Mitchell Family Acupuncture

Thanks BY W. S. MERWIN Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings... we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it standing by the windows looking out in our directions back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging after funerals we are saying thank you after the news of the dead whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you over telephones we are saying thank you in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators remembering wars and the police at the door and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you in the banks we are saying thank you in the faces of the officials and the rich and of all who will never change we go on saying thank you thank you with the animals dying around us taking our feelings we are saying thank you with the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you thank you we are saying and waving dark though it is ___________________ #golden #thanks #andlove #theranch #starttheday #starttheweek #thankyou

Anyone else feel like there are a million things fighting for your attention lately? Yeah, us too. Nervines can help though. Our bodies contain multitudes. We are hives of trillions of cells and "other" life forms (some of which we've incorporated into our own cellular machinery). Herbs enter this schema the way they know howlooking for what's working and expanding it. Nervines, for example, can help with a cold by taking down unnecessary limbic vigilance, allowing for the... freeing of resources to swiftly create antibodies to rhinovirus. What does that mean for you? Your cold lasts 3 days, not 17. The nervous system, immune system and endocrine system are all about COMMUNICATION. Stress crosses the wires, and creates static in the system leading to faulty cross-talk. Plant medicines clarify the conversation . : @tylervarsell #Repost from our friends at @farmacopia __________________ #immunesupport #immunesystem #plantmedicine #natural #immunity #acupuncture #berkeleyherbs #berkeleyacupuncture #trusttheuniverse

One more day to sign up for our next meditation course! Working from the inside - this work has been the basis for layering work of inner support and strength that has been so vital to helping us navigate with grace and ease (at least sometimes!) this intense time. We have another class starting Wednesday and a few spaces are still open. Join us to meditate! Compassion-Based Resilience Training ... The only proven contemplative training that introduces participants to mindfulness, compassion, imagery and breath-work in one complete program of stress-reduction, self-healing, and mind/body well-being. The training consists of eight weekly modules that introduce and teach mindfulness, insight, compassion, imagery, and breath-energy work. It also offers a student manual and guided audio meditations to support home practice and fieldwork. Meetings will be held weekly via Zoom and will be adapted to address the specific challenges of living through this time. Taught by Zemeira Singer, LMFT Zemeira has been providing psychotherapy and psychoeducation for 12 years and has been practicing meditation for 15 years. She’s trained and certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy with Nalanda Institute. She is committed to helping people develop robust inner tools for navigating life's challenges. Where: Zoom meetings hosted in partnership with Mitchell Family Acupuncture When: Wednesday Evenings 7pm-8:20pm 8 week class begins October 14, 2020 Cost: $220 (full payment due at registration) Contact Zemeira Singer at [email protected] or 510-463-4809 to register today! ____________________ #cbrt #compassion #learn #meditation #selfcompassionjourney #community #immunity #love

It’s time to get serious, and focus deeply on what matters. Time to dig a well. Time to commit fully - the world you are meant to do will not diminish or deplete you, but ultimately fill your with nectar. Like a mother in labor, it’s time to work hard, focus, push though, and get serious. Such a mother may get exhausted but is full, like a full moon. The lord of Dharma {Jupiter} is now direct in Sagittarius and lord of Karma {Saturn} direct in Capricorn.These slow-moving p...lanets will callus to gradually focus on the work we are to do in the world. Saturn in particular represents discipline, work, organized work, hidden justice, how we present ourselves, how we work hard in ways that are not apparent to everyone. There is potential for your good work to prevail in victory over areas that have felt stuck - be it relationships, spirituality or work. For those most important aspects of your life, Saturn will require us to release that which is no longer serves us. I won't say it’s a simple or easy time. Effort, a natural part of life, is required. We have to be clear. We have to be discerning, focused, and practical with in ourselves, family, communities and society. This can be a challenging time at the societal level. At the individual level it's important to understand this, to cultivate our resiliency and commit to what truly matters most in our lives. Time to get a little serious about what is important - be it family and friend relationships, home, health, money, work, or spiritual growth. Time to commit and go all the way. It's not to deny love, fun or pleasure. But if you want these in your life, you have to get a little focused about prioritizing them. * How can you focus most on what matters? * What can you release in your life that blocks you from the focus that will lead to victory? * Can you make practical changes to juggle fewer things? * How can we use this time of focus for good in our lives and in the world? Image: Siva as Mrtyunjaya showered with Nectar from the Moon. Palace Shrine, Gujarat, 18th Cent AD Thank you for this deep dive today @kayamindlin and allowing us to share your image and words! #repost

One more space left for our special Cupping Day this Sunday! Grab it. Book online or DM us. Clear and clean your lungs and remove toxins from your beautiful bod! ‘Fire cupping helps relieve stiffness in the muscles, and can help prevent and relieve cold symptoms. From a Chinese medicine perspective, fire cupping can help to expel cold wind from the surface of the body, and circulate Qi and blood in the channels. Long story short: come see us!’ ________________________ ... #acupuncture #cupping #firecupping #colddew #chinesemedicine #seasonalnodes #Repost @constellationacu thank you! See more

This batch of CoNo sold out so quick! We are awaiting more glass bottles and then will be able to brew more of our housemade anti viral syrup. I take it daily for lung strength & protection and blood cleaning. In addition to @taprootmedicine Strong Lung syrup it is a beautiful antidote to our smoky skies and tired lungs. We are taking preorders for our next batch! DM or email our office. What does it do?? -cleans the blood -strengthens the wei qi... - tonifies the immune system - nourishes the fluid of the lungs - protects the lower lobes of the lungs - cleans the lymph - excercises the lymphatic system - great when it’s tough to get your body moving - clears inflammation ____________________ #plantmedicine #itstrue #herbsdoeverything #plantallies #lunghealth #cono #preorder See more

Dear Ones, 15 years of being with you. 15 years of our practice giving over 40,000 acupuncture treatments!! 15 years of serious gratitude for the access to the ancient knowledge and wisdom of this nature based medicine that our team at Mitchell Family Acupuncture @alisonwintersacupuncture @wellinthewest @berkeleyacupuncture has the opportunity to practice. Fifteen years of you showing up with all of your beauty and vulnerability to receive and share and help us learn. All these years of being with you through so many big changes and truly loving you, seeing you, knowing you. The sun does shine. #gratitude #15yearanniversary #sunrise #harvestmoonday #rabbitrabbit #resilience #grace #berkeleyacupuncture #thesundoesshine

Help protect your Lungs this Fall - join us for an all day CUPPING day next Sunday October 11th Cupping is an ideal way to help clear out any lingering sludge or pathogens from your system. In Chinese medicine is it especially important at supporting your body's strong immunity and helping to protect through the Fall and Winter seasons. Come in for a special treatment by Lauren Kaneko-Jones. Lauren will be doing fire cupping as demonstrated below. Fire cupping is warming an...d can help release muscle tension improve lymphatic flow clear out lingering sludge from the lungs, increase circulation, boost immunity and more! The perfect way to support yourself through the Fall season. $75/ treatment! _____________________ #bookonline #specialcupping #firecupping #berkeleyacupuncture #womenshealth #lunghealth #fireprotection #cleartheair #internalclimatechange @wellinthewest

We grew this potato in our little backyard in Kensington, Ca. We planted a few pieces of potato in a wine barrel the day we returned from our ranch shelter in June. Our girls harvested nearly a bushel a few days ago. I am cooking this up today. My kids are happy to dig on the dirt in the backyard and watch our plants grow. Each potato is a miracle. Today Kensington is dark, outside surfaces cloaked in ash, an orange yellow grey sky. It is almost noon and starting to lighten ...up just a little. Our patients are cocooned, resting with their needles in and having a time to just breath and be. I am cooking up this potato in the clinic and focusing on my gratitude for it and the earth it grew in. Just this right now and it feels like that is enough and just right. Sending you all love on this day. ___________________ #fires #californialove #urbangarden #acupuncture #thisday See more

CONSCIOUS CITIZEN. BEAUTIFUL TERRIBLE WORLD. @tanehisipcoates _ How are you showing up? I have not been showing up on the internet lately. No newsletters, rare Insta posts. I have been showing up with patients, by donating resources, money and time, supporting family and friends. For people who have lost so much in the fires for signing petitions, sending emails, making calls. LIFE IS SO INTENSE right now. It feels like we are in some sort of pressure cooker. Or maybe we are... under a microscope. Or maybe it’s just planetary. Or the result of so many bad decisions during human evolution. I want to honor this chaos. The terribleness. The loss. Also what is beautiful. The beautiful: my patients are still full of hope and bringing babies into this world. New births, new pregnancies. People are still showing up to receive acupuncture. So many clients are therapists, doctors, nurses. It is an honor to support them so they can keep supporting their terrible and beautiful worlds. Keep going everyone. We are in this. Be conscious. Stay soft. If it feels like you cannot, take a nap or go to bed. When you wake up, try again. Sending love from Mitchell Family Acupuncture @berkeleyacupuncture Reposting this photo & thoughts from our beloved acupuncturist @wellinthewest ____________________ #liberation #gratitude #todayssunrise See more

