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Path of Wellness Acupuncture, 123 E. Baseline Road Suite D103, Tempe, AZ (2026)

03/20/2026

Hey ya’al. I actually put the Instagram app back on my phone to share a very important announcement: I started a new podcast! It’s called Backyard Magic, here is the synopsis:

Backyard Magic is a podcast about the everyday magic happening in the most ordinary of places.

Grab a cup of tea and join acupuncturist, Chinese medicine and shamanic practitioner Nicole Berrios in her messy backyard for rambling conversations about all things witchy and magical. We talk herbs, spirit, connecting to the land, nervous system healing, and the quirky little magical moments happening right outside your back door.

No retreats, expensive supplies or Tik-Tok worthy aesthetics required. The magic is wherever you are.

If you’d like to hear more, the link for the show is in the bio. Ok, signing off now 🤗

09/08/2025

Hi everyone. My name is Nicole. I do acupuncture, shamanic healing and various other stuff and I REALLY don’t like social media (if that wasn’t the greatest bio of all time 😂). In case it wasn’t already obvious, this post was definitely NOT written with AI and will probably be a little unhinged.

I brave visiting the land of Instagram every so often just to check in and let people who follow me know that I’m still alive, still helping people and serving the community and still doing all my weird witchy stuff. Lately the “weird” thing I’ve been into is human design (I may have talked about it on here before I decided to go dark on social, can’t remember).

I’ve been using human design to help me figure out how to live my best life in alignment with who I am and I’ve also discovered it’s a pretty nifty diagnostic tool to use on my clients as well. I’ve been doing a lot of super basic and informal HD chart readings for my clients as part of any session and am finding it extremely useful.

What I’m loving most about HD is that it feels like permission to lean into all the weird and quirky things you’ve always known were true for you, but society pressured you into believing otherwise. For me (I’m a manifestor), this looks like doing whatever the heck I want, whenever I want and not being afraid of really leaning into my innate ability to be a little punk rock in life. And it feels liberating to embrace my inner punk.

I’ve dabbled in a punk life (sans the Mohawk) at various points in time over my life and it has always looked a little bit different. I’m not as in your face about it as say, Eminem (he IS the real Slim Shady), but it does show up in a more quiet way. Like not caring about having a business that hardly ever posts on social media (the horror!). Or when I do post, it comes out looking like this 😂

I am however, VERY punk in my views on the human spirit and believing that every human is capable of profound healing, if only they have the right tools and support. This is actually my ideal client: one who has tried the traditional system and is ready to do something different, something uncomfortable but infinitely more gratifying. More in comments.

01/06/2025

I’ve got a truth bomb for ya today…

A few weeks ago I did a little experiment after deleting the Instagram app from my phone. The experiment was to see how I would do if I put the app back on my phone and began posting a little more consistently. The results? Not very good, actually!

What I discovered was that I would feel compelled to frantically check my phone several times a day to see who was viewing and liking my posts and if any post didn’t get much traction, it would make me feel bad about myself. I would also feel compelled to check daily how many followers I had and when I saw the number actually go DOWN instead of up, this made me feel like I must not be very likable.

While I logically knew that social media following doesn’t really mean anything, my lizard brain that is wired for connection was triggered into thinking that I was unsafe because I wasn’t “liked” by the community (human evolution is powerful!). And once I saw how powerful this response was, I decided that being “popular” on social media just wasn’t for me.

It also gave me very good insight into what it must be like to be a teenager on social media and how grateful I am that social media did not exist when I was a teenager. If likes and followers can make a 40-something adult feel bad, imagine what it can do to a developing brain. Yikes- no wonder there’s so much anxiety with the younger generation.

Soo… I’ve decided that I am just not going to worry about social media anymore. But what I AM focusing on instead is getting my message out in ways that actually feel good to me, the biggest one being podcasting. I have revamped my podcast (now ) and will be bringing weekly bite-sized FAQ style episodes giving you tools related to holistic healing to help you heal yourself, connect with spirit and transform your life.
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12/20/2024

Looking for the perfect last-minute gift for someone in your life? Or maybe you’re looking to treat yo’self this holiday season? We got you covered, friends!

