Night Sky Acupuncture + Ideaphoria

Liz Asch Greenhill, LAc.

Night Sky Acupuncture is Liz Greenhill, LAc and Yumé Takeuchi, LAc.

From August 1- March 31, 2025, Yumé will be subbing for Liz in suite 217.

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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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You can sign up for a session here for one-on-one acupuncture at 811 East Burnside (second floor, no elevator) across from the Jupiter Hotel. Or, reach out to Yumé for her availability for a session at your hotel, home, or hospice place of care.

acuyume@gmail.com

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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.

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

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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Estanque de Caida de Semillas: Cuerpo Tierra, A Body Land Guided Meditation en Español (17 min) for deep sleep and healing

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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. 

Fly Free: A Guided Meditation for Stress, Tension, and Anxiety (7 min)

Feeling a little lighter?

Let’s amplify that sensation with this visualization to help you somaticize the sensation of freedom.

Tree Within Tree: A Guided Meditation to Release Stress and Sleep Better (10 min)

Ultimate Stress Release Guided Visualization @ 10 minutes

Make a forest diorama in yr chest and feel all the feels of trees. 

You've Got Glands! A Guided Meditation to Clear your Head and Help You Center

Work your head’s inner teardrop until it glows up your brain.   

This one’s like a brain massage. But anywhere you got a gland you can do this. Don’t stop here. Google glands and keep going. 

Settle the Spine: A Guided Meditation for Neck/Back Pain, Stress, Anxiety, and Focus (13 min)

 Calm stress and ease anxiety while nourishing your neck and back. This is a 12 minute guided visualization.

 Find yourself in a quiet stream in the forest where everything aligns around and within. 

#Boundaries!: A Guided Meditation on Healthy Boundaries for Stress Relief and Relaxation (20 min)

Feeling a bit drained these days? Working on your hashtag boundaries? We’ve got some six feet of separation self-care for ya. I talk super briefly about how fractal patterns of self:other are part of the body’s defenses from the perspective of Chinese Medicine and then we drop into a super soothing visualization that helps you disentangle your energy from others which ultimately benefits your immune system.

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Jing-a-Ling! An Earth-Based Guided Meditation for Vitality and Vigor (16 min)

Juice up your jing, which, in Chinese Medicine, is your deep essence goo, kinda like how oil is the deep essence goo of the Earth. People with BJE (Big Jing Energy) live long, love hard, and run strong.

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Spine of Pearls: A Vivid Guided Meditation to Help You Relax and Reduce Neck/Back Pain (12 min)

 A guided visualization in which the spine is a jigsaw puzzle column of bones getting refurbished, while also using the metaphor of a necklace, make that pearls!

 Is your spine a column of bones or is it a pearl necklace? You be the judge. (Hint: it can be both!) 

Curious about artists who paint the body in imagined and mystical ways? Here’s your Art Rx:

 Frida Kahlo 

Wangechi Mutu

Frank Moore   

Be a River: a Guided Meditation to Reduce Stress and Practice Eco-Embodiment (10 min)

One River. One Body. Feel them merge. Be the current.  

 Water is soft and silky, mighty and powerful, and deeply cleansing. 

 

We have a lot of work ahead of us to make our rivers as clean and fresh as they are in our imaginations. If you feel called to make a donation, here are some organizations doing deep work: 

Native American Rights Fund 

Center for Biological Diversity 

The Ocean Clean Up

This is Body Land: Welcome to your Source for Imaginative Guided Meditations

Body Land is a collection of guided visualizations designed to help you feel better using the super powers of your imagination. Have a dose of metaphor medicine to relax, restore, and rejuvenate.

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