Zócalo Wellness, Portland, OR (2025)

03/18/2025

Grace Rodriguez has arrived! Grace has been on our team for a couple years now, working her magic behind the scenes. Now she is joining us as our newest practitioner. Grace is as skilled as she is kind and we are so lucky to have her. Schedule with link in bio or check out her full bio on the website. Her appointments are already filling up fast!

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The sweetest first day in practice with ! I am beyond grateful to join such an incredible and supportive team. And I am so moved by our incredible community of patients — to do this work and walk with others through their healing journeys and life changes is such a gift 🙏🏽🌼💫 I’m accepting new folks and I take a number of insurances — Oregon Health Plan, VA/Triwest, Regence, Providence, and Pacific Source! Call 503-383-9555 or click my link in bio to book.

11/02/2024

Beloved community,

This is a gentle reminder to care for yourself this week. Lara has community and private appointments open on Wednesday, and James has a few openings for private sessions (including his 30-minute bodywork appointments) on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.

Schedule with Lara via the link in our bio or call/text (503) 383-9555 to schedule with either James or Lara.

Acupuncture and bodywork are so good at helping us regulate our nervous systems. May we all have support and care this week.

08/29/2024

Now that we’ve settled into our new space it’s time for an open house! Not only are we celebrating our beautiful new clinic, but Zócalo is turning ten! 🎉

Date: Sunday, September 15th
Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Location: 1836 NE 7th Ave. Suite 109, Portland, OR 97212

11:00am - 1:00pm: Come early for free wellness treatments. Try group acupuncture, craniosacral, cupping and Chinese Tuina massage from three of our amazing practitioners. 💆🏽‍♀️

1:00pm - 4:00pm: Enjoy snacks, add your name to the raffle to win a , or try your hand at breaking open the piñata! 🪅

We aim to share our lovely space and incredible team with our broader community and have a lot of fun. 🥳

Link in bio for more information and to sign up for a treatment.

06/02/2024

, .healing, Dianne and I had the privilege of attending the annual fundraiser last night at .

Seeding Justice bills its signature fundraising event as the social justice party of the year, and it really was. The crowd was beautiful, made up of all kinds of humans, all of them in some way on the righteous path of bending the arc of history toward justice. Philanthropy is rooted in the worst ills of this country, so to be in that room with people doing the best with the worst of history was incredibly inspiring.

From the Seeding Justice website:
“Ultimately, we believe that philanthropy shouldn’t exist. But until then, we are working for a better, more just and more equitable philanthropic model that’s based on trust, abundance, equal relationships, and collaboration.”

It also felt good to shake off some of the pandemic social cobwebs. We ran into quite a few old friends, and made new contact with folks where the connection had been stymied by the pandemic, like , who is always doing amazing work and who serves on the Seeding Justice board.

It was moving to feel the history in the room. That investments in community over time yield big results. was in attendance. She was one of the first grantees of the organization back in 1976! And now is a state representative holding down some great work for our state.

So many of these leaders have been working for health equity for a long, long time, specifically in the reproductive justice space. Their analysis, dedication, and community-building is truly impressive. The model of Seeding Justice as a channel of funds to community is personally encouraging. How can we at Zócalo do this in our own way for our communities? Not just by taking public and private insurance, but by finding new ways to use our space, continuing to create jobs for diverse practitioners, or even supporting students while still in school? I’m excited to continue exploring and feeling inspired by this question.

05/07/2024

Friends! Zócalo is growing and it’s time for me to get my own personal insta account. The clinic is no longer just me. We’ve got a whole amazing team! So if you know me in real life come find me . I’ll be posting all the stuff I don’t share here: family photos, the videos I make with my kid, politics, animal memes, and travel pics. See you there!

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05/01/2024

I’m so happy to introduce Chanelle Crosby (she/her), the newest addition to our team!

Chanelle will be seeing patients for private sessions starting May 24th, every Monday and Friday, 2:00pm-7:30pm. She can bill all the insurers that Zócalo bills: Regence, PacificSource, Providence, CareOregon OHP, Providence OHP, PacificSource OHP, OHSU OHP, as well as any other insurers as an out-of-network provider. Get in touch with any questions!

Link in bio to schedule ❤️

More about Chanelle:

Chanelle is a human who at the core identifies as stardust, but understands that she walks the Earth in a body that is expressed as a Black, mixed race, woman, with a tender heart, ancestral freckles, and a curious mind that loves to explore what it means to be alive.

Chanelle is inspired by living at the intersections of art, land, spirituality, liberation and medicine & what it means to be human through it all. She sees the human experience tied together by the web of Nature, our inherent interconnectedness, and our innate responsibility in service to others, ourselves, and all that is.

From her first experience, acupuncture made sense to Chanelle’s body. She was forever changed and wanted to learn how to create space for that with others. In a treatment space, her invitation is to take care, root into respect, honor dignity, embody radical curiosity, and move with fierce love.

Treatment sessions with Chanelle often contain more than one modality from her training in East Asian medicine, including acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, and craniosacral therapy and/or other bodywork approaches. Fascinated by the body and medicine, her interests include but are never limited to: womb work, the nervous system, digestive ailments, musculoskeletal pain, and problem-solving together.

Her approach is gentle, intentional, and curious. She truly believes the impact of care is widespread — from the personal to the collective. It is her pleasure to walk this healing path with you.

Outside of her clinical practice, Chanelle loves to spend time around plants by growing them, hiking around them, making herbal medicine, or dyeing fabric then stitching it together into art.

