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PMA Acupuncture, Sacramento, CA (2025)

06/26/2025

The new moon
The dark moon
The mysterious moon

To be aligned with cycles is to understand waxing and waning, giving and receiving, yin and yang

New moons represent the possibilities you might not see in the dark

The potential for new growth

The planting of seeds to nurture as the sun comes up

For the new moon in cancer maybe we are being asked:

How do we nurture ourselves so we can show up fully in our relationships?

How do we recognize where we need clear communication and prioritize this for our own well being and sense of safety and those in our community?

How are you listening deeply to your own emotional experiences and questioning what they have to gift you?
What boundaries do we have up that can be dismantled and which can be solidified?

How can we acknowledge the cyclical nature of all things and use this to find divine timing for our efforts to create the world we dream of?

What do you need to exist as yourself, comfy in your own original and most important home-your body?

Take care of yourself in this very turbulent world. We need all of us.

🌑 ✨

This is the first hibiscus bloom of the season at my studio, and the white of possibilities with the inner red of a warm heart was a cosmic a greeting for me this morning as I begin a new year on this 🌎

06/26/2025

New Moon in 🦁 and in the midst of 🔥 season, living amongst war and tension like I’ve never seen.

Maybe this asks us:

How do we use our radiance for good?

How do we blossom amid panic to show others we also desire a new way of being? That it is indeed possible.

How do we use our voice, strong and true, to advocate for ourselves and our communities?

How do we continue to seek the sun, to shine through the cracks, to find courage to keep our hearts open?

How does your inner 🦁 want to care for your external pride?

What does compassionate leadership look like in this time of division and vitriol? How can you be true to your values without black and white thinking?

I think there’s so much to learn from cats, but I’m biased. I hope you can plant some good seeds for this next month, and keep watering them (resting, dreaming) because the fire element is hot hot hot

☀️ 🦁 🔥 ✨

06/09/2025

🔔ONE GUARANTEED LOVE BUG OF A CAT LOOKING FOR A FOREVER HOME 🔔

A few months ago, this sweet long whiskered cat started sleeping on my front porch. Her friendly nature led me to believe she belonged to someone but as she was outside during inclement weather, that became less likely. We made her a cabin and fed her and in late February noticed she was pregnant.
Naturally, I invited her into our guest room and she delivered three adorable healthy babies.

Her kids are gone to their new homes, and she’s a little sad and looking for a warm cozy place to land.

I’ve been calling her Goldie. I think she is about 5 or 6 years old. She has a crooked tail (and so does one of her kittens 🥹). She loves to sit on your lap, be brushed, have her belly rubbed, and to make biscuits. She is small, about 9 lbs.

I think she’d do best in a house without other adult cats, but I have not tried to introduce her to my other cats at all, so I don’t really know.

She’s been friendly to every human who has met her and her babies throughout this process.

If you know anyone, or if you are an anyone who would love a certified cuddly cute cat, please reach out to me.

Important side note: she still needs to be spayed, and she is on a waitlist for this.

05/21/2025

Five Element Preparation for Summer

Summer is the season of the heart, governed by the element of FIRE-blossoming, blooming, becoming

It’s a time full of the energy of connection, events, celebrations and observable beauty that results from the upward shooting of the Spring WOOD season.

As in nature though, too much fire is harsh and detrimental. In an internal anthropomorphic ecosystem that might look like burnout or manic episodes.

So, to be prepared, it’s important to have in your toolbox: the cooling element of water, which is Fire’s grandmother, and the grounding stability of Earth, fire’s child. (There are other elemental resources too. Hopefully you did some pruning -Metal- in spring so you have already worked with intention on what is about to bloom)

1. Water: make time to be alone, make time to be slow, meditate, journal, slow meanders and deep breaths. Water cleanses and cools: gear up for cucumber salad szn

2. Earth: when you find yourself included in too many things, take good time to decide what aligns with your core values and what sings to your heart. If you are involved in difficult decisions and events, remind yourself of your connection to the earth mother and all of nature. Sit outside, go for a hike, talk to a flower

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05/09/2025

We are currently at the midpoint between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice and the energetic flood that comes with early summer: graduations, end of the school year, weddings, vacations

I think it’s important to remember that we cannot exist at the top of the energetic curve at all times and to accept and acknowledge the inevitable dips after a big push, or event. If we use these “after” times to take stock of what went well and how we hope to integrate what we learned, the lulls in life become important and less intimidating.

As the summer approaches, see if you can make time in your day or week for an internal re-cap, a meditation or a short ritual to keep you from flying away into the chatter of a million opportunities and burning out.

