KIN Medicine

7 8 ! I'm extending the challenge until Saturday, Feb 6th at midnight. That means you have time to start the challenge right now and do the 8 days before it closes. OR if you started and need more time, you've got it. Reach out, let me know how you're doing with it!! ... How are you feeling? How has this journey been for you? Has your connection to your pleasure and sensuality expanded, evolved, deepened? These last two days are all about discovering the wellspring of more pleasure that you have within you, so get ready to unleash! In today's practice, we use all of our senses to engage in pleasure. When our senses are activated we’re more able to be in the present moment and in our body. Feel into what each sense activates for you. Some people are smell-driven, others are touch sensitive. See what would deepen your experience of pleasure. Think about pleasure as varying degrees of nutritional value. A teacher I follow, Kim Anami talks about sex as either gourmet food or junk food. You can have the sort of experience that feeds your soul and nourishes you, or you can have a quick fix, a quick orgasm that shortly leaves you feeling like you need more or something else to fulfill you. True pleasure is high-grade nourishment! And every woman has a natural, beautiful, amazing sexuality at her core and an ability to form a deep, intimate relationship with her body and pleasure. This is available to you. Slowing down and paying attention to your senses is what will lead you to that deeper experience of pleasure and possibly orgasm if that is something you are working on or towards. This practice is not goal-oriented though! That takes all the fun out of it. Give yourself permission to not have a goal and to explore. Today we're doing a 5 senses ritual! Yum!

Welcome to Day 6! Final stretch of the 8 Days of Sensuality Challenge! And if you haven’t done any of the practices yet. It’s okay! Jump in here, do this one. It’s an important one. If you've been holding out on signing up. Sign up now! I'm thinking of extending the days the content is up so jump on it!...Continue reading

Hello hello hello! Welcome to Day 5 of the 8 Day Sensuality Challenge! You can access the video practice with the link in my bio if you'd like to join in. You’re really doing it! You're giving yourself this beautiful gift of access to your sensuality and pleasure.... This life sustaining, nourishing yummy, brilliant energy that comes from within you! You are in charge of that glorious energy and you are in charge of this process. If you need more time, take what you need. If you want to take a break for a day to self care, please do. If you want to do the practices 3 times, by all means. Just like your pleasure is uniquely your own so is the process of unveiling it. There is no rush. Something I have to remind myself of quite often. Pleasure doesn’t like to rush. It’s more of a slow, sensuous unfurling. We’re emerging from the underworld after stirring up some trapped emotional energy and feeling clearer than ever around our boundaries. Today, we’re heading into a more yin practice after yesterday’s yang dance party. We’re going to circulate our turn on, our sensual energy using an ancient Taoist meditation, the microcosmic orbit. Balancing our energies after having stirred some energy up in order to create regulation. This practice stands the test of time because it creates energy flow, balances our masculine and feminine energy and utilizes our energy to create our desires in the world. Today's Practice: Microcosmic Orbit Meditation to balance our energy system. If you want to check it out, click the link in my bio!

Day of 4 of the 8 Day Sensuality Challenge You can still sign up for the challenge with the link in my bio. Take the weekend to do a little catch up! The weekends were made for more pleasure. We’ve reached the halfway point of our journey!... Yes yes yes! I’m doing a shimmy and a shake then coming at ya with high-fives for making it here! We’ve arrived to today, ready to let go of our past conditioning around our sensuality. We got clear on our boundaries yesterday - now in touch with what our true yes and no is so that we can create safety within ourselves. Today we shake off any conditioning that was given to us by our families, media, religions and society in order to get closer to the heart of what sensuality and pleasure looks like for us. When we were kids, we started unconsciously hearing, seeing and absorbing what was appropriate around our sexuality through different sources. Many of those sources planted shame as a way to dampen our own sensual, playful and creative light to create order and control. Too often we carry unnecessary shame in our adult lives around our sexuality based on what we were taught. We instinctively reject shame because its uncomfortable to feel and so we also push away our sexuality and our desire disappears. If you change your relationship to shame. Express it, embrace it, and understand what’s under the shame, we can transform it. The shame will soften and you will feel your desire and sensuality again. To get to the root, we’re going back to some of the shame and the other dampened emotions - to feel it, express it and release it. We don’t always have to talk it out or doing anything then just let the emotions flow. When we’ve let the emotions express and know that we will not be conquered by them but instead we can be empowered by them, we stand stronger in our own truth. So today we dance. We’ll be throwing a pity party and a tantrum then dancing, playing, flirting and standing in our own powerful sensuality. Enjoy!!

