Two Roots Acupuncture

02/10/2024

Last night's Sound Immersion was a journey I'll never forget.

Even though Jan 1st has come and gone, last night's New Moon marked the transition into the Lunar New Year - a way of telling time that syncs with the roughly 13 moon cycles every year.

A perfect liminal space for dreaming and imagining.

It's almost like that space just after waking briefly where we fall back asleep - it's that space often where dreams can become more vivid. That's where we're at collectively in the "opening cycles" of our year.

Listen to your dreams, see what images arrive in your view, what sounds beckon your heart forward - for this is a magical dream space before Spring wakes us back up, calling us to rise into action.

Dragons are dreaming (remembering) themselves awake 🐉.

When I asked everyone last night why they were here - I was asking myself the same question... and the answer that flowed to the surface was: "because this is how humans should be spending time and sharing space".... not lost in money woes or to do lists or numbing out on social media, but gathering to amplify frequencies of the heart.

::a little deeper astrology for you:: This is the First Lunar New Year and the First New Moon in Aquarius where Pluto has joined the pack in over 200 years. Community, space holding, gathering, and being human will not look like it does now in 20 years time - a revolution of beingness is underway. We're at the threshold of something new entirely emerging from the compost bin of humanity.

Tune into your own frequencies and vibrations - as you learn to swim in the sea of collectively. Just like in a sound journey - there's 'one experience' being offered but we'll each be on our own entirely unique journeys. What you feel in your own body-heart-mind-soul-spirit is where the most magic is - trust the wisdom that rises from your own depths.

Gratitude for all who show up and for the opportunity to walk alongside you ❤🙏

02/05/2024

Our puppies are helping us prepare for our next Sound Immersion =)

My partner and I love coming together to amplify and create journeys with s o u n d. Pure frequencies to stir our own deeper essences within. Something new is discovered every time and vibration is one of the purest reflections of self - a journey which cannot be taught, read about, or imagined - a journey which can only be felt.

We'll be in Leadville THIS FRIDAY - for our very special Lunar New Year Event.

02-09
Blue Earth Yoga
6:30-8:00pm

TICKETS at www.blueearthcolorado.com/Blue-Earth-YOGA

The moon is interwoven with our dreaming bodies - her way of tracking time leads us into the watery depths of soul & intuition. She has a new cycle every month - but this is the beginning of her next complete journey (13 moons) within the yearly orbit of Earth navigating around the Sun.

Archetypally in Daoist Astrology - we are moving out of the energy of the Water Rabbit and into a year with the Wood Dragon.

What will your soul whisper back for you to hear?

I will be offering a guided dream vision to begin our time together before we drop into an Ocean of Sound - where surrendering to the waves helps us to reorient to our own North Star within.

Your heart knows the way.

12/11/2023

Herbs have stories.

Herbs have lineages.

Herbs are sentient.

The families of herbs themselves (the genus we could say) has a spirit and then the individual herb you come into contact with has a spirit.

This herb, that I’ve worked with before, came back to me in a dream – both a vision of the night when Bear Spirit visited me – and a lucid dream (i.e. daytime magic) when visions become reality - and it came to me this time with more of her story.

Dang Gui
Angelica sinensis

In Traditional East Asian Medicine the specific part of the root that you consume tells you where it will activate most in your body and whether the effects will be more tonifying or moving – more physical, spiritual or energetic - but for today we’re going to allow the plant to speak her wisdom in other ways.

“Dang Gui” literally translates to ‘state of return’ – reflecting its exalted ability to restore one to a state of wholeness and the deeper essence of that is back to one’s Heart, or in Shamanic Astrology back to the Sun – the radiating quality of which you be – your Sol (your soul).

Soul medicine indeed. The Sun’s warmth is generous and full of hope. The Sun beckons us to emerge from shadows, and bloom. In the North, the Sun is a Goddess: gentle, loving and healing. One of the first plants to receive the Sun’s blessing and awaken is Dang Gui. In early spring, while the North and South Winds fight for sovereignty over the frozen Earth, Angelica rises like a flame and calls to the beloved Sun, “I am here.” And like the Sun, Angelica is a generous plant. In early spring when food is still scarce, Angelica nourishes the reindeer who have pushed through deep snows all winter long, and the bear who has just awoken from dream.