04/28/2024

In Oregon, every insurance plan is mandated to have at least 12 acupuncture visits per year. What?! Yes, my friend, you read that right. And yet, it’s often hard to use those benefits. Often this is for one of three reasons: few providers take your particular insurance (read: the insurance company doesn’t want to pay us a living wage 👀), the plan requires authorizations for care that create barriers, or the plan passes through ridiculously high out-of-pocket costs on you as the member.

In answer to this problem we offer a la carte treatments at Zócalo Wellness. Like most clinics, you can schedule 60-90 minute private sessions that include acupuncture, bodywork, herbal consultations, and a number of other modalities. But, at our clinic you can also come in for an acupuncture-only group session, a 30-minute bodywork and cupping treatment, or a 20-minute herbal consult. This makes care more affordable and gives you options beyond whether or not something is covered by your insurance plan. Expanding care beyond insurance coverage also has other perks that I go into more in our new blog post. 🔗 in bio.

03/30/2024

With this beautiful Portland sun and the blossoms exploding in color and scent everywhere, it’s officially spring and pollen season.

There’s no need to suffer, friends! You can do so much to lessen allergy symptoms by working with exposure and diet during this time. Adding herbs and other supplements, as well as early and regular acupuncture treatment, can also help to manage and even eliminate symptoms. Community acupuncture appointments are a great way to get in often and get a handle on the inflammation before it makes you miserable. My favorite herbal ally is nettles, which grows right here in the PNW! So often the remedies come right with the irritant.

For more info check out our blog with plenty of tips for allergy season. 🔗 In bio for that and our scheduler.

03/06/2024

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Join me next Wednesday, and every Wednesday, for some Community Acupuncture at Zocalo Wellness on 7th and Schuyler. Link in bio to schedule! 8:30-12:15. Why community Acupuncture? More power in healing together. More accessible and that means more frequent treatments which makes all the difference with any ailment. This modality treats everything from physical and emotional pain (bc they’re not separate) to insomnia, digestive and reproductive issues and chronic health issues. Oh, and keep marching, calling your reps to a cease fire and a free Palestine!❤️🌺🐚✨ photo by

02/14/2024

I feel like I say this too much because it seems constantly true these days: this world is a lot to feel and hold. With this in mind, and in honor of love and care, we’re doing a V-day special for lara’s new Wednesday community acupuncture shift. For the month of February bring a loved one for free! That’s two treatments for $30. Get some needles, unwind some stress, and nap with your queridxs ❤️. Kids welcome!

🔗 in bio to learn more about community acupuncture and schedule. Check out more about lara below.

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Hi there, allow me to introduce myself. Guabonito Healing refers to my Taino heritage and is part of our creation story. She is the healer by the ocean waters, of the ocean waters and restores balance to the first Kasike. Through channeling that narrative, it is through my liberatory work in healing and art to provide that back to our communities. Through acupuncture, qigong and movement, puppetry, and music are my mediums.

I am Taíno, Latinx, NGC and q***r mamita that holds privilege with my light skin and hetero presenting marriage. I was the co-founder of Brown Girl Rise, and founder of Atabey Medicine of Seed and Thistle Apothecary, an educational resource that centered Q***r, Trans and Gender fluid Black and Indigenous voices within herbalism, which has transitioned to what is now called Moon and Mirror.

In connection with my Taino roots, I am a Tekina and also a Qigong student with the Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School. I am a licensed acupuncturist working with Working Class Acupuncture, North Portland Community Acupuncture and Zócalo Wellness continuing the tradition of care and access to our communities and the legacy of our Liberatory ancestors. I spend some time in one of their ancestral lands, Boriken (Puerto Rico) helping the work of Caminando La Utopía. As a survivor, I was brought to the work of acupuncture because of its simple application yet powerful healing potential for all kinds of people. I am greatly honored to accompany anyone else along on their healing journey.

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11/21/2023

It’s so important to get care, to receive softness in what so often feels like a hard world. To tend to this fragile and miraculous body, as well as the mind and spirit connected to it. To let someone else hold it all with you. But, in a healthcare system such as ours, privatized and commodified, this can often be harder than it should be.

In this season of open enrollment, I wanted to give some tips on how to find acupuncture coverage that actually works for you. Whether you are purchasing off of the marketplace, or finding a plan through work, this is not a straightforward task. Even as acupuncture has become an essential benefit in Oregon (meaning every plan offered in the state is required to include 12 visits per year!) it seems to be getting harder to actually use those benefits. In our latest blog post, I break down some of the mystery around insurance coverage and share strategies for getting an insurance plan you can actually use to get care. Link in bio. ❤️💆🏽‍♀️

ID: The tips of two sets of five silver acupuncture needles form a neat cross. They lie on a blue blanket embroidered with maroon, yellow and orange stripes. This blanket is from the Belize-Guatemala border, bought on a family trip. Photo cred:

09/17/2023

September is a good time to start using those acupuncture benefits before the end of the year. Most insurance plans renew on January 1st, which means everything starts over: deductible, out of pocket maximum, and any money or visit allotment for care. If you’ve hit your deductible, make use of it! And if you’ve satisfied your out of pocket maximum, that means you DON’T PAY ANYTHING for the rest of the year when you get care. Yes, please.

And for those of you on OHP, what are you waiting for? All plans have 30 visits available for back and neck pain, and some have more for other things. These plans also renew on January 1st, and those bennies don’t roll over, so take full advantage!

If all this talk about insurance benefits makes no sense to you whatsoever and has your head spinning, give us a call or text at (503) 383-9555! We are always up for talking details about how you can hack your plan to get the care you need.

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