Jiling Lin, L.Ac. • Acupuncturist, Herbalist, Artist

12.01.2022

🌊Reflect & Manifest │ welcome Winter🌊

As we welcome the contemplative yin season of Winter, we ease into the flowing currents of life, and reflect. Where did we come from? Where are we now? Where are we going? This time of year offers us an opportunity to:

Reflect on the past year to reconnect with our Purpose.

Clarify our Visions.

Manifest our New Year with a clear Plan that aligns our Actions and Intentions.

Here’s a free Reflect & Manifest template to support your year-end integration:

REFLECT + MANIFEST

TEMPLATE GUIDE

EVENTS

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MANIFEST │ Or, simply gift the Reflection & Manifestation templates above.

EXHALE

New Podcast: Chinese Herb Cultivation in the US, Thomas Avery Garran
Article Archives: Tonifying Chinese Herbs
Upcoming Events: Visit my Events page
Ventura Environmental Non-Profits: Support Ventura initiatives

Thank you for your support of my BIPOC-woman-owned small business this past year. I'm honored to serve you. May the seeds of Beauty that you sow bloom & flourish, seeding further ripples of Beauty for all our future generations. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you thrive.

❤️Nourish well,

Jiling Lin, L.Ac. 林基玲

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11.01.2022

🍁Wander & Wonder │ welcome November🍁

As rainbow leaves begin descending to Earth, we bake more, sleep earlier, and start wrapping up our year. How are you experiencing the shifting seasons?

I just returned from co-facilitating our Five Elements of Yoga & Chinese Medicine retreat at Esalen along the Big Sur coastline. Besides the magic of migrating whales, dancing monarch butterflies, and otters smashing sea urchins on their bellies, we savored fresh lettuce and salad greens from the gardens, steaming cliffside hot springs, beautiful community, and deep nourishment. I hope you can join us at Esalen next year! I’m sharing Embodying the Five Phases* in April (registration opens soon).

WANDER & WONDER

In one of my favorite classes to teach, The Five Phases in Nature, I share Wandering & Wondering, an inquiry & awareness-based walkabout process that roots & nourishes my life, and I hope will inspire you, as well.

Download my Five Phases Wonderings class handout here:

WONDER

Settle your body. Welcome your mind to sift and settle too.

Open. Choose a word or question. Focus on ONE Phase through the duration of your walk, or explore ALL Phases in different sections of your walk.

Wander. Bring these questions, your journal, and writing/ drawing tools. Allow yourself to meander without direction through a landscape.

Wonder. Hold your question(s) lightly. Dialogue with the landscape of both your external and internal terrain.

Sit. Notice a place that calls to you. Silently sit and observe both your external and internal environments. Free-write observations & insights.

Thank this place before you continue wandering & wondering through other question(s), or close your journey.

* Note: “Five Elements” and “Five Phases” can be used interchangeably to describe the 五行 (wu xing), among other translations that seek to describe these natural rhythms that challenge description or definition, and are difficult to translate succinctly in English. I am shifting my languaging to “Five Phases” to reflect the dynamic nature of the wu xing, as “Elements” can seem static. You will see changes reflected across my website, articles, and classes soon. Pardon any potential confusion during this transition!

EXHALE

New Podcast: Bridging Botanical Traditions, Geo Edwards
Article Archives: Chinese Herbs for Nourishing Soups
Newsletters for Autumn Reading: Check out my resource-links

May the gifts and changes of this season nourish you. May you open to wonder in moments both small and large. May you enjoy the loving embrace of your family, community, and our planet. Thank you for your presence on our Earth!

Jiling Lin, L.Ac. 林基玲

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10.01.2022

🍁Grief & Praise │ Autumn, Metal Element, making Incense

The veil grows thin. Cultures around the world gather to celebrate our ancestors in autumn. Ghost month (gui yue 鬼月), Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, Samhain, Obon… Now is the time for grief and praise.

The sun sets in the west with the Metal Element in autumn, when life composts back to its original nature. As the veil between the worlds of living and dying draws thin, we connect with our own mortality. Suffering, loss, and grief are integral to truly praising life. Governing the Lung meridian, Metal welcomes inhalation and inspiration. Governing the Large Intestine meridian, Metal releases what no longer serves us, the great expiration. Metal governs the Po (魄), our animal nature that recognizes truth, cuts clear lines and boundaries, and directs fair actions with crystalline discernment. Here, we connect with the sublime ceremonial sanctity present in each precious moment.

As you welcome autumn, consider:

How do I become a good ancestor?
What is essential? What do I release?
What practices & rituals help me transform passing experiences into lasting change?

MAKING INCENSE

Incense has a long history of creating sacred space, uplifting intentions, and communicating between realms. By heating plants and resins, we release volatile phytoconstituents that purify both physical and spiritual dimensions for ceremonial, medicinal, and home uses. Mixing and shaping incense by hand, we reconnect with our indigenous roots of shaping the earth, building rituals, and serenading our ancestors with songs carried on spiraling smoke.

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INCENSE RECIPE

EXHALE

Upcoming Event: Five Elements, Esalen 10/10-10/14
New Podcast: Re-Storying Ecological Interconnection, Guido Mase
Article Archives: Free & Easy Wanderer Incense Recipe (逍遙散香)

May you enjoy delicious teas, nourishing foods, loving company, restorative rest, and ancestral blessings.

Jiling Lin, L.Ac. 林基玲

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9.01.2022

🌕 Moon Festival, Autumn Equinox, Earthing

The air smells different. A Brugmansia (man tuo luo 曼陀羅) with pendulous yellow flowers lives around our corner, radiating perfume at dusk each evening, seducing moth-pollinators. With the changing seasons, her flowers shrivel brown and descend, revealing long green pods filled with seeds of potential, and a new scent. As we gather into autumn, what changes are you noticing in the landscape— of both the lands that you inhabit, as well as the landscape of your inner wilderness?

We celebrate Autumn Equinox on Sept. 22, and the Moon Festival (zhong qiu jie 中秋節) on Sept. 10. The Moon Festival is a traditional Chinese harvest festival on the autumnal full moon. Families gather to celebrate the year’s abundance with food, stories, and music. My most poignant memories growing up involve eating too much deliciousness with the adults, then running off to play on the hill with other kids after singing and dancing in performances. As an adult, I played music under the fat autumn full moon on a different hilltop nestled into the Yang Ming Shan Mountains (陽明山) above Taipei, sipping tea, singing, and laughing until just before sunrise. How are you celebrating the changing seasons and autumn harvest? Who are you celebrating with?

The Earth Element governs the "long summer" (chang xia 長夏) season between summer and autumn, when shadows start lengthening, plants are at their greatest height, and we celebrate, relax, then start drawing our energies inward. We gather our communities to feast on the fruits of summer’s harvest. Dust to dust, Earth to Earth, our bodies are made of this very Earth, and further Earthing with each bite of Earth-given food. Governing the Stomach and Spleen meridians, Earth relates to digestion and nourishment. As you welcome this time of changing seasons, smells, and colors, consider: