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02/06/2026

Locs match jewelry match sweatshirt 😻 and some community acupuncture for headaches.

If you need a free hot meal, community support and small group setting acupuncture, I’m at every other Thursday morning.

It’s a great place to volunteer as well if you’re looking to make an impact in the city you live 🤍

02/05/2026

What does “emotions are stored/emotions get stuck” in the body mean?

We create patterns and shapes to make sense of things in all areas of life, both consciously and unconsciously.

When we feel a certain way, our bodies make a shape that matches it. This might now be wholly outwardly visible, but if you sit and think about it, you can find what these shapes are for you.

How do you sit in an interaction when you feel confident?
How do you shift that shape when you feel anxious, when you feel angry, or when you are grieving?

Maybe you create a defensive or tightened shape in particular settings or with specific people.

Over time, our neural networks connect these shapes and emotions and we can be sitting clenching our jaw/hip/abdomen for HOURS without thinking about it. Over time, this creates bound tissue (knots) which can cause headaches, disrupted digestion, back pain and other inflammatory responses.

Having an emotional response is normal and good, it’s part of being alive. We want to feel deeply and also let things move through us when the acute emotion is over-dance, shake, sing, etc.

What we especially want to do is notice when we have changed into a defensive posture when it’s not called for, or when we are eating and our stomachs are clenched in an angry state even though you’re having a nice meal with a loving friend. The more we notice these changes happening, the more we can re-wire.

The most helpful tool for me is to check in throughout the day and notice the sensation “omg I’m clenching my jaw” and take a couple deep slow breaths to remind my nervous system I am not in danger at the moment. A big one for me is unconsciously tightening my stomach. When I notice, I’ll take a couple breaths and ask my body to release the tension it’s holding. If you have more time you can connect the triggers to the holding patterns, and if you don’t, just noticing and making a shift is REALLY helpful.

02/02/2026

In honor of the return of the sap, the inching toward warmth, honored by cultures across the globe, I present the Source Point for the HEART meridian, the most potent Fire Element

HEART 7, Shen Men, Spirit Gate

The goal of the Shen, the spirit of the heart, the Empress of the body, is to sit calmly, unbothered, moisturized, in her lane, able to respond to stimuli from a place of grace both grounded in the body and ordained from “heaven”. The goal is to be still in the innermost sanctuary as the rest of the body takes in and processes emotions and actions. When we are rattled to our Shen level, the birds of our heart fly away, our eyes dim or we become manic.

Many acupuncturist won’t even needle the heart meridian, relying instead on it’s protector meridian, the pericardium.

It is lovely however, to use a bit of rose essential oil and offer moments of stillness with intention to this source point when you feel ruffled to your core.

Take a few breaths and remember you have authority over your own body, the ability to say yes or no, or this won’t work for me at this time. You can always take a moment before responding to check in with your Emperor/Empress

Remember that inside of you exists a spark from the universe that can never be taken or tarnished so long as you are alive.

Remember your heart knows things you may not be consciously aware of, and returning to listen to it is powerful.

We are all worthy of love, calm and beauty

01/29/2026

Kidney Meridian Source Point
KIDNEY 3, Taixi, SUPREME STREAM

In every life cycle, or cycle of change, there is a time spent moving from the known to the unknown; from what has been to what will become. Winter is the seasonal metaphor for this, laying low, resting in the yin until a spark of yang shifts the trees and sap starts to flow back upward to the branches. It’s still cold, but a palpable shift has occurred. (Can you feel it?????)

Traditional Doaist seasonal points, known as the 24 Solar terms, mark this time at the beginning of February. This term is very aligned with the Celtic festival of Imbolc.

If you’d like to work with this return energy in your body, you can meditate on KIDNEY 3, the source point of the Kidney meridian. This point is found on the inside of the ankle between the high point of the medial malleolus (ankle bone) and the Achilles tendon in a little soft depression .