Happy Winter Solstice & Great Conjunction lovelies! What an occasion. This day marks a turning point in our seasonal cycles, this day is the most yin of yin, the shortest day and longest night (in the Northern hemisphere). Moving forward from here the light increases daily, navigating us towards spring. It's also the Great Conjunction. Where Jupiter and Saturn are just degrees from each other in the sky, which happens every 20 years. Changing from 200 years of Earth signs ...over to Aquarius, an air sign. Jupiter represents growth and Saturn is all about discipline. Lots of beautiful explanations are out there of what that means for us as a collective. Check out @northnodecoach @jennaracioppi or @chaninicholas. The seeds planted today are potent! Choose your thoughts, intentions and actions mindfully. Journal, dance, meditate, create an altar, commune with nature, draw tarot cards or anything that supports you in reflection and transition. And rest, to honor your yin. I'm deliciously excited for this turning point. It feels like it's ushering in a lot of potential. There's much work to do, on personal and collective levels but a shift can open up new perspectives. Allow HOPE into your day and your heart. Art from @infinite_mantra

The clinic will continue to be open As you might know, a new regional stay-at-home order is now in effect in the Bay Area, including Alameda and Contra Costa counties. I will continue to be open in the clinic during this new phase of shelter-in-place. In California, acupuncturists are primary care physicians and we are allowed to remain open at all tiers of restrictions. ... At our clinic, we’re taking the proper precautions to keep everyone safe and healthy. Including wearing masks, running air filters, disinfecting between patients and spacing out appointments appropriately. My clinic procedures are listed on my website if you' like more info. I feel confident in our ability to keep everyone safe and I feel so honored to be able to continue to serve during this challenging time. Please reach out if I can support you in any way - even just for a phone chat or to receive a funny or fuzzy animal gif. Love to all.

Resistance can be fierce. Resistance shows up as limitations, procrastination, pain and distraction.... In a meditation or embodiment practice, when we’re getting quiet to hear the subtler messages within, our resistance can show up big time. For example, if when you close your eyes to go inward, you’re met with some thought, need, new idea, forgotten task that causes you to open your eyes and move on. That’s resistance. Resistance can come and go, depending on so many factors so I like to get curious when I see it pop up for myself and those I work with. I wonder, what are you resisting feeling or doing? There’s usually a lot of wisdom to be found in what we resist. And it's just another message for us. In my practice, I’m all about making the unconscious, conscious for our own truth, integrity and personal power. Plus when we see what we resist, suddenly it’s not that scary or powerful because we have the awareness of it. In this eclipse season, we’re letting go of control to see what needs to be cleared for us as we expand into the next version of ourselves. It’s a good time to lean into letting go of resistance so we can let life flow through us. I’ll be leading a Friday morning live embodiment practice on this topic of meeting resistance and then diving into answering some questions that I’ve received on pleasure, love and relationships! Hope to see you there at 9am PST.

What if your body is a portal? A portal into deeper knowing of yourself: your pain, fears, potential and pleasure? Our body is constantly talking to us, giving us messages. Each time we hear words, come into a new environment, are in the presence of someone, we are reading the frequency of the situation and it all registers in our body as sensation. ... To listen to its wisdom, it only requires that we learn the unique language of our own body. As I've continued to work as an acupuncturist and coach, I've seen that this is where I can best support others, to learn to use your body as a bridge into these higher wisdom spaces. In our work together, you will be able to decode the signals of your body to hear its true messages and to alchemize the held experiences from the past in a safe container. Embodiment coaching sessions include breathwork, meditation and visualization, which give you powerful tools to integrate your life’s experiences and use their lessons to create wisdom, instead of being unconsciously controlled by their patterns. This way of integration liberates your body and gives you the power to be able to hear your intuition more clearly, to make healthy choices more easily and to orient yourself towards a life of pleasure instead of struggle. This is what it means to be an embodied wild woman, liberated from past conditioning, using the wisdom of your body to direct your own passion and potential, all while having fun. It is wild woman alchemy through one of the most powerful vessels we have, the body. I'm booking sessions for December and January now. DM me for more info or questions.

