Welcome to Shamanic Acupuncture!

What in the world was in my oatmeal this morning? Many of you may be wondering this (or worse thoughts of the effects of declining estrogen levels….)????  Shamanic Acupuncture?  What is that?

Worry not fair Patient; The two go together like yin and yang.  Chinese medicine was founded in a shamanic base: the idea of treating the body, mind and spirit and returning the soul of every organ to a place of harmony and balance.  Alchemy is the magic of our medicine in both traditional chinese medicine and in shamanism.  The Tao represents the representation of the object, yet it is NOT the object: it is again, the Soul level: not attainable in a material form.

The reason I am changing my practice to encompass this magical world of Shamanic healing with the equally powerful realm of chinese medicine is that this is where the deep and profound healing takes place that allows us to make the core changes that truly permits dis-ease to dis-integrate, and conversely allow EASE to  Integrate and heal us.

I am committed to working on this soul level now in these challenging times since just healing the body with needles seems insufficient.  I am finding that what serves my patients best is to support them on whatever level they need, but in so many cases, just listening to their unfulfilled dreams, frustrations and sometimes traumas has alerted me to see the parallels in my own healings where a more intrinsic intervention is the only cure.  Indeed, part of the healing starts just as we speak about the areas of our lives where we are feeling prisoners: where we are stuck, angry, hurt and/or all of the above!

Don’t get me wrong, chinese medicine is brilliant to clear up stagnation, pain, and certainly can change our outlook, restore our health as it promotes balance.  But this doesn’t address why we keep choosing those negative patterns, partners, etc.  How can we shift from these negative patterns if we are unconscious about how we continue to choose / attract them to us?  This is where shamanic work comes in.

I will write more about how and why I am incorporating this work into my practice in upcoming blogs.  I also encourage you, if you are interested, to read more about these various practices from my teachers who have written books on subjects as vast as how we can detoxify water through our thoughts (Medicine for the Earth), as well as Healing Toxic Thoughts (both by Sandra Ingerman), or dreaming our life as we want it (John Perkins “The World as you Dream It”.

In the meantime, I send you Blessings of Love and Light.

Kay Fields, Portland, OR

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