You can visualize this point as an early spring stream, water dancing forth under branches and snow, the earth waking up as it passes, allowing animals to drink, cleaning out debris

The kidney channel is connected to our inherited energy, or ancestral reserves and messages passed on.

Sit with this point and call on your well ancestors (whether your own lineage, or of your greatest teachers). Ask what lesson they may have for you in this fast moving and turbulent time. Who stands behind you and what strength can you bolster yourself with in light of their energy?

What are you bringing forth and how will you be a good ancestor?

Allow this energy to flow through your whole body.
Thank your people

🤍

01/27/2026

Next Source Point for gentle resourcing: processing grief

LUNG 9, Taiyuan SUPREME ABYSS

The lung channel is associated with the fall season, of letting go and the grief that comes when things run their course and a new cycle is needed. Even if the new direction will be best, there is almost always a grief element of change.

The lung channel also begins the circuit of energy through the body by INSPIRATION. If one is not able to let grief flow, inspiration is nearly impossible to find. All of this is normal. We all experience grief personally and collectively. Chinese medicine is not asking to forgo or tamper emotions but to feel them in their place and time and ride their waves; to sit long enough to discover the message and then move forward with an understanding.

Lung 9 is the earth point on the lung channel, asking you to come back into your own body for direction. One cannnot logic themselves out of grief, but perhaps if we note where it sits in the body we can create a space that is less constrained and more open to the wisdom of heaven.

Find Lung 9 at the crease of the wrist on your thumb side.
Either rub gently or apply pine essential oil.

Let your lungs expand with fresh air. After a few slow breaths ask yourself where you are holding the grief of this moment in your body. Take your time to feel it and note it’s location and quality.

Breathe into this space for 9 rounds of breath, letting the exhales last longer than the inhalation. Note if any expansion has happened. If not, breathe again. Go slowly until you notice a softening.

Once you are able to clear the clouds in your body, you might find a message waiting with what your heart is asking you to do or not do.

Return slowly to the world around you

01/22/2026

What can acupuncture treat?

Facial tension
Digestive issues
Existential Dread and Ennui
Hip Pain
Connecting back to your own body
Learning how to listen to your cues
Arm pain
Remembering how to rest and restore
Recovering from or navigating through injury or illness
Choosing stillness
And other stuff

*I would never needle your face unless expressly permitted, but it really doesn’t feel as crazy as it looks imo

01/21/2026

🌈 🥕 ✨
When it’s still cold and you crave a crunchy vegetable, make some quick pickles!

If you’re noticing your body is feeling heavy, or you’re feeling phlegmy, or the air has been very very damp for dayyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzz 😅 brighten up your food without slowing your digestion.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, vinegar flavor helps move qi, the fermentation helps digestion, the slightly cooked carrots help the spleen and the bright colors give your eyes and ability to digest the grey days a boost.
The sour flavor helps the liver qi flow which can alleviate feelings of being “stuck” or “stagnant”

Recipe: wash, peel and cut 8 carrots into matchsticks and place them in a jar

Combine: 1/2 cup rice vinegar, 1/2 cup water, 1/4 c sugar, a bit of sesame oil and whatever spices you want into a small pot and warm until sugar is disolved. (I like to add sliced ginger and togarashi)

Carefully pour the warm liquid over the carrots. Let it cool and then place in refrigerator. Veggies will be flavorful after a couple hours and amazing after a couple days.

Put them on your avocado toast, in your eggs, on a rice bowl, the possibilities go on and on

01/15/2026

Wellness is not a destination. That sounds really truly corny and trite HOWEVER it is true to me. “Being healthy” is dynamic, a function of small choices that shift from season to season and with your various states: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual. You can make a healthy choice when you’re sick and unhealthy choices when you feel great. By and large, it’s up to you listening to your own body, which we all know is not as easy as it sounds.