Full Moon in Gemini Moon Circle Join us in exploring the energy of the Full Moon in Gemini and manifesting an expansive new vision during this spirited lunar cycle! This is a free gathering. In this women's circle, evolutionary astrologer and archetypal coach Diana Westly @northnodecoach will share astrological insights about the Gemini Full Moon and how to work with its galvanizing and destiny-driven energy, tarotist, numerologist, and astrologer Aubrey Houdeshell @gravey...ardroses will share the mystical and numerological themes of this lunation, and I will lead us through an embodiment exercise to help us ground and center our energy as we prepare to manifest some Full Moon magic. Afterward, all attendees are invited to share where they are coming from and what they hope to manifest in this upcoming cycle! DM me for the link!

Pulse Diagnosis The main way acupuncturists diagnose after taking medical history and asking questions is through tongue and pulse diagnosis. Our tongues and pulse are microsystems of the whole body they reflect what’s happening in your body as a whole. ... I’ll share more about our tongue’s on a different day but since COVID, I’ve relied a lot on pulse diagnosis. I was fascinated by the way my first acupuncturist would feel my pulse and then ask questions or make statements that were spot on, like, Oh, you’re in your menstrual phase or Was your sleep pretty interrupted last night? And I would say, ahh yah, how’d you know?" Through pulse palpation at three locations (the cun, guan and chi positions from the crease of the wrist down towards the elbow) our general health and particular organ conditions can be recognized. More specifically, the way Chinese medicine views health, five people could all have the same medical diagnosis of PCOS but there are different pattens that could all lead to this same syndrome. It could be Blood deficiency, Blood Stagnation or Liver qi stagnation all the same syndrome with different roots depending on the person’s inner environment. The pulses will help point the way to what the root cause is of their condition. We feel for rate, quality, rhythm, depth, symmetry between sides and so much more depending on how deep your study of the pulses go. When we study, we find pulse types or conditions. There are over 30 conditions in the classic texts, some of those include floating, rapid, string-taught, leathery, a slippery pulse (like pearls rolling in a dish), wiry (like a guitar string) etc. Some of these are deficient pulses, some of them are excess. They all signify different things and can be felt at different positions. On the right side, is the qi (energy) side. The organs associated with the quantity and quality of our energy are the Lungs, Spleen and Kidney Yang each lined up from the base of the wrist toward the elbow. The left side is associated with our blood. The organs felt here are the Heart, Liver and Kidney Yin. Pulse-taking is an art and you can study it for your entire career and keep gaining more and more complexity. It was one of the things that drew me to acupuncture. The body is sharing what’s happening we just have to listen and learn its languages. And in my opinion, it speaks lots of languages, you just have to learn which one you jive with. Snap-shot of me taking my Uncle’s pulse at Thanksgiving last year.

So excited to offer this event on Halloween/Samhain with my bosom buddy, Diana @northnodecoach. It’s a powerful day when intuition is heightened and the veils between the worlds are thin, further boosted by the Full Moon in Taurus. In the words of Evolutionary Astrologer, Diana Westly, "the Full Moon conjoins the great awakener, Uranus, flooding us with intuitive insights and further thinning the veils between the worlds.... What an impactful time to come together, connect to our power and our intentions for ourselves and the world around us. With the moon in Earth sign Taurus, we’ll be bringing it into the body to create transformative manifestation magic. Diana will share the astrological and mystical energies at play under this Samhain Full Moon. I will be leading us through a ritual and practice to help you channel and embody the manifestation magic of this powerful day. The act of ceremony and ritual supports us in marking the shifts happening within us and in the world around us. Hope you can join us! When: October 31st from 1-2pm PT Price: $25-35 (Sliding Scale) Register: via @thefeatheredoutlaw or the link in my bio

So so excited to announce that we’re pregnant!! Baby Golden is going to join us in early April 2021. A little Aries, born in the year of the Ox, just like their mama. We’re overjoyed to have this ray of sunshine and hope in our lives. ... I’ve been fortunate enough to feel pretty great and so I’ll continue to provide all of my offerings until mid-March and then I have some fantastic practitioners lined up to support folxs during my leave. As some of you who have been following me for this year know, I was really in preparation mode to invite this baby in. Somewhere along the line it really became an internal process of devoting myself to all the things that I was already a mother of: my furry family, my family, my friends, my patients. We are mothering all the time, when we nurture, when we love, when we set boundaries. And I let it go and really trusted the timing...then of course, in came baby! My husband and I are so excited to expand our family and welcome to this little human. Please enjoy a couple of snaps from our wedding anniversary this past weekend. Sending all the love See more