Angelica received its name in the west when it came to a monk in a dream as a message from Archangel Michael (sometimes the angel is Raphael or Gabriel) and the dream gave vision to angelica as a cure for the plague. Before the plague years, Angelica was just another w**d in ditches all over Europe. After the monk’s dream, Angelica – the angelic one - became precious and was coveted as a plant that could protect your body and soul.

Before the angel appeared in the monk’s dream, Angelica was named for the Bear. Northern Europeans called the plant Bear Pipe.
Bear is the great herbalist. Bear knows where the medicinal roots grow and how to make use of their medicine.

There is a North American plant called Osha or Bear Root in many Indigenous languages, that grows in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains – it is similar to European Angelica. Osha is named after Bear because it is the first plant Bear seeks when he wakes in the Spring.

Bears, like monks, are also great dreamers. Bear carries messages between worlds.

And this message is that the Sun (of which Angelica radiates) shines and brings warmth to all of life. It does not hold back its gifts for only the chosen few. Angelica, a plant that grows in ditches, offers medicine to all. This is the way of the Sun.

And so Dang Gui, Angelica, Bear Pipe’s song is singing me back to my heart. And as I sip my tea of this very special and unique root – I wait to hear more of her story. What does she have to say to me within her journey of lineage, medicine, story, and being.

Life is but a dream. There is sentience in everything everywhere. When we can turn our Ear to Listen – wisdom rises from the ‘great below’ – the same mystery, the same void, the same magic from whence we came.

And so all Spirit brings us back home – but I am going to enjoy my newfound and expanding relationship with the Bear, Angelica, and the Sun.

::Stories from “The Weaving” by Abrah Arneson::

10/30/2023

✨Spirit of the Mountain Retreat✨
Chamonix, France | June 2024 | Summer Solstice

You are specially invited to join me for a week of

Love, Soul & Connection.

Grounding with Earth in order to rise together in Spirit.

What would it feel like to really savor the present moment, to rejoice together in summer solstice celebration, and to soulfully embrace your one sacred life?

If you’re a ‘mountain spirit’ - elated by adventure, inspired by soul quests - no matter the weather, take joy in celebrating the views both without and within, and are on a journey to rise into your most meaningful life - then this retreat is for you!

We will be hiking in the French Alps, meeting ourselves in the valley of our Hearts, and connecting to our dreams and visions that scale the peaks of our soul’s highest potential - cultivating a living practice in embodied ascension.

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”

Journey with a friend, loved one, or partner, or adventure solo and gather with us to meet yourself, the Earth, each other, and Spirit more deeply.

*Early Bird Rates
*good through Jan 15th

Learn More + RSVP at:
www.tansyalexandra.com/spirit-of-the-mountain-retreat

Please feel free to reach out to Tansy or me directly with any questions: [email protected], [email protected] or 719-239-1452.

“The Life and Love we create, is the Life and Love we live.”

10/14/2023

It's Eclipse Season - which means dragons are afoot.

This is where the ouroboros symbol comes from: a snake or dragon that is eating its own tail...ouro (tail) borus (eating).

And East Asian cultures over 3,000 years ago believed a dragon would eat the sun during a solar eclipse.

Today is our gateway into the dragon hole the first of two eclipses, a two week window from new moon to full moon that occurs twice a year when the Sun the Moon and the Earth all line up.

This annular solar eclipse will be visible in large parts of the US - all the way from Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, to the Gulf of Texas AND in some parts of Colorado, & an annular solar eclipse (as opposed to total or partial) means that the moon is a bit too far away from the Earth to cover the Sun completely, which will give the eclipse an apparent 'ring of fire'. This is a moment when we can "see" the ouroboros. But we were never meant to sit and watch. They say, knowing too much about your fates could have you go blind, and thus peoples of old would go inward, tend to their own dragon within, keep themselves fed and warm while the dragons without reset timelines for collective souls - of living and non-living form.