That being said, here’s some of my hot takes for winter:

1. Eat warm foods, cook a big pot of strew on a day off, marvel in your kitchen witchery, sprinkle in herbs like they are magic fairy dust, let the warm nourishing scent fill up your whole house. Now you have at least three lunches and a dinner to not worry about. Drink warm drinks too.

2. Slow down and take a minute to be grateful you’ve woken up. Pet your pets, say your prayers, write your dreams, pull your cards, just give yourself a small space to renegotiate time as you shift from night you to day you.

3. So long as it’s not contraindicated for you, bundle up and be outside for a bit in the sunshine, especially in the morning. Clear your nose so the little hardworking cilia can keep functioning well. Bring a hankie and get rid of your boogies.

4. Stretch a bit every day. Winter is constricting by nature

5. Put herbs in everything, drink tea, take baths

01/09/2026

There is a seminal Chinese Medical formula from the Han Dynasty (aka: 206-220 BCE) called GUI ZHI TANG

It’s a beautiful spicy formula that holds a basic structure for many other formulas built on it and stands alone as well.

Not only does it work to increase warmth in the body and “harmonize the exterior” or Wei Qi to help the immune system, it is wonderfully cozy and heart warming.

I decided to make a version of Gui Zhi Tang as an electuary, which is a bunch of ground herbs blended into honey and I modified it to include a couple extra adaptogens which I feel are very needed in this current climate (both social and atmospheric) and pumped up the dispersion spices and the consolidating yin supportive sweetness. Ginger, cinnamon (gui zhi), allspice, astragalus, reishi, burdock, molasses and honey.

Put it in tea, put it in oatmeal, make a gingerbread latte…
It’s spicy, gooey, delicious and heartening, adding to the vital qi of the body and spirit

01/05/2026

🤠 Good Morning! I am once again asking you to be careful and mindful as you begin this new year. If you’re getting started on a strength/fitness plan after a hiatus, or just beginning: go slow. You are a new version of yourself, you are not your ten year ago self. Be careful with your precious body. There is a great learning curve with exercise if you allow it to unfold gradually.

Also know, there are LOTS of people out there in January doing stuff for the first time ever or in a long time, so you are 90% likely to not be alone in not knowing what’s going on. If you get a stink eye from being in “someone else’s spot” that’s not a you problem, that’s medicine for someone else to ingest.

It’s ok to be “bad” at things and it’s ok to intensely dislike some things. There are many ways to move and many places to do it. Be curious and open to changing what you thought you HAD to do. The best exercise is the one you keep doing.

If you happen to fall into the ven diagram of new people joining 6AM classes at Rio Del Oro gym, I am more than happy to answer your questions.

And drink water. And electrolytes. Thank you for listening to my yearly soap box chat.

Lots of Love

12/31/2025

Crossing over the invisible threshold to a new Gregorian year in the midst of so much happening.

I invite you to recognize that not all years are for big outward growth. If you’ve lost someone close to you or been through a tumultuous experience, shaping your new life and learning how to exist in the seasons is enough. Listening to your heart and acting with integrity is enough. Love is enough.

And if you’ve made big moves, let them integrate and settle into your being.

It’s hard to follow a reasonable cadence in this world, but the more you can listen to your own body and translate your feelings to your thinking mind, the closer you’ll get.

If you need some support through the winter, come by!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

12/22/2025

At the grocery store yesterday, I (with a full basket) asked the man behind me (with only one item) if he wanted to go in front of me. “No, thank you” he said, “I’m in no hurry and I’m practicing patience”
Me, dumbfounded “oh! wow. 😅 I suppose at such a busy time you can choose to be patient or irritated huh?”
“Yep”

Thank you, man buying beer, for gifting me the lesson I needed for the remainder of the season.

Thank you to those who’ve celebrated with me thus far, and I look forward to those traditions still to come! HAPPY HOLIDAYS and Gentle Solstice Blessings to all. Shine your light big in the darkness, we need all of it!

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