I'm that White Woman with no Business Making a Living Practicing Acupuncture
My plan was to attend naturopathic medicine school. I was completing my undergrad prerequisites when I met someone studying Chinese...
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- Jun 10
- 2 min
Ode to the Sensitives
One of the main areas of my practice is in supporting sensitive folk. You know who you are. The feely ones. The teary ones. The...
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- Jun 10
- 3 min
Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Support
Supporting new parents is an absolute passion of mine. Acupuncture is a fantastic tool for the myriad of discomforts that come up...
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- Jun 9
- 2 min
Hemma Goodbