Shift Acupuncture

Sending much appreciation out to all our patients and Oakland community! After nearly seven years, Shift has closed our doors. The time naturally came for the collective to move our separate ways, on to other endeavors. We have had the pleasure of serving so many folks, and are grateful for the opportunity to help lift our community up. Thanks again! Feel free to email [email protected] if you'd like to get in touch with Amy, Rona, or Maria Jose. Cheers!

Again open on Saturdays. Come get your rest and relaxation on. Book online here:

We are looking for subletters, please help spread the word and have a day full of ease and joy. Craiglist link below <3

This next Monday let us gather in a sound healing journey with medicine music from the Caribbean to the Peruvian Amazon. Join us in this special night with curandera Eda Zavala.

Yesterday’s Free Auricular Clinic in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. People came early to get treatments, the line was long, people hung out and healed in community. I was surprised to see the youth come for stress relief. So inspired by the work of Salud y Acupunctura para el Pueblo. Decolonization starts from within.

Look what came in the mail! Thank you all for your generous donations. Thanks to you 60,000 needles and 6,600 ear seeds are making their way to 100% volunteer run free auricular acupuncture clinics in Puerto Rico. From the people to the people with tons of love!

Just one appointment open in the group clinic today (at 420pm, for existing patients only) -- come shake off those lingering colds and allergies -- and get ready for summer (coming soon hopefully!)! https://www.schedulicity.com/scheduling/SAY339

A report back from Puerto Rico

This is what radical health care looks like. Squatting a building for post-Maria community relief work(having to resist the police to do it), building a community kitchen to feed the hungry, offer a weekly auricular acupuncture clinic, and workshops like "how to tackle machismo".....Say what? Please support the homies at Centro de Apoyo Mutuo de Caguas, they are doing the good work and fighting the good fight in Puerto Rico, all for the love, 100% volunteer work, promoting a...nd growing a decentralized trade economy. They fed up to 500 people daily after Hurricane Maria, and 100 people daily now, breakfast and lunch. They are running out of ear seeds and needles for auricular acupuncture. And you can help, just donate through paypal at [email protected] Below, Ismael, an auricular acupuncture clinic regular, is pumped to receive herbal medicine love from us.

Black panthers championed and popularized auricular acupuncture for underserved communities way before acupuncture was mainstream. With the Young Lords, they took and opened free community acupuncture clinics at the Lincoln Hospital in NYC. https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/200095984070449/

Thanks to all of your support in our fundraising efforts for post-hurricane Maria Puerto Rico, Shift Acupuncture Collective member @mariajosemontijo was able to take 300 bottles of herbal medicine to the island. Apoyo for PTSD or as we prefer to call it PTSG(post traumatic stress growth), Calma for calming the mind, reducing anxiety and stress, and Resistencia for building a strong immune system and healing wounds. Thank you to all that helped make it happen, our ACTCM teacher Paz Vizcarra for sharing her expertise and vitamix, @fiveflavorsherbs for the bottles, @jackiisoooh, @capybara_pics and Rosi for the help bottling, and @burgosnanette for last minute packing magic. Community medicine from the Bay Area community to the Puerto Rican grass-roots community with lots of love! Stay tuned for more on this story....

Due to the East Coast Storm, my flight to Puerto Rico got cancelled and pushed back. Therefore I have openings this Monday for acupuncture and biodynamic craniosacral touch. In celebration of Three Kings Day, I will sing and play the harp for all my patients <3 Happy Three Kings Day, Maria Jose... Book your appointment here:

Acupuncture is very clean, but we also love the smoky, smelly, messy aspects of Chinese medicine. What a treat to trade dragon moxa with @paolo.acupuncture. We both wanted to boost immunity and nourish our inner fire as the winter comes. #moxa #mugwort #ginger #spine #shakti #qi #dumai #fireenergy #immunity #qiboost #chinesemedicine #oakland

Live at Shift:::healing for Puerto Rico:::healing for us all:::music for healing