On Saturday, May 9, 2026, Acupuncture for Balanced Wellness is excited to collaborate with SolFlo Life in Wicker Park to bring a unique wellness experience in a beautiful calming space in the heart of the city.
Step away from the pace of daily life and into a thoughtfully curated 2-hour mini urban retreat designed to relax your nervous system, restore your energy, and bring your body back into balance.
Hosted at SolFlo Life in Wicker Park, this experience takes place in a nature-inspired wellness lounge intentionally designed to support rest, healing, and nervous system regulation—allowing you to fully unwind the moment you arrive.
Your experience begins with group acupuncture in an Energy Enhancement System (EES) room on cloud-like individual beds. Each guest will receive a gentle, restorative acupuncture treatment to boost vitality, calm the nervous system, and promote the smooth flow of Qi. The acupuncture treatment is paired with immersion in the Energy Enhancement System. The Energy Enhancement System (EES) uses scalar fields and photon light to create a bio-active environment that helps the nervous system by promoting deep relaxation, accelerating cellular regeneration, and reducing stress. It helps shift the nervous system from a "stress" state to a regulated, calm state, improving mental clarity and supporting overall wellness. This unique combination of acupuncture with EES deepens the restorative healing effects of each modality.
You’ll then transition into a deeply immersive sound bath, where layered frequencies from crystal singing bowls and chimes guide the body into a calm, meditative state—helping you fully relax and integrate the treatment.
We’ll close with tea time and integration, offering a gentle space to ground, reflect, and reconnect before returning to your day.
What You’ll Experience:
Acupuncture to move, balance, and restore qi
Deep nervous system relaxation in bioactive energy fields created by EES
Immersive sound healing for mental and physical reset
Tea time to integrate, ground, and process your experience
A serene, beautifully designed space that supports deep rest
Event Details
Location: SolFlo Life Wicker Park - 1834 W North Ave Floor 2 Chicago, IL
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Meet Angie Ng of Acupuncture for Balanced Wellness
Today we’d like to introduce you to Angie Ng.
Angie, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I didn’t realize it, but my interest in Chinese Medicine began as a child growing up in a traditional Chinese household, where food and herbs were commonly used to address everyday ailments. My family members were always talking about the energetic properties of food, and how certain foods could be useful in alleviating discomforts like belly aches, toothaches, fever, and sniffles.
Despite having an early fascination with natural healing methods, the practical side of me decided that I should study business as an undergraduate and eventually join the corporate world, first working in banking and then in IT. While this provided a stable income, I never really felt fulfilled in my work, and I knew I had to make a change – I just didn’t know what. I spent over a decade sitting in cubicles and performing at mediocre levels at jobs I didn’t really enjoy. It wasn’t until I had my first acupuncture treatment that something clicked and I realized my calling.
I had always been a proponent of healthy living and a believer in the body’s innate ability to heal itself if given the right resources. I just never realized I could make a career out of this belief until I witnessed the power of acupuncture first hand. I started seeing an amazing acupuncturist for some chronic pain and stress I was experiencing.
My acupuncturist helped reduce my pain and calm my emotional stresses by painlessly and strategically inserting tiny needles to help stimulate the natural healing processes in my body. The treatments were relaxing, rejuvenating, effective, and had no side effects. I was hooked! Within months, I had enrolled myself in acupuncture school and began the long and arduous journey to becoming a Licensed Acupuncturist.
13 years later, I can say that I feel more fulfilled in my career than I have ever been. I recently moved my acupuncture office to a beautiful space in the Chicago Loop, where we help people with pain problems, fertility issues, stress, anxiety, and much more. We use not only acupuncture, but also adjunctive therapies like cupping, tuina, guasha, and herbal supplements, as well as dietary and lifestyle advice to naturally assist the body’s healing processes and restore balance back to the body.
Having come from a corporate background, I know all too well the struggles and stresses of balancing work and life that many of my patients experience. It brings me so much satisfaction to be able to help them in any way I can to feel better physically and emotionally.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
The road to becoming an acupuncturist was long and not always easy. Having a mortgage and other bills to pay, I continued to work full time while going to acupuncture school on nights and weekends. It was a very tiring 3 years. Additionally, while in acupuncture school, they focus on teaching you how to do acupuncture. What they don’t teach you is how to start and run a successful acupuncture practice.
My background in business and IT definitely came in handy here, but it was still a struggle nonetheless. Marketing, finding a good location and office space, negotiating a lease, hiring help, billing, budgeting – these are all things essential to running an acupuncture business but were barely mentioned in acupuncture school. Making the transition from full-time computer programmer to full-time business owner and acupuncturist was one of the most challenging things I have ever done, but also one of the most gratifying.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Acupuncture for Balanced Wellness story. Tell us more about the business.
Acupuncture for Balanced Wellness is an acupuncture and wellness practice in the Chicago Loop. We treat a wide range of health concerns, but we most commonly provide treatments for pain problems, fertility issues, stress/anxiety, weight loss, and facial rejuvenation.
We truly understand the struggles and stresses of work/life balance, and we pride ourselves on providing safe, natural, holistic, and highly individualized treatments to our patients. Our office space provides a relaxing oasis, where people can receive acupuncture and other natural therapies to help restore health and balance back to their bodies, amidst the hustle and bustle of Downtown Chicago.
In addition to offering acupuncture services, we also offer other natural healing therapies at our wellness practice, like massage therapy, chiropractic services, and Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT).
Has luck played a meaningful role in your life and business?
It’s difficult to say what aspects of my life and business can be attributed to luck. You can say I was lucky to have a background in business and IT (specifically web development), and that those skills may have given me an advantage in starting a successful acupuncture practice. Many highly skilled acupuncturist have little or no business skills and subsequently have a very hard time starting and staying in business.
You could also say that I was lucky to be born ethnically Chinese so that I had exposure to the healing powers of Chinese Medicine from a very early age. Additionally, I was lucky to find a very good acupuncturist (Dr. Leon Chen) to give me my very first acupuncture treatment and inspire me to pursue a career in acupuncture. Whether these factors can be attributed fully to luck is questionable, but I do know they played a big role in leading me to a lifelong and rewarding career in acupuncture and holistic medicine. I do feel very lucky to be where I am today.
Contact Info:
Address: 223 W Jackson Suite 860 Chicago, IL 60606
We are excited to announce that our Chicago Loop acupuncture office has moved to our new permanent location at 223 W Jackson Blvd. We will continue to offer acupuncture services by our highly skilled acupuncturists, Angie Ng and Michael Jamlang. Additionally, we will offer chiropractic and massage treatments by experienced and caring therapists.
Please note, effective September 2, 2017, all Chicago Loop appointments will be located at:
Acupuncture for Balanced Wellness
223 W Jackson Blvd Suite 860
Chicago, IL 60606
To make an appointment at our new location, please call our phone number 312-890-5553 or email ang@acubalancechicago.com. You can always find our most current information here on our website.
We will no longer be seeing patients at our Gold Coast location at 1030 N Clark Suite 310 after September 30, 2017. Saturday hours will be available at the 223 W Jackson Suite 860 location starting October 7, 2017.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions. As always, we will continue to provide you with the utmost individualized care. We look forward to serving you and are grateful for being a part of your journey to balanced wellness!
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