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Inside TMC’s Mind and Body Therapies: Meet the Experts Guiding Healing from Within

By The Medical City (TMC), Ortigas | May 26, 2025

Inside TMC’s Mind and Body Therapies: Meet the Experts Guiding Healing from Within

The experts behind The Medical City's integrative mind and body therapies: (L–R) Music Therapist Charie Cruel, Acupuncturist Amy Alarilla, and Yoga & Sound Facilitator Jashon Fabia. Discover how integrative therapies from TMC’s Wellness and Aesthetics Institute nurture both the body and the mind.

At The Medical City, health isn’t just about treating the body — it’s about nurturing the whole person. Through integrative approaches that address physical, mental, and emotional wellness, our Wellness and Aesthetics Institute (WAI) offers services that help patients live more balanced, fulfilling lives.

WAI offers treatments that integrate traditional and evidence-based therapies to support your overall well-being. From acupuncture to music therapy to yoga, these services complement medical care and promote a more balanced, healthy life.

Meet the experts who lead these transformative experiences.


Amy Alarilla: Healing Through Acupuncture and Life Coaching

Amy Alarilla, Head of the Mind and Body Unit, performs an acupuncture session that integrates Japanese and traditional Chinese medicine, tailored to the patient's unique health story.

As the Head of the Mind and Body Unit, Amy Alarilla champions the idea that healing begins with understanding the person, not just their symptoms.

"My philosophy is to give the best treatment to my patients at all times. For me, [it’s] not treating their ailment…and inserting needles. I really try to get their story, their medical history. I try to get to know my patients so that I can give them the most appropriate treatment that will help them achieve health and wellness,” Amy says. 

She also combines her acupuncture services with 45- to 60-minute life coaching sessions to ensure that the procedure has more lasting effects. 


Charie Cruel: Music as Medicine

Music Therapist Charie Cruel engages a patient in a personalized session, using music as a tool for emotional expression, healing, and connection.

Charie Cruel believes in the power of music in improving one’s quality of life. As The Medical City’s music therapist, she uses music interventions to tap into the patient’s overall health and well-being. 

“Filipinos are very musical by nature. I believe in the power of music…. This belief and the conviction of helping drive me to go on and work hard to make this discipline be known for all its worth,” Charie says.

“State of well-being is the state of being active and useful, maintaining the maximum level of functioning, [and] being able to live a purposeful life in and with the community [he or she] belongs. This is the universal goal of music therapy — to optimize the client’s health, and help him/her reach the highest level of potential in becoming healthy,” she adds.

Charie creates personalized therapy sessions which use a mix of methods such as songwriting, lyric analysis, improvisation, playing instruments, singing, and movement to music, among others, to help patients achieve their goals and take charge of their wellness. 

She finds that she has the “time of [her] life” every time she sees her patients actively participate or engage in musical activities with “priceless” reactions — cries turning to smiles, comments of "I love you", and looks of disbelief with their progress, among others.


Jashon Fabia: Reconnecting Through Movement and Sound

Wellness teacher Jashon Fabia facilitates a sound bath session designed to promote mindfulness, relaxation, and inner awareness in a safe, trauma-informed space.

A nurturing and grounding space is needed in order for patients to be able to recover and take care of their health through providing a compassionate and inclusive space. Jashon Fabia hopes to complement medical procedures with soulful and spiritual wisdom of yoga and sound bathing services.

“I guide practices that foster interoception, regulation, and embodied presence. My intention is not to impose but to invite offering choices, honouring agency, and empowering students to listen deeply to their own bodies and inner knowing,” he says. 

Jashon was drawn to his wellness services through his ancestry — local healers from the northern regions of the Philippines. “For me, being a wellness teacher is a way to weave these two worlds: the ancestral and the empirical, the intuitive and the evidence-based.”

He adds that his patients can expect his services to be “an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the body in a safe, trauma-informed way” regardless of age or physical capability. 


Experience These Services During Lifestyle Medicine Week 2025

Join us for Lifestyle Medicine Week 2025 on June 2 and 3 and explore how mind and body therapies can support your health journey. Sign up for free lectures, live demos, and wellness services during the event!

📅 Event Dates: June 2–3, 2025

📍 Venue: 6/F Podium Building, The Medical City, Ortigas

💻 Livestream: June 2, 1:00–4:30 PM on The Medical City Facebook Page

➡️ Sign up now: TMC Lifestyle Medicine Week 2025


Contact Us

Wellness and Aesthetics Institute – Mind and Body Services

📍 6/F Podium Bldg., The Medical City, Ortigas Avenue, Pasig City

📞 (632) 8988-1000 or 898-7000 local 6576 / 6386 / 6579

📱 0945-339-3555 (Wellness Reception)

📧 tmc_wcl@themedicalcity.com


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