Night Sky Acupuncture + Ideaphoria

03/31/2025

Today marks the last day of Night Sky Acupuncture. My acupuncture clinic in SE Portland Oregon offering integrative eastern medicine with somatic and creative services since 2009. Thank you for many years of trust and support. I wish you all the best. Portland has many talented practitioners and you will be in good hands with your next provider. Please see the Community Resources page of my website for recommendations and links. Body Land Metaphor Medicine is an audio archive of my guided visualizations if you want to keep those in rotation. It’s free wherever you get your podcasts with over 55 episodes in English and 4 in Spanish. I’m writing, resting, and learning to live life at a slower pace, while offering psilocybin facilitation and creativity and arts focused microdose classes. Please get in touch if this sparks your interest. May you be healthy, balanced, open-hearted, and loved. Cheers! 🌑🌌🙏

12/14/2024

Stunning respect from tree limbs to give each other space to grow. Loving being at to work on my guided visualization book.

If you haven’t subscribed to BODY LAND METAPHOR MEDICINE on Apple Podcasts, please do! The last 5 episodes were in Spanish as the beginning of our effort to expand accessibility and decentralize English (thanks to a grant from and the time here at !) — and we will return to more insomnia episodes in English soon to finish up Season 4.

11/19/2024

Presenting Body Land Metaphor Medicine en Español!

Bienvenidos al fascinante mundo de la Medicina Metafórica del Cuerpo Tierra, creada por la acupupunturista y autora Liz Greenhill y llevada a ustedes en español por Udom Linthavong.

Imagina esto: visualizaciones guiadas que no solo encienden tu creatividad, sino que también calman tu sistema nervioso. Te ayudarán a sentirte arraigado y en sintonía contigo mismo. Este es un espacio donde la energía se mueve, el arte se aprecia, el lenguaje cobra vida, y técnicas de la medicina china se mezclan con métodos somáticos para que puedas dejar atrás la ansiedad.
Tan a menudo, nuestras imaginaciones se aventuran en áreas de miedo y, cuando eso sucede, es como si nuestras mentes secuestraran a nuestros cuerpos y nos llevaran a un lugar de catástrofe vicaria. Cuerpo Tierra está diseñado para ser un micro-antídoto a esa respuesta de estrés.
Muchas técnicas de meditación nos enseñan a despejar la mente, pero esto es diferente. Las historias meditativas en Cuerpo Tierra involucran todos los sentidos y utilizan el lenguaje para llevarnos más adentro de nuestro ser. Estamos empleando la imaginación para transformar la manera en que nos sentimos.

Podcast Episode · BODY LAND - Metaphor Medicine · 11/19/2024 · 13m

07/29/2024

Big changes are happening! I am taking a sabbatical Aug 1 through the end of the year. My amazing colleague will take over Night Sky. More info coming soon as we tune up all the details.

I’ll be getting my kid set up at colleges, going to a few writing residencies to work on my book, and taking a breather from the daily grind. This is a changed in the interest of sustainability, transformation, minimalism, and experimentation!

Just a few appts left… come on in!

02/08/2024

Having a magical time of productive writing and rest and refocusing here in this beautiful rural high desert of Southern Oregon at . So grateful for the opportunity to be here working on the book version of Body Land .
I’ve been amazed by the quick changes between snow, sun, extreme wind, and springlike serenity here on the playa. Be home next week! 💞

12/27/2023

You deserve to feel better. Invest in yourself. Work with someone who can help you move obstacles out of your way.
Energy medicine is powerful stuff!
It helps clear your mind, regulate your mood, and reduce pain… and all that improves your relationships with others and with yourself.

12/18/2023

Listen to Body Land on XRAY FM’s Monday morning show 7-9 am. Start yr week with a dose of Metaphor Medicine. Also listen on Apple, Amazon Music, Spotify or at Night Sky Acupuncture.

12/15/2023

Contented acupuncture-acupressure recipient back for more.
Part of what comes from sessions is the practice of attunement (listening with our senses) to our bodies and the planet.

09/13/2023

This book is so good. Highly recommend! And she has a podcast! Check out and get yrself a copy of this book. Invaluable for therapists, acupuncturists, and anyone interested in putting your life’s purpose to helping to heal this fractured world. Thanks for the rec, ! ❤️❤️‍🩹

09/06/2023

Want to decrease your stress response and improve your relationship with your nervous system? You might benefit from one of Jessica’s classes. Very affordable and easy to follow online courses available here.

Explore a variety of introductory practices that can better support you managing stress cycles in your life so that you reconnect with your innate resilience and build greater capacity for life’s challenges.

09/02/2023

The body is a renewable resource for our ideas.

I teach creative embodiment, a method of attuning to the senses and the deep self to generate ideas and seek clarity.

Artists, thinkers, dreamers, innovators…. your body is your home. And it’s your source.

07/13/2023

My latest free-for-everyone guided visualization is up! Find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

This 18 minute somatic storytelling exercise is designed to help you sleep better. Give it a try some night soon and let me know how it went for you!

All of Season 4 of Body Land Metaphor Medicine is dedicated to better sleep. We are up to episode 4. And we have more snoozy stories to come.

A Cartography of Rest
We talk a bit about the four levels of being (and reality) and how metaphors of the earth apply to the body. We tune into four layers in the body and coax each one into a relaxed safe place.

Listen on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, or on my acupuncture website here:

Body Land is a collection of guided visualizations that are accessible, experiential, and imaginative. They are designed for anyone living in a body. These creative meditations get you feeling grounded, relaxed, restored, and thinking more positive thoughts on the flip side. Find a quiet spot to lis