It’s almost strawberry season tho, and I cannot wait 🍓 ✨

05/02/2025

Thank you Catalunya and everyone who made this trip great. Feeling very lucky to have had this experience 🥰

Looking forward to seeing clients on Monday! Refreshed and excited to be back.

04/14/2025

Thank you for your patience with my schedule as I attempt to leave the country for two weeks 😅

Booking is open for the whole summer, so if you want to plan ahead with your own travel and camp schedules, go right ahead and use the link from PMA Acupuncture website or linktree in bio here.

I will do some email check ins, but phone access will be very limited.

Thank you for your support, as always, and for filling the Saturdays I opened in order to make this trip possible 💛

SEE YOU IN MAY 🧿

03/28/2025

The emotion of the wood element is anger and that’s not inherently a negative force, it can be a motive force for good. I think one way this shows up is in the PROTECTIVE anger of a mother archetype. An anger that protects the most vulnerable. A benevolent anger that steps in when harm is being caused. I think kind acts can be fueled by this sort of anger.

The Azure Dragon of the East is the celestial being which corresponds to the spring season and wood element. It’s lucky and benevolent but also causes chaos and destruction like a wild storm might bring good rain but knock down a lot of trees. Change isn’t usually tidy.

How in this moment, if you’re feeling anger, can you channel that into protection? What do you believe needs protecting? Or what matters enough to you to take action?

03/27/2025

CHEN PI or dried orange peel is one of my favorite and one of the most versatile herbs in Chinese medicine. Oranges are prolific and used in many cultures, of course.

In the TCM paradigm, orange peel is an herb that regulates qi in the body. It helps move stuck qi, helps alleviate dampness (which makes it a good pair with heavier foods). If you have a cold constitution and you eat cold foods too early in the year resulting in a tummy ache, ginger and orange peel tea can help alleviate this pain.

Orange peel can be added to soaks and facial steams for its uplifting scent and beneficial vitamin c and antioxidant content.

Sacramento is full of oranges! Dry some peels and make a soak with calendula and rose, or play with adding orange zest to your food and see how it changes the energy of it and how your body digests it.

03/21/2025

LIVER 14: Qimen: Gate of Hope

There are a few different locations for this point depending on the style of acupuncture being practiced. For acupressure, I like to locate it just medial to the ribs, roughly at the place your ribcage take a soft turn to the outside of your body. It’s at the 6th intercostal space, precisely, but feel around in your diaphragm for a tender area.

When we breathe freely and deeply, our diaphragm gives our liver a little massage or pat on the head, but when we are stressed or otherwise uncomfortable, we tend to cease this type of soothing breath, or diaphragm binds and our liver stops getting its massages. Subconsciously, we remedy this by sighing.

This creates a point of stagnation for the liver channel. When we stop the flow of breath and vitality in the diaphragm, our inspirations don’t reach our branches and the origin of our inspiration, the Lung

Find Liver 14: let air fill the trunk of your body. As you let the air out, imagine the small part of you which leaves with this air mingling with the small part of the trees which allow this exchange. Slowly let air in and out, connecting you with the intelligence of the trees around you. What can you learn about your place in the universe from this breath conversation?

What do you need to move forward, fully inspired, fully breathing 🌬️ 🌲

03/08/2025

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY!

To the matriarchs, sisters, aunties, grandmas, mommas, friends, partners and childless cat ladies 💛

However you choose to do it, your story, your life, your legacy, your connections and contributions all matter.

I love hearing your stories and am honored to hold space for those of you who grace my treatment table.

Here’s to diversity of all descriptions and continuing to make our voices and needs heard.

03/07/2025

THE SOUR FLAVOR GOES TO THE LIVER 🍋

Each element and Yin meridian of the yin/yang pair associated with that element has a flavor that helps it move forward in its cycle. For the liver and wood element that is SOUR

Sour foods, particularly fermented ones like sauerkraut, vinegars and kimchi help the body digest sugars and assist the body in digesting in multiple ways: adding probiotics, improving bile flow to break down fats, stimulating gastric juices

Energetically, the sour flavor helps us move through stuck emotions of anger and frustration by activating the liver qi.

Adding SOME sour flavors to your foods in Spring can help wake your body up after winter. I wouldn’t necessarily advise eating a whole pile of sour items by themselves but play with adding more into your diet.

Make Turkey burgers with sauerkraut
Place some thinly sliced lemons on top of your veggies when you air fry them
Try some Greek recipes
See how it feels for you

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