MAS in the house!

NEW YEAR = NEW ACUPUNCTURIST & NEW EXPANDED HOURS

Mike Sobin, whom many of you have known from our front desk, recently graduated and got his acupuncture license. As a result, we will be able to be open more days and longer hours.
Mike has been with the clinic since 2007, and is a welcome asset as a practitioner. You can rest assured you are in good hands.

So...beginning Monday, February 7th, South Austin Community Acupuncture will begin experimenting with new hours, as follows:

Mondays 9-5 
Tues/Wed/Thurs 10-8
Fridays 9-5
Saturdays 10-2

This adds Mondays, some more morning hours, and more evening hours.
We hope this serves you well.

We'll be refining this, and making adjustments to who is here when as we go, with the ultimate goal of being open 8am-8pm. To warrant this we need lots of warm bodies, so come on down and tell your friends and family.

9000 Needles 2nd screening

A 2nd screening of the movie '9000 Needles' will happen this Sunday, Jan. 23rd at 12:30.
Thanks to the TAAOM, the Alamo, and Doug Dearth/One in a Row Productions.
Proceeds to benefit the Texas Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and the Devin Dearth Foundation.

9000 Needles

The Texas Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is proud to present a screening of the award winning documentary '9000 Needles'. One screening only: Sunday, January 16th, 4:00pm at the Alamo Village on Anderson Lane. The director, Doug Dearth, will be in attendance for Q & A following the film.

You can purchase tickets online here 

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Lisa Rohleder on acupuncture for pain management

Here's a great post from Working Class Acupuncture's Lisa Rohleder on pain management and community acupuncture. She really nails it on a few points (no pun intended): Read it here.

Thoughts and prayers

The night began with the forgone conclusion that there is nothing on television.

By the end of the night I had watched fascinating programs on American politics, the marsh lands of Iraq, Navajo rug making, opera, sports...all on PBS of course, and all slightly inspiring me in some weird way in relation to what I do day in and day out - which is practice a medicine which is of a culture in all honesty I barely know, that involves sticking needles in people, and using plants as medicine. What a life, huh?

The most profound statement of the night came from a Navajo rug maker. She was speaking of the tools used in making wool and rugs, and said, "They all have life giving names." She contrasted that against making rugs by machines, which she pointed out don't have thoughts and prayers.

It was a theme reiterated throughout the evening in different ways, whatever the culture, or the medium.

Made me think about how much the Chinese and the Native Americans are alike in their respect of their ancestors, and the relevance of this notion of "life giving names" to Chinese medicine and how we imbue meaning...

New shirts!

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