Kunlun Mountain Acupuncture, Inc.

06/21/2025

Tracy here. Since this is my business, I'm going to use the opportunity to shamelessly plug my younger son Aras.

He is participating in a Junior Ranger scholarship contest which includes, among the other prizes, a $20K scholarship, environmental mentorships session with Jeff Corwin, and a featured article in Ranger Rick magazine.

Those who know me, know that my passion in life in addition to healing the world through the beauty and depth of Chinese Medicine is to adventurously explore the National Parks with my budding environmentalist children.

This is the last week of the general competition, and he needs to maintain the number one spot in his group to advance to the semi finals.

You can cast a FREE vote every 24 hours and today your free votes count double!!! Please help my son out by casting a daily vote today and through Thursday, and spread the word.

Aras Is Passionate About Protecting Our Natural Resources. He Has Visited Over 150 Parks And Is A Leader In Our Local Environmental Club.

01/06/2025

Happy Snow Day Monday!

02/28/2024

Kunlun Mountain Acupuncture is looking for receptionist support. Flexible part time hours, daytime and evening, available. The right candidate is able to support practitioners on site by greeting patients, assisting with scheduling tasks, changing room linens between patients, and light cleaning tasks in the office. Additional off site tasks include working with our office manager to support the onboarding process of new patients including returning phone calls and assisting with new patient paperwork. Come join our holistic, healing work environment. Interested? Send an email to: manager@kunlunmtn.com

01/01/2024

Happy New Year to my Chinese Medicine colleagues. I'm excited to announce two Foundations in Shen Hammer Pulse Diagnosis classes that I will be teaching in early spring – one on each coast!

West Coast colleagues can register online now for class on February 24 – 25th hosted by Pacific Rim College in Victoria, British Columbia: https://www.pacificrimcollege.com/workshops/event/shen-hammer-pulse-diagnosis/

East Coast colleagues can attend class at Holistic Health Associates Frederick in Frederick, Maryland on March 2 – 3rd. Contact me directly for registration instructions. Special early bird price of $400 by Jan 30th, after that $450.

Both classes are approved for 14 NCCAOM PDAs.

In this hands-on intensive course, we will develop a rich, foundational understanding of the Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis tradition and the skills to palpate. Students will learn the terminology unique to the Shen-Hammer pulse system including the five categories of common qualities while beginning to develop their palpatory skills through hands-on exploration of the large segments of the pulse and the 28 individual primary and complementary positions.

This class prepares practitioners to participate in our active, ongoing Intro-mediate Pulse Diagnosis community with classes throughout the country including Seattle, Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, St. Louis, Charlottesville and more! Join me and learn why the pulse is considered the the hallmark of Chinese medical diagnosis.

Class sizes are limited to assure you will get sufficient direct hands-on feedback. Both classes are already 3/4th full, so don’t delay – register today to secure your spot!

Workshop Information In this hands-on intensive course, we will develop a rich, foundational understanding of the Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis tradition and the

10/13/2023

This Sunday at 6:00pm Adele Muir, L.Ac., Licensed Acupuncturist and Heather Gwaltney, Registered Yoga Teacher, will lead a yin yoga and acupuncture workshop for all levels. Space is limited! Register here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=24436252

08/16/2023

We arrived on Oahu this morning after a red eye from American Samoa and had a busy day. It's 8pm and we're still going on 4 hours of airplane sleep! We loved our time on American Samoa. This amazing Park makes 140 for Leif and 80 for Aras! Tomorrow we'll do the Junior Ranger at Pearl Harbor and then our summer trip comes to an end. Looking forward to sharing the Hawaiian Aloha with everyone at KMA!

Collecting 140 Junior Ranger badges is not a small journey for one of our proud Junior Rangers:
"This park is such an amazing journey. There are tropical forests, steep mountains, and beautiful coral reefs. The fruit bats are even bigger and cooler in person than we imagined."
- Leif
E atoa le 140 fa'ailoga o le Junior Ranger ua maua e Leif.
"O lenei paka-fa'asao e 'ofoofogia. E iai vaomatua, mauga tetele, ma le gataifale matagofie. O pe'a fo'i e tetele atu i pe'a sa ou mafaufau ai. "

07/19/2023

Beautiful Mount Rainier National Park at sunset last night and sunrise this morning from SEA-TAC. Tracy is headed out on her annual National Park Junior Ranger summer trip with the kids.

You are in great hands with Adele Muir, L.Ac., Licensed Acupuncturist and Colleen Van Vorhees, LAc while Tracy is gone - so don't skip your treatment!

And welcome newest acupuncturist to join our KMA team, Alexis Borowski! Office manager extraordinaire Valerie will be onboarding Alexis while Tracy is gone so watch for openings on her schedule as well!

07/10/2023

A little over a month shy of his 99th birthday, our mentor and great scholar of Chinese Medicine and Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis, Dr. Leon Hammer, MD went home to Spirit.

