Osgood Family Acupuncture, PLLC

Osgood Family Acupuncture, PLLC Melody Osgood, LAc, Doula. A licensed acupuncturist & childbirth educator blending Eastern medicine with a background in biomedical science. Melody Osgood, Dipl.

I provide holistic, compassionate care for reproductive health and life’s transitions. Ac. (NCCAOM), LAc., CHPCAS, Trained Doula strives each day to provide the best possible care and education for her patients. Since a very young age, she always knew that she wanted to be a healthcare practitioner to help others on their journey to health. Originally intending to become a doctor, she became disenchanted with the practice of Biomedicine in the current healthcare paradigm while attending her undergraduate studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. After taking some time to evaluate her position after her Bachelor’s degree, she discovered acupuncture and later enrolled at the Finger Lakes School of Acupuncture and New York Chiropractic College. While in school, Melody discovered not only a passion for Traditional Chinese Medicine but also what acupuncture could do for her patients. After graduating, Melody took a particular interest in the life cycle and in the transitions we make as we go through events such as birth and death. This led her to pursue her certification in Hospice and Palliative Care Acupuncture as well as her DONA training as a Doula. She is currently working towards full DONA certification.

03/16/2026

Release what no longer serves you. Through movement. Through presence. Through your body. 🔥

The Somatic Dance portion of Rooted & Released is your invitation to move intuitively—no judgment, no expectation. Just authentic expression, held in community.

This Saturday evening with Alicia Hackett, Melody Osgood, and Zach Osgood.

After the cacao has opened the heart and the sound has cleared the way, Alicia invites you to move.Somatic dance is not ...
03/15/2026

After the cacao has opened the heart and the sound has cleared the way, Alicia invites you to move.

Somatic dance is not about choreography or getting it right. There are no steps to memorize. It's intuitive, organic movement—listening to what your body wants to express and giving it permission to flow.

Alicia holds space gently, guiding you into presence so stored tension, old stories, and emotions can finally release. She reminds us that the body holds wisdom the mind can't access.

With Alicia, you don't think your way through—you move your way through.

🍫 Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 • 6:00–7:30PM
📍 The Aligned Collective — Rochester, NY

🔗 https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao• $77

Come move with Alicia. 💫

Alicia Hackett is a sound healing practitioner and somatic dance teacher whose work is rooted in the wisdom of the body. Her path as a guide began not in a training program but in the quiet realization that her own body had always been her most reliable teacher—if only she would learn to listen.

Alicia's gift is the ability to invite others into that same listening. The somatic dance she facilitates is not choreography to be followed but an exploration to be undertaken—each person moving from their own internal impulse, their own unique rhythm, their own body's truth. There is no right way to move in her container. There is only your way, waiting to be discovered beneath the layers of should and must and perform.

This work asks something of her that she continues to offer: the courage to be fully present in her own body so that others might feel permission to do the same. When she guides, she does not stand apart, observing and instructing. She moves with the group, dances with the group, meets the vulnerability of the space with her own. Whether through the resonance of her voice or the invitation of somatic dance, her presence becomes an invitation—not to perform, but to listen; not to achieve, but to arrive.

Close your eyes and let the sound carry you. That's where Zach's magic lives.As the cacao settles and hearts begin to op...
03/14/2026

Close your eyes and let the sound carry you. That's where Zach's magic lives.

As the cacao settles and hearts begin to open, Zach weaves a live soundscape using gongs, drums, chimes, and wave drums. This is not a recorded playlist—it's an intuitive, real-time journey that responds to the energy in the room.

The vibrations work on a cellular level. Brainwaves slow to theta. Tension melts. The mind stops narrating and starts feeling.

Zach doesn't just play instruments—he creates an environment where deep rest becomes inevitable.

🍫 Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 • 6:00–7:30PM
📍 The Aligned Collective — Rochester, NY

🔗 https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao • $77

Let Zach's sound wash over you. 🎶

Zach Osgood is a certified expert sound healer, Reiki master, and trauma-informed practitioner dedicated to facilitating deep relaxation, energetic balance, and self-healing. His work is founded on the principle that the body possesses an innate wisdom to restore itself when provided with the right resonant conditions and a compassionate, held space.

Since childhood, Zach has perceived the colors and shapes of auras—an intuitive gift that led him to formal study of chakra systems and energy medicine. His Reiki Master designation and expert certification in Sound Healing have shaped a practice where vibration becomes medicine. He works with gongs, drums, chimes, wave drums, and precision tuning forks to create sonic sanctuaries where the nervous system can settle and stagnant energy can move.

Every gathering needs a grounded beginning. Melody provides it.With gentle precision, she places Ear Seeds to activate t...
03/13/2026

Every gathering needs a grounded beginning. Melody provides it.

With gentle precision, she places Ear Seeds to activate the vagus nerve and invite the nervous system into rest before we even begin. This ancient auricular therapy prepares your body to fully receive what follows.

From there, Melody guides the Cacao Ceremony—honoring the sacred lineage of this heart-opening medicine while creating space for personal intention. She holds the container so you can soften into it.

