Harmony Healing Center, Sebastopol

06/12/2025

Let’s all bring our best selves to our lives!

08/22/2024

Greetings, Community!

I'm excited to invite you to Plant Spirit Talk’s Wisdom Exchange Confluence: Exploring the Intersections of Plant Medicine, Stewardship, and Spirituality on September 7, 2024, from 9 am-7 pm in West Sonoma County.

https://www.plantspirittalk.com/

I will be facilitating two classes - one about Moxa, and one about locally growing Eastern and Western herbs, and I would love to see you there.

FOR ACUPUNCTURISTS: 9 CEUs already approved by the State of California!

As a facilitator, I am offering a special guest discount of 25% off your ticket purchase with the code: TEACHERSGUEST25.

Please be sure to register by September 1st, before doors close.

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🌿 More about the Wisdom Exchange Confluence:

The first annual Wisdom Exchange Confluence is a unique daylong retreat featuring an incredible lineup of teachers, land stewards, herbalists and wisdom carriers from diverse lineages and spiritual traditions.

Enjoy over 20 offerings including classes, community care areas for relaxing and restoration, nourishing traditional foods, a curated Mercadito with top makers, healers, artists, and organizations dedicated to personal, social and environmental healing, growth and transformation!

Participants will have three learning sessions throughout the day offering a variety of workshops to choose from for each session. Two delicious meals will be provided for lunch and dinner, along with herbal infusions and an elixir bar.

🌿 More about special discounts:

Also, if you purchase a ticket anytime between now and August 22nd, you will get free access to our upcoming in-person offering SACRED TEACHINGS OF TO***CO happening on 9/21 from 1-4 pm, in Sebastopol.

Sign up by 8/22 to receive an access code for Sacred Teachings of To***co for FREE!

🌿 BIPOC Scholarship opportunity:

We prioritize making this gathering a diverse and inclusive space for our BIPOC communities, and are currently offering a limited amount of needs based scholarships, to make this event accessible.

Please visit our website to apply by AUGUST 31st.

We look forward to learning about you and hearing how this gathering can benefit you and your own journey of healing.

🌿 Opportunity to vend at the Mercadito:

Plant Spirit Talk has an open call for makers, artists, herbalists, healers, and organizations who would like to pop up at the community market of our event. If you are interested in offering your goods or services, please fill out the form on our website by August 26th.

We are also accepting donations to our silent auction, and appreciate any goods or services you would like to offer to support our community.

Visit the website to learn more about the incredible class offerings, teacher bios, details about the agenda, and more!

We hope to see you there!

2024 PLANT SPIRIT TALKWISDOM EXCHANGE CONFLUENCE Exploring the Intersections of Plant Medicine, Stewardship and Spirituality Saturday, September 7th | 9am-7pmSebastopol, California RESERVE YOUR TICKET Join us for a day filled with learning, community care, connection, and celebration while exploring...

06/27/2022

Thanks to all of you who've shown up in such a big way! The circle is unbroken!

In May 2021, our beloved friend Laurel’s routine mammogram came back… Friends and Family of Laurel Brody needs your support for Help Laurel Defeat Cancer!

05/21/2020

From a friend/colleague:

This is long, but worth it to read. Good, common sense information.
(This Dr is real & legit, I know someone who works at the same hospital)

FROM CARDIOLOGIST. JAMES STEIN, MD ❤👏🏼😷🏃‍♀️🗣

"COVID-19 Update: as we start to leave our cocoons. The purpose of this post is to provide a perspective on the intense but expected anxiety so many people are experiencing as they prepare to leave the shelter of their homes. My opinions are not those of my employers and are not meant to invalidate anyone else’s – they simply are my perspective on managing risk.

In March, we did not know much about COVID-19 other than the incredibly scary news reports from overrun hospitals in China, Italy, and other parts of Europe. The media was filled with scary pictures of chest CT scans, personal stories of people who decompensated quickly with shortness of breath, overwhelmed health care systems, and deaths. We heard confusing and widely varying estimates for risk of getting infected and of dying – some estimates were quite high.

