Happy Lunar New Year of the Water Tiger!
Lunar New Year is the second New Moon after Winter Solstice, and the biggest festival in my Taiwanese-Chinese culture. Families and friends prepare and gather for weeks, and flock to temples to burn incense and offer food, prayers, and love to our ancestors. Here in the USA, I typically spend Lunar New Year on a mountaintop, offering my own prayers and love up, down, and all around.
🌿 How are you honoring the second new moon of 2022?
🌿 What cultural traditions do you observe at the start of the year?
🌿 How have your cultural traditions shifted & blossomed over time?
CLINIC NEWS
UPDATED CANCELLATION POLICY | For patients, please note our updated 48-hour cancellation policy. Your cancelling/ rescheduling in a timely manner helps me better support the health & scheduling needs of more people. February is filling up fast! Book here.
EVENTS
WILDYOGA YTT-200 | We begin our year-long journey through the Five Elements of Yoga in a few days, with Balanced Rock's 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. Join us online. Get $200 off with code: jilingwildyoga
ESALEN RETREAT │ Registration just opened for Nature, Art, Movement & Ritual: Embodying the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine. Come join us at Esalen 4/11 - 4/15 for a transformative & restorative retreat!
PODCASTS │ Enjoy my "Tea Talks" interview with Kitchen Curandera Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz on the Herbal Radio podcast!
RESOURCES
COVID | As Covid continues ravaging our world, hold yourself and our communities with care.
- VenturaCountyRecovers.org offers up-to-date free local testing, vaccines, statistics, and more info.
- Get 4 free home test kits per household on CovidTests.gov
- CDC.gov offers helpful national information and guidelines.
MEDITATE | Here's free meditations to cultivate inner peace, especially needed in our current wild times. Visit my Links page for more!
- Tara Brach offers Radical Compassion, her RAIN model, podcast, poetry, funny stories, and so many free meditations.
- Rick Hanson also has free meditations, podcast, and in-depth trainings.
- Enjoy local meditations with Klaudia Paletta in both English and Spanish.
LIFE DESIGN | Here's two informative productivity & life design blogs I love:
- Asian Efficiency (love the name)
- Ambition & Balance
Keep paddling, water tiger. 😻 May the tides carry you with gentle strength. Book your acupuncture appointment here to nourish resilience for the year ahead, or come join my Thursday evening yoga classes at Boulderdash climbing gym.
With love,
Jiling Lin, L.Ac. 林基玲
acupuncture . herbs . yoga
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