Her hands steady the foundation. Her voice welcomes you in.

🍫 Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 • 6:00–7:30PM
📍 The Aligned Collective — Rochester, NY

🔗 https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao • $77

Melody Osgood, LAc, Dipl. NCCAOM, Doula, CHPCA, CBE is a licensed acupuncturist and NCCAOM diplomate dedicated to guiding individuals through life's most profound physical and spiritual transitions. Her practice integrates the precision of biomedical science with the holistic wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine, creating a unique sanctuary for healing that spans fertility, birth, chronic illness, life's final passage, and the vibrant expression of one's vitality.

Melody's true calling lies in supporting people through the spaces between states of being. Her path has required its own navigation of profound thresholds—including lived experience with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome—which allows her to offer a unique blend of clinical expertise and embodied insight, especially for those with complex conditions. She is a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Acupuncturist, a DONA-trained Doula, Placenta Specialist, and Childbirth Educator, and holds advanced certifications in facial revitalization, SAAT for allergy relief, and nervous system regulation.

03/12/2026

Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes when we're preparing to host a cacao ceremony? Beyond ensuring that our Gautemalan cacao is ready to be weighed and used in ceremony, we also infuse honey with a custom spice blend to ensure the optimal experience for our attendees. This is a peek into the process as Zach prepared these equisite elements for our last cacao ceremony.

🍫 Rooted & Released is one week from Saturday. 🍫We wanted to take a moment to share what this evening actually holds—bec...
03/11/2026

🍫 Rooted & Released is one week from Saturday. 🍫

We wanted to take a moment to share what this evening actually holds—because it's more than an event. It's a container.

🌙 The Flow of the Evening:

🕯️ Arrival & Intention
We settle in. We ground with a land acknowledgment. We set personal intentions for the night ahead.

🌱 Ear Seeds
Melody places seeds on each guest to stimulate the vagus nerve—activating the body's rest-and-digest mode before we even begin.

🍫 Cacao Ceremony
We share a rich, ceremonial-grade brew infused with honey and spice. This is heart-opening medicine, approached with reverence.

🎶 Immersive Soundscape
While we sip, Zach creates a living soundscape using drums, gongs, and wave drums—washing the room in vibration and facilitating deep meditation.

🕊️ Somatic Dance
Guided by Alicia, we move intuitively. Not to perform. Not to get it right. Just to release what's stored and let the body speak.

💬 Community & Comedown
We close the formal practice and open the circle for conversation, connection, and reflection as we slowly return to our day.

✨ This is for you if:

Your nervous system is depleted

You crave embodied connection

You're curious about ceremony but new to it

You know you need to release but don't know how

You simply want to rest in community

All levels. All bodies. All welcome.

Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 | 6:00–7:30PM
The Aligned Collective | Rochester, NY

🔗 Link in bio to reserve • $77
https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

We'd be honored to hold space for you. 🕯️

🍫 A Gift Across Time 🍫Before it was a chocolate bar. Before it was a latte. Before it was anything else—cacao was medici...
03/10/2026

🍫 A Gift Across Time 🍫

Before it was a chocolate bar. Before it was a latte. Before it was anything else—cacao was medicine.

For millennia, the Maya and Aztec peoples revered it as a sacred plant teacher. They called it "food of the gods." They used it not just to nourish the body, but to open the heart, connect with the divine, and see more clearly.

This wasn't a treat. This was ceremony.

🌱 What They Knew:

Cacao is a vasodilator—it increases blood flow, yes. But energetically, it increases the flow of feeling. It softens the armor we build. It invites us back into relationship—with ourselves, with each other, with something greater.

The ancient ones understood this. They approached cacao with reverence, with intention, with gratitude.

🕯️ What We Carry Forward:

On March 21, we honor that lineage.

Not by appropriating, but by approaching with the same reverence. The same intention. The same gratitude.

We gather in circle. We share ceremonial-grade cacao—hand-harvested by a women's collective in Guatemala, prepared with care. We hold our cups close to our hearts. We offer our intentions into the vessel.

And then we let the medicine work.

✨ Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 | 6:00–7:30PM
The Aligned Collective | Rochester, NY

Come sip from an ancient tradition. Come open your heart.

🔗 Link in bio to reserve • $77
https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

🕯️ What is Somatic Dance? 🕯️You've heard the term. You've seen it on the lineup. But what actually is it?Somatic Dance i...
03/09/2026

🕯️ What is Somatic Dance? 🕯️

You've heard the term. You've seen it on the lineup. But what actually is it?

Somatic Dance is the practice of moving from the inside out.

Unlike choreographed dance (where the mind tells the body what to do), somatic dance invites you to listen inward—to sensation, to impulse, to the wisdom already living in your tissues. It's not about how it looks. It's about how it feels.

Guided by Alicia Hackett , we move intuitively, allowing the body to express what words cannot.

🌱 At Rooted & Released:

After Ear Seeds calm the nervous system and Cacao opens the heart, after Sound washes through the space and softens the edges—we move.

Not to perform. Not to get it "right." But to let the body speak its truth.

This is the release. This is the homecoming.

Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 | 6:00–7:30PM
The Aligned Collective | Rochester, NY

🔗 Link in bio to reserve • $77
https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

03/08/2026

✨ The Benefits:

For the Body:

Releases stored physical tension

Improves fascial elasticity and flow

Awakens proprioception (body awareness)

Shakes off the residue of the day

For the Nervous System:

Completes the stress cycle

Moves energy out of freeze or fight-or-flight

Signals safety to the vagus nerve

For the Heart & Mind:

Processes emotions without needing to narrate them

Cultivates self-trust and embodied presence

Opens pathways for joy, grief, and everything between

🌱 At Rooted & Released:

After Ear Seeds calm the nervous system and Cacao opens the heart, after Sound washes through the space and softens the edges—we move.

Not to perform. Not to get it "right." But to let the body speak its truth.

This is the release. This is the homecoming.

Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 | 6:00–7:30PM
The Aligned Collective | Rochester, NY

🔗 Link in bio to reserve • $77
https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

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🌱 The Master Switch: Your Vagus Nerve 🌱You've seen the seeds. Now let's talk about why they matter.The vagus nerve is th...
03/07/2026

🌱 The Master Switch: Your Vagus Nerve 🌱

You've seen the seeds. Now let's talk about why they matter.

The vagus nerve is the body's information superhighway—it runs from your brainstem to your abdomen, touching your heart, lungs, and digestive system along the way. It's the master switch for your parasympathetic nervous system: the "rest and digest" mode we so desperately need but rarely access.

Here's the magic: Your ear is a control panel for this system. Specific acupressure points on the ear provide direct access to the vagus nerve.

Enter Ear Seeds.

These tiny seeds apply gentle, constant pressure to those points throughout your day—quieting the nervous system, reducing stress, and signaling to your body that it's safe to soften.

They don't just sit on your ear. They work.

✨ At Rooted & Released:

We begin with Melody placing Ear Seeds on each guest to:

Stimulate the vagus nerve before we even begin

Unlock your body's rest-and-digest mode

Prepare a calm, receptive container for what follows

Only then do we share ceremonial Cacao to open the heart.
Only then do we sink into Sound to entrain the brain.
Only then do we move in Somatic Dance to release what's stored.

The seeds anchor the entire experience—keeping you rooted so you can safely release.

Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 | 6:00–7:30PM
The Aligned Collective | Rochester, NY

🔗 Link in bio to reserve • $77
https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

More Than a Drink. A Medicine. 🍫We've shared the science—the flavonoids, the magnesium, the heart-healthy fats. But caca...
03/06/2026

More Than a Drink. A Medicine. 🍫

We've shared the science—the flavonoids, the magnesium, the heart-healthy fats. But cacao's true gift is how it makes you feel.

On March 21, we invite you to experience it not from a mug, but from a ceremony.

🌱 What the Science Says (Swipe left on the graphic!)

Cacao is packed with:

Flavonoids – Powerful antioxidants that support cardiovascular health

Magnesium, copper, zinc & iron – Essential minerals for nervous system function

Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C & E – Fuel for vitality

Oleic acid – The same heart-healthy fat found in olive oil

Endorphin-stimulating properties – Nature's mood elevator

❤️ What the Heart Knows

But cacao is more than its nutrients. It is a vasodilator—it opens the heart, literally and energetically. It softens the armor we carry. It invites us to feel again.

When paired with:
🌱 Ear Seeds to calm the nervous system
🎶 Live Soundscape to entrain the brain
🕯️ Somatic Dance to move what's stored

…the medicine goes deeper. It becomes a full-body homecoming.

✨ Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 | 6:00–7:30PM
The Aligned Collective | Rochester, NY

Space is limited. Reserve your spot here:
🔗 https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

Come sip slow. Feel deeply. Return home. 🏠🔥🍫

👯‍♀️ DATE NIGHT. FRIEND NIGHT. SELF-CARE NIGHT. 👯‍♂️Grab your person and come experience Rooted & Released together—for ...
03/06/2026

👯‍♀️ DATE NIGHT. FRIEND NIGHT. SELF-CARE NIGHT. 👯‍♂️

Grab your person and come experience Rooted & Released together—for less than you'd expect.

✨ The math works out pretty sweet:

1 ticket = $77
Add a friend = $22
Total for two = $99

That's just $49.50 each for a full evening of:
🍫 Ceremonial-grade cacao
🌸 Ear seeds to wear home
🎵 Live soundscape with gongs & drums
🌀 Guided somatic dance
💫 Community connection

Rooted & Released
Cacao • Ear Seeds • Sound • Somatic Dance
Saturday, March 21 • 6:00–7:30PM
📍 The Aligned Collective — Rochester, NY

How to bring them:
1️⃣ Register at the link below
2️⃣ Add the "Bring a Friend" add-on at checkout
3️⃣ Arrive together and settle in side by side

🔗 https://TheAlignedCollective.as.me/RootedCacao

Tag who you're bringing below! 👇
See you both there. 🕯️

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Monday 12pm - 8pm
Tuesday 11am - 7pm
Wednesday 11am - 7pm
Saturday 11am - 3pm

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