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Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Clinic

Bianca Clayton, L.Ac.

Treating the body as a whole requires a comprehensive approach, Bianca’s practice includes acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, and yin tuina, a subtle touch technique. Being of the mindset that each individual has to be an advocate for their own healing, Bianca is passionate about helping her patients along with their personal journey to optimal health.

18/10/2025

Day 11

Today is my 9 year anniversary 🎉 On Oct 17, 2016, I saw my very first client in my lease space on Higuera Street. This picture is from the open house I had soon after to celebrate opening up my practice and business. I am so proud of that tenacious young gal and everything she has accomplished. I have gone on to help thousands of people in my clinic, at my volunteer position, and in the community through different gatherings/retreats/workshops. Which is wonderful, and it has been an absolute honor and privilege to be part of peoples’ healing journeys. But I had this thought earlier this year that I think my soul directed me to go back to school for Chinese Medicine and becoming a practitioner for my own healing. I have been completely immersed in the healing realms for over 13yrs now. I went into it following a quarter life crisis where I was suffering from debilitating panic attacks, in so much physical/mental/emotional pain, dissociated from repressed trauma, feeling completely lost…but Chinese Medicine was a beacon of light when things were really dark. While in school, I healed my gut, resolved chronic pain, strengthened my immune system, got a handle on my anxiety, and met God. At a business networking event in 2018, I met both my beloved hypnotherapist and a therapist (who became a close friend) who helped me unpack the trauma from my youth. Through clients, I got connected to another therapist that was doing work with plant medicines who opened me up a whole ‘nother world of healing the subconscious. I’ve met countless other practitioners that have each helped me in so many different ways and whom I have been able to direct others towards to shore up their own healing teams. I joke that I am the Health Concierge of the Central Coast since I know who needs what modality and exactly which practitioner to send them to. My clients have been some of my big teachers and I have learned from them more than school could ever teach me.

When I heal, you heal. When you heal, I heal. Thank you to everyone who has been along for the ride the last 9 years. We are all just walking each other home 🤍

30/01/2025

Year of the Yin Wood Snake 🐍🧧🌑

For a snake to grow, it must shed its skin—an uncomfortable process as it rubs against rocks and plants. But this shedding is essential for transformation. The snake symbolizes change and evolution. What in your life are you ready to transform? What old patterns or beliefs do you need to shed? How can you harness this powerful energy to push beyond your comfort zone and step into the next version of yourself—You 2.0?

The snake also represents wisdom and intuition, and with the added energy of Wood—growth and creativity—this year offers a potent opportunity to align with your most authentic self. In a world that’s growing louder and more chaotic, try to tap into the stillness offered by the Yin Wood Snake. Use this time to reflect on your passions, purpose, and the path ahead.

Embrace the transformative power of this year, and let it guide you toward your deepest growth.

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29/06/2024

Playing around with acrylics paints for the first time in 15 years. I’ll write about this more soon, but earlier this year, I completed a 9 month Somatic Womb Path Practitioner Certificate based on Taoist teachings. Since then, my creative inspiration has been a wellspring. Makes sense, because when we connect with our womb space (this can be the pelvic bowl for men and for women without physical wombs), we are connecting with the sacral chakra which is the seat of our creativity and pleasure. Excited to bring more of this into my practice! 🌸🤍

06/06/2024

I recently recounted how my work downshifted in Feb 2021 and became steady and easeful. In hindsight, I see why this all happened when it did because, by the end of 2021, my personal life was hit by the cosmic 2x4: a crisis dealt to shake us up, and put us on a new path to our more authentic, aligned self. Mine came in the form of my deep, core wounds being ripped open, and then the rug (my entire life) being pulled out from underneath me. After much internal work, I thought I was on the other side of it come Jan 2023. The butterfly emerging from the cocoon. Ha! Little did I know, I was about to embark on: Snake Season. When a snake sheds its skin, it has to rub up against rocks, a painful process but necessary for growth. And you can’t pull a snake’s skin off premature, it has to come off at the right time, or risk injury. For over a year, Divine orchestration has put massive triggers in front of me in methodical order. Once I would sit down in meditation, I would see a slideshow of memories, and would realize how each of the aforementioned triggers were, in fact, mirrors of unhealed wounds that I had previously dissociated from. Dozens of times over the past year, I’ve been going through massive emotional purges. Experiencing catharsis so intense that I’d be left filleted open on the floor. Persephone’s repeated descents into the underworld. Integration of each of these “snake skins” has shown light on the source of my patterns, self limiting beliefs, the times that I self-abandon, and all the shadowy aspects of myself. I’ve been blown away at how this process, and life itself, is truly psychedelic. With each of these contractions, there has been beautiful expansion. I am already seeing the fruits of my intense labor. The more energetic debris I rid myself of, the better the qi/reiki flows through my fingertips, the clearer my psychic and creative channel, and I am now helping clients and friends navigate their personal trigger->mirror->purge cycles. Energetically, it feels as if I am transitioning out of this season, as life is feeling immensely more in the flow and expansive, compared to the contraction I’ve been in. Excited for what lies ahead ✨