102, AQI 152 in Berkeley today Letting go and melting into this Acupuncture is one of the best ways to relearn how to regulate your body temperature from the inside out. (And we have AC at the clinic!) ___________________ #prayer #water #lettinggo #holyhot #acupuncture thank you for the photo dear one @lyssandra_nativepalms

Just a few more days for our summer package! Available for 3 more days. We always offer our community access unlimited visits prepaid at our existing rates when our fees change. Commitment to your health. Commitment to yourself. I truly believe that the more centered and balanced we are the better we can be of service to this beautiful and terrible world. Holding you all in this time with so much love.

#challengeaccepted #womensupportingwomen thank you for loving me up today @kayamindlin @jessfeury

Working from the inside - this work has been the basis for layering work of inner support and strength that has been so vital to helping us navigate with grace and ease (at least sometimes!) this intense time. We have another class starting next week and a few spaces are still open. Join us to meditate! Compassion-Based Resilience Training The only proven contemplative training that introduces participants to mindfulness, compassion, imagery and breath-work in one complete ...program of stress-reduction, self-healing, and mind/body well-being. The training consists of eight weekly modules that introduce and teach mindfulness, insight, compassion, imagery, and breath-energy work. It also offers a student manual and guided audio meditations to support home practice and fieldwork. Meetings will be held weekly via Zoom and will be adapted to address the specific challenges of living through the Covid-19 pandemic. Taught by Zemeira Singer, LMFT Zemeira has been providing psychotherapy and psychoeducation for 12 years and has been practicing meditation for 15 years. She’s trained and certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy with Nalanda Institute. She is committed to helping people develop robust inner tools for navigating life's challenges. Where: Zoom meetings hosted in partnership with Mitchell Family Acupuncture When: Wednesday Evenings 7pm-8:20pm 8 week class begins August 5, 2020 Cost: $220 (full payment due at registration) Contact Zemeira Singer at [email protected] or 510-463-4809 to register today! ____________________ #cbrt #compassion #learn #meditation #selfcompassionjourney #community #immunity #love

A mother loves all of her children. But when one is in need of her attention, her love, her care... she tends to that one. Yes. All lives matter, true. But #blacklivesmatter is a call to attention {if you had not been already paying attention for all these years and generations!} to tend to that which needs tending to. It is a call to uprise, uplift, re-callibrate what has been long distorted. The mother knows all children matter but she tends to the one who is in pain...... and she even calls on the other children to tend to the one in pain as well. Be a mother. Be a carer. Be a responsible and rightful person. When a child is bleeding or sad or exhausted does the mother say, I can’t help you because all my children matter and it takes my attention from the other child, no. A mother tends to that which she is being called to do. Tend to the circumstance at hand that is calling your attention. This is how to be a rightful contributor to the family, the community, the world. Tend to what matters. Some mothers are born mothers. Some learn. If you are just catching up with what it means to tend to the world or the community, fine. Do the work you need to do to catch up and participate. Don’t apologize, don’t try to be perfect, just get on with it. If you have been at this for some time, pass the torch when you need. Tend to yourself when you are the one in need of tending to. We need you full. #Repost @kayamindlin #deepgratitude #foryou #nospirtualbypass #mother #beamother #yogisforblacklivesmatter #mothersforblacklivesmatter #acupuncturistsforsocialjustice

From our beloved acupuncturist @wellinthewest Solstice. The height of yang. Energy.... Light. Movement. Summer, the season of the heart. Use it. Use your heartbreak, your love, your energy, the anger. Use your heart and power and energy and mind to do all the things you have been thinking about. Now is the time. Use the long daylight hours and the energy you have for justice for too many black lives lost, hurt, injured, disenfranchised. Black lives matter. Black trans lives matter. We are in the longest hours of daylight and it is showing us what we have been ignoring for so long. Light your heart in fire. Celebrate joy. Feel your anger. Ain’t no power like the power of the people of the power of the people don’t stop. Im here. Learning. Donating. Emailing. Acting. Listening. Watching. (Coming soon a post on black mamas health. My little one is almost one year old. And it is my wish for his lifetime that black lives and black joy become honored by becoming fairly treated in our healthcare systems.) and food by @rachaelgorjestani #Repost @wellinthewest