Acupuncture Adventures: China and Nepal
With graduation around the corner, a lot of classmates, including myself, are in a state of happiness (3 years of school are over!) and excitement (a lot of well-deserved vacations), combined with a small amount of fear (mostly due to student loans) and apprehension (what’s next?).
However, it seems that most of us have a good idea of what we will be doing for at least a year, and there are thankfully a lot of great opportunities out there (whew!).
*Around 22 of my classmates are heading over to China for six weeks to study at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s going to be such a great trip for them- I’m hoping to go next year!
*Three of my classmates are opening a free clinic in Nepal this fall under the Acupuncture Relief Project- check out their beautiful site! I’ve worked with all three of these acupuncturists, and truly believe they will make a big difference in the clinic.
I’m hoping to get a few people to send me weekly posts about their travels and what they are seeing over in Asia. If I can, I’ll definitely be posting starting in September.
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Gillian volunteered for 3 weeks at Namo Buddha monastery in January of 2008 about 2 hours from Kathmandu.
She wrote and told me “I found that most of the ailments that people came for were respiratory issues, digestive issues, and joint pains. The respiratory was mostly due to the fact that the Nepalese gov’t hiked up oil prices so high that most of the population had to return to wood fires in their home for cooking. The smoke was destroying their breathing. And the digestive I believe was due to poor water quality. And the joint pains mostly due to the fact that most villagers are too poor to buy shoes! So they walk barefoot, even in the middle of winter when it is freezing outside.”
Read more at the link below.
Acupuncture Volunteer in Nepal
See Gillian’s pictures from Namo Buddha monastery.
A link to Gillian’s private practice is below.
Pillars of Health, a multi-disciplinary integrative wellness clinic located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia