Why "Rain"?
Rain is named after a particular acupuncture point that has held a transformative role in my heart and in my life. The point is on the top of the foot, and in acupuncture, we refer to it as “GB 41” or Zulinqi.
Acupuncture works with meridians in the body, which we can imagine as rivers. GB 41 is said to open a special meridian that stores trauma, events, and emotions that we’re not ready to process yet. This is the only horizontal meridian in the body, and I’ve found that moving through the tough, sticky emotions at the right time, in a safe space, has shifted my life, my body, and even my pain more than I had ever expected.
I guess you could say that Rain is what happens when something that’s been held for a long time is given the space to finally let go.
Our Clients Say
My Story
I'm Alison. I’m an acupuncturist, a personal trainer, a mom of three young boys, and someone who spent years knowing exactly what was causing my own body pain, and still couldn’t fix it.
Three pregnancies in five years. One birth that broke my heart and moved my sacrum in a way nobody took seriously for fifteen months. A nervous system that learned to compensate so efficiently that I didn’t notice how hard I clenched my jaw in my sleep or how certain muscles in my hips had simply stopped showing up. Years of treating the pieces separately. Acupuncture when the pain was too much, training when I felt strong enough, all while wondering why the gap kept closing behind me. Why it never felt like I was doing “enough” while I was exhausted from trying everything. Researching everything. Scheduling everything.
What I eventually understood, in my body and not just my brain, is that
healing and movement were never meant to be separate.
A nervous system that releases on the tablet and then walks back into the same compensatory patterns hasn’t actually been given the chance to change. The body needs both, release and rebuilding, in the right order, at the right time.
I built Rain, because it’s what I needed.
And then I opened the first franchise location of Mindset, a women’s only personal and group training studio, right alongside Rain—under the same roof—so that women could finally have both. Healing and strength. Movement and release.
I’m an American. I moved my family to Maastricht in 2025, and something happened here that I didn’t expect. The pace, the beautiful bridges, O.L.V., the way this city holds space for people to actually relax. Enjoy life. My shoulders dropped a little. My jaw is still catching up. It’ll get there.
I’ve been in the fitness industry for more than twenty years. I left temporarily, because I didn’t want to participate in a field that was encouraging women to shrink. I realized (again and again) that how I work with women doesn’t have to be either/or. I can use the tools and strategized I’ve learned through athletic training and corrective exercise programming to help women take up space. Become stronger. Build bone density and confidence. And we can do that together without sacrificing your hormones or nervous system. Acupuncture supports movement. Movement shifts qi, complimenting acupuncture.
I hold a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and trained in the United States with an intense opportunity in Vietnam. I specialize in pain, women’s health, and nervous system relief, particularly the patterns that live at the intersection of all three.
I work with women who carry a lot. In their bodies, their roles, their work, their families, their nervous system. Women who’ve been told their pain is manageable, their systems are just “part of being a woman”, their experience is “fine.” Women who’ve are done being handed back to themselves with paracetamol and without a real answer.
You’re not the problem. You just haven’t been seen as whole yet.
Treatment & Practice
Every session begins with a conversation. Not a blank form. I want to know where it hurts, when it started, and what was happening in your body and your life when it began. Chinese medicine has always understood that the body doesn’t compartmentalize; pain and digestion, sleep and mood, painful periods and migraines are all part of the same conversation. And I treat accordingly.
Acupuncture sessions may include acupuncture, cupping, gua sha, tui na, or moxibustion, depending on what your body needs that day. I provide Food Therapy maps specific to your constitution and the time of year when you engage in Consistent Care.
Everyone is welcome here. I work with adults and teenagers. I welcome people of all genders and backgrounds. Everything is personalized. Nothing is one-size-fits-all.
About Our Unique Location & Partnership
Rain Acupuncture is situated under the same roof as Mindset Maastricht Oost, a women-only personal and group training studio that hosts fun, dynamic group strength classes as well as personalized fitness training for solos, duos, and trios.
We’re a short walk from Maastricht Station with bike parking and paid street parking.
Most importantly, our entrance is located at the BACK of the building at Duitsepoort 132B, 6221 VA Maastricht.
Accessible to victory from the Heuvelland region, Belgium, and Germany.
