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Skin Health 101

  • Constellation Acupuncture & Healing Arts 401 North 3rd Street, Suite 360 Minneapolis, MN, 55401 United States (map)

Want to learn ways to support the health of your skin through skincare, lifestyle, and diet? Join Leah Fifield LAc and Kim Christensen LAc to dive into the basics of skin health! Learn about skin care approaches with oils, hydrosols (nutritive plant waters), and gentle exfoliation, and how lifestyle and dietary pinciples of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine can support a healthy complexion. You'll learn about which oils are best for your unique skin type, have the chance experience various oils and hydrosols,and you'll make your own oil cleansing serum to take home with you!

Registration is $25 and includes supplies. Click below to sign up!

Earlier Event: February 25
Pokes for Wildlife Rehabilitation Center
Later Event: March 25
Pokes for the Boundary Waters
Next week is Yoga + Acupuncture at @waterbar_mpls! We love our collaboration with Water Bar. What IS Water Bar, you ask? Water Bar serves water - and in doing so, builds relationships and transforms culture through the creation of social spaces, popular education programs, tools and strategies for leadership development, and public art projects. 💧 Water Bar has a beautiful storefront, and also travels all over the state connecting with communities and hosting conversations about our relationship with water, and how important it is to protect and nourish the waters that sustain us. ⠀ ⠀ For every $25 ticket sold for Yoga + Acupuncture, 25% goes to support Water Bar's space and programming. If you want to make some time for self-care AND support an amazing organization at the same time, this event is a great way to do it. ⠀ ⠀ Join us next Tuesday 8/21 from 7-8:30 at Water Bar. There will be yummy slow-flow yoga led by @tatummarie and acu from our guest #cliniccoven babe @amykuretsky, and you'll feel totally blissed out after. Bring your own mat and water bottle! ❤️ Click link in bio to register.
Look at those fine cupping marks. 👏🏼We loooove cupping therapy for pain and tension, stress, digestive issues, athletic training recovery, colds and asthma, menstrual cramps, and more. Our patients love it too! So, we’ve decided to expand the hours of our Cupping Club starting in September - and our team! ✨ The Cupping Club is an affordable, convenient way to receive on-going care. For just $60 monthly, you get four 20-minute cupping appointments during our Cupping Club hours. Appointments can be scheduled in advance, same-day, or walk-in. Click the link in the bio to learn more and sign up, and stay tuned for updates — we’ll be announcing details soon!
We are in late summer, the season of the Earth element. This week's Yoga + Acupuncture was inspired by this seasonal transition - as is this warm and energizing crystal grid! We thought we'd share a bit about the Earth element here, too, in celebration of this season. ⠀ ⠀ Earth is related to the vibrant shades of yellow, gold, and orange, and to the spleen and the stomach, the main organs of digestion in Chinese medicine. Together, the spleen and stomach allow us to receive nutrition and transform it into the energy that feeds our mind, body, and spirit. Thus, the Earth element energy is associated with the abundance of giving and receiving. Strengthening the Earth element increases our own capacity for abundance in our lives, teaching us to gratefully and fearlessly receive in all areas of our being, and how to channel that energy for growth and transformation. The Earth encourages us to harvest the fruits of our efforts and intentions with gratitude, and supports us in sharing them with others.⠀ ⠀ This is an excellent time of year to explore your relationship to giving and receiving. In what areas of your life do giving and receiving feel effortless? In what areas does it feel uncomfortable or challenging? Where is there balance - or imbalance - in the ways you give and receive? What barriers - either self-imposed or systemic - keep you from receiving the abundance you desire? How could your life look different if you were more open to receiving, and established new boundaries around how and where you give? What emotions rise to the surface as you explore these questions?⠀ ⠀ The stones in this grid are orange calcite, peach moonstone, citrine, pyrite, unakite jasper, and clear quartz, arranged by Kim from our #cliniccoven. It is currently arranged in one of our window altars in the clinic, calling in abundance and vibrancy, and encouraging compassion and heartfelt giving for all who enter our space.⠀ ⠀
Back pain is a common complaint we see in our clinic. And while our entire #cliniccoven is well versed in helping you reduce your symptoms with our little magic needles, we know there's a lot that can be done to prevent back pain through posture and movement. That's why we enlisted our fitness friend, Hannah Wydeven, to write a series of blog posts about back pain.⠀ ⠀ Hannah is the owner of @solcanafitness in the Seward Neighborhood of Minneapolis (where both Amy and Kim sweat it out AND offer group acupuncture!). Hannah has been a fitness coach since 2010, and works with all types of bodies, specializing in helping womxn and queer folks gain confidence in the gym. ⠀ ⠀ We're super thrilled to have her expertise showcased on our blog today with part 1 in the Your Beautiful Back series: Using Pelvic Control to Help Lessen Back Pain. Give it a read and let us know what questions you have about back pain!⠀