So so excited to announce that we’re pregnant!! Baby Golden is going to join us in early April 2021. A little Aries, born in the year of the Ox, just like their mama. We’re overjoyed to have this ray of sunshine and hope in our lives. ... I’ve been fortunate enough to feel pretty great and so I’ll continue to provide all of my offerings until mid-March and then I have some fantastic practitioners lined up to support folxs during my leave. As some of you who have been following me for this year know, I was really in preparation mode to invite this baby in. Somewhere along the line it really became an internal process of devoting myself to all the things that I was already a mother of: my furry family, my family, my friends, my patients. We are mothering all the time, when we nurture, when we love, when we set boundaries. And I let it go and really trusted the timing...then of course, in came baby! My husband and I are so excited to expand our family and welcome to this little human. Please enjoy a couple of snaps from our wedding anniversary this past weekend. Sending all the love

Libra New Moon collection I’m curious, what are your new moon rituals? What are the ways you mark the time passing? The ways you signal to yourself to clear the past and start a new? Tell me in the comments. This new moon, I’m planting the intention to share my internal world more with my external world through writing, speaking and art to express and rejoice in the light and the shadow openly. And to balance rest and action towards my inspirations. ... In this cycle, I certainly feel that I’ve surpassed a threshold and there’s no more going back. How’s this new moon landing for you? Head over to @northnodecoach to hear astrology on this New Moon cycle

Come to share in practice, support and blessings for each other during this New Moon in Libra on Thursday, Oct 15th, 7-8pm pacific. Sign up below! We'll explore the energy of this New Moon and set some loving intentions during this Venus-ruled lunar cycle! In this women's circle, evolutionary astrologer and archetypal coach Diana Westly @northnodecoach will share astrological insights about the Libra New Moon and how to use its energy to tap into our endless reserves of love... and light, tarotist, numerologist, and astrologer Aubrey Houdeshell @thegraveyardroses will share the mystical and numerological themes of this lunation, and I will lead us through an embodiment exercise to help us remain balanced and open-hearted as we seed and nurture our New Moon intentions. Afterward, all attendees are invited to share where they are coming from and their goals and intentions for this upcoming cycle! Donations: This moon circle is free to attend, but if you would like to make a donation to support the continuation of these women's circles, you can do so via Venmo at @Diana-Westly

Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment. ~Brené Brown One of my favorite quotes on boundaries. To be truly compassionate towards others we have to honor ourselves, our needs and limits - so that when are of service, we are doing it from a place free of resentment. ... Reminder: I'll be going live on IG today (Friday, Oct 9th - @kin.medicine) at 2:30pm pst to share a guided visualization to ground and get in touch with your true desires. Cocakatoo photo courtesy of my sis @gabrielle_georginne

Consider our upcoming workshop Embrace Your Wild: An Exploration of Self Love code word for tapping into a whole new level of aliveness. So this class could easily be called: - Get the relationship of your dreams!... - Get her/him/they/ze to fall in love with you! - Create the habit that will help you feel vibrant! - Fall in love with your career! - How to love and accept your partner for who they really are! - Have the sex life you’ve always wanted! - How to get clear on your desires and awaken your radiance! This was also just a fun exercise for me to write snappy magazine-style headlines. It all comes back to prioritizing yourself, your aliveness and embracing your wildness. Sometimes I sit around and wonder (and most likely will try and engage anyone around me in this conversation) why the transformational work that I and so many of my amazing colleagues do is considered complimentary or alternative" medicine or even luxury services when they are SO integral to our health. Well we know why, capitalismpatriarchybroken health care system. But more to the point, how do we go about fixing that? I see so many working to change this and it seems one of the most effective ways is to offer varying price points and time commitments. In line with that, here's what I've got brewing: -Friday, Oct 9th, 2:30pm pst on IG Live Free live guided visualization -Sunday, Oct 11th, 4-5:30pm pst Embrace Your Wild: An Exploration of Self Love $27 I’ll be leading it alongside the wonderful @MediumMeghanHart. Check out the link in my bio for the schedule of the event and to register. -5 Weekly Wednesdays starting Oct 14th, 4-5:00pm pst A stellar 5-week Embodied Fertility small group coaching program $300 A deep dive into regulating your menstrual cycles and connecting to your womb. Hopefully there is something there that’s do-able for you.

