Night Sky Acupuncture + Ideaphoria

Liz Asch Greenhill, LAc.

811 East Burnside Street Suite 216 Portland, OR, 97214 United States

NIGHT SKY ACUPUNCTURE WILL CLOSE ON MARCH 31, 2025. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE YEARS OF COLLABORATION, COMMUNITY, GROWTH, AND CARE.

PLEASE SEE THE COMMUNITY RESOURCES PAGE FOR SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESSIVE PRACTITIONERS.

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We offer transformative acupuncture to reduce pain (physical and emotional) and support the nervous system and whole being. We do not offer managed care or primary care. If we are a good fit, we can serve as an auxiliary person in your network. We are both certified herbalists and can bring herbal medicine into your treatment plan, along with bodywork and other Eastern Medicine modalities. Liz is also an educator on creative embodiment and offers virtual sessions to individuals and groups of artists and thinkers. 

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Liz is the creator and host of Body Land Metaphor Medicine, a free guided visualization resource on the podcast platform. Listen and get a sense of what it’s like to work with me. These are deep listening experiences that require time set aside in a still, quiet place. They can be listened to in bed for insomnia, via headphones on public transportation for self-regulation, in groups as a guided meditation with an integration discussion afterwards, and so on. They are not to be listened to while driving or multi-tasking. Listen on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, or download directly here on my website. Please share widely. These are a public offering. Seasons 1-4 are in English, and season 5 is en Español.

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We are in-network with Providence, MODA, and Pacific Source. If we are out-of-network with your health insurance, you can pay up front and we will give you a superbill to send in to your insurance company so that they reimburse you directly. If the out-of-pocket cost prohibits you from coming in, please email us and let us know. If you are a community organizer for a BIPOC non-profit, you may receive up to four free sessions per year. Sign up under the BLM option for your free healthcare.

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If you’d like to subscribe to Liz’s very occasional newsletter which includes guided visualization and tidbits on Eastern Medicine, here’s the LINK.

How to Rest when Fearful: A Guided Meditation for Instant Self Care and Nervous System Regulation (20 min)

January 11, 2025  /  Liz Greenhill

When you land in your body and call it your home, your nervous system shifts down a gear. When we tell ourselves stories that enhance our sense of belonging and dignity, we create a quieter place inside where we can ground and center. In this meditation, we ignite the imagination as the tool that helps you feel safer in your body and in the world. Set aside 20 minutes when you are quiet or still, alone or with others, to listen, and follow along in your body.

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How to Cope when Overwhelmed: A Guided Meditation using Metaphor as Medicine to Help you Breathe and Stay in your Body (15 min)

January 11, 2025  /  Liz Greenhill

When we are overwhelmed, distraught, deeply sad, and scared, it can be very hard to stay in our bodies and think clearly. This 15 minute guided meditation helps you ground, center, and re-orient so that you recognize yourself and your surroundings. Listen when still and quiet and follow along in your body. Take care. You are loved.

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Starlight Dreaming: A Guided Meditation for Better Sleep (20 in)

January 08, 2025  /  Liz Greenhill

Settle into a quiet space where you can close your eyes and take time out to reconnect with yourself and your breath. We will ignite the imagination to restore a sense of connectedness with the cosmos and with our own bodies to feel more centered, grounded, and get better sleep.

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El Desierto: a Calming, Restorative, Stress Relief Guided Meditation in Spanish from Body Land (11 min)

November 26, 2024  /  Liz Greenhill

Vamos a enfocarnos en los colores de un desierto. Imagina la tierra roja, rica y vibrante, que se extiende ante ti, mientras las capas de colores se despliegan a través de las mesas, los acantilados y las dunas de arena.

Visualiza como el cielo abierto esta pintado con un hermoso degradado de amarillo y rosa al amanecer. A medida que el día avanza, observa las tonalidades de azul que van cambiando. Inmensas extensiones de nubes entran y salen. Pesadas nubes de lluvia, con tonos azul-púrpura, se desplazan en el cielo, entrando y saliendo, adornadas por un flequillo de lluvia lejana que parece colgar en el aire. A veces, estas nubes lucen inmóviles, antes de que el sol vuelva a brillar, iluminando con rayos celestiales en configuraciones transitorias. Colores rosas y lavandas estallan en el cielo. Permite que esta escena se anide en tu cuerpo.

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Special Guided Meditation en Español for deep sleep to promote healing: Estanque de Caida de Semillas: Cuerpo Tierra (17 min)

November 22, 2024  /  Liz Greenhill

Imagina cómo el aire se extiende hasta lo alto, perdiéndose en la inmensidad del cielo, mientras el estanque se encuentra cómodamente acurrucado en este entorno vasto y abierto.

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Sé un Árbol: A Body Land Special Guided Meditation en Español (11 min)

November 22, 2024  /  Liz Greenhill

¿Alguna vez has deseado deslizarte en la piel de un árbol y dejar atrás tu vida habitual? Vamos a ser árboles juntos. Podemos imaginarnos de pie, haciendo que nuestros cuerpos imiten la forma de los árboles. Aunque, por supuesto, podes estar sentada, acostada o en cualquier posición que te resulte cómoda para esta visualización.

