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03/18/2026

SAN JIAO 9, Si Du, Four Rivers (Four 🐉) water is life

One of my favorite acupuncture points.

This point is somewhat brushed off in many texts but its name is powerful, speaking to the four main rivers which allow China to flourish. It is also linked to the four main “seas” of the body: the sea of marrow, sea of grain, sea of blood, sea of water, thereby dispersing energy from all sources in the body.

In modern writings, the San Jiao system is often linked to lymph flow in the body but that’s really just a part of it. It’s also facial maps and interstitial and temperature regulating aspects of the body that overlay other structures, like the stretchy part of your jeans if all the denim were removed, sort of. The San Jiao helps move qi, steam and fluids throughout the body, so a point named FOUR RIVERS is special.

If you’re feeling like you need some zhuz, activate this point on your fore-arm one and a half hand-breadths from the wrist on a line connecting the midpoint of the wrist crease to the tip of the elbow.

Take a few deep breaths and imagine the four rivers dispersing the energy you have created from@all aspects of your being: your mind, the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe and the fire in your lower abdomen.

As you call on each River, check in to which you believe feels tired or depleted or maybe overlooked in your day. That is where you can adjust. Maybe you need a glass of water, or a walk outside, or a scream, or something else nourishing. I hope you find it.

03/09/2026

😂 tbh my inner child is happy I’m doing this work and I’m honored to be trusted by anyone who comes through my door.

♥️♥️♥️

02/23/2026

FOREST BATHING BATH TEA

Create a soothing experience which nourishes your skin with antioxidants , helps achy joints and muscles, improves blood flow, opens the senses…

And creates spiritual space for protection and crossing thresholds to dreams or other new beginnings

Incense Cedar, juniper berries, mugwort, nettle, chicory and Epsom salt 🛀 🌲 ✨

02/16/2026

Source point for letting go:
Large Intestine 4, Hegu, Joining Valley
(This point
is contraindicated in pregnancy)

Tomorrow, Tuesday Feb 17th has a lot to say for itself, the new moon, a ring of fire solar eclipse, Lunar New Year, Fat Tuesday AND Beginning of Ramadan (Also it’s the lesser known National Cabbage Day! Since we are talking about the largest organ of digestion, that deserves a mention too) 😅

The Large Intestine Meridian is part of the Metal yin yang pair along with the Lung. It’s a powerful metaphor for accepting and accessing the strength to let go of what no longer serves us in order to make way for something new.

On the cusp of such an energetic day, LI 4 can be used as a threshold.

Locate this point on the middle of the muscle between the thumb and pointer finger. If you work with your hands, you’ll likely feel a deep and string sensation with pressure. It’s also the command point for the head and is often used in headache treatments (this use and its use for constipation span cultures).

Some meditation questions for LI 4 at this time:

What do I wish to let go of before I cross this threshold?

What is keeping me from living as the version of myself I truly desire?

What can I clear in my personal space to make room for new thoughts, perspectives and ideas?

What old sensations am I holding in my body and how can I communicate to myself that I deserve to be at peace?

02/13/2026

To all the hunnies (and this contains some triggers)

I am DEEPLY outraged by the lack of accountability in our government in regards to the Epstein investigations/trials/foibles etc and I want to send a message to all survivors in my realm.

In this traumatizing environment, please be mindful and kind to yourself. If you notice you are holding excessive tension in your body, having difficulty eating, feeling unusual pain, having trouble sleeping or concentrating or interacting in your life, PLEASE reach out to a support system. This is not your fault or yours to carry alone. Make a therapy appointment, tell your partner what you are going through, meet up with friends, shake, scream, dance, make art and remember:

You made it, you are here, you have gifts to offer this world, you matter, your life matters, your story matters.

If you are my client and you need to tell a difficult story to get through this time and move it out of a stuck place in your system, I AM HERE FOR YOU. This is a safe space and I am personally resourced enough to listen always. You are not alone.

❤️❤️❤️

02/10/2026

Next source Point for riding into the Fire Horse Year

SMALL INTESTINE 4 🐎 🐎 🐎 🐎
The small intestine is ascribed the element of fire and is paired with its yin counterpart the ♥️

The body has four fire element meridians which points to the importance of protecting the Shen in her seat within the heart.
Each of these works as a boundary layer to discern what enters the holy of holies and what we choose to absorb and work with.

The Small intestine is a sorting organ, separating what is absorbed into the blood and what leaves the body. Energetically/spiritually, the small intestine meridian assists us in choosing what to internalize and what we choose to do with that information. It exists for discernment of all kinds.

This doesn’t mean turning away from the world, but rather choosing what is possible for you to respond carefully to, and how you wish to make an impact in your life. When we are overwhelmed, our minds get foggy, decisions are difficult to come to and we may shut down or lash out. Attending to the small intestine meridian can help that.

SI 4 is just above the wrist crease and up over the ulnar styloid process toward the pinky when making a loose fist.

Meditations for SI 4:

What is riling me up right now?

What is the most important of these things to me?

How can I choose to be of service in a way that is healthy for me?

What can I let go of that is unimportant noise?

How can I listen to myself and not competing voices telling me what I *should* do?

What information seems worth following?

What can I turn off?

How can I learn to find my own capacity and what that feels like in my body before I am overwhelmed?

In a world of AI and non stop everything, we all need discernment and a space to slow down.

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

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