January, 2009

Dear Dr. William Dunbar, D.N., M.B., Ph.D., L.N.C., President of MCOM:

He's in charge of the Task Force to build up our middle class.  He asks us to to to http://www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/ and submit our feedback and ideas, as we view their meetings and their decisions and discussions.  I'm recommending The Remedy to this committee as well as an investigation into the efficacy of acupuncture. 

I asked Lumiel a question privately, she responded. Her answer blew me
away. Feeling her heartfelt inspiration shining through the words on the screen, I knew it should be shared, and she
consented...so here it is.

There were two catalysts that led to my realization that I wanted to do a CA clinic.  The first was reading The Remedy (get it and read it if you haven't.)  The second was discovering Tan's Balance Method and Tung style acupuncture.

Community Acupuncture on Cape Cod just finished a great 3 Year Anniversary celebration.  I am exhausted/delighted!

Hi there. Maria here. Sorry I have been so absent from the CAN website for so long. I wanted to make sure to check in with everybody, because I got a call from a friend today. We hadn't talked for a while either, and she was concerned about BCA. "How are things going over there?"

While I am grateful to be able to offer people ideas, support and an opinion on community acupuncture as most of us practicing are, I can’t help but feel that what I am saying has been fairly redundant and, at times, feels futile.  It seems to me there are often people posting within the CAN forums who are trying to decide if this community acupuncture thing is really for them – if they

This letter is posted here in response to a post on the AAAOM FPD forum by the president of Tri-State College of Acupuncture, Mark Seem.

I would like to thank Acupuncture Today for their front page story, “Acupuncture May Soothe Aching Heads.” I never learned anything suggesting this in my MSOM program (which is why we now need a first professional doctorate, FPD). This article will transform my practice.

for many of us, being part of CAN or becoming a CA has been transformative. Some of the great clinic success stories of CAN seem to fall together as fast as you can read the blog entries.

I knew it when I googled "community + acupuncture" in 2006 and found the WCA site, that the brainwashing had begun. I had the typical soil and some grime.

Oceanside,   W o o o s - t a h  and  Fitchburg, Idylwyld,  Santa Fe, Mesa, L. A. (coming soon) . . . .   here comes the surge .

Referrals and the groovy train, CAN 101, community, the Community Acupuncture Network really is coming into its own, very quickly.