Wenatchee Community Acupuncture

01/26/2026

A beautiful write-up on Death Cafe Wenatchee. ☕️🖤🍰 Grateful for this collaborative effort to bring more resources and support around death and dying to the Wenatchee Valley.

More details about February's Death Cafe below. For all updates and details, you can also follow Death Cafe Wenatchee on Facebook or Instagram or on WCA's scheduler.

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Join us for the next Death Cafe meeting in February at ARTWORX Studio, Drop in at any point - we will be glad to see you! We will have tea, cake, and talk about death!

⏰ Time: 5:30pm - 7pm
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 4th
📍 Location: ARTWORX 15 Yakima St. Wenatchee, WA
These gatherings will be hosted the first Wednesday of each month.
Together, let’s share, reflect, and connect. ☕❄️
Warmly,
Your Death Cafe Wenatchee Crew
Tea provided by Inner Grove Tea Company ✨
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What is Death Cafe?

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death.

Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’.

A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.

Our Death Cafes are always offered:
- On a not for profit basis
- In an accessible, respectful and confidential space
- With no intention of leading people to any conclusion, product or course of action
- Alongside refreshing drinks and nourishing food – and cake!

The first Wednesday of every month, a group meets in downtown Wenatchee, where they sit together, drink tea, eat cake and talk openly about dying. This is Death Cafe.

11/30/2025

LOCATION CHANGE! We’ll be meeting on Wednesday December 3rd at 5:30 pm at Pybus in the common area! Look for a sign at our table ✨💀🙌

11/03/2025

It’s been an intention of mine since I lived in Ohio and attended my first Death Cafe to launch one here in Wenatchee. Along with the synchronicity of fellow kindred spirits, it’s finally happening ☠️🙏🏼🖤

The first Death Cafe Wenatchee will be on Wednesday, November 5th from 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm at the Vet’s Hall in downtown Wenatchee.

Death Cafe’s are a world-wide movement to create intentional gatherings in which to discuss all things death and dying. It is not a support group nor a therapy group. It is a peer-to-peer gathering to talk about the common experience we will all have at some point - the death of our own self and/or the death of others in our lives.

If you or someone you know might benefit from being in a safe, supportive environment and get something (many things??) off your chest about death and dying or just listen to others, please join us.

All are welcome.

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10/23/2025

First week back at it!! ✅🙌

Here’s a little tour of the North Central Washington Vet’s Hall where we’re doing community acupuncture on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

People have been asking “Why the Vet’s Hall”? And the short answer is that WCA and the Vet’s Hall both believe in the power of healing from isolation and mental health crises through community connections and human-to-human support.

The longer answer is that WCA has been a service provider for the Staff Sergeant Gordon Parker Fox grant funded program for the past 18 months or so and has close relationships to many in the Veteran community.

The SSGPF program offers community-style acupuncture with nervous system regulation coaching at WCA, equine therapy at and physical training with deep mindset work with Ruben
Payan, Jr. of Powerful Human. It is coordinated and led locally by Tony Sandoval at the Chelan County office of the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs.

This collaboration is an innovative and successful, community-based model for trauma recovery and su***de
prevention for Veterans. I hope in the future that these type of community-based non-medicalized models for
mental health care continue to take root for us all.

We need each other.

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.” - Peter Levine

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10/19/2025

Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.
— Helen Keller

WCA is opening back up tomorrow morning! Testament to the power of community coming together after an unforeseen and devastating event.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!🙏🏼

Come see me and get some acupuncture soon! 🤗

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10/15/2025

I wanted to write a quick update post before I take a break from reporting on “Floodsville 2025”. 🤣😵‍💫🥹 I’m ready to get back into a rhythm!! So this will likely be the last post for a bit.

But first - I have to do a VERY LOUD SHOUTOUT to all my peeps, near and far and if you’re reading this, that includes you. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your support over the last week. It means more to me than I’ll ever be able to describe in words. I hope that my gifts of service at WCA now and in the future will speak for me.

Next, I’m awestruck ‼️‼️‼️to announce that WCA will be open for appointments NEXT WEEK!! Many thanks to the NCW Vet's Hall and Loni McKenzie, LMT for offering to host us. You can book an appointment via the link in the bio or by visiting the website. (Note that during this transition, I will not be taking new patients and will have a reduced volume of appointments).

If you have any questions please reach out or see the FAQs link in the bio or directly on WCAs website.

May we be strong and steady together. 🙏🏼🙌🫶⭐️

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10/09/2025

I want to share a beautiful story that happened as we were salvaging the space Tuesday.

