Returning To Your Body: How Acupuncture Actually Regulates Your Nervous System
Acupuncture’s capacity to regulate yours nervous system goes deeper than simply helping you to relax. Explore the ways it promotes embodied awareness, resilience, and more when you are in the midst of change or chaos. Afterall, a healthy nervous system isn’t a perpetually calm one… read on to clarify this amongst other misconceptions when it comes to nervous system regulation.
Acupuncture for Labor
Did you know Acupuncture is a gentle, naturally effective way to prepare your mind & body for labor, but to also initiate labor itself? Dive into this post to learn about Acupuncture’s benefits during this uniquely liminal space between pregnancy and your (re)birth.
What Are Acupuncture Points?
Discover the unique scientific properties and multi-faceted functions of Acupuncture points along with my own perspective after years of offering this ancient healing art to clients.
Shadow Work: Making Our Darkness Conscious
Shadow work invites you to return to yourself by deliberately looking within: gazing into the abyss of your heart & psyche to illuminate the origin stories, memories, and aspects of your identity exiled to be forgotten. It can be confronting and difficult. But it can also be a gentle homecoming: a remembrance of who you are. Learn about this avenue for self-healing & ways to begin here…
Why the Name “Rune”?
A doorway marked by mystery, Rune was inspired by a journey which beckoned me to shed everything I knew and thought I was behind and bring all I was with me. Although dimly-lit at first, by gazing into shadows and seeking out the sweetness and beauty behind the veil, I summoned the courage to turn the knob and step within…
Fertile Voids & The Water Element
In Chinese Medicine, the Water Element rules the Winter, the color Black, the Bones, and more. On the 5-Element wheel, Water’s position on the lower left side symbolizes how nature’s Cosmic Qi moves down & inward. Being the lowest point on the entropy cycle, it signifies a necessary descent into darkness as a means of rebirth. Afterall… All things first grow in the dark.
Surrendering
“When you are in a rebirth, you aren't reborn just once. It comes in waves and layers…” ~ Brianna Weist
In this entry, I share my reflections on living in the liminal realm of pregnancy: how I’m navigating this new unknown, my raw & honest feelings, plus the lessons it’s invited me to remember about the process of becoming.
Plumpit Qi & The Voice-Womb Connection
Did you know that the vocal cords have a striking resemblance to the pelvic floor? In fact, their relationship has physical and energetic effects on our self-expression and more. Written by Acupuncturist Dr. Lauren Favreau and Physical Therapist Dr. Emily Wilson, learn about the throat-womb connection from a unique, integrated lens.
How to Protect the Physical & Metaphysical Powers of Your Digestive Fire
Bloated constantly? Tired? Anxious? Read how a weakened Spleen and poor digestion causes these and what you can do to address their root cause: by strengthening your Digestive Fire.
Summoning
Ever since the snow started thawing in late March, I’ve been summoning. Summoning the strength to embark on a new path - to rewrite my story - all in the abyss of the unknown. Journeying solo (aside from the incredible support of my inner circle) I learned to not shy away from the dimly lit liminal realm between where I was and who I was becoming, but to bravely pave it - illuminate it - step by step, moment to moment.