The Acupuncture Spot

03/29/2024

Thank you Nevada County! Honored to be among other great small businesses in The Union’s Best of 2023.

06/16/2023

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One of the defining events of the pandemic has been the deliverance of a very important question to the forefront of our collective consciousness: what is essential? As we have ruminated on this question over and over again, new or refined core truths have emerged for many of us, encouraging a shi

04/04/2023

Feeling all the local love in making The Union's Best of Nevada County 2022 list under acupuncture favorites. There are so many talented acupuncturists locally, and Turiya Hill is definitely a very loved local legend, it's an honor to be listed with him. This community never ceases to amaze me and shows up in new ways every day to make me grateful I'm here.

03/16/2023

NEW DATE! MONDAY MARCH 27TH We’re back 🤞🏼from the holidays & storms. Usually we focus on direct abortion funds, but this month we wanted to support women’s rights in the APPI community so we’ve chosen The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) which is the only organization focused on building power with AAPI women & girls to influence critical decisions that affect their lives, communicates and families. They use a reproductive justice framework to elevate APPI women & girls to impact police & drive systemic change in the US.

Event reminders: It’s community acupuncture and donation based, pay what you can and 100% goes to the non-profit. Appointments are available to book online or you can walk in, we’ll be taking both from 3-5pm, so 5pm is the latest time you can walk in and get a treatment. Snag a spot & spread the word! ✨

03/16/2023

Releasing tension & pressing reset on the nervous system ✨

03/10/2023

“As the saying goes, it has to snow two times on the daffodils before winter will release her grasp.” - a colleague wrote this to me in an email last year & I think it’s beautiful. Here in the Sierras I think the daffodils have been snowed on for about 2+ weeks not just twice. I’ll be manifesting some Spring vibes this month, working on my seasonal transition offering & ground into that Spring wood element vibe 🌼

03/10/2023

We’re back & it’s cozy in here ✨lots of extra stress support as we start to recover from the storms

02/20/2023

Treating back & neck pain all day every day ✨ in the words of my patients:

“She took care of my neck, shoulder, and back pain from a cycling accident I had, as well as my father's sciatica pain in his lower back.”

“Although I’ve had all kinds of great results with acupuncture in the past, I'd never had treatments that actually made a big difference in my persistent low back pain until I found Danielle."

“I came to her with chronic back pain stemming from a pinched sciatic nerve that I thought NOTHING was going to help. I had tried community acupuncture, physical therapy, ice, heat, stretching, staying off of it, exercise, literally everything. I've completed about 5 visits and already see a notable difference in pain and stiffness. Not only is the pain improving, but it's easily become my favorite part of the week because the sessions are so relaxing.”

01/03/2023

Winter Transition // $50 Preset Treatment of eight points for addressing the emotional & spiritual transitions of winter, the water element. During this season or transition we focus on the impulse to awaken, planting the seeds of creation & beginning anew. To do this we need will or ambition, the drive to move forward & overcome fear. It is a time to rest, sustain your resources, go inward & in the darkness find a spark or faith that in Spring what you plant in Winter will bloom.

This is the story & support these four points (used bilaterally for eight points in total) give us:

Kidney 3: Greater Mountain Stream - “From the Greater Mountain Stream, Water flows from the source, rising up from the ground in a gushing torrent of life force that quenches, nourishes and awakens us at the level of body, soul and spirit.” - “If it’s going to be dark, can it at least be sweet & nourishing” -

Bladder 60: Kunlun Mountain - Like a mountain, it brings stability, peace & balance to the body & mind. As the fire point on the water channel, it can warm frozen water & help reignite the spark of life when there is burn out. It restores movement & flow.

Kidney 7: Returning Current - This point can clear a blockage in a stream so that the current can flow again. It’s the turning point that restores our faith to start anew. This point is metal on water, it helps us transition from fall (the end of the cycle) into winter, the beginning.

Kidney 25: Spirit Storehouse - This point is the storehouse of the spirit & will, we hold ourselves in the darkness until it is safe to grow. This point offers us safety, rest & relief. It gives us time to heal & to know when we can step back out into the light.

Available for booking now, only offered in January & February ✨

(Original artwork by me)

01/02/2023

I hope this New Year nourishes you ✨ schedule is open for booking:

✨ new & return acupuncture appointments
✨The Deep Dive: a comprehensive holistic 8 week integrative program with Ali https://www.wellnesswithali.com/
✨ Winter transition preset treatment for emotional & spiritual support (more details on this coming tomorrow)

… soon I’ll be adding & announcing the return of our monthly donation based community acupuncture abortion fundraiser date for January.

Book online: https://theacupuncturespot.schedulista.com/ ✨

01/01/2023

2022 reflections ✨ I took this photo a year ago today during snowmageddon. When the roads opened & the storm eased, I set up & opened The Acupuncture Spot in Nevada City. I had moved here six months before knowing no one, and originally opening my own practice in my new town this soon wasn’t the plan. 2022 brought my final transition out of San Francisco. It gave me the space I had been longing for to have more time to ground, create community & root in Nevada City. It also gave me the space I had been needing to rest, ground & dive deeper within myself. 2022 was a big year of growth, health & healing - both personally & for my practice. My own growth, challenges & healing can’t be disconnected from that of my practice. 2022 was an incredibly challenging and beautiful time for both; there was incredible beauty, grief, fear, connection & growth. I feel more in alignment & connected to nature & the seasons, as well as my mind, body & spirit. I am integrating these aspects into my practice as well.

I am so grateful to enter 2023 with the intention to ground & root deeper in Nevada City & myself. Thank you to everyone who has been part of my community, near and far, and who has helped me make this new town a home - for both myself & The Acupuncture Spot 🤍

12/22/2022

Winter | Water | Birth: Winter Solstice, we enter the water element & the beginning of the five elements or transitions cycle. This transition is about rest, slowing down & focusing on warming, restorative practices. of reminds us in her book Kigo “At this time of year, it is good to go down and in, to eat warm roots and bone broths, to restore ourselves through sleep and meditation as we wait for the quickening, the first stirrings of the possibilities that gestate in the darkness.”

Winter is also the start, when we plant the seed of creation & embrace the impulse to begin again. The spirit of this season is will or ambition, which is the force needed to start anew. To quote Russell Brown LAc “It is the crucible saying I will begin again in the darkness. I don’t know where it leads to, I don’t know what comes. It is the season of faith. I am keeping faith that there will be light and I am just going to move forward into my intention to begin.”

Lorie beautifully explains: “Water asks us to listen deeply to the needs of our being. Yet is also demands that we take heed of our larger destiny as it is revealed through the conditions, people and events we encounter. Rather than wasting precious life essences fighting against the way things are, Water invites us to accept the ever-changing forms of life, to go with the flow and to trust that with every descent, there will be a rising; with every death, there will be resurrection.”

The Spirit Animal of Winter is the Two-Headed Deer (represented in the collage). She is a creature of opposites, embodying both yin & yang. She looks into both the past & future. Lorie describes “She is the protector of the spine and Kidneys and gives us the courage to step into the darkness or to simply rest and wait patiently through the night until the morning light returns.”

With the early frost & cold weather, I have been embracing Winter already - feeling the call to hibernate & reflect, what narratives do I want to let go of as I enter the new year. In the process of letting go of narratives that no longer serve me, in the darkness of winter I plant the seeds of new possibilities.