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Acupuncture, herbal medicine, microneedling and organic non-toxic skincare based in Santa Barbara, C

03/18/2024

Article about acupuncture as a supportive tool in labor and birth prep on my bloggy-blog! Read about how and why, plus some research about adjunct therapies for labor support.

Often as consumers of evidence based medicine we want to draw a single line between this particular therapy and that particular outcome. However, we sometimes have to look with a wider lens. I think a smattering of therapies to support body, mind, heart and nervous system during intense processes like labor are helpful. So I give a little list to possibly incorporate as one prepares for labor (or really any potent portal asked of the body).

In the case of acupuncture there are sometimes protocols of points to use, but one also has to look at each individual presentation to tailor a treatment to what is needed. The points used for someone with anxiety would differ from the points used for a woman with fatigue. This makes studying acupuncture and its outcomes a little tricky. Just a reminder to broaden the search for helpful information.

Article is linked in Bio! Or visit www.dresdenholden.com

01/03/2024

Fingies and toes crossed! Visualizing 2024! 🎯

11/16/2023

30% OFF! 🥂 🎉
Online AND this Sunday in downtown Santa Barbara! Find me from 10-4pm

But wait…the best part. Sale goes until everything is gone. Yep, you heard that correctly. Getting ready for NEW in the new year.

Don’t worry, I’ll keep the staples (which tbh they’re all staples), but I’m dreaming up some new products to add to the line-up.

10/12/2023

The Mission St office. It’s been a lovely year learning, growing, offering. 🩵

09/05/2023

Headed to the mountains to learn about herbs. Listening to podcasts and remembering some things I forgot. But that’s ok! 🌼

Out of office until Saturday 9/9 :)

08/19/2023

All the goods at the SUMMER MARKET!

Santa Barbara made herbal skincare. Bridging wellness with bodycare. Plus .tar.remover of course!

08/17/2023

It really is as relaxing as it looks. 🌀

08/16/2023

True hydration with products full of ingredients meant to DO something while keeping it SIMPLE.

Example: those seasonal hydrosols I mention with the SILK WATER…they’re from . Stewards of land in Northern California, caretakers of community. High quality, handmade, small batch. That’s the kind of hydrosol I want to put on my skin.

Read more about the products and their thoughtful ingredients, link in bio!

08/14/2023

Looking forward to this Saturday! Come hang with me!!
Funk Zone - SB - 11/19 - 11 to 4 pm

I’ll have herbal infused bodycare, skincare, handmade porcelain gua sha and revamped .tar.remover !

08/11/2023

Having a little tribute to the color BLUE this weekend. 25% off BLUE OIL and SODALITE GUA SHA TOOLS.

Shop online through Sunday

Scroll through to seem some other blue things I’ve enjoyed stumbling upon. 🩵🌀🥏🫐💧👖

08/10/2023

From yesterday’s illuminating treatment with

A double hummingbird kind of day. In Nine Star Ki (if you know me, you know about Nine Star Ki, though I don’t talk about it much here. Alas…) I am in 9 Fire for the year. And I naturally have 9 Fire in my Heart/emotional placement. Meaning the energetic patterning of 9 Fire is up for me this year and it likely resonates with me. (It does. ;) A symbol for 9 Fire is a hummingbird in a field.

A 9 Fire year looks like being out there, being seen, putting all one’s been cultivating over the past 9 year cycle into the pyre to be celebrated and offered-up. A bird moving from one plant to the next, energized, dynamic, basking in the glory of a flower’s full expression. It’s a time for both-and. Celebration and clearing away. The STAGE in the final stage of a cycle.

Super-duper-resonance with me!

07/07/2023

Handmade ceramic facial roller dish and gua sha stand. Put your facial ritual on display with elegant and functional bathroom decor! 💚

Available at dresdenholden.com

06/30/2023

SILK WATER -> BLUE OIL -> YIN BALM … repeat …

Face and body

Water the skin 💦
Nourish the skin 🤗
Lock-in moisture 🔐

Herbal infused essences, oils and actives to add hydration and repair the skin barrier. The key is quality.

06/29/2023

BLUE OIL is my hero (take it from a gal that was on Accutane twice as a teenager but the acne triumphed these assaults of toxic amounts of vitamin A and continued straight into my adult years. My acne, like me, is pretty determined). It wasn’t until I cleaned out the harsh ingredients, additives, preservatives, perfumes and ish from my body care that I started to see a clearing. Now I use Dr Bronners bar soap, hydrosols (hello ) and oils and balms to lock-in the moisture. Plus a sunscreen.

BLUE OIL is:
argan oil
green tea oil
squalane
jojoba oil
apricot kernel oil
rose hip oil
blue tansy oil
frankincense

02/15/2023

Blue Tansy Facial Oil restock!

Just late for Valentine’s Day. What can I say, my timing is impeccable. :)

But still though. This stuff is worth the wait. Lock in moisture, feed the skin high quality oils, protect the natural barrier, and embrace the subtle scents of Frankincense and Blue Tansy. 🤤

I wear this every dang day. So if you don’t buy ‘em, I will. 😏💙

01/30/2023

This notion sunk-in for me recently, the patients and clients who come in to that little clinic room on Mission St actually treat *me,* and let me explain.

I’m adorned with their experiences, journeys, pains, insights, questions, hopes and yes of course, recommendations. By sharing your story, your experience of life, I learn so much.

It’s like this. There’s a door, and people show-up to this door, and then we get to sink-in and close our eyes and hope for the best. *The best* being possibilities and healing unique to everyone (eh, kinda hard to explain). Now, I’m always hoping I’m helping, but I am here to report that y’all are definitely helping me. (That could be weird to say…but I say weird things sometimes). You walk through the door -> I grow. 🌱

After a monumental yoga class this morning, a recommendation that came from a gem that showed-up at the door and shared another leg of her journey, I am in the slosh of ripple effects. And before I forget this awe and abundant feeling tomorrow I thought I’d document it today.

We really are just walking each other home.

01/19/2023

Mud Dries -

From weeks of rain
from a king tide

so strong
the soft sand

sucked out from under
and back to sea

from runoff of the spring thaw
of my heart

the mud is thick.
It dries.

The earth solid again
my weight

buoyant again
so I walk.

The roadrunner
moves through the hills

soft as sand
weightless always

seen only with luck
or time.

A dropped
tail feather

found
off the beaten path

at last light
unexpected.

Barbs caked with mud
nothing water

and a gentle hand
can’t clean.

01/12/2023

Unexpected friends

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