Community Style Acupuncture
Fridays 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Facilitator: Jennifer Ross
Cost: Sliding Scale $15-$30

Community supported acupuncture is a movement within the profession to provide access to acupuncture for large numbers of people. It means that multiple people are treated together in the same room, and because of this costs can be greatly reduced. This allows for the regularity of treatment often needed to provide real healing with acupuncture. Though more importantly, perhaps, the group energy created brings about a powerful healing dynamic that doesn’t occur during an individual acupuncture treatment. It is this dynamic that is also present during group meditation, qi gong, or yoga that makes it exponentially more powerful. Additional benefits of community style acupuncture are friends and family can be treated together, and feelings of nervousness or fear are often diminished when others can be seen relaxing and often sleeping while receiving acupuncture. As with any healing modality, it is important to make a commitment to yourself and your treatment plan for acupuncture and Chinese medicine to work. The needles and the acupuncturist are just the facilitators; within you is your true healer.

Jennifer Ross, L.Ac.’s interest in Integrative Medicine began while earning a B.S. in Dietetics from The University of Florida, followed by massage therapy certification from Lifestream in Napa, CA. With the addition of a Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and California state licensure in acupuncture, she combined concepts of Western biomedicine with more subtle energetic anatomy in her practice.

Pain management, orthopedics and nutrition are the emphasis of Jennifer’s acupuncture practice. She combines the Balance Method, an acupuncture technique based in ancient texts, Yin Tui Na, a subtle and nurturing form of body work, and more active yang style massage therapy to treat chronic pain, trauma and sports injury. Pain is often relieved immediately, while the body’s own instinct for self-healing is initiated

Jennifer also practices general and preventative medicine, where all medical conditions are addressed by putting them in the context of Chinese pattern differentiation. This often points to the root of problems, be it physical, emotional or spiritual, and a state of balance can be achieved with regular treatment and appropriate lifestyle adjustments. Jennifer offers nutrition advice with her treatments, based on the principals of Chinese diet therapy and modern Western research. She also prescribes individualized Chinese herbal formulas and qi gong to her patients when appropriate.

Practicing medicine in this way has fostered Jennifer’s passion and belief that ancient and modern ideas of health and wellness complement each other, and when used together can bring about powerful healing results.