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Una Pluma: A Body Land Guided Meditation en Español for deep rest and breathing (13 min)

November 18, 2024  /  Liz Greenhill

Comencemos con una visualización basada en una sola imagen: una pluma. Esta visualización puede ayudarnos a enfocarnos y practicar el arte de generar sensaciones internas usando nuestra imaginación como herramienta. Es una interpretación creativa del trabajo de respiración, pero en este caso, la imagen es la fuerza que guía la conciencia de la respiración.

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Welcome to Cuerpo Tierra! Body Land En Español. Bienvenidos! Stay tuned for 4 episodes in Spanish.

November 18, 2024  /  Liz Greenhill

Cuerpo Tierra en Español 

Hola, queridos amigos!

Bienvenidos al fascinante mundo de la Medicina Metafórica del Cuerpo Tierra, creada por la acupupunturista y autora Liz Greenhill y llevada a ustedes en español por Udom Linthavong. 

Imagina esto: visualizaciones guiadas que no solo encienden tu creatividad, sino que también calman tu sistema nervioso. Te ayudarán a sentirte arraigado y en sintonía contigo mismo. Este es un espacio donde la energía se mueve, el arte se aprecia, el lenguaje cobra vida, y técnicas de la medicina china se mezclan con métodos somáticos para que puedas dejar atrás la ansiedad.

Tan a menudo, nuestras imaginaciones se aventuran en áreas de miedo y, cuando eso sucede, es como si nuestras mentes secuestraran a nuestros cuerpos y nos llevaran a un lugar de catástrofe vicaria. Cuerpo Tierra está diseñado para ser un micro-antídoto a esa respuesta de estrés.

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Emotions as Colors: A Guided Meditation to listen to at bedtime for deep sleep (14 min)

October 22, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

Here’s another visualization to listen to before bed. to free up and bring movement to any emotions that might be hanging around stalling our ability to rest. We use symbolism to envision the emotions as colors, which lets them be energetic, as opposed to stories tied to thoughts, which take us out of the body and into the mind. So, just let the colors fly, float, wash, and waft through you, trusting in the process, the energetic release, and your ability to embody a metaphor as a way to change the way you feel.

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Deep Sleep Guided Meditation: Resonance of the Atlas (12 min)

October 10, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.

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Guided Meditation: Night Time Ripple Breathing to listen to before bed for deep restful sleep (12 min)

September 25, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

Bring this ripple-inducing breathwork into your pre-sleep awareness for deeper rest.

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Deep Sleep Guided Meditation: A Cartography of Rest (18 min)

July 13, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

We talk a bit about the four levels of being (and reality) and how metaphors of the earth apply to the body. We tune into four layers of the body and coax each one into a relaxed safe state. Listen before bed and let me know how it feels.

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Drift into Darkness while Glowing: A Guided Meditation for Deep Restful Sleep (13 min)

July 11, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

The pattern of the mycelium network is around us and within. Let it transform into a softly glowing nightlight that protects you and feel yourself soften into a resting state.

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My Body is a Habitat and I am Safe: A Guided Meditation for Restful Sleep and Centering (20 min)

June 16, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

Your body is a safe place. Coax your spine into this story and let it become something new and generative.

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Season Four Welcome: Guided Meditations that help you land in your body and call it home

June 16, 2023  /  Liz Greenhill

Welcome back to Body Land Metaphor Medicine, an archive of guided visualizations that engage the superpowers of your imagination to help you relax and restore. These salutary stories are informed by Surrealist art, Eastern Medicine, and Somatic methods for self-regulation. I’m your creator and host, Liz Asch Greenhill. I am an author and artist, and the acupuncturist at Night Sky Acupuncture and Ideaphoria.

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Waterfall of the Hips: A Guided Meditation for Low Back Pain and Anxiety (10 min)

June 02, 2021  /  Liz Greenhill

Your body is a landscape. You have a river running through you. It horseshoes into a waterfall in the hips. 

Rest into nature and into your body through this image of a river running down your spine. This is designed to help increase qi flow in the hips and pelvis. 

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Cleaning the Senses: A Guided Meditation for Brain Fog, Stress, and Depression (14 min)

June 02, 2021  /  Liz Greenhill

Get soapy and a little sappy up in your head. This is meant to help with feeling lost or disconnected. 

 

Let it be known I’ve been watching too many TikTok videos. Now it’s time to clear some energy and awaken to the senses. When we clear and clean our senses, we can participate in and appreciate the present moment. And that feels f-ing good. 

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Cloudbody: A Guided Meditation for stress and tension (8 min)

June 02, 2021  /  Liz Greenhill

Need some levity? Let’s drop it like it’s hot and be clouds.   

Erase everything in the room. You get to be a cloud just like those dreams when you are flying. But this time, something special happens when you drop your baggage. 

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Ruby's Yurt: A Guided Meditation for Teens and Kids (11 min)

November 18, 2020  /  Liz Greenhill

In this visualization we envision the ribcage as a shelter for both rest and play.

This one goes out to Ruby.

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