New places for healing around Portland

Ba Gua from: Wikipedia

The Taoist Center in Southeast Portland is open for classes and treatments. The Taoist center is a space for the study of the Dao, but also hold classes, provides acupuncture treatment, and offers bodywork. I'm looking forward to watching the growth of this wonderful place. They also have a blog - check it out!

Working Class Acupuncture will be opening another clinic in Southwest Portland mid-April! So for those of us who don't seem to make it over to Northeast as often as we'd like, keep checking back here for more info about the opening, or check their blog.

Working Class Acupuncture in the news again!

The Portland Mercury ran an article on finding inexpensive health care services in Portland, and intern Sarah Mirk wrote a section about Working Class Acupuncture. You can find it here- just scroll down to the "Acupuncture" section. Portland Monthly also ran an article on WCA! While the magazine usually draws a different crowd that the Mercury, it's great to see community acupuncture spreading all over Portland. It's not available online yet, but keep checking back and I'll post it as soon as I can.

And fianlly, Lisa Rohleder, LAc will be interviewed on NPR next week (though I'm not exactly sure when it will air), in "Marketplace." Keep an ear out for her!

More on Community Acupuncture

One of the first posts on this blog featured a favorite clinic of mine- Working Class Acupuncture. Since it's been over a year (!), I thought I'd update you on this fantastic way to experience the healing effects of acupuncture.

Still going strong, Working Class Acupuncture is changing the health care system by offering affordable (sliding scale) and thorough treatments for all. Check out the previous post for more information on community acupuncture, and be sure to read Lisa Rohleder's blog to see what the newest happenings are at Working Class.

Pamela O'Malley Change recently published an article in Utne magazine about her experience with community acupuncture and how it inspired her. Read it here!

Also, check out this video produced by Moses, one of the acupuncturists at Working Class Acupuncture.

Acupuncture offered at an affordable price makes it available to everyone. We can't sit around and wait for it to change in the US healthcare to happen- we have to change it ourselves. The people in the community acupuncture setting have started a revolution in the healthcare system, which is exactly what needs to happen.

Affordable acupuncture in Portland

Sorry about the hiatus in posts! Had to study for then sit my final exams, then recuperate for a few days.

While acupuncture is affordable to those who have health insurance or are able to pay out of pocket, there are many more who can’t afford $50-$95 per hour. Luckily for us, Portland has sprouted up several alternative treatment sites in the form of group acupuncture. Working Class Acupuncture, with its beautiful building, experienced practitioners, and easy location, offers a sliding pay scale to patients. Community acupuncture is spreading steadily across the country- check out nation-wide people who are starting clinics here. Having received treatments at both WCA and Brooklyn Community Acupuncture, I’d highly recommend checking out group acupuncture. It’s easy, affordable, and effective.

Instead of the standard one-person-per-room, the treatment is in a large space with several comfortable armchairs grouped together. Two or three practitioners treat all patients at the same time as you lounge and listen to soothing music (and possibly fall blissfully asleep like I did).

Group treatment is such a great option if you are lower on cash, and are comfortable having your treatment with a few other people. Most group treatment facilities also offer single rooms if you prefer or require a private treatment, which is also a great way to experience acupuncture for the first time.