The ouroboros and the nodes of the eclipses (the points of reference on the moon's orbit that this phenomenon becomes possible, which are always slowly shifting backwards in the zodiac) are interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth. The snake's skin-sloughing symbolizes the transmigration of souls and the snake biting its own tail is a symbol of eternal regeneration: the tail being a ph***ic symbol and the mouth, a yonic or womb-like symbol.

This eclipse occurs at 21° Libra - it is a New Moon and it is the gateway into the dragon hole.

Light is being blocked out and shown in new and different ways, something is being consumed and will take new shape in its digestion.

Find Libra and Aries in your chart to feel into this collective dragon, find the nodes of your unique natal chart to feel into your own dragon within.

Whenever one dragon appears, we can trust there are many more flying in the night.

And I promise, it's your relationship to them, the dragons, the eclipses, that matters - will you whisper from your heart inviting them into yours? Or will you believe the western mad mind that says dragon's are to be slayed? Will you watch in fear, or will you tend to your life, take extra care, and remember you too have a dragon within that will be feeling her kind take flight once again in the air of sacred cosmic alignment.

Ride with or fight back...the choice is yours - but either way the dragon will be showing you its heart.

10/10/2023

We were featured on Shoutout Colorado recently!

It's a joy to get to share our passion and the deeper why's behind the work that we do.

"The unique blend of medicine that I provide is a rich tapestry of wisdom rooted in oneness and and it’s a medicine that acknowledges our deep embeddedness with Earth and Sky. The Acupuncture, the Astrology, and the Soul Alchemy sessions that I offer are all different aspects of soul medicine. Soul medicine aims to reconnect us with our own primal nature within, knowing that we have everything we’ve ever desired inside of us already. And the deeper we can love and understand ourselves, the more deeply we can live in love and connection to the world around us."

Check out our full interview at this link: https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-jacqueline-allen-acupuncturist-astrologer-soul-alchemist/



📸Taylor Jones Photography

10/09/2023

In Traditional East Asian medicine, we call unwanted and distinctly 'other' energies within the body ghosts or 'gu'. These can be entities that are of physical form (parasites, worms, etc.) or of non-manifest form - ghosts or as they're sometimes called 'evil qi'. The distinction is that they are unwanted, disruptive, and not of our essence. And the good news is they can be transformed, harmonized, or cleared altogether! And the key is connecting back in with Spirit, to the Heart, and to our own light - a source of which we call Ming Men Fire - the pilot light of one’s soul. Fear only strengthens ‘the other’ and it is in love that we approach all healing and our return (again and again) to wholeness.

And so too, it is in love that we explore these hidden realms - a journey wrapped in a cultivated protection of light.

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Sometime in our western history we started to deny the existence of 'unseen' energies. And yet many of us have our own stories, our own experiences, that 'reality' or 'logic' do little to explain.

Eastern cultures embraced the fullness and totality of our lived experience: Earth & Sky, body & spirit, the seen & unseen.

In this month's episode, just in time for autumn's thinner veil as we also approach an eclipse season, we continue our wyrd conversations on the This Wyrd World Podcast.

In this exploration we take a wander within the realms of ghosts & other-worldly contacts.

The world is not all what it seems and reality is held within a very thin veil - available to anyone who's willing to peer through it...into the world beyond physical form.

Would love to hear your ghost stories if you're inspired to share in the comments!

You can find this episode of This Wyrd World on YouTube or anywhere you get your podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvrgvifnz5M

If you enjoy our conversations, be sure to like and subscribe.

And if you would like to get in touch with our host Tansy Baigent or any of her guests, please send an email to [email protected].

09/28/2023

My heart is overflowing with gratitude for the 11 beautiful souls that came together this past weekend, who showing up in their fullness, co-created a living embrace of Spirit Medicine.

