1.02.2023

Happy new year | January newsletter

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Lunar New Year is January 22. While teaching all over the country, I’m excited to share more local offerings this year— beginning with a Lunar New Year Ecstatic Dance at The Pharm on Saturday, January 21! (Sliding scale, ALL welcome, NO experience necessary)


DANCE


ACUPUNCTURE

Welcome 2023 with gentle acupuncture for powerful transformation, along with botanical medicine and lifestyle medicine recommendations as needed/ desired. Book your treatment up to two months in advance (afternoons open first). If necessary, please remember to cancel/ reschedule at least 48 hours before your appointment; the earlier the better. I look forward to continuing to support your health into the new year, and beyond!


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Check out my husband Ben’s new project, Horizon Healing Center for Transformational Medicine, a Ketamine-Assisted-Psychotherapy clinic to help transform suffering and expand wellness. Acupuncture preparation and integration available, with herbs!


TRANSFORM


HERBS & YOGA

I’ve been teaching about herbs, yoga, and embodiment for over a decade now! Time flies. My events page lists upcoming retreats/ events at the top, and ongoing herbs/ yoga classes at the bottom, including:


EVENTS


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Happy New Year! ❤️


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12.01.2022

🌊Reflect & Manifest │ welcome Winter🌊

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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

2023 EVENTS | Join me in 2023 for Esalen hot springs retreats, the International Herbal Symposium, and more! Bookmark this page for fresh updates, and follow me on Instagram and Facebook.

 

GIFTS

GIFT CARDS │ Give the gift of health with an Acupuncture gift-card!

 

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


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EXHALE


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, 


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11.01.2022

🍁Wander & Wonder │ welcome November🍁

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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! 

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EXHALE


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!


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10.01.2022

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

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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.


→ Keep reading on Mountain Rose Herbs!

INCENSE RECIPE


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EXHALE


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


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