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Brief and abundant - Late Summer info for your health and well being

I have organized my availability, later slots are available! Book an appointment Hi Reader, Before I get into it I have a couple announcements: Joining the Village - 2 opportunities available! I want to share the Village Acupuncture treatment rooms with 1 - 2 Health practitioners. Maybe you, or someone you know? Email me to ask about room rates and availability. I am looking for 1-2 people who can do a weekly Laundry/Office cleaning shift in exchange for treatment. It would be weekly or bi...
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{Lamia's Newsletter} Welcome back! Heat & hope.

Hi Reader. A few weeks ago I realized these emails had been mostly going to spam for the past few months. 🙄"Geez" I thought, I have been writing these messages and only 20% of people are getting them, what the? Then I realized my mistake, I needed a new email address, my apologies for the interruption in info and I am happy to say... I am back in your inbox with TCM health tips! With heatwaves, global heat rising, smoky skies and forest fires I am talking with clients a lot more about staying...

Acupuncture is real?

Hi Reader. Wishing you a moment of presence as you read this message and connect with me, Village Acupuncture, and yourself through the air we share. Presence practice with Renying Renying - Stomach 9 Acupoint - In 5 min or less, use this point to bring down the busyness of the mind, unstick your thoughts and regulate your nervous system. And yes, if it feels like you have already opened this, it is a repeat! I had a major tech issue and am resending this month's message to resolve it. I...
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Extra! Extra! read all about it

Hi Reader. I am hoping you are well supported and that you get a wee bit of rest in these almost summer times. Guess what folks? Acupuncture "might" be real! Click image for interactive article! Ok, ok I know it is real and I just read this innovative interactive article about how the interstitium (the body's fluid network system) basically follows the meridians of Qi flow. I lit up and smiled wide! Western Medicine thought the interstitium was just connective tissue holding us together, but...
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Village Acupuncture Spring 2026

Hi Reader. Wishing you ease everywhere possible, and hope, so much hope. On keeping hope alive Growing up with people dying had a huge influence on me and offered me frank clarity: Not dead yet = possibility remains If I have breath I have hope, and all of us reading this have breath, so hope remains. Of course it gets more complicated, but at base, this truth gives me hope and determination! As I go on in life I also consider that even when we are dead possibility remains, but that's for...
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Resending: April? really?

Hi Reader. Does it feel like time is warping and speeding up to you too? April seems to have come in early, the weather is still trying to be winter and I am not ready for the second quarter of 2026! Alas, neither you nor I govern time, or do we? 🤣 after all time is in many places, including our decisions. No matter what time warp you are in I am wishing you well and well supported. If you want a treatment or to check in online, you can always find me here. Spring is Liver season The Liver is...
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April? really?

Hi Reader. Does it feel like time is warping and speeding up to you too? April seems to have come in early, the weather is still trying to be winter and I am not ready for the second quarter of 2026! Alas, neither you nor I govern time, or do we? 🤣 after all time is in many places, including our decisions. No matter what time warp you are in I am wishing you well and well supported. If you want a treatment or to check in online, you can always find me here. Spring is Liver season The Liver is...
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Norooz, Equinox, Eid and the Qi that rises up

Hi Reader. I've been touching a lot of emerging Spring Qi this week and thought I'd rise up to say hello to you, welcome some new folks to the Village and share Blood nourishing tips and info. Norooz Mubarak! Eid Mubarak! The haft-sin, a table decorated with symbolic items representing hopes for the Iranian new year. Illustration for Hyphen by Heedayah Lockman One of my children is part Iranian, my Father was Turkish and my communities include many diasporic SWANA folks, connected often...
A single purple crocus flower emerges from dry leaves.

Norooz, Equinox, Eid and the Qi that rises up

Hi Reader. I've been touching a lot of emerging Spring Qi this week and thought I'd rise up to say hello to you, welcome some new folks to the Village and share Blood nourishing tips and info. Norooz Mubarak! Eid Mubarak! The haft-sin, a table decorated with symbolic items representing hopes for the Iranian new year. Illustration for Hyphen by Heedayah Lockman One of my children is part Iranian, my Father was Turkish and my communities include many diasporic SWANA folks, connected often...

Schedule updates and Blood's wisdom

Hi Reader. Things are going real well at Village Acupuncture & I'm full of thanks! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I feel embodied and it is incredible. I am fortunate, have worked hard and want to share and practice. I want people to know a fullness of healing possibility all the way to it's edges. Even with wars, hatred and contempt.... we rise, embodying joy, liberation and community. I want our strategies to include feeling well, even when it seems impossible. We all know that all this could be so much better,...

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