This was possible because each woman was willing to reach the edges of their existence in all its essence: joy, desire, connection, challenge, rawness & richness, vulnerability, depth, curiosity, and love. This richness allowed for a tremendously soulful exploration. And everyone left feeling a little bit more connected: to themselves, to each other, to Earth & Sky, and to Spirit - even if the road we took to get there didn't look like the road we may have 'thought' we were walking. This undeniable awareness of Spirit everywhere and in everything allows us to trust when the road shape-shifts or when we decide to pivot as our heart compass attunes and re-attunes again. We are alive, our medicine is alive, and when we honor the relationship that we each have to everything else there is in the inter-connected web of life, we honor the ever subtle (sometimes monumental) shifting that remains a spark of potential in each passing breath - in each inhale and each exhale there is possibility that didn't exist before. Our willingness to be present from the wisdom of our hearts allows for this sacred co-creative emergence of Spirit, healing, & flow.

The Universe is a co-creative expression of showing up, connecting, listening, giving, and receiving.

As I have experienced again and again, the path to wholeness and the journey of healing are not always easy and it's definitely not linear. But the soul does not desire ease - it desires witnessing, it desires love, and it desires connection. And the difficulty that arises to reach true and authentic connecting in any area of our lives - is always worth the effort. When we remain rooted in our intention and connected to our hearts, we can never be lost - and we remember (again and again) that all which we seek is already inside of us.

And this realization is not to keep us from connection but to provide the foundation from which TO CONNECT - so that we see love within and so to without everywhere and in everything - in all ways, always.

Thank you for listening and may Autumn's medicine bless you on your path.

Lokah Samastah
Sukhino Bhavantu

May all beings be free
May all beings be happy
And may my thoughts, words, and actions, in some way
Contribute to that happiness and that freedom for all.
For the benefit of all beings
Everywhere, without exception.

In love, light, and healing darkness,

Jacqueline Allen, L.Ac., Dipl.OM
Acupuncturist | Astrologer | Soul Alchemist

And most importantly... | Human

09/22/2023

🍂Equinox Medicine🍂

We are meeting the sacred portal where light meets dark. Where we are at the edge of change, a tipping point of release. What is being called forth to realign for your highest good? What are you ready to let go of.

The medicine is alive and well, and for me...both bitter and sweet - a powerful reflection of the balancing within the Autumn Equinox we find ourselves in collectively together.

So, I reach out to share my (temporary) struggle, but also my fleeting bliss. I lost my entire purse Wednesday 9/20 in BV - my personal phone, my work phone, my wallet, and more just disappeared. Somewhere from the grocery register and my car, it vanished, and even though I noticed within 20 min of leaving, it has yet to be found. This is my bitter. I have just now been able to tend to some of this 'reality', since right after this occurred was the start of my very first in-person retreat. Oh the timing of things. This meant I couldn't live in my disruption as I had already set in motion this powerful gathering of women. But I am also sharing the medicine as it is showing up for me, bringing it to the container - and blessed be, I am being held - I am deeply loved - I am able to be seen and honored. And in this I can feel profoundly, that I am not alone. This is my sweet. And neither this bitter nor this sweet will last forever. And I am here for both, trusting the medicine of what's affronting to the soul and leaning in, to savor the delicious nourishment of my expanded access to sweetness, gifted by being in sacred community!

And, so I am still 'in retreat' until Sunday evening, but needed to step out for a moment to tend to my practice and my clients.

I know there are souls whom I've never met who are likely reaching out to me looking for service - and I cannot call them back, I am not receiving their text messages. This pains me deeply. And yet, I have 11 women I am showing up for in deep presence, spirits alive and well, powerful releasing, connecting and celebrating - and this is where my power is - this IS what I can show up for.

Despite me not being able to be available to more than what's in front of me right now, I wanted to lean in to my greater community, hence why I've reached out to share. If you've recommended someone recently or you've texted me personally or called and I haven't responded, please email me. Right now that is the only way I am reachable, until I come out of retreat and tend to the reality of my situation more concretely.

