care to balance hormones, regulate ovulation, improve sperm health and libido, and optimize menstrual cycles of 28-35 days with healthy bleeding.

IVF Acupuncture

Acupuncture is beneficial at any stage of your assisted reproductive journey. Support can begin weekly, three months before the first IVF cycle or ideally 6-12 months before.

Pregnancy Acupuncture

Pregnancy acupuncture offers a gentle, safe, and drug-free approach to alleviate various symptoms throughout all trimesters of pregnancy, labor preparation, and for postpartum support.

Labor Preparation Acupuncture

Our labor preparation treatments utilize a standardized acupuncture protocol to support the body for birth. Treatments are focused on calming the nervous system, promoting muscle relaxation, facilitating cervical softening, and easing the mind.

Miscarriage Recovery

Nurture the mind, body, and emotions after miscarriage. Receive treatments that restore and strengthen the body as well as prepare for trying to conceive again.

Postpartum Support Acupuncture

The first forty days after birth are a golden opportunity to nourish and fortify women’s health. Treatments facilitate postpartum recovery as well as enhance future menstrual cycles, fertility, pregnancies, and menopause.

Perimenopause & Menopause

Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture provide effective treatments for perimenopause and menopause, offering a holistic approach to managing and alleviating the frequency and severity of symptoms. 

Digestive Health

Harmonize and enhance digestive function by nurturing the Spleen and Stomach meridians, which are integral to overall gastrointestinal health.

Holistic Skincare

Skin issues often indicate internal imbalances. Traditional Chinese Medicine excels in identifying the root cause of these conditions and addresses them holistically, from the inside out.

Relationship Coaching

The best relationships offer a mirror for how we can grow and evolve. Build more courageous and sweeter connections with the most important people in your life to access more presence, joy, and fulfillment.

1:1 Sessions, Couples Sessions, and 8-Week Group Programs

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Access Intuition

When we build connection within, we gain access to intuition, which expands what’s possible — what’s achievable — for us.

Transformational Conflict

Connection is conflict’s highest purpose. We can learn new ways of approaching conflict to deepen intimacy and build the most resilient bonds.

Magnetic Presence

When we fully embrace who we are — all of it — we become a magnet attracting the people, opportunities, experiences, and abundance that we desire.

Embodied Connection

Truly soul-nourishing connection begins in the body, constantly offers information to help us grow, evolve, and live into our most deep and full presence in life and relationship.

Awakened Purpose

Are you moving toward the most potent vision for your life?

Aligned Values

Create a relationship that is not only loving but deeply aligned with your highest aspirations, and supporting the most important person in your life to do the same.

Navigating Choices

Learn to hear and trust your inner guidance and cultivate the courage to choose what is right for you, even when it is uncomfortable.

Kind Words

  • "Dr. Vanna has provided me with facial acupuncture treatments that leave me feeling confident and rejuvenated. Her practice offers a safe space where I can relax and dedicate an hour to self-care. Each session leaves me glowing from the inside out. Dr. Vanna is patient, thoughtful, and delivers the highest quality of patient-centered care. She is an exceptional practitioner with a warm heart."

    SYDNEY

  • "Dave is a natural, gifted, and power guide on this beautiful journey of unfolding. I have been fortunate to experience both being coached and guided in meditation by Dave. I felt immediately that I was in strong, safe hands, with someone I could trust implicitly. His exquisite way of working supported me to drop deep into my body and intelligence of my heart, from where I could effortlessly access my own wisdom. I was left with a profound sense of peace and clarity as well as grounded and practical ways to apply these new insights in my daily life. Thank you, Dave!"

    CAROLINE

  • "Dr. Vanna embodies a genuine healing energy, creating a calm and inviting atmosphere, where you can truly feel understood, heard, and free to open up and be vulnerable. Her impressive knowledge of the body and acupuncture is not just expertly applied; it's truly healing. Under her care my stress and anxiety eased, and I found myself with inner peace and confidence to make positive changes in my life and business that still help me to this day." 

    ARIELLE

  • "Dr. Vanna is the epitome of a grounded, poised, knowledgeable, and personable acupuncturist and Chinese herbal doctor. I worked with her during my pregnancy and postpartum - from back and sacral pain in my last trimester, to mastitis, to C-section scar recovery, to postpartum emotions - she helped me throughout the entire journey. She also is knowledgeable about babies and is taking a masters certificate program focused around baby nutrition -- something none of my other doctors were knowledgeable about. I couldn't recommend her enough!"

    MORGAN

  • "Dr. Vanna is a holistic practitioner that looks at your body as a whole and treats imbalances in the body from the inside out. Her care is of top quality. I always felt safe and understood by her during treatment. More importantly, she helped me recover my health and bring my body back to a state of balance and wellbeing. After 3 months of acupuncture treatment, I no longer have PMS symptoms, including pain and deep feelings of sadness."

    MICHELLE

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