Est. 1990 · Arlington, VA

Relieve pain
Restore balance
Renew your energy

Healing Wisdom For the Whole Person: Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit.

Experience personalized therapeutic bodywork, acupuncture, and energy medicine in a tranquil, healing environment. Conveniently located in Arlington just two blocks from the Ballston Metro in Randolph Towers.

Licensed practitioners · Est. 1990

Anchored wellness · Est. 1990

A different kind of healing center, quiet, attentive, integrative.

For thirty-five years, The Teal Center has been a refuge in Arlington, a place where listening comes first, where modalities work alongside one another, and where you’re never just a chart number.

A close-knit team of licensed practitioners. A full breadth of healing modalities, coordinated under one warm roof. Whether you’re managing pain, recovering from treatment, navigating transition, or simply curious, we meet you where you are.

35+

Years in practice

What we offer

Many paths
One steady team

Each modality stands alone, and works alongside the others. Choose what fits, or talk with us first and we’ll help you find the right starting point.

Bodywork

Massage & Bodywork

Skilled hands for tight muscles, chronic tension, and recovering bodies. Every session is shaped around what you’re carrying, physically and otherwise.

Eastern medicine

Acupuncture & TCM

A 3,000-year system that still works. Fine needles, herbs, and bodywork that help your body find its way back, sleep, pain, digestion, and more.

Mind & energy

Energy Medicine

For when rest isn’t restoring you and the problem doesn’t have a name. Gentle, non-invasive work that reaches what hands and needles can’t.

Enhance your care

Complementary Therapies

PEMF mats, essential oils, Kangen water, and more, tools that deepen the benefits of any session. Explore what fits, or ask us what we’d pair with your work.

Your visit

What to expect

Four quiet beats that shape every session, arrive, drop in, feel met.

Arrive

A quiet lobby on the second floor of Randolph Towers. The front desk knows your name.

Listen

A brief, unhurried intake. Your practitioner shapes the session around what they hear, never a script.

Treat

A personalized session in a private, warm room. Hands, breath, attention, just your body, today.

Take home

A few self-care suggestions to carry with you. The work between sessions matters as much as the session itself.

Brenda Teal · Founder, since 1990

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“Healing happens in relationship between mind and heart, body and breath, between client and practitioner, between who you are and who you are becoming.”

Real results · Real voices

What our clients say

Pulled live from Google. Never written by us.

Google ★★★★★ 4.7

★★★★★

Wonderful experience!

Mary

6 days ago

★★★★★

Well tuned therapist, really knows her stuff and very considerate of my needs. This was a very theraputic massage session. 90 minutes is the way to go.

Cynthia

Edited a week ago

★★★★★

Enjoyed taichi and instructor, Dante.

melba

a week ago

The team

One Steady Team

Licensed therapists, acupuncturists, and energy workers, each with their own approach.

Get started

Ready to Begin Your Wellness Journey?

Whether you’re new to holistic care or continuing your healing path, our practitioners are here to guide you.

Visit us

Two blocks from
Ballston Metro.

4001 9th Street North · Suite 230 · Arlington, VA

Relieve pain
Restore balance
Renew your energy

A different kind of healing center, quiet, attentive, integrative.