Night Sky Acupuncture + Ideaphoria

Liz Asch Greenhill, LAc.

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

From August 1- December 31, 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 manage care or do 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. 

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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.

Filtering by Category: guided visualization

Parachute

 This one goes out to your inner child. 

 We're going old school, all the way back to pre-school for this one, mixing memory into our senses and embracing wonder while we bloom bloom bloom the diaphragm.

Curious for more? This episode's Art Rx is full of delights:

Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)- abstract artist with spiritual vibes

Eiko and Koma's Delicious Movement Manifesto - guidelines for living 4 sure

Using Memory and Sound to Regrow - creative uses of sensory memory on NPR and in the coral reef

Still Life with Feather

Be an artist and make an internal meditation tool.  

 Build an assemblage in your body so that you can focus your breath. 

 

Curious to see some examples of still life painting? 

Still Life with Peacock Pie, Pieter Claesz, (Dutch) 1627 (vegans avert your eyes!) 

Surrealist Still Life (Pirate Souvenirs), Pierre Roy (French), 1930

 Andromède prisonnière, Pierre Roy (French), 1930

More here:  

How Artists Have Kept Still Life Painting Alive Over Thousands of Years, By Kelly Richman-Abdou 

Be a River

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

On Anxiety and the Imagination

If you are like me, a creative thinker who is a touch high strung, then you've probably had anxiety influence your mood and your body. Have you ever invented a catastrophe and felt your stomach flip, sweat break out, or your chest get tight...or worse? All you did was invent a story…and let it play out in your mind, and your body reacted as if it had happened (at least a little bit.) Just the thought made you sick. That's how powerful the imagination is. Stories do affect our bodies. So, let's tell ourselves some stories that help us feel more safe, more creative, more calm, more grounded, and more aligned. Then we can put the imagination to use to help us feel better. 

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So, what is Metaphor Medicine?

The way you feel affects the way you feel. Does it ever feel like you've been invaded by negativity? Your mind and body might feel irritable, edgy, and uncomfortable. When you feel that way your perspective constricts and that affects the way you see things: others, the world, and your own experience. But, if something happens to open and widen your perspective, and you feel lighter, more positive, or even all the way up to awesome-- you might notice some of the symptoms you previously experienced lessen, recede, or even vanish. Listen for a bit more on this topic.

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This is Body Land

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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