My friend Jim was going through and salvaging anything in the waiting room of the clinic. The waiting room had big cubbies and we stored all our books for the weekly Recovery Dharma meeting we host at WCA. The waiting room was also gifted 2 huge monestra plants a few months ago which were growing like crazy! Anyhow, Jim looked under one of monestra leaves and one of our Recovery Dharma books (The World Comes to You by Michael Stone) was opened to a chapter that was called “Waves and Water”. 🥹🌊😭

Life is full of ups and downs. You gotta ride the waves…I’m grateful for these serendipitous messages to us all in the midst of so much loss. It gives me a light to keep following.

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10/08/2025

We found the gong!! 🙏🏼🫶🙏🏼🫶🙏🏼🫶

10/08/2025

For those of you who haven’t heard, I am so sorry to report that Wenatchee Community Acupuncture (and several other businesses downtown) was catastrophically flooded early Tuesday morning.

The fire water main in the building blew and the 5 inch pipe was pouring 110 psi of water 2 feet behind WCA’s treatment room from roughly 2 am to 3:30 am. The water rose to about 4-5 feet before it blew out the doors.

When the fire fighters arrived, they were wading through 4 feet of water to investigate what was happening.

WCA will be closed for the foreseeable future due to the extent of the damage to everything. I will keep everyone updated as soon as I have more information about re-opening the charter space (looking at months).

Through the incredible generosity of my veteran family, it looks like we will be offering acupuncture at the Vets Hall in downtown Wenatchee as soon as mid-October. There is a lot of work to do in order to get everything arranged but that’s what we’re striving towards.

I am devastated and also hopeful. I feel everyone’s strong support for WCA and for me personally. Words can’t describe how grateful I am. We heal in community.

There is a gofundme account which will be used to replace the infrastructure of WCA (recliners and office furniture). If you feel inspired to give, you can click on the link in the bio or comments. Sharing this post also helps tremendously.

Much love to our community. 🫶🙏🏼🫶

10/07/2025

It is with a devastated but hopeful heart that I share this news.

This morning, Wenatchee Community Acupuncture (and many other local businesses in the Midtown and Halbert buildings downtown) experienced catastrophic flooding in its space. WCA was the epicenter of the flooding as it is located in the basement adjacent to where the fire main broke.

As a community, we have spent years building WCA into the space that it is. If I had to pick one statement to describe what goes on at WCA it is: we get through life TOGETHER through the power of community, connection and acupuncture.

Personally, WCA is my life blood and at many times, I have felt that it is the main reason why I am here on earth. It is the organizing principle of how I think of showing up in the world. I love it and my work with my whole heart.

If you feel inspired to "pay it forward" please consider donating to get the supplies and infrastructure back in place. My dear friends and community have already identified spaces in which to offer acupuncture in Wenatchee but we need recliners and needles lol!!! Beyond that, it can all come together again in the beloved space as it is remediated and restored in the coming weeks and months.

Check back here with updates about location, hours and booking details. I'm hoping to have some updates by the end of the week.

Thank you so much everyone.

With much love and gratitude. 🙏

We are Tony & Jeri Sandoval, and Jill @ Wenatchee Community Acupuncture i… Jeri Sandoval needs your support for Restore Jill's Healing Space for Our Community

07/19/2025

On Sunday July 20th at WCA join together for a beautiful community sound bath with Opal Hopkins of 💫💫💫. Starts at 6:00 pm and cost is $22! 💕

There are several other Sound Bath Sunday’s this summer too so if you can’t make it tomorrow - check out the other dates! Link in bio 💗✌🏼

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07/09/2025

It’s been said that sound is the medicine of the future ✨🎶✨and I am thrilled to announce that Opal Hopkins of
will be offering her immense sound and energy gifts out of Wenatchee Community Acupuncture more regularly.

It’s been a dream of mine and now it’s happening! 🤩🤩🤩

If you’ve never experienced Opal’s deep wisdom and healing gifts, check out her upcoming Sound Bath Sundays or book a 1:1 sound/energy work session with her (links in bio).

Read more about Opal below and follow her as well !!

Rich blessings to every one of you!

“Opal Hopkins of The Sacred Empress is a Soul Doula, Earth Keeper, and Sound Alchemist. In her practice, Opal utilizes various awarenesses of ancient, angelic, ancestral, and quantum vibrations to promote and facilitate nourishing spaces of healing for others.

Her offerings unify different healing modalities including sound medicine, energy work, and teaching with the intention of offering others deep soul support.”

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