Pure Joy Acupuncture

When our worries seem to outnumber solutions, dreaming becomes a tool. In order to build we must first imagine!

Succulent Manifestations is an afternoon of meditation, creative writing, and sound healing intended to help you envision the world you want to build.

This event is lead by a quartet of Bay Area powerhouses.

A guided manifestation meditation will be lead Alie Jones, self-care advocate, writer, and artist whose work on black mental health has been featured on Afropunk, xoNecole, and Medium.com as well as A Paradigm for Intentional Healing at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco. Her work as a yoga teacher centers on breathwork as sacred.

The creative workshop will be led by author and JL Soul Camp Founder Joyce Lee and Marin’s own Amber Peirson, who you may know as author and activist Clearly Clarity. These two women are magic, and a writing workshop with them is unlike anything you’ve experienced. Prepare to be transformed by your work with them and the group.

Sound Healing will be led by Valerie Trout, an Oakland-based musician and composer featured at iconic venues in New York and LA as well as Bay Area venues like Yoshi’s and SFJazz.

If you’re in town over Memorial Day weekend, this is an event not to be missed! Reserve your ticket to this intimate event using the Eventbright link in comments.

Happy World Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Day! Acupuncture is a beautiful doorway into the world of East Asian medicine and there is so much more to the medicine than needles! East Asian medicine includes a vast herbal pharmacopeia, dietary therapy, movement practices including tai chi & qi gong, stillness practices, including meditation, and various forms of hands-on healing including acupressure, cupping, gua sha, and moxibustion.
All of these facets of East Asian medicine have great value and can contribute to your health. our focus is on helping you restore your joy and ease in life using acupuncture, cupping, gui sha (gentle scraping along the skin to release facial tension & increase blood flow), herbal medicine, acupressure using ear seeds, and if requested guidance around diet and movement.
Curious about how East Asian medicine can help you? Schedule a 15 minute virtual visit or new patient in person visit today: https://www.purejoyacupuncture.com/book-now/

Happy Equinox! Last night (yin) and day (yang) were exactly in equal and in balance. In Chinese medicine, health is found and maintained when yin and yang are in harmony.

So often in our society, we speak of balance as a set point that you strive for and cling to once find it.

When I lived in San Francisco I took modern dance from who wisely shared, “Balance is not a place you find and stay, it is a point your hover around and continually rediscover.”

Let this day be a reminder that balance is constantly changing. Appropriate balance of yin and yang is not always 50/50. It changes with the season. What worked perfectly for you over the summer, may need to shift as you head into fall.

As the wheel turns, night becomes longer than day, and yin becomes more plentiful than yang, I invite you to reassess the balance of your life.

If you can sleep more, nourish your body with slow cooked foods, and enjoy any moments of stillness and quiet in your day. If this sounds impossible, please book an acupuncture session to reestablish your sense of balance and well being: https://www.purejoyacupuncture.com/book-now/

“I don’t feel like myself.” How many times have I heard this from patients the past few weeks? I’ve seen lots of people who report crying way more than usual, that their usual coping mechanisms aren’t working and that they have lost their sense of joy. If you feel your inner spark is a dim right now, know that you are not alone!
Acupuncture will not solve all the world’s woes, but it can help you cope better with them. It helps shift your body out of fight/flight/freeze/fawn mode into rest and digest mode, where you feel safe in your body. From a relaxed state, it’s easier to respond rather than react to your surroundings.
If you feel like you could use some help finding your quiet, calm, and yourself, schedule your acupuncture session: https://www.purejoyacupuncture.com/book-now/
And if you’re rocking the Casbah and doing well right now, share your experience in the comments section- I’d love to hear what’s inspiring you! And if you’re not feeling like yourself right, I’d love to hear from you too 💖