I am navigating the waters of letting go of control, trusting, surrendering to the waves that are showing up for me. And I am both doing a bit of floundering and what feels like drowning...but you best believe I am also catching some BIG waves and damn does it feel good to surf.

Thank you for listening. May this be an echo that reaches those who most need to hear and feel that you too are not alone.

In love, light, and healing darkness,

Jacqueline Allen, L.Ac., Dipl.OM
Acupuncturist | Astrologer | Soul Alchemist

And most importantly... | Human

[email protected].

::UPDATE in comments::>>

09/06/2023

I'm so grateful to share this sacred conversation with two beautiful women, who are my dear friends and colleagues. In this episode of This Wyrd World (found on YouTube or anywhere you get your podcasts) we talk about the journey from pain into presence.

Tansy is the host of This Wyrd World and is a Shamanic Healing Practitioner and Spiritual Counselor. Colleen is a recent graduate of her master's program in Acupuncture and Traditional East Asian Medicine and is now on her journey of stepping into living practice with this ancient artform.

Colleen and I met when I was in Acupuncture school over 7 years ago in Santa Fe, NM.

Colleen shares her powerful story, of which a new chapter has only just begun. We talk about bee therapy, sisterhood, connection, spirit, community, heart medicine and much more. If you like the work that I do, I know you'll enjoy this conversation. And it may just be the reminder for today that you are not alone in whatever path you find yourself on - healing, difficult, joyful, or otherwise.
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✨Imagine sitting around the fire and following along with a living story of pain and challenge to healing and presence. A beautiful 'fireside' chat about connection, trust, spirit, life and overcoming pain with guests Colleen Putnam and Jacqueline Allen, and your host Tansy Baigent

✨Colleen shares her journey of contracting Lymes Disease and her path of healing which lead her to bee venom therapy.

Find Colleen on Instagram .colleen

Find Tansy on Instagram
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If you like This Wyrd World consider following the show and connecting with host Tansy Baigent through Instagram or on her website: www.tansyalexandra.com
This show and all previous episodes can be found on YouTube or anywhere you get your podcasts.

Episode Link: https://www.tansyalexandra.com/podcast/episode/32921255/from-pain-to-presence-a-healing-journey-with-guests

08/31/2023

We are feeling the first signs of seasonal change here in the high elevation of Colorado. Nights are cooler, aspens are just barely beginning to yellow, but we still have the Sun's warmth in the peak of the day.

In just three weeks an extraordinary group of women will be gathering within the portal of the Autumn Equinox. The sea of gold will be popping all around our beautiful state.

Tansy and I are beyond thrilled for our Spirit Medicine Retreat in Buena Vista, and we want to extend $100 off through the long weekend (9/4) to anyone who hears the whispers in their heart tugging them toward deeper connection. Deeper connection to self, to community, with the Earth & Sky, and to Spirit.

And we are heartfully holding space for greater emergence of:

Magic
Joy
Healing
Creativity
Receiving
&
Expansion

in order to tap into your own heart's medicine, brewing magic and healing from within, as we support each other in aligning more spaciously with our soul nature - so we may feel evermore our divine essence in S P I R I T.

When we begin to see, hear, touch, taste, and feel Spirit everywhere, we begin to more fully embrace our true nature, allowing for the richness of our very unique and sacred lives to fully emerge.

**On-site lodging or camping available**
**Only 1 sacred spot remaining**

RSVP by emailing me at: [email protected]

Learn more on my website at:
https://www.tworootsacupuncture.com/events

08/17/2023

"Frequency and vibration is the language of Source, God (dess) doesn't speak in English" - Three Trees

In this sound journey, we met love and courage through Venus in an opening dream of diving deep within to see & be with her and not only do we have the gift of the manifest rose to remember this moment (everyone got to leave with a beautiful rose)- we have the gift of each other.

Grateful to all the souls who journeyed with us and for showing up in the fullness of their humanity - meeting the full range of light and dark within and alongside one another. Remembering that we are not meant to do life alone.

The instruments, our ancient ancestors of sound, help us to remember ourselves again and again.