21/05/2024

A little over 3 years ago, I moved into my current office space. I love this room so much. Not only have thousands of treatments been held here, it has also held me through my own personal journey through liminal space the last few years.

Prior to moving to this space, I was running myself ragged at work: seeing two clients an hour, billing insurance myself, having subtenants at a larger lease space downtown. Covid forced me to slow down, but when my last tenant gave notice (bodyworkers were prohibited from working for a many months…remember that lunacy 🙄), instead of making my life easier (move, downsize, get new tenants, etc), I decided to do something that would make my life much harder: I got into escrow on a commercial condo. This would have more than doubled my overhead, but I was in the mindset of, “I just need to grind at work for the next 25 years, then I can retire owning a commercial lease space.” Chasing the proverbial American Dream. I was convinced the spot was perfect, but I pulled the dreaded tower card when inquiring my tarot deck about the space. And my reader friend pulled the same card: sudden, abrupt change coming. I brushed it off and went on a trip into the Montana wilderness. There, I fantasized about one day having a yurt in the woods where I could do the treatments my soul longed to do: slow, in depth, combined with energy work. “One day”, I told myself. On return from that trip, I drove by the space I had in escrow, but from a perpendicular street I had not been on. From that view, I could see a giant transmission tower with a 5G cell site attached to it behind the building. I was fully unaware of this behemoth until that moment and instantly felt as if I had been punched in the gut. I had heard many horror stories of people living/working next to electrical sites. There was no way I could spend the next couple decades working under that. I even took an EMF meter to check the levels, and before I could even get out of my car across the street, it was beeping off the charts. The card pulls had predicted exactly that: a tower! I went home, cried, and prayed at my altar, “What am I supposed to do?!” (con’t in comments)

25/02/2024

🌿 5 Element Tea & Wisdom Course: Seasonal Living from Traditional Chinese Medicine 🌿

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I love talking about living with the seasons through the lens of Chinese Medicine. I am thrilled to announce this course that I will co-lead with . Over the next year, we will meet 5 times to tap into elemental energies and well-being all based on the Taoist 5 Elements and Traditional Chinese Medicine. The events will include:
🍵 5 Element Tea Meditation
🍂 Seasonal inner reflections and explorations
☯️ Qi Gong Movement
🎨 Creative implementation of the elements 🌿 Discourse on living with the seasons through the lens of Chinese Medicine.
🍚 Elemental potluck lunch (optional)
And more goodies and offerings in store along the way. This will be a wonderful way to slow down, enjoy a beautiful nature setting, meet like minds, and learn how to better tend to your personal temple.

This event will be hosted at the magical Crow’s End Retreat in Squire Canyon and led by Jen de Tréglodé, a tea sommelier and Chadao (Way of Tea) practitioner, and myself. We are looking for an intimate cohort of people who are able to commit to the whole 5 element journey together or at least the majority of the events. Accommodations can be made to share any info missed should you be absent for a session.

Investment includes 2 payment options:
$350 for advance payment ($70 per session) OR $90 to pay per session

Reach out for any further questions!

10/02/2024

Happy Year of the Yang Wood Dragon! 🐉🧧🌳 I don’t know about you, but the last few weeks have felt so much more expansive than the past year. Definitely coming out of the inward Yin Water Rabbit year, and moving towards a more outward Yang energy. Wood is all about growth, creativity, charging ahead. Dragons are the most auspicious of the zodiac, many people in Eastern cultures plan fertility to ensure a Dragon child. Luck, creativity, expansion…bring it year of the 🐉!

04/02/2024

“Saint Peter” 🌵🎨

Address

878 Boysen Avenue
CA
93405

Opening Hours

Monday	09:00 - 14:00
Tuesday	12:00 - 18:00
Thursday	12:00 - 18:00
Friday	10:30 - 15:30

Telephone

+18059960682

Website

http://www.milkweedandalchemy.com/

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