Welcome to everyone who found out about the clinic through the lovely story in Model D! Many thanks to the article’s author, Ashley Woods, for striking up the initial conversation and gamely submitting to the needles; to Marvin Shaouni, who makes everyone and everything look fabulous; and to Mari, who was the clinic’s first official patient back in December, and who replied to my last-minute modeling call (and even brought me a scone from Avalon Bakery)!
For those of you who don’t already know, I’m part of a nationwide network of acupuncturists committed to making our medicine more accessible and affordable. Without their support – and without the leadership of Lisa Rohleder, captain of “the mothership” – I would never, never have had the gumption to start this clinic by myself, in a new town where I’d just moved and didn’t hardly know a soul.
This week also saw a couple of other wonderful stories about Community Acupuncture clinics in other parts of the country (Seattle and Tucson, respectively). This one is audio (or you can read the transcript); it’s from the Michigan-based Environmental Report, and has an interesting perspective on the “footprint” of community acupuncture. This one is a video (about 4 minutes long), that has some great images of people getting acupuncture and looking completely comfortable, in a fairly typical Community Acupuncture clinic setting.
Here’s a link to a directory of other CA clinics around the country; and don’t forget, there are clinics in Livonia and Ferndale too!