Dr. Hammer served in WWII, graduated from Cornell University and Medical School, and practiced as a psychiatrist in New York City. In 1971, he began his studies in Chinese medicine with some of the greatest practitioners our profession has ever known, including internships in England and Beijing.

In 1974, Dr. Hammer began a 27 year long apprenticeship with Dr. John H.F. Shen, over the course of which Dr. Hammer committed to paper and text one of the most important, comprehensive diagnostic systems of our medicine.

Now referred to as the Shen-Hammer Pulse Diagnosis system, Tracy began her studies of this pulse system with Dr. Hammer's certified senior teachers in 2006, reaching an advanced level that permitted her to study directly with Dr. Hammer in Gainesville Florida by 2012.

Tracy has served as a board member on the COM Foundation, tasked with preserving, promoting, and protecting Dr. Hammer's lifework for many years, and in 2018 with Dr. Hammer and his core teacher's blessing, was certified as a Shen-Hammer pulse lineage holder and teacher herself.

In addition to his years of teaching and clinical practice, supporting the health of thousands and thousands of patients over his lifetime, Dr. Hammer has written many of the most profound modern texts for the Chinese medicine profession, including a recent four book series that the COM Foundation helped to publish for him these last four years of his life!

In 2017, Tracy organized a 95th birthday party for Dr. Hammer on behalf of the COM Foundation. Tracy's mom, a retired professional baker, made him a "book" cake with all of his best publications in edible form! Anyone who knew Dr. Hammer knew how much he loved to savor a delicious meal, especially cake!!!

Words cannot adequately express how big of an impact Dr. Hammer's lifework has been for both our healing medicine as well as our personal lives. Every patient who has walked through KMA's doors has been touched by Dr. Hammer's loving, shining, healing Shen.

May you all carry that Shen light out into the world. By spreading your own love, kindness, and spirit, you will carry Dr. Hammer's spirit out with you.

06/22/2023

Some of you met Aras, our "intern" receptionist for the week. He has been practicing his script as the official "greeter". He asked me if I was going to pay him but I told him that the front desk position also involves folding the clinic laundry and he went back to playing Minecraft. He did request an acupuncture treatment at the end of the day for all his hard work welcoming our patients. "Mommy, that was very enjoyable," he said when he got up off the table.

04/07/2023

New post by Adele Muir, L.Ac., Licensed Acupuncturist! ☯️

Acupuncture Expectations Explained
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Acupuncture is not a one time treatment: although it is possible to heal an acute (recent) issue causing pain within one treatment. Each treatment builds on the previous, so your course of treatment is cumulative. It is based on your health history, current concerns, and the acupuncturist’s findings including diagnosis/root cause and constitutional factors. You and your provider will come up with a treatment plan together. After making progress on the initial health concern, the plan is re-assessed and patients may come weekly, biweekly, monthly, or seasonally.
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Acupuncture is not a cure-all. It can help cure conditions that are curable, often in combination with western medicine, other integrative health providers, and participation from the patient. An example would be reversing high blood pressure, or healing a broken bone or sprain. However, acupuncture cannot cure the incurable such as cancer or autoimmune diseases. It can help manage symptoms such as pain flares, and improve quality of life. 
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Acupuncture is not just the job of the acupuncturist. The patient is an active participant in their own health. This includes following the treatment plan, and potentially making dietary or lifestyle changes like getting adequate sleep, rest and exercise. It may include education and tracking symptoms, cycles, or diet. The acupuncture treatment itself encourages the body, mind and spirit to tap into its own healing mechanisms. The rest is up to you!
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You may feel the needles slightly: although we don’t want them to hurt, you may feel a range of sensation from nothing to a prick, pinch, or feeling of pressure. Occasionally you may feel a sharp needle but it shouldn’t last. If it does, let your acupuncturist know. Additionally, you may feel Qi (energetic) sensations such as heaviness, relaxation, slight twitching, movement, stomach gurgling, and/or interesting sensations in an area. It is not necessarily true that “you won’t feel a thing.”
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What expectations do you have about acupuncture? If you have had acupuncture before, what were some expectations you had that were proven wrong?

04/02/2023

Acu-Yin Workshop happening April 16th at 5:00pm with Adele Muir, L.Ac., Licensed Acupuncturist! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/acu-yin-at-yoga-barn-for-spring-tickets-585866080217

03/11/2023

I am so, so, so excited to begin a year long deep dive into the Classical Pearls herbal formula line with Heiner Fruehauf today! I've been using Classical Pearls pretty much exclusively in my clinic for over 10 years now, and have studied with Heiner numerous times. I said out loud one morning a few months ago, "I really wish Heiner would do a class specifically on his Pearls formulas." And the next morning in my inbox was an email announcing "for the first time ever" this year long program where we will go through them all one by one and inside / out. I love it when the universe manifests like that!!!