From now until the end of the year, snag one (or a few!) of our Warming Winter Wellness gift certificates. These hour long sessions are the perfect remedy to recover from holiday stress, stay warm during these frigid 80 degree days (ha!) and start the new year off right.

Sessions include:

👉 Custom stress- relieving full body acupuncture
👉 Warming essential oils
👉 Infrared light therapy
👉 Moxibustion herbal heat therapy
👉 Facial cupping and guasha and a
👉 Warm cup of tea all for ONLY $100! Save $30! Perfect for your or a loved one.

Please note this special is for new clients only. Return clients are welcome to purchase as gifts for folks who have never been in before.

Shoot me a DM or click the link in bio to snag one of these awesome gift certificates and make somebody’s day. 🤗

Happy New Year and Merry Everything! 🎄

12/19/2024

So your curiosity is piqued, you’re ready to do some deep healing and you are seriously considering trying out shamanic acupuncture. First of all, yay! And second of all, I’ve got good news for you!

From now through New Year’s Eve, I’m doing something I never do and I am putting my shamanic acupuncture services on SALE! I will be waiving my new client fee for anybody who wants to try out a shamanic acupuncture session, meaning you can get a single session for $25 off the regular price. You’ve already read about the benefits, so if you’re ready to experience some of that magic for yourself, reply to this post and I’ll hook you up! You can also click on the link in my bio and it will take you to a page where you can purchase the session for yourself.

These sessions also make amazing Christmas/holiday gifts. If you have that one person in your life you just cannot figure out what to get for the holidays, this could be a really great and unique gift. Physical gift certificates are available if ordered early enough.

And for those who want to do a complete spiritual overhaul in 2025, my next offer is even better! Get yourself a 3 pack of shamanic acupuncture sessions for $25 off AND receive my newly launched online course Power Animal Magic for HALF off (a $150 value!!- please note this is a separate purchase). I’ll be talking about this course in the coming days, but for now what I can say is that it is the perfect complement to doing an in person shamanic acupuncture session as it will help you to incorporate the healing from in the treatment room to your real everyday life and reality.

If you’ve had enough of the status quo and are ready to shake things up for yourself, snag these deals while they last. I may never do a discount on shamanic sessions again.

Offers good for new clients only.

12/17/2024

So you may be wondering what kind of person would want to do a shamanic acupuncture session. Do you have to be a particular age or of a specific demographic to receive this kind of healing? You certainly don’t, my friends!

Shamanism is for everyone, of any age, any demographic, any income, any whatever. Remember that shamanism is just a way of viewing the world and seeing yourself as part of the whole. What’s really cool about it is that you can even be of any religious denomination. Shamanism truly does not discriminate at all. If you want to do deep dive healing and connect to your roots and your own brand of magic, shamanic acupuncture is for you!

I have done these sessions on children as young as 3 years old all the way up to 80-somethings. You can be any age, at any stage of life and the benefits will be great no matter where you are. Because these sessions are all about clearing out the stuff that isn’t helping you and then powering you up, no matter where you are in life, you will benefit from that.

People have come to me for shamanic acupuncture sessions for a whole host of reasons, but some common themes I see people needing help with are:

👉Navigating grief, trauma or loss
👉Dealing with complicated family dynamics
👉Uncovering the root causes of physical ailments
👉Alleviating anxiety or depression
👉Difficult life transitions
👉Feeling more spiritually in tune and connected to nature
👉Or just because you wanted to try something new and see what happens!

The results that people get can be pretty profound. This sort of work really makes people have big shifts in their lives that get them back on track for their goals. How would it feel to have less anxiety, more harmonious relationships, grace while going through transitions, less physical pain and in general more understanding of your purpose in life? Sounds pretty awesome right?

Hit me up if you want to chat about shamanic acupuncture sessions and stay tuned for tomorrow for a special offer on these sessions!

