Samantha Story L.Ac.

Samantha Story L.Ac. Samantha Story is a licensed acupuncturist in New York State.

She is a graduate of the Swedish Institute where she was honored to study Classical Acupuncture with master acupuncturist and Daoist priest Jeffrey Yuen.

Betwixt and between. We’re in such a shift energetically between the equinox and the eclipse. I’m seeking out ways to sl...
09/22/2025

Betwixt and between. We’re in such a shift energetically between the equinox and the eclipse. I’m seeking out ways to slow down to not get knocked down and to make myself available to the delightful moments.

Breathwork For Self Trust Tuesday 9/16 7pm at  Rediscover or discover for the first time, your body as safe haven, as ho...
09/12/2025

Breathwork For Self Trust
Tuesday 9/16 7pm at

Rediscover or discover for the first time, your body as safe haven, as home, as healer and healed. This class is for anyone curious to know themselves at an energetic level and to deepen the connection of self-knowledge and self-trust. Throughout this Breathwork class you will be guided to make the journey from the survival brain to the wisdom of the body brain via the active breath pattern. You may find yourself moving through heartbreak, letting go of detrimental narratives and ultimately building a stronger more loving relationship with yourself.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care.

Expect:

An opening drop in with intention

Opportunity for sharing and questions

Active breathwork set to music

Time for integration

Bring an eye pillow or eye covering if that feels supportive to your practice.
Payments through and located at:
Maha Rose Brooklyn
200 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

Breathwork for Being Human is a container to hold the ‘both and’ of being a human on this planet at this time, the grief...
09/04/2025

Breathwork for Being Human is a container to hold the ‘both and’ of being a human on this planet at this time, the grief and joy, the difficulty and beauty, and all the spaces and places in between. Come exactly as you are, bring whatever is going on with you, we will release, make space and call in. Breathwork will meet you where you are and offer a way to hold, shift, understand and integrate your emotions.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care. Breathwork is a powerful and practical tool to work with your own energy, a bridge out of the critical mind and into deeper resources available to all of us.

Savoring the last of summer, long shadows, slow days, dramatic sunsets. I recently heard Glynnis MacNichol summarize thi...
09/02/2025

Savoring the last of summer, long shadows, slow days, dramatic sunsets. I recently heard Glynnis MacNichol summarize this moment we’re in thusly, “it’s very hard to be making decisions on a burning planet, in a collapsing democracy as AI is barreling down on us”. I feel this, the dark comedy of going about our lives in the face of so much chaos and destruction. Yet, continuing to care, to find delight, this feels like resistance, intrinsic to our collective survival. Late summer is nurture, delight, savoring, it’s the harvest, the last sweetness before the crispness of autumn. May we savor the hell out of each day. 🧡

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1. Fukinsei: Finding Beauty in Asymmetry 2. Kanso: Simplicity as a Path to Essence3. Kōko: Appreciating Age, Time, and Q...
08/22/2025

1. Fukinsei: Finding Beauty in Asymmetry
2. Kanso: Simplicity as a Path to Essence
3. Kōko: Appreciating Age, Time, and Quiet Strength
4. Shizen: Letting Things Be as They Are
5. Yūgen: Aesthetic Depth Beyond What is Seen
6. Datsuzoku: Stepping Outside the Ordinary
7. Seijaku: The Quiet That Holds Everything
- Principles of Wabi Sabi

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In honor of sacred spaces, this is a thank you to what was a very special space for me, my Shed in Nevada City. The hous...
08/11/2025

In honor of sacred spaces, this is a thank you to what was a very special space for me, my Shed in Nevada City. The house we found came with this funny small building next to it wired to the gills (probably for growing w**d) and in need of some care. Together my partner and I envisioned a space that could offer oasis, Dylan included the symbols for Fire and Water, another way of incorporating yin and yang. If I could pick up thie Shed and take it with me I would. I’m hoping its next inhabitant imbues it with even more magic. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came to see me in this space! 🤍🤍🤍✨✨✨✨✨

First photo as we move out
Photos in between in use
And the last few in states of how we found it and repair

Fire calls us to reveal our true nature, to open to the unbearable beauty of creation , to risk the heartbreak of loss i...
08/06/2025

Fire calls us to reveal our true nature, to open to the unbearable beauty of creation , to risk the heartbreak of loss in order to love the world more deeply.
— Lorie Dechar

There is no season that changes us the way that way summer does. Summer is the season of alchemical fire in our lives. As Five Element acupuncturist Lorie Dechar states, fire is here to break us open to beauty. The beauty of the world, the beauty of each other and the beauty of ourselves. Intrinsic in that recognition is the experience of interconnection, “same same” as my Tai Chi teacher would like to say, we are all beauty, all here to love and be loved. Summer reminds us how delicious this world can be, drawing us close, sharing warmth and bounty. However this alchemical fire also asks of us, it will burn away all that is superfluous to get to truth. It will burn away the safety of ego, because loving isn’t something done with an armored heart, it is done in full recognition that to love fully is to experience both the joy and grief of that love.

- excerpt from July’s newsletter as I begin August’s 🧡🧚🏽‍♀️🐞🍄

“I believe there are sounds we have not heard. I believe there are colors we have not seen. And I believe that there are...
07/28/2025

“I believe there are sounds we have not heard. I believe there are colors we have not seen. And I believe that there are feelings yet to be felt.”
— Jack Whitten

I love a solo date to the museum. Hilma’s flowers are breathtaking, the Woven Stories exhibit was an unexpected delight and I’m so glad to now be familiar with the work of Jack Whitten.

Breathwork For Self Trust 7pm 7/29 at  Rediscover or discover for the first time, your body as safe haven, as home, as h...
07/23/2025

Breathwork For Self Trust
7pm 7/29 at

Rediscover or discover for the first time, your body as safe haven, as home, as healer and healed.

This class is for anyone curious to know themselves at an energetic level and to deepen the connection of self-knowledge and self-trust.

Throughout this Breathwork class you will be guided to make the journey from the survival brain to the wisdom of the body brain via the active breath pattern.

You may find yourself moving through heartbreak, letting go of detrimental narratives and ultimately building a stronger more loving relationship with yourself.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight.

This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care.

Expect:

An opening drop in with intention
Opportunity for sharing and questions
Active breathwork set to music
Time for integration
Bring an eye pillow or eye covering if that feels supportive to your practice.

Feeling extra grateful to be on this beautiful messed up ever evolving planet today with all of you. Thank you  for star...
07/20/2025

Feeling extra grateful to be on this beautiful messed up ever evolving planet today with all of you. Thank you for starting us out with breathwork and swims in the pond this morning. My Woodstock ladies and are the loveliest and I even got to run into my birthday twin .

☀️ 💫

How The Worst Day Of My Life Became The Best-- Andrea GibsonWhen you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awak...
07/17/2025

How The Worst Day Of My Life Became The Best
-- Andrea Gibson

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.
—Eckhart Tolle

When I realized the storm
was inevitable, I made it
my medicine.

Took two snowflakes
on the tongue in the morning,
two snowflakes on the tongue
by noon.

There were no side effects.
Only sound effects. Reverb
added to my lifespan,
an echo that asked—

What part of your life’s record is skipping?
What wound is on repeat?
Have you done everything you can
to break out of that groove?

By nighttime, I was intimate
with the difference
between tying my laces
and tuning the string section

of my shoes, made a symphony of walking
away from everything that did not
want my life to sing.

Felt a love for myself so consistent
metronomes tried to copyright my heartbeat.

Finally understood I am the conductor
of my own life, and will be even after I die.
I, like the trees, will decide what I become:

Porch swing? Church pew?
An envelope that must be licked to be closed?
Kinky choice, but I didn’t close.

I opened and opened
until I could imagine that the pain
was the sensation of my spirit
not breaking,

that my mind was a parachute
that could always open
in time,

that I could wear my heart
on my sleeve and never grow
out of that shirt.

That every falling leaf is a tiny kite
with a string too small to see, held
by the part of me in charge
of making beauty
out of grief.

Summer is the most yang, most heart centered and most expansive season. We have the opportunity at this time to connect ...
07/15/2025

Summer is the most yang, most heart centered and most expansive season. We have the opportunity at this time to connect with the spirit of the heart (the shen) and to find more capacity in it’s functions of empathy, love, connection and joy. We’ll utilize the active breath pattern along with a supportive playlist and prompts to move energy around the heartspace and tune into this inner compass.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care.

Address

15 West 28th Street Suite 5R
New York, NY
10001

Opening Hours

Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 8am - 9pm
Friday 8am - 9pm
Saturday 8am - 9pm

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