On your first visit, you will get a chance to meet with Ryan, our Doctor of Oriental Medicine in a private room. Based on this, he will determine where to put the acupuncture points. After your session, you’ll receive a treatment plan and an explanation of what to expect over the course of care, if you decide to continue to use acupuncture. After the points are placed, people usually fall asleep for a half an hour or so, and awake feeling relaxed and refreshed. He will review with you your medical history, your treatment goals and objectives, and hear your concerns about acupuncture and your health. We may be able to bill your insurance for pain problems causing substantial dysfunction in your life.

These group workshops are offered in community centers in our region. You will learn how to incorporate a variety of practices on your healing path. Disciplines taught include breathing, movement, somatic release, meditation, mindfulness and self-awareness into your life. Our acupuncturist will be available to apply simple acupuncture protocols as part of each group session. You'll leave each group with simple but powerful activities for you to take your healthcare back into your own hands.

Targetted to your needs and interests, Dr. Bemis will teach you how to incorporate breathwork, movement, and simple meditation and mindfulness exercises into your daily life. Each session will also include a full acupuncture treatment.

Whether you are looking for pain management strategies, seeking how to incorporate breathing, movement, and self-awareness into your mental health care, or learning some basic meditation, yoga or breathing exercises to help you cope with any chronic illness, you will leave these sessions empowered with simple but powerful activities for you to take your healthcare back into your own hands.

At this time in the USA, anxiety is high, and the growing fear of violence in our world can leave us isolated from community. Crossroads Acupuncture in partnership with Ruby Sun and local therapists will offer this free community acupuncture for you to find your refuge amidst anxiety, and for people to come together as a community and bring our focus of peace within, and around the world.

Everyone is welcome. Acupuncture is just optional, and and you are welcome to come sit alongside us without receiving the acupuncture as well. Treatments will be offered by Dr. Ryan Bemis alongside local acudetox community workers. We will offer a gentle placement of tiny needles around points on the body to help you find your inner calm and your grounded self, so you can leave more present during these chaotic times.

(NOTES: If you don’t want the acupuncture, you can still come and join us for this grounding group experience.)

Global Solidarity & indigenous Wisdom:
You’ll build meaningful relationships with our Barefoot Health Promoters serving some of the most vulnerable groups in the Americas. You will dive deep into indigenous traditions of resilience, trauma-informed care, and nonviolence. If you want to learn how to cultivate sustainable grassroots health projects, and/or apprentice with Crossroads, this immersion is for you.

CULTURAL EXCHANGE
SERVICE LEARNING
CLINICAL INTERNSHIP
INDIGENOUS HEALING & CEREMONY

Daily Practices for Embodied Healing:
You’ll learn mind-body practices to support your personal healing journey. You’ll leave with simple, trauma-informed tools you can carry forward in your life and work.

BREATHWORK
ACUPUNCTURE
SOMATIC RELEASE
TEMASCAL
MEDITATION
YOGA & QI GONG