12/16/2024

What is a shamanic acupuncture session? Only the coolest thing ever (Ok I’m kidding, but it IS pretty cool). This is the signature service I offer in my office for those who want to do a really deep dive on their healing journey. In these sessions I combine the physical and more practical healing of acupuncture with the more intense and esoteric healing of shamanism to create one power punch of a session.

Here’s how shamanic acupuncture sessions typically go down in my office: First we’ll do a thorough health history intake following all the principles of Chinese medicine. I’ll also ask to look at your tongue and feel your pulses because this is part of the Chinese medicine diagnostic process. We’ll then get into detail about what you are specifically wanting help with and then we’ll get the party started.

Once you’re situated on the table, I begin by giving you an acupuncture treatment. Once the needles are in, we start by calling in the directions. This is a shamanic technique that honors where you are in time and location while also creating a safe space for healing to occur (like casting a protective circle). I then turn on a shamanic drum track and we get going. All you as the client have to do is kick back and be open to receiving whatever healing and messages come through. Shamanic healing looks a lot like reiki from the outside but this is what distinguishes it from reiki- we are actually manipulating energy by removing things and then filling up the voids with power.

Shamanic healing is all about reclaiming your personal power, so once we remove things that don’t belong, you are filled with power in many different ways, the most common one being the retrieval of a power animal (or a spirit helper in animal form). Power animals come through when you are in need of a particular thing in your life that is lacking- the animal helps you in ways that you need.

These sessions are super spontaneous and I never know what is going to come though, but I DO know that everytime it is different and it is always magical.

12/13/2024

So you’ve heard me say before that I’m a shamanic practitioner and if you’re like many, you’re probably wondering what in the world that even means. Well, I’ll tell you!

Outside of my training in acupuncture, I spent over 5 years training in shamanic arts. This was a totally separate and unrelated certification (although fun fact, Chinese medicine actually originated from shamanism, so I suppose it’s not actually separate at all). When you study shamanic arts, you are learning the ways of shamanism. Shamanism is the oldest form of spirituality known to mankind that takes the worldview of something called animism, which is the belief that everything has its own spirit (rocks, trees, animals, the weather- all have their own spirits).

It is not a religion and it has no holy text or dogma to follow. It is simply a way of looking at the world and living within it in harmony, knowing that you are one part of the whole. When you do shamanic training you spend a good long while doing spiritual healing on yourself well before you get to start practicing on clients. Some of the things I had to do while going through training included finding my own spiritual ally team (which included power animals!), doing healing shamanic journeys with my true self, learning different kinds of divination practices, learning to sense and recognize energy and subtle layers of reality, and more.

I got my shamanic certification in April of 2020 (remember how fun that particular month/year in time was?) and have folded shamanic healing into my private practice since then. Not everybody is into the shamanic healing, but for those who are, I combine acupuncture with shamanism to do my signature service “shamanic acupuncture”. More about that tomorrow!

12/12/2024

So for those who don’t know this about me, I’m super into all sorts of interesting (to me) things. Human design, astrology, anything spiritual, witchy or shamanic (I mean, I AM a shamanic practitioner). When you come into my office it’s not uncommon for me to ask if you know your moon and rising signs and lately I’ve been asking people to pull up their human design charts for me to peruse. (And if you’ve never heard of human design, do a search on it and check it out. It’s like astrology on steroids and is so good at telling the story of YOU).

As an acupuncturist I can already get a lot of information about people and their ailments just by asking some questions, feeling pulses and looking at tongues. But because I specialize in helping people move through emotional upheavals, anxiety, depression, etc, I have found that getting more information through things like human design really help me tie the picture of YOU together.

What all of this means is that when people come into my office, they get a pretty well rounded treatment that takes EVERY aspect into account. Stress, anxiety and other emotional disorders do not happen in a vacuum and I help you tie the pieces together to help you see how seemingly unrelated areas may be impacting you and contributing to how you are feeling. And from there we come up with simple treatment plans that put the power back into your hands so you can learn to work with your individual design and how you specifically operate in the world.

