Connecticut River Acupuncture

07/03/2025

View from the inside

03/11/2025

11/13/2024

It’s a tough and stressful world out there. To weather these current times, and to make healthcare more accessible to the Pioneer Valley communities, I’m proud to offer the following discounts for my acupuncture services, going forward. Shoot me an email prior to your first session and let me know which category of discount who could use some stress management, and to those who qualify for the discount.

10/01/2024

It’s a new day…nothing in nature lasts forever

08/30/2024

A note today:
Chinese medicine and its practitioners regularly receive denigration, disbelief, and dismissal from those who are steeped in Western biomedical traditions, arguing fervently that acupuncture and Chinese medicine as a whole are pseudoscience. Let’s be clear: for something to be deemed “scientific”, it has to have been filtered through a paradigm that is indigenous primarily to Europe and the United States. Eastern medical traditions are blatantly considered unscientific because they have not stemmed from the conventional biomedical traditions, but this hardly disqualifies them from having profound wisdom and significant efficacy. As I’ve been diving into this text on Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis, I am taken aback at its sophistication and its cultivation of subtle diagnostic skill. Spoken another way, I am abhorred by the Western scientific and specifically, the biomedical outright rejection of Chinese medicine and its comprehensive, sophisticated and subtle diagnostic process, which aims to understand the absolutely necessity of relationship among parts of a whole. Just because Western medicine refuses to acknowledge worldviews beyond its own, just because it refuses to slow down, and to take in more subtle expressions of the human body, just because it suffers from a case of Modern Human Supremacy—believing that its perspective is the sole reality—does not translate to the complete denigration of a whole medicine. In fact, it only reveals its own myopathy, and fails to consider how much the proof is in the pudding. So many modern ailments are wildly misunderstood and not adequately treated, and this failure is evidenced to the degree that people do not understand the nature of their lives or their suffering. If the Western medical paradigm opted to take seriously the sophisticated techniques of a deeply rooted medicine stemming from a non-western paradigm, dedicating time and intellectual power and will towards understanding that paradigm, they may be less arrogant as to blindly refer to these methods as pseudoscience and superstition. The capacity to learn these techniques is extremely difficult and requires an incredible amount of skill to master

05/06/2024

I can’t believe it has already been a year since I opened Connecticut River Acupuncture. A year and a few months ago, my partner and I left the busier city life to pursue one that was slower, more intentional, and built around simpler values. Similarly, I decided to pursue a solo practice that was more embedded in the landscape and community, and one that allowed me to focus on what exactly it is that I practice through Chinese Medical principles. While it hasn’t been the easiest year, there have been many glimpses of life on another side of knowing. Gratitude is a daily practice, and one that doesn’t come easily. But today, I’m appreciative of the town of Greenfield, and for the opportunity to work with others as they journey through their lives and greet health concerns with focus, curiosity and openness. Here’s to a year of increasing growth for the clinic, my clients, myself and community.

04/24/2024

Herbs re-upped. If this was a video game, manna would be flush

04/17/2024

Spring Taiji love

03/16/2024

Thanks to @10.forward for a great opportunity to offer community acu mini-treatments at their Healing Arts night event!

03/14/2024

Come on over tonight, check out our neighborhood collective Healing Arts event, and get some acupuncture!

03/11/2024

Hi there Franklin County!

I'm looking forward to being a part of 10-Forward's Night of Healing Arts on Thursday, March 14th! I'll be providing community style acupuncture. Stop by and get some rest and restorative acu! Look forward to seeing you there!