Key point #1: The COVID-19 we are facing now is the same disease it was 2 months ago. The “shelter at home” orders were the right step from a public health standpoint to make sure we flattened the curve and didn’t overrun the health care system which would have led to excess preventable deaths. It also bought us time to learn about the disease’s dynamics, preventive measures, and best treatment strategies – and we did. For hospitalized patients, we have learned to avoid early intubation, to use prone ventilation, and that remdesivir probably reduces time to recovery. We have learned how to best use and preserve PPE. We also know that several therapies suggested early on probably don’t do much and may even cause harm (ie, azithromycin, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir). But all of our social distancing did not change the disease. Take home: We flattened the curve and with it our economy and psyches, but the disease itself is still here.

Key point #2: COVID-19 is more deadly than seasonal influenza (about 5-10x so), but not nearly as deadly as Ebola, Rabies, or Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever where 25-90% of people who get infected die. COVID-19’s case fatality rate is about 0.8-1.5% overall, but much higher if you are 60-69 years old (3-4%), 70-79 years old (7-9%), and especially so if you are over 80 years old (CFR 13-17%). It is much lower if you are under 50 years old (

03/18/2020

Hi All, The clinic is currently closed. Wash your hands, take Vit. A,D and C. Take homeopathic flu solutions and Loviral from Herbs Etc. Time to stay home and get to all the projects we've all been too busy get to! Stay strong and stay well! Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have. Im home and available!

01/06/2020

I'm teaching a day long class on making Cordials, Tinctures and Bitters. Here in Seb. 3/7/20. Contact me for more info!

12/29/2018

Here in the Winter months, the time of year ruled by the Kidneys, a few minutes spent in Downward Facing Dog can do wonders for your energy!

Downward-facing dog is the most ubiquitous pose in yoga. Interestingly, the ancient Chinese art and science of acupuncture can help explain why.

03/29/2018

Wow! This could explain so much about our experience living in our body and they even talked about acupuncture in this article!

Researchers have identified a previously unknown feature of human anatomy with implications for the function of all organs, most tissues and the mechanisms of most major diseases.

03/18/2018

Spring Equinox will be here in a couple days! We move from the season of Winter, ruled by Kidney qi to Spring, which is ruled by the Liver. Time for Liver cleanses, starting new projects, eating wild Spring greens. If your control issues, anger, irritability and impatience come up, you know its your Liver talking! Time for a Spring tune up! The Equinoxes and Solstices are the most important times of the year for acupuncture. Let me help you transition into the coming season! Happy Spring!

01/27/2018

12/02/2017

It was such an honor to work on the firefighters in October. Watching their transformation as the healing and peace sank in was so beautiful to behold. Happy Holidays to all you. Feel free to contact me if you need any kind of help! These times a bit on the stressful side. Lets counterbalance that with some good strong healing energy!

10/25/2017

As some of you may know, I was one of the acupuncturists working on the firefighters who were staying over at Alliance Redwood Camp during their shift change. It was an honor to work on them. None of them had ever had acupuncture before. Most had not had bodywork or Chiropractic either. They loved it! They were amazed by the outpouring of healers in our community that came to serve them. None of them had ever had a community show up for them the way we did. Im so proud of us. ALL of us! There are so many way that we of Sonoma county have shown up for each other. Thank you for everything you've been doing!
Im offering deep discounts until 1/1/18 for those of you who have been directly affected by the fire. Feel free to contact me.
Here are some tips to help you combat the effects of the air pollution we've had to deal with recently:
Eat /drink Cruciferous veggies like kale, spinach, arugula, broccoli and brussels sprouts. They help activate Phase II enzymes, our Livers powerhouse detoxifiers.
Eat/ drink Turmeric. It has profound anti oxidant and anti- inflammatory properties. Eat/ drink Cinnamon. Its a strong protectant against the effects of air pollution. Its an anti oxidant and helps detoxification.
Acupuncture can help clear the heat and toxins from your Lungs and Liver. It can help de-stress you and boost your immune system. Now is the perfect time for a tune up! Please be gentle with yourselves and take good care. Hope to see you soon and that you and yours are all ok. Im here to help.

The volunteer response to the wildfires in Sonoma County has a distinctly California flavor. Thousands of alternative-medicine practitioners like naturopaths, c