When I can help somebody to recognize their perceived weaknesses as actual strengths, pretty amazing things can happen. And that is so so cool!

So, if you want to play along, show me your charts! I’ll start: I’m a Gemini sun, Sagittarius moon, Libra Rising and I’m a 1/3 emotional manifestor. Knowing this about myself helps me in so many ways. I wish I had grown up knowing all of this info, it would have saved me so much drama. And so I try to help shine a little light on this for others so they can learn to live in harmony with who they are. And to combine all this with acupuncture and Chinese medicine is just magic (insert chef’s kiss).

12/11/2024

Hello lovely people! It’s been a while since I’ve been on Instagram. I deleted the app from my phone because I was noticing how easy it was for me to waste a ton of time mindlessly scrolling and watching funny (and sometimes aggravating) reels. And another reason was because I just didn’t want to hear about the election anymore. And you know what, it’s been great for my mental health.

But I’m also realizing that social media actually CAN be a great tool to use for connecting, learning about people and discovering new businesses, services, products and more. So I’m in the process of attempting to see if I can use social media in a way that feels balanced, while also reigning in the impulse to spend gobs of time watching cat videos. We’ll see how this experiment goes!

For those who are new here, welcome! I’m Nicole and this is my business profile. I own a private acupuncture practice called Path of Wellness Acupuncture where I specialize in helping adults and kids get lasting relief from stress and anxiety while learning to roll with the changes of life with more grace and ease.

I’ve been in practice for over 10 years now and have been in private practice for over 5. I lost count of how many treatments I’ve given in that amount of time, but suffice to say it’s a lot. Over 10,000? 20,000? Who even knows. I just know that there have been many many pokes in the last 10 years.

I’m also a certified shamanic practitioner and for those who want it, I blend acupuncture with shamanic work in my office too. This is more of a deeply intense and spiritually healing service that gets some wicked good results for people. Being in practice for 10 years, I sometimes go through phases where I feel like I’m just going through the motions, but when I actually stop to reflect on it, what I do is pretty freaking cool and I’m really grateful that people trust me to help them and value what I do.

As I get used to being back on social for now, I’ll be dropping in a little more frequently to let ya’al in on what the business looks like on the inside, the offerings I’ve got, my stories and more. Stay tuned and thanks for being here!

11/08/2024

Are you fed up with feeling DIS-illusioned, DYS-regulated and DIS-empowered? Are you feeling READY to take your power back? To better navigate your emotions, stress and the ups and downs of life? To take your anger and frustration and channel it into something positive that will benefit the planet?

Then my friends, I have just the thing for you.

I will be leading a workshop on Saturday November 30th where I will be teaching how to channel and embody the magic of a power animal. As a shamanic practitioner, power animals (AKA spirit helpers in animal form) are one of my favorite spirit allies to work with and I love helping others discover the magic of power animals too.

It’s right in the name: to work with a POWER animal helps you as a human to feel your own personal power again. It helps you to regulate your nervous system, to get grounded, to connect with your own inner wisdom and to move through emotions in a much healthier way. And from this place, you can show up as your best self and go make some waves in the world. And the best part is that we will be doing this through the medium of dance, which means not just fully embodying your personal power, but it will also be super fun as well. I think we could all use a little bit of fun right now.

Join me and several other amazing mom entrepreneurs at this day of self care on to fill your cup back up and walk out feeling like the powerful being you are.

Event open to moms only. If interested, hit me up for a code to get into this event at a discount!!

09/30/2024

Our next full moon acupuncture event is on the books! Join us on Tuesday, October 15th as we welcome in some fiery Aries energy.

This event was at capacity last time (actually it was past capacity- we had to get creative with where we put everyone!), so if you are interested in attending, be sure to reserve your spot ASAP.

Tickets can be purchased via our Eventbrite page (link in the bio for details).

Hope to see you then!! It should be fun. 🤗🔥

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