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

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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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. 

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

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. 

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

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. 

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

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

This one goes out to Ruby.

Bright Heart Cleanse: A Guided Meditation that Celebrates Love and Connectivity (7 min)

Together we centrifuge the heart clean and clear with a shimmy-ing hula hoop of UV light. Wut.

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Season 3 Welcome to Body Land Metaphor Medicine Guided Meditations

Keeping it real, keeping it surreal, and keeping it brief. Let’s do more with less with a season of extra shorty visualizations for the now. Wishing you good health, good luck, and composure for the continued intensity of 2020. I’m your host, Liz Asch Greenhill, and I’ve been using this method in my acupuncture clinic for nearly 20 years, helping people integrate salutary storytelling into their self-care practices, to alleviate physical and emotional pain, restore, rejuventate, and recharge. Try a few of these eco-art guided meditations that apply various somatic techniques and principles of Chinese Medicine to concepts from Surrealist art — and see how you feel after. Let mw know how it lands with you. And stay tuned for lots more visualizations! Cheers!

The Down Dial: A Guided Meditation for Stress Relief, Relaxation, and Nervous System Support (14 min)

Turn the dial down on your nervous system to catch some solid sleep and bring your body into repose. When we invite the deep yin into our being, we can surrender our nervous energy and find a sense of peace.

A Room of Their Own: A Guided Meditation for Teens to Help with Anxiety, Stress, and Connection (22 min)

Tune in to my first visualization for teens wherein we do several somatic exercises with visualization to move energy in the ribcage and diaphragm, to land in our bodies with a sense of belonging and connection. Adults are welcome to do this too, of course. It’s really for anyone. Let me know how it goes for you! You can find me at Night Sky Acupuncture or on Instagram at Metaphor_Medicine.

Play that Song: a Guided Meditation to Relieve Stress and Practice Embodiment (10 min)

There’s music coming from the ribcage when we use the superpowers of our imagination to turn the diaphragm into a DJ. Sound weird? Give it a try and let me know if you feel different after.

Clear the Lungs: A Guided Meditation to Support your Immune System and Reduce Stress and Tension (25 min)

Using metaphor medicine we clear the lungs with a series of varied images and acts of tenderness, practicing how to move energy in the body.

All the Jellyfish Feels: A Calming Guided Meditation to Reconnect you to the Natural World (19 min)

Today’s jam is about poetry and jellyfish and feeling them deep in your being to regulate your Central nervous System.

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Viral Combat: A Pop Culture Guided Meditation to Fight Viruses and Feel Strong! (30 min)

Together we look to the movies to inspire our immune system to fight with swords. Then we clean up and take a long qi shower. We are using our imaginations to help us feel better.

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

Cave Body ft. the Heart and Pelvis: A Guided Meditation to Reunite your Upper and Lower Body (15 min)

Step into the ancient sensation of embodiment and trace the petroglyphs on the back of your skin. 

Art Rx: 

René Magritte

Angélica Dass

 Ancient Cave art