For the past twenty-five years, my path has been anything but linear. I didn’t follow a system or stay within one tradition - I followed what felt alive. If something sparked energy in me, I’d dive in, test it, and keep what worked. If it didn’t, I moved on. My learning came through the body - through injury, illness, overtraining, stillness, recovery, and returning again and again to what felt true. That’s shaped everything. What I offer now isn’t a method or a model, but the result of staying close to what’s real. I use acupuncture not to fix, but to support the body’s natural intelligence. My work has taken me from art school to visual effects, to entrepreneurship, teaching, mentoring, coaching, and consulting. Each chapter has been about perception - learning how to see, sense, and respond - whether through art, technology, people, or the body. At home, I’ve lived through complexity - parenting four neurodivergent children with chronic health conditions, supporting a partner with long-term autoimmune issues, and managing my own health challenges. It’s all part of the same work: listening, adapting, not knowing. And through it all, I’ve moved - once driven by striving, performance, and endurance, now drawn to rhythm, coordination, and flow. Rope flow, Weck Method, clubs, and kettlebells have become everyday practices - ways to stay strong, fluid, and awake in the body. Less about performance or show, more about longevity, awareness, and feeling alive.
"Dom Davenport has the intuitive understanding of a true healer.
He is the best acupuncturist I have ever met." - Charlotte Levy
This isn’t about qualifications. It’s about what’s been tested — what I kept returning to because it worked. These are the practices that continue to shape how I listen, treat, and hold space.
Health & Restoration
My approach draws on classical Chinese acupuncture, acupressure, moxa, gua sha, and other traditional methods - always used with attention and sensitivity. Sometimes I work with sound or vibration through tuning forks, or with non-insertive techniques like Shonishin when the body needs gentleness. Nutrition and supplementation come in where needed, guided by what the system can genuinely take in and use. Always leading the body back to calm.
Bodywork & Therapeutics
These methods sit closest to the acupuncture table - rooted in the body, the tissues, the moment. Subtle touch, classical tools, and somatic cues help restore regulation and flow. I draw from fascia release and structural integration to work with the body’s web and layers, from Sotai to invite natural ease and balance, and from somatic bodywork to follow the body’s own signals as they unfold.
Breath, Nervous System and Physiology
Breath is central to everything - how we arrive, shift states, and return to balance. It shapes every aspect of health, and continues to inform how I support the nervous system both in and beyond treatment. My approach draws from practices such as pranayama and yogic breathing for internal clarity, the Wim Hof method for reset and adaptation, Oxygen Advantage and Buteyko for functional regulation, and Maffetone principles for endurance that honours physiology and recovery.
Movement & Embodiment
Movement helped me make sense of my own body. It taught me to feel structure and flow - not as fitness, but as feedback. Rope flow showed me rhythm through breath, spirals, and play. Yoga - from yin to ashtanga - taught when to yield and when to hold.
Qi gong offered grounding and inner awareness; Chi and barefoot running taught lightness and trust in the earth. Total Immersion swimming revealed how attention and ease create efficiency in movement. And strength work - with kettlebells, clubs, and macebells - helped integrate power with coordination, keeping muscle, bone, and connective tissue alive and responsive. These practices, over time, turned from training into listening - ways of sensing balance, energy, and flow.
Mind & Awareness
This is where symptom becomes message - where thinking gives way to sensing. These approaches helped me understand how the body holds experience, how to listen for what’s underneath, and how to stay with it. Meditation - Vedic, Zen, Taoist, and non-dual - taught stillness, space, and how not to grip.
Human Design offered a way to see energetic patterns and how people move through life.
Experiencing Reverse Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, IFS and Focusing each deepened my understanding of how emotion, sensation, and awareness intertwine.
Coaching, dialogue, and trauma work grounded this in language - presence-based ways of meeting stress, pattern, and change. None of it was intellectualised or planned. I followed what had life - what sparked curiosity and felt true in for me. I kept what held up in real life and let go of the rest. What I offer now is the result of that process: grounded, responsive, and shaped by experience rather than theory.
