Angea Acupuncture & Yoga, Suite 3/17 Izett Street, Prahran (2026)

02/06/2026

Too many women start IVF without their Day 2 FSH being tested.
Not because it is not important. Because some clinics move too quickly. Dr's assume the protocol will do the heavy lifting, and nobody stops to ask what your hormones are actually doing before the stims begin.

I see this again and again in clinic. Women who have been through multiple cycles. Women who were never informed their FSH were elevated. Women whose IVF protocols were never adjusted accordingly. These women are sitting across from me wondering what went wrong. 😔

Here's what I want you to understand.

FSH is your brain's recruitment signal. It tells your ovaries to grow follicles. When FSH is already elevated on Day 2, your body is working overtime just to recruit. The moment you add stimulation drugs on top of that signal, you are not getting more eggs. You are often getting fewer, poorer quality, or follicles that stall and arrest or don't produce any eggs. Why? Because your endocrine system and HPO signals were already under strain before your cycle even started.

Elevated FSH also tells us something about estradiol. When FSH is high, estradiol is often low. And estradiol is what the follicle itself produces as it matures. That picture, low estradiol relative to follicular development, reflects the quality of the environment your egg is growing inside.
This is not a scare tactic. It is information you are entitled to have.
Your Day 2 bloods FSH, LH & estradiol are not optional extras. They are your hormonal map. They tell the IVF clinic how to build a protocol that actually fits your bloods, not one that fits a spreadsheet.😡

If you are preparing for a cycle, or trying to make sense of why a past cycle did not work the way it should have, start with your numbers. Then find a team that knows what to do with them. There is so much we can do with acupuncture and Chinese herbs! We even have a high FSH herbal formula ✨

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21/05/2026

You were born with every egg you will ever have.

Every single one of them already formed, already inside you, from the moment you took your first breath.

And every one of those eggs carries its own mitochondria. The only mitochondria in your body that are passed to the next generation.

When his s***m meets your egg, his mitochondria are destroyed. What remains, what powers every first division of your embryo, what builds the foundation of your baby's biology comes entirely from you. 💪🏼

From your egg. From your energy. From your body.

I have sat across from thousands of women in clinic who have been handed a number, an AMH result, a follicle count, an age and told that number is the whole story.

It is not.

Your egg quality is not a fixed point on a graph. It is the living record of what your mitochondria have been exposed to across the past 100 days. Every inflammatory signal, cortisol spike, nutritional gap, every night of broken sleep. All your acupuncture treatments and every deliberate choice made in the direction of your health.

The health of your mitochondria is not permanent, it can change. It's a living cell, a living energy.

And I want you to remember something before you scroll past this.

The fact that your body has been quietly holding these eggs since before you were born protecting them, waiting, preparing, that is not a small thing. That is extraordinary. You are extraordinary. The female body is the only place on earth where the mitochondrial lineage of our entire species is carried forward.

Do not let anyone reduce that to a number on a blood test.

Swipe to learn how you can boost your mitochondrial health ✨✨

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20/05/2026

Hi Community,

I wanted to reach out and share something that feels like a full circle moment.

What started as Amanda Waaldyk Traditional Chinese Medicine, grew and blossomed into Angea, and has now circled back fully to Dr Amanda.

Twenty years in this space. WOW. I'm in awe. It's a pinch me moment.

I have sat with women in the most tender chapters of their lives. Held space through tears, through breakthroughs, breakdowns, through moments of hope and celebration. I have done that while also navigating my own. Losing my mum, building a business, birthing Freddie at 33 weeks, and nearly losing Win at the same time while she fought from ICU. I am still in awe of the capacity I found in those moments. To hold space for my community, my family, and myself all at once.

And through all of it this business has shapeshifted and grown alongside me.

The yoga studio. Mindful Pregnancy yoga school. Clinics opened in different spaces/locatiobs, each one a new chapter. The Angea Wellness Teas ~ hand blended with love and intention. All Natural Pharmacy, Woom Health. Know Your Endo Surgeon. Every single creation born from a genuine desire to serve and help more women.

Not every season has been easy. There have been losses of spaces, of ventures, of versions of myself I had to let go of to make room for what was next. Through my own breakthroughs and breakdowns. I have evolved and my business has evolved with me.

And through all of it I have learnt over and over again what it means to show up for myself. To care deeply for me. The practices and self care that kept me sane. This my mums legacy, of teaching me how to mother myself.

