Barefoot Acupuncture Movement

09/22/2022

Live free Master Class streaming now with the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement: Acupuncture and holistic healing in underserved populations, through the Pacific College of Health and Science.

Learn about our work in the borderlands, as well as other similar projects in the West Bank and in Harlem. Join us!
https://youtu.be/c3urc5gbSgo

Join us on Sept 22 for a free live webinar with these inspiring panelists:🎙Ryan Bemis from Barefoot Acupuncturists at the US-Mexico border🎙Carla Cassler fr...

09/17/2022

FREE MASTER CLASS!
9/22 Thu 5pm MDT
Featuring Ryan Bemis from Barefoot Acupuncture Movement at the Border

Hosted by the Pacific College of Health and Science. RSVP here!
https://www.pacificcollege.edu/news/calendar/acupuncture-holistic-healing-in-under-served-populations-master-class-series

Also you will meet:
Carla Cassler from Acupuncturists Without Borders
Juan Cortez from NY Harm Reduction Educators
Hear about their work in Tijuana, the West Bank of Israel/Palestine, and Harlem, working empowering communities with border refugees, in areas of conflict, and with harm reduction with substance use disorder clients.

03/25/2022

The Santo Domingo Pueblo of New Mexico is intent on reducing op**te overdose rates in a state ranking among the highest op**te related deaths in the USA. They have launched a new acudetox clinic through the support of the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement and the needling leadership of Lucia Darlach, PhD.

We celebrate Women's International Day all this month by sharing stories like these. Read more and learn how to support our efforts to support women like Lucia by clicking on our profile link: (barefootacupuncturemovement.com)

03/22/2022

Today, 2 years after the pandemic came to the border region, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Community Acupuncture Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where people like Sara here serve people in underserved areas of the city.

We celebrate Women's International Day by sharing their stories. Read more and learn how to support their efforts by clicking on our profile link (barefootacupuncturemovement.com)

03/21/2022

On Friday, February 18, acupuncture therapies continued at the San Romero de America migrant care center in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, where Angelina and Patricia, two of our volunteer Barefoot Health Promoters, have provided their services for more than three years applying the NADA ear acupuncture protocol (National Acupuncture Association of Detoxification).

Read more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/19/2022

Our project sprouted through the support of Catholic Workers Peter Hinde and Sister Betty Campbell of Casa Tabor. This quote is by Dorothy Day, who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, a project of hospitality for and solidarity with the poor. Our work uses needles to facilitate hospitality and solidarity.

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/17/2022

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/16/2022

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/16/2022

Moxa applied in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in a free clinic within a church.

Moxa (also known as moxibustion) involves heating the dried leaves of Artemisia*, commonly known as mugwort, and applying it to acupuncture points. Traditionally taught to patients and their family members in East Asia, moxa is cost-effective (25 cents per treatment) and easily applied within any community space. Our Japanese rice-cone moxa curriculum was inspired by the use of moxa to treat Tuberculosis by the Moxafrica project in Uganda and South Africa. Our students learn how to apply several basic, simple, and safe Moxa protocols to treat a variety of conditions.​

This month we celebrate Women's Day, and you can support this women's project Promotores Descalzos by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/13/2022

The Barefoot Acupuncture Movement offers comprehensive project planning from needs assessment, pilot development, and training designed to meet the needs of each particular, unique community as a complement to existing healthcare options in consideration of local contexts and traditions. This Mayan Women's Cooperative in Coban, Guatemala, is one of the groups we have worked with.
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This month, we are raising money for projects in our network serving women, led by women, to celebrate International Women's Day.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/12/2022

This month we are celebrating women around the world offering care for other women through basic techniques like ear acupuncture and acupressure, like this special group of our Barefoot Students in rural Nicaragua.

The NADA model is a standardized auricular (ear) acupuncture protocol taught to community health workers. These types of Barefoot clinics provide a barrier-free approach to recovery and disaster relief services that can be offered in a group setting for people seeking assistance. Also known as acudetox, the model was developed in New York at Lincoln Hospital as an addiction therapy and has since been integrated into a variety of disaster relief, prison, and mental health settings.​

​As part of our NADA ear acupuncture courses, we teach health providers, community health workers, parents, and teachers how to apply ear acupressure techniques for stress relief, focus and concentration, as well as food and drug cravings. These techniques are great for kids, and can also be used on both adults and children.​

You can support this work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/11/2022

This week we are celebrating international Women's Day by raising funds for our volunteer women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Their work has inspired other global projects to spawn over the past decade. After 2 years of a pandemic, these women are rebuilding their local healthcare systems, serving migrants and others who lack access to a doctor.

You can support their work by making a donation.
Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/10/2022

This week we are celebrating international Women's Day by raising funds for our volunteer women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. You can support their work by making a donation, and if you donate $50 or more, we'll send you a free T Shirt!

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/09/2022

The first point of contact with people is empathy:
This week we are celebrating international Women's Day by raising funds for our volunteer women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. You can support their work by making a donation, and if you donate $50 or more, we'll send you a free T Shirt with this design on the back...

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

03/09/2022

50% of the world's population lacks access to basic healthcare. Often, women volunteers and community health workers come to the aid of people in need.

Today, 2 years after the pandemic came to the border region, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

We celebrate Women's International Day by sharing their stories. Read more and learn how to support their efforts by clicking on our profile link...

03/08/2022

Today, 2 years after the pandemic came to the border region, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

We celebrate Women's International Day by sharing their stories. Read more and learn how to support their efforts barefootacupuncturemovement.com

03/08/2022

This Tuesday 3/8/22, international Women's Day, we celebrate the everyday but extraordinary women around the world who have shown for us the power of their love for community and healing using acupuncture. Our project was inspired by this refugee project in 2008 in Uganda, when a small group of women learned the NADA ear acupuncture protocol, and they used that in huge ways among the refugee camps that they lived within.

Today, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

You can support their efforts by making a donation on our website: barefootacupuncturemovement.com

03/06/2022

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

Tuesday 3/8/22 is international Women's Day, you can support their work by making a donation.
Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovement.com