About Us
Sonia Rivera is a Licensed Acupuncturist in the State of Illinois and Board Certified by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She received her Masters (M.S.T.O.M.) from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, California, which included an advanced course of study and clinical internship in Nanjing, China. In addition to her acupuncture training, Sonia is certified in Alchemical Healing and nutritional counseling with particular emphasis on detoxification and anti-aging. She received her Reiki Master attunement over 10 years ago under the lineage of Grandmaster Takata. Other studies included Cross-Culture Shamanism involving Earth-honoring talking circles, and empowering the divine feminine energy. She was also initiated in the Quero Apache Red Hawk Society by ceremonialist of the traditional snake medicine lineage (Tlish Diyan). Sonia served on the Board of Directors and is an active member of the Illinois State Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ILAAOM) and American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). She is bilingual, fluent in both Spanish and English. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband Kevin and son Joshua.
With several years of experience in various alternative medical practices, Sonia utilizes Acupuncture, Chinese and Western Herbal Medicine, Nutritional Counseling, Foot Reflexology, Reiki and integrative massage techniques to promote optimal health and wellness in her clients. She specializes in women’s health, infertility, pain management and psycho-emotional disorders. Sonia combines knowledge, experience, intuition and passion to treat patients with a multitude of disorders. She finds great satisfaction in helping her patients restore health through natural healing and to educate and guide them to live a wholesome, vibrant and healthy long life by making changes in lifestyle, diet, and through mind-body rejuvenation.
Fertility
Sonia has a deep and abiding respect for the wisdom of the body and is devoted to using the gentlest and most appropriate methods to encourage the body's own healing capacity. She understands the anxiety and stress that often surround the issue of infertility. She offers care that is both effective and compassionate. Her nurturing presence lends power to her treatments, and ensures that both her mind and her heart are fully engaged in the process.
Using Traditional Chinese Medicine in conjunction with state of the art reproductive care, Sonia has helped numerous couples that have struggled with conception go on to have healthy babies. Drawing from current research protocols and her own comprehensive clinical experience, Sonia's treatments can significantly enhance reproductive potential in both males and females. Her training has included some of the world’s top infertility experts, including Dr. Randine Lewis, author of The Infertility Cure, Debra Betts, author of The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Pregnancy and Childbirth and Giovanni Maciocia, a renowned author and master of Chinese Medicine.
Traditional Japanese Acupuncture
In addition to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sonia practices Traditional Japanese Acupuncture. This method of meridian therapy involves the use of thinner needles and shallower insertions along with pulse and abdominal diagnosis. Japanese Acupuncture provides clients with a gentle and equally effective alternative to TCM. Sonia has studied and continues her training with Master Ikeda Sensei.
Orthopedic Acupuncture
Sonia has studied extensively with and taught along side her colleague and friend Matt Callison, M.S. L.Ac., an expert in Sports Medicine, author of the guidebook Motor Point Index and Manual and workbook on Energetics of Structural Balance .
Alchemical Acupuncture
In addition to the above specialties, Ms. Rivera is also certified in Alchemical Acupuncture: a system of psychological and psychosomatic healing organized around the Five Spirits of traditional Chinese medicine, the basis of the Taoist alchemical map of the human psyche. The method, developed and taught by Lorie Eve Dechar (author of Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological and Spiritual Healing), works on every level of the body, mind and spirit and is truly life altering work.
“doing what other therapies can't”
Unlike other bodywork methods, Emergent Bodywork is a completely intuitive process that takes all of its cues from the body’s plan for its own healing. Kevin developed this method of bodywork after years of meditation.
Experience the Emergent Bodywork difference:
1) Specificity – Emergent Bodywork is intuitively derived from the body’s plan
for its own repair and restoration. Problems are addressed right at their
source.
2) Efficiency – Addressing distress in harmony with the body’s own agenda
means that the system is able to tolerate and integrate the work much
more easily. Clients retain the positive changes, with the body even
improving on them in time.
3) Affordability – sessions are scheduled in increments of 15 minutes. Since 15
minutes of Emergent Bodywork is generally more effective than an hour of
normal massage, Emergent Bodywork is an incredibly cost effective
Call (708) 445-0012 or email: kevintroiano@yahoo.com to schedule.
If you’re unsure, try just 15 minutes.
If you can’t feel a significant difference, your session is free.
Also offering Emergent Soulwork – taking the experience even deeper:
• Break old patterns
• Become conscious of hidden blocks
• Awaken to your greater spiritual self
• Unlock potential
• Get to the real core of the issue
• Trauma resolution
Kevin Troiano was certified in massage in 2001 and certified in Structural Integration (KMI) by 30 year Rolfer® and visionary anatomist Tom Myers (author of the book Anatomy Trains Myofascial Meridians) in 2002. Additionally, Kevin has studied connective tissue massage and gravity based body mechanics with John Latz, chairman and founder of the Institute for Structural Integration. Emergent Bodywork is the result of several years of “tidal meditation”, about which Kevin has written an introductory manual entitled “Awakening to the Tide”. It was in 2005, after roughly two years of daily tidal meditation, that Kevin became able to sense, understand and completely resolve deeply held strain patterns simply by tuning into the body’s plan for its own resolution.