Here I am again, standing in the next chapter. The next evolution.

Claiming me. Celebrating me. And everything I have built and become.

I am a thought leader in this space and I am proud of what I have built ~ my community, my team, the advocacy, our annual events, and now a brand new website, created from love and devotion.

I am stepping fully into my name. Into what is next.

Dr Amanda Waaldyk ~ Medicine Woman

If you haven't visited the new website yet, please do ~ link in bio 🤍 would love to hear your thoughts!

Love Dr Amanda

19/05/2026

Your eggs contain over 100,000 mitochondria each. Up to 600,000 in a fully mature oocyte.

More than any other cell in your body.

And they are the only mitochondria that continue the species. When s***m meets egg, his mitochondria are destroyed. Everything that powers your baby's first moments of life comes from your egg.

I have been saying this in clinic for over twenty years. Long before it became a conversation in the fertility space.

Mitochondria produce ATP — the energy your egg needs to complete meiosis, maintain chromosomal integrity, fertilise cleanly and drive the first divisions of your embryo. When that energy system is under-resourced, everything downstream is affected. Poor embryo quality. Failed implantation. Early miscarriage. Unexplained infertility.

This is an energy story before it is an age story.

And here is what I need you to understand. Your mitochondria are not fixed. The follicles maturing right now began their journey 100 days ago. They have been responding to every inflammatory signal, every cortisol spike, every nutritional gap, every environmental exposure across those 100 days.

That environment is something we can work with.

Chronic inflammation from endometriosis and adenomyosis. Oxidative stress. Nutrient depletion. Poor ovarian blood flow. Unmanaged stress load. These are not life sentences. They are clinical targets.

Ubiquinol. NAC. Alpha Lipoic Acid. PQQ. NAD+ precursors. Folate and B12. Targeted acupuncture to increase ovarian blood flow and activate the mitochondrial biogenesis pathways your follicles need. This is the work we do in clinic across the 90 days before you want to conceive.

In Chinese medicine we call this nourishing Kidney Jing and building Yuan Qi. The constitutional essence that governs reproductive capacity. The source energy from which life grows.

Modern science calls it mitochondrial function.

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18/05/2026

It is Pelvic Health Month and this May I am doing something a little different.

Over the past two decades in clinical practice I have sat with thousands of women navigating conditions that took years to diagnose, symptoms that were dismissed, and pain that was normalised. Many of those conditions I know not just as a clinician but also personally!

This month I am sharing the new and emerging research that is finally catching up to what so many of us have already lived. Myofascial trigger points in the pelvic floor. The pain cycle that persists after surgery. The bladder symptoms that are not bladder problems. The womb that holds more than tissue.

Each post this month is a topic I am personally connected to and clinically passionate about. I hope it gives you language, validation, and a deeper understanding of your own body.

The pain-spasm-pain cycle. Why endometriosis keeps hurting even when the disease is treated!

This is the part of endometriosis that no one explains at your surgical consult.

You have the "gold standard treatment" excision. The lesions are removed. The recovery takes weeks. And then, the pain is still there. Not the same pain, maybe. But pain. Pressure. Urgency. Tightness. In*******se that still doesn't feel right. A pelvis that still does not feel like your own.

What you are experiencing is the pain-spasm-pain cycle. And it is not in your head. It is in your nervous system. In your pelvic floor. In the central sensitisation that years of disease created inside your body's threat-detection system.
Understanding this cycle is the first step to breaking it. This post explains exactly what it is, why it happens, and what actually interrupts it.

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Have you tried pelvic floor physio?
Have you tried Internal Pelvic Release therapy?
Have you tried Pelvic Floor Acupuncture?

Did you know I offer specialised Pelvic Floor Acupuncture and Internal Pelvic Release therapy 🫶🏽🤍

14/05/2026

Since diving deep into internal pelvic release and pelvic floor acupuncture, I have been on a significant research journey. What I am finding continues to validate what I see clinically every day and what so many of you are living in your bodies.

I love that western medicine is beginning to look outside its traditional toolkit to treat chronic pelvic pain. The willingness to explore new modalities is long overdue, and it matters.

In March 2026, the American Urogynecologic Society published its first-ever consensus guidelines on pelvic floor botulinum toxin injections for refractory myofascial pelvic pain.

This is significant. The medical community is now formally acknowledging what many women with endometriosis and adenomyosis have always known: surgery does not end the pain. The pelvic floor is a critical piece of the puzzle that western gynaecology has been slow to address.