I’ve officially been in the new clinic space for a month now and it’s just wonderful. The clinic is bright, open and quiet. Plus it's on a super charming street nestled in between a ceramics studio and a (super quiet!) music lessons studio. It has all the quaint European shop vibes this gal loves. For you Bay Area locals, the new space is on Athol Ave. in Oakland, close to Lakeshore Ave and Lake Merritt.... With plenty of street parking, which is a rarity in our beloved cities. Come in for some acupuncture, cupping, gua sha, moxa, herbs and, of course, some guided visualization to bring you right into a place of calm. AND I have some new offers I’m brewing up that I’m super excited to announce in the coming weeks. Thanks all, wanted to mark the milestone and share some photos with you all!

The concept of self-love is kinda abstract, huh? Unless this has been something you’ve really prioritized in your life and therefore have felt deep in your body, it’s hard to know what that self-love even really is. Most of the time it’s something people talk about when they’re unleveling their self-care game but that’s just one part of it. I wasn’t necessarily going after finding self-love myself at first. But when I realized that all the other things that I desired in my l...ife (a healthy relationship, a career I loved, a supportive community, feeling energetic and physically healthy and financial wellbeing), all came back to the same source of loving myself, I decided to make it a priority. I’m not saying I’ve got it all figured out. But I do have times of incredible self-love. Even more importantly when I realize I’m not loving on myself, I have tools to help me return to that place of love more quickly. I’ve learned these tools over the course of the years while healing from heartbreak, in states of deep loneliness after moving across the country and while taking huge risks to pursue a career I was passionate about. I’ve also picked up some amazing new tools and deepened others from my VITA sex, love and relationship coaching program, which has been a major part of 2020 for me. It's probably been the saving grace amongst pandemics, shelter in place orders, wildfires and election season. That’s why I’m super excited to share some of these tools with you. If you haven’t seen, @MediumMeghanHart and I will be leading a workshop on Oct 14th at 4:00pm-5:30pm on how to boost your ability to love yourself and increase your self-worth. Meghan is a medium, psychic, spiritual guide and an all around amazing human being. When Meghan and I team up together, it just feels like beautiful magic happens combining embodiment and spirit practice, whew, powerful! Hope you join us for the class! The cost is a friendly $27 - link to sign-up below. P.S. This topic is a big part of enhancing your fertility as well. I’ll save that for another day though!

I’m super excited to announce this workshop: Embrace Your Wild: An Exploration of Self Worth +Self Love happening virtually on Sunday, Oct 11th from 4-5:30 pacific. Loving yourself is at the foundation for your most wild and radiant life. It sets the groundwork for how others treat you and who you attract into your life. @MediumMeghanHart and I will be hosting this 90-minute workshop. We will be guiding you inwards to review and access your own levels of self-love... and self-worth. It'll include discussions, embodiment exercises, guided visualization, a guided automatic writing session, spirit messages, and readings. Because your worth lies within and only you can determine your value. This workshop is $27 to attend and you can sign up with the link in my bio. We'll be going live today, Thursday, Oct 1st at 1pm PST to discuss more and share some practices to get you warmed up. We are so excited to embrace our wild with you! See more

Aries Full Moon Circle Gathering I'm partial to this lunation because it's a full moon in my sun sign, Aries in Libra season, my ascendant and moon sign. I promise to bring the fullness of this axis' energy! Join us to explore the energy of the Full Moon in Aries and manifest some healing magic during this inspiring lunar cycle! In this women's circle, evolutionary astrologer and archetypal coach Diana Westly @northnodecoach will share astrological insights about this ...Aries Full Moon and how to heal the wound to our independence, tarotist, numerologist, and astrologer Aubrey Houdeshell @thegraveyardroses will share the mystical and numerological themes of this lunation, and I will lead us through an embodiment exercise to help us ground our energy and manifest our Full Moon goals. Afterward, all attendees are invited to share where they are coming from and their goals and intentions for this upcoming cycle! Donations: This moon circle is free to attend, but if you would like to make a donation to support the continuation of these women's circles, you can do so via Venmo at @Diana-Westly. Hope to see you there!