08/16/2023

TONIGHT

WHAT: New Moon Sound Immersion
WHEN: Tonight (August 16th) 7:00-8:30pm
WHERE: The Scout Hut | Salida, CO
TICKETS: www.tworootsacupuncture.com/events

Still space to join! ✨

We look forward to gathering with those of you who have registered and if your heart is calling you in - trust the language of source - your body-mind-soul and spirit speak in frequency and vibration.

08/05/2023

Please enjoy this rich and wonderful conversation about the experience of 'altered states' of consciousness; exploring, particularly, those brought on by medicine (entheogens), sudden shifts in perspective (disorientation), and ritual.

This is a conversation with me and my dear friend Charly McCreary, an Esoteric Arts Goddess and Wiccan Priestess and Tansy Baigent a Shamanic Practitioner and Spiritual Counselor on her podcast This Wyrd World.

The three of us come together to explore the hidden veils between 'reality' and the vast realms of consciousness.

08/04/2023

We have extended our early bird rates through August 15th for our upcoming Spirit Medicine Retreat in Buena Vista, CO.

My co-host Tansy Baigent shares beautifully the essence behind Spirit Medicine in her recent blog post included here.

If you wish to register or learn more about the journey please visit my website: www.tworootsacupuncture.com/events

https://www.tansyalexandra.com/post/understanding-spirit-medicine?postId=2bcf9acb-a14f-466d-a0af-a285e13b6e75

Spirit medicine is rooted in indigenous traditions from across the World, both east and west, and is known by other names; shamanic healing,

07/24/2023

Yesterday Venus stationed, "standing still" in our skies above, as today she has slowly begun her retrograde journey. She will retrace the steps she has been exploring since June 19th in our lives - an opportunity for RENEWAL, for reintegration, revaluing, and for releasing anything that does not serve our highest good - embracing the fertile compost of what's come before as we plant new seeds of intention for what's to come.

Venus is closest to the Earth when retrograde and more available for our deepening exploration in embodied, grounded, and rooted ways. At the midpoint of her retrograde (August 13th) she will be planting seeds within this fertile ground rich with the soul's soil of inner cosmic nourishment.

A Venus retrograde is a 40 day and 40 night opportunity to connect more deeply to our inner values, our inner worth, and our inner wellspring of Love, connecting us more fully to mind-body-soul and spirit.

Yesterday was a beautiful soulFull gathering in honor of Venus as she stood still sharing her wisdom whispers with each of us and I am eternally grateful for the beings that showed up and shared their hearts so openly.

Looking back (or in) is a helpful aid in 'weaving Venus's threads' - 2019, 2015, 2011, 2007 will hold treasures if you're willing to turn an ear toward your own lived wisdom. Trust your heart as it leads the way.

07/18/2023

Under the New Moon in Cancer we are planting intentions for the next lunar cycle - a Lions & Lioness journey.

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Immerse yourself in the vibrational frequencies of Sacred Sound on the New Moon Wednesday August 16th at the Scout Hut in Salida, CO.

This New Moon Sound Immersion will amplify your growth, expansion, and emergence, connecting you deeper to love and courage as we surrender to the wisdom of the new moon’s power to initiate new beginnings and go inward, planting soul seeds deep within your heart.

You will receive an opening guided meditation weaving astrology, soulful storytelling, and mind-body-spirit attunement before we drop in to bathe in the rhythmic vibrational waves of Sound: an eclectic mix of live instruments, ancient notes and primal rhythms to balance and harmonize your being, bringing you into deeper alignment with Earth & Cosmos.

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Jacqueline Allen is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Astrologer, and Soul Alchemist and Ben is a lifelong musician and soul adventurer – together integrating and amplifying the powerful frequencies of Soul + Sound.

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of frequency and vibration.”

WHEN: Wed. Aug 16th, 7-8:30pm
WHERE: Scout Hut, Salida, CO
WHAT: New Moon Sound Immersion
TICKETS: www.tworootsacupuncture.com/events

***Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, and any other items you may want to be comfortable lying down for 90min (bolster, eye pillow, etc.)