The guidelines identify who qualifies for pelvic Botox: women with documented pelvic floor hypertonicity and myofascial trigger points who have already tried and not responded to first-line therapies. The effect is temporary, lasting three to six months per injection. It is off-label. It carries a two-week onset. And it requires a specialist.

Internal pelvic release and pelvic floor acupuncture are not competing with this. They are the non-invasive, sustainable, repeatable version of the same intervention — addressing the hypertonic pelvic floor, deactivating trigger points, and downregulating the nervous system that is driving the pain cycle.

You do not always need to start with Botox. You may not need it at all.

Understand your options. Start with the least invasive approach first.

It is genuinely encouraging to see a rise in new treatments and different options available to patients. When medicine expands its view, women with chronic pelvic pain are the ones who benefit.

Have you tried Botox for pelvic pain? I would love to hear your experience!
Have your tried Pelvic floor acupuncture or Internal Pelvic Release? Share below your experience ✨🤍

10/05/2026

Your eggs contain over 100,000 mitochondria each & up to 600,000 in a fully mature oocyte. 🥚

They are the most energetically complex cells in the human body. And are the only cells that carry mitochondria forward to the next generation.

Acupuncture is energy medicine and when we talk about energy in Chinese medicine, we are talking about Qi. The animating force that drives every biological process in your body.

On a cellular level, Qi is mitochondria. It is ATP. It is the energetic life force that determines your follicle quality, your egg quality, and ultimately the quality of the embryo your egg becomes.

More energy in the follicle. Better quality Eggs!

What's awesome is we now have peer-reviewed research confirming what Chinese medicine has always understood!

Swipe ⬅️ to learn more on how Acupuncture can improve your egg quality and mitochondrial health!

07/05/2026

June 21st, the world tips into its longest dark.
And we gather to meet it...

The Winter Solstice is the great hinge of the year. The moment when darkness reaches its fullness and, in that very fullness, begins to yield. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Winter belongs to the Kidneys the root of your vitality, the keeper of your Jing. It is the season of the deepest Yin.

June 21st we honour the medicine of the Solstice.
✨ Yin Yoga with Dr. Amanda Waaldyk
We begin in the body. Dr. Amanda will guide you through a slow, intentional Yin Yoga practice. The practice will take you, to the places where you've been holding without knowing. This is not a practice of effort. It is a practice of meeting. Of letting yourself be held by the earth while the earth tips toward its darkest point.
Will explore the interplay of light and shadow within your own body, the brightness you carry even in your most contracted places, the darkness that holds information.
✨ Group Acupuncture with Dr. Chantel
will guide you through a gentle group acupuncture session designed to anchor the Kidney meridian, nourish your Yin, and attune your nervous system to the rhythm of the season. Press tack seeds placed with care, to Acu points of light within the dark to help your body remember its own intelligence.
This is your invitation to stop outrunning the dark. To let the longest night be long.

Tickets $45 + booking Fee
Sunday 21st June
Arc Studios
Tickets in bio 👆🏻

06/05/2026

The energetics of Adenomyosis.

The sacrificing of self for others
Not having healthy boundaries
Having no boundaries
A yes person
People pleasing
The Fixer
Taking on others emotions - the empath
High Achiever
Keeping Busy

Your womb is your energetic boundary!
Those with Adenomyosis do you recognise yourself in any of these roles?

05/05/2026

This is one of the most under-discussed findings in endometriosis research.
A 2023 pilot study published in Archives of Gynaecology and Obstetrics examined 15 women with endometriosis and chronic cyclical pelvic pain. In 80% of them, myofascial trigger points were identified by examination in the pelvic floor. The most frequently affected muscle was the puborectalis, a deep muscle that wraps around the re**um and forms the sling at the base of your pelvis.
These are not muscle knots from exercise. These are hardened, hypersensitive nodules that form when the body holds chronic pain, guards against disease, and braces against trauma. They refer pain. They disrupt bowel function. They can make in*******se unpleasurable and they persist long after excision surgery.
Your excision surgeon addresses the lesions. Your gynaecologist looks at your imaging. But no one is assessing what the pelvic floor is doing under the pressure of years of disease.
That is where pelvic internal release work and pelvic floor acupuncture can offer a different approach.

Have your tried Pelvic Therapy?

Did you know, I know offer both forms of therapy. Internal pelvic release and pelvic floor acupuncture.

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