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Ear Community Acupuncture for Emotional Resilience & Pain Relief
Thu, Oct 17
|Asheville
Please join us at Homegrown Families for 20 minute Ear Acupuncture sessions for Emotional Resilience or Pain Relief.... or both. You're welcome to come to either or both.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2024, 5:50 PM – 7:30 PM
Asheville, 201 Charlotte St, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
About the event
I'm so pleased to announce Ear Acupuncture Clinic for Emotional Resilience & Pain Relief, held at and in collaboration with Homegrown Families: Childbirth Education & Doula Services in Asheville, NC. This is a community-style acupuncture clinic.
Treatments are 20 minutes and $20. Please let us know if you are in need of treatment but this cost is out of reach - we are holding spaces for those in need.Â
Homegrown Families provides childbirth education and doula services with the aim to deconstruct the systems of white supremacy and racism within health care, creating opportunities for equitable access to collective community care across under-resourced and historically marginalized communities. We support our clients no matter how parents choose to give birth or parent their children. We give the highest quality information and allow parents the spaciousness to make the decisions that are right for their family. We normalize what parents are going through and provide hands-on, empathetic, compassionate care.
How Does Ear Acupuncture Work?
The ear is a holographic layout of your entire body. By placing needles or seeds on specific points on the ear, we can stimulate qi (energy/prana) and xue (blood) to flow to and through a specific part of the body or organ system, moving stagnation (a major cause of pain, indeed, it is a Chinese Medicine trope that "there is no pain without stagnation, in the absence of stagnation there is no pain," to paraphrase), or simply send the message to your own body that it's time to rebalance the area or organ we have brought attention to with the needle.
Each person will receive a personalized adaptation of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) protocol, which was designed for nervous system regulation specifically to address the discomfort that comes with addictions recovery, and/or Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA) which was developed as an analgesic for those suffering from acute pain.
I will ask you 2-3 very basic questions quietly in the space to protect your privacy and decide which points will benefit you most. You may receive the exact NADA or BFA protocol, a blend of the two, or something slightly different if the need arises.
For example, let's say you arrive in acute pain due to menstrual cramps. In this case I would do NADA on one side of the ear to assist you in dealing with the strain on your nervous system of being in pain, and a modified version of BFA on the other ear to target the uterus.
Lastly, in community style acupuncture, you will receive your treatment among peers, in a group of up to 6 others.
What will Ear Acupuncture Help Me With?
- Relaxation
- Stress Relief
- Addictions Recovery Support
- Improved Sleep
- Pain Relief
- Nervous System Regulation
Who is Ear Acupuncture Good For?
- Folks new to acupuncture
- Folks in pain in need of a quick treatment
- Anyone dealing with stress and its cascade of effects
- Those nervous to receive treatment alone
- If you're in need of a break from the hectic day
- Folks in need of a somatic way to process emotions, meaning, no need to talk about it
- When nervous system regulation is needed
- Those who would benefit from a reset between treatments to continue momentum