Urban Sustainability Series

From natural building to seed saving to herbal tinctures, most of the series hosted by the Jewish Farm School will take place in West Philly. Here's the schedule.

Here's the "Marketplace" piece

Here's a link to the piece on community acupuncture by local Philly journalist, Joel Rose.

PCA on National Public Radio this week

NPR's "Marketplace" is running a story on us this week or next. How crazy is that? We'd love to give you a heads up, but, they're not sure when it's going to run. We'll let everyone know as soon as we know.

Citypaper article

From local writer, Andrew Zitcer. Read it here.

Free acupuncture for Veterans in Philly?

Acupuncturists across the nation are volunteering their time and skills to make free regular treatments available to returned and returning vets. http://www.acuwithoutborders.org/veteransprogram.php

We'd like to start such a program here. Are you interested in helping? We need volunteers for various jobs to get it going and keep it going.

Contact Korben Perry

Ellen in the news

A big photo of acupuncturist Ellen Vincent graces page 76 of the new Utne Reader. Actually, it's almost the same photo as the one below. It's a good article about the Community Acupuncture movement. Even though the cover of the magazine makes it look like a fast food trade magazine, we're still proud and delighted about it. I'll link to it if they put the article on line. Actually, here's the article as it first appeared in Yes Magazine.

Also, Ellen was recently the recipient of the Trailblazer Award for women owned business in Philadelphia. Here's a Philadelphia Tribune article about the awards.

Check back soon for another soon-to-be-published article about Philadelphia Acupuncture.

the nice spring light returns to the PCA clinic

A belated Happy May Day to all!

Acupuncturist and co-founder Ellen Vincent and a room full of people being treated.




We'd like to publish some original descriptions/testimonials/essays/poems on what a treatment feels like, where you go, who you become, the way time moves, etc.
Feel free to email us stuff and let us know if it's not OK to publish.

Here's an excerpt from Lisa Rohleder's "Working Class Acupuncture for Patients", available as a download or book from www.lulu.com.

Acupuncture works best in an atmosphere of quiet and internal focus.As one of our patients explained, "when I come in here I feel like I can let go of everything and get completely into my own internal space. I can concentrate on myself completely. This is my sanctuary. I don't even notice, much less care, what's going on around me."
Treating patients in a community space also allows a unique kind of synergy to kick in. When everyone in the room is in a state of deep relaxation, the energy of each individual treatment spills over into the whole and creates a powerful shared state, similar to the experience of group meditation - even though the majority of our patients are not meditators. That shared state in turn makes each of the individual treatments more potent. From that perspective, the community allows us to do more for each individual for less money. Furthermore, the patients are creating the healing atmosphere as much as the practitioners are, which helps us remember where the real strength resides.