Welcome to Way of Life Acupuncture in Asheville.
We offer care for overwhelmed nervous systems.
When life feels like too much, when your body is tense, your mind won’t settle, or you no longer feel like yourself, there is often nothing “wrong.” Your nervous system is simply overloaded.
Our work focuses on helping the body feel safe again. Through acupuncture, somatic awareness, and attentive, individualized care, we support the nervous system in releasing chronic stress, anxiety, pain, and emotional strain.
Led by Dr. Dov Shoneman, each session is unhurried and responsive. We listen carefully, work at your body’s pace, and address the deeper patterns that keep stress held in the system.
You’ll be met exactly where you are, with steadiness, presence, and skill. As the nervous system settles, the mind clears, the body softens, and your natural vitality begins to return.
This is care that supports regulation, resilience, and a felt sense of coming home to yourself.
At Way of Life Acupuncture, we provide consistent, relational care that helps your body remember how to heal and helps you feel more present, calm, and alive.
This first session is about understanding you, not just your symptoms. Dr. Dov listens deeply and uses traditional diagnostic tools alongside somatic observation to uncover the patterns keeping your nervous system on edge.
What you receive:
Comprehensive assessment: Pulse and tongue evaluation, with gentle observation of nervous system and emotional patterns.
Integrative treatment: Acupuncture, massage, and cupping, blended with somatic techniques to help your body settle.
Personalized guidance: Lifestyle suggestions, herbal support, and reflective exercises to strengthen resilience and clarity.
Systemic insight: Subtle recognition of patterns in posture, energy, and movement, helping your body communicate what it needs.
Outcome: You leave feeling lighter, grounded, and more in tune with your body’s natural rhythm.
Each session builds on the last. As your nervous system begins to settle, Dr. Dov refines treatment and supports your ongoing progress.
What you receive:
Targeted somatic and acupuncture care: Refinement of techniques from previous sessions, supporting nervous system integration.
Ongoing system regulation: Personalized movement, breath, and body awareness practices.
Lifestyle and energetic guidance: Herbs, nutrition, and routines tailored to your evolving system.
Pattern awareness: Insights into recurring physical, emotional, or energetic patterns, with tools for self-regulation and embodied resilience.
Outcome: You experience deeper calm, greater clarity, and renewed vitality that lasts between sessions.
Is your nervous system chronically on alert? Do stress or life transitions leave you drained or disconnected?
This relational, ongoing container provides consistent, structured support so your body, mind, and emotions can move into balance naturally.
What you receive:
Relational, ongoing nervous system support: Monthly acupuncture and somatic sessions tuned to your system.
Holistic guidance: Herbs, nutrition, lifestyle, and reflective exercises to help your nervous system settle and strengthen over time.
Long-term systemic insight: Awareness of recurring patterns in life, body, and mind, with practices to reinforce self-regulation and clarity.
Support for embodied presence: A steady, relational container designed to help you feel calmer, safer, and more connected to your body and life.
Outcome: Your system stabilizes, emotional resilience grows, and you feel grounded, present, and supported in a way that extends beyond the session.
You’re likely a good fit if you are:
Ready to explore deeper patterns of stress and regulation
Seeking grounded care that honors your body’s wisdom
Open to relational, consistent, high-touch support
Quick fixes or one-off solutions
Symptom-only management without deeper support
Band-aid approaches that skip relational care
Best results come from clients ready to explore their nervous system and engage in consistent, steady care.
Booking your first session is simple-schedule online to meet where you are.
Questions about which service is right? Reach out via email or phone.
For more than twenty years, Dr. Dov Shoneman has devoted his life to helping others find steadiness and strength through the natural rhythms of healing. His approach is rooted in presence, patience, and a genuine respect for the body’s own wisdom.
Drawing from a lifetime of study and hands-on experience, Dov integrates acupuncture, herbal medicine, and bodywork to support each person’s unique path toward balance. His care reflects both dedication and humility—born from years of working with real people, real challenges, and the continual practice of staying grounded through life’s demands.
Dov holds advanced degrees in Chinese Medicine (DACM, MTCM) and has served as a teacher, educator and clinical mentor, sharing practical insight with future practitioners. Clients describe his work as steadying, clear, and deeply restorative—a reflection of someone who truly walks the path he teaches.
At the heart of his work is a simple belief: healing is possible when we slow down, listen, and reconnect to what matters most.
Dov is an absolute master at his craft. He took the time to really listen and get to know and understand my issues. He offered great feedback and questions. And his work is a blend of massage and acupuncture and cupping. I went for overall stress and anxiety and after several sessions I’m feeling so much better that I am tempted not to go back, which is the best testament for his work aside from recommending him — which I wholeheartedly do.
~Gregory K.
Four years ago, Dov treated my frozen shoulder with 100% success, so when I developed severe carpal tunnel and lost feeling in my hand, I knew exactly who to turn to. His work has been nothing short of miraculous. Through his masterful skill and deep understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection, he not only restored sensation and movement to my hand but also brought me back into balance on every level. Sessions with Dov feel like a reset — calm, intuitive, and profoundly healing. I’m deeply grateful for his care and can’t recommend him highly enough.
~Judy C.
I have done acupuncture for over 30 years in my life, and I would say that Dov is one of the most compassionate and caring healers I have ever worked with. His attention to detail and his willingness to give of his time is unique among healers. He allows me space to feel heard and cared about. Wonderful!
~Alisa G.
I’ve seen Dov as a client for a few years now. He is a compassionate and attentive listener, and really seeks to get to the root of issues by asking great questions and using all the tools at his disposal to treat the presenting issue, but to find the underlying concern. I have experienced both immediate and longer lasting relief from complaints after his work. I recommend him consistently to friends and to the clients who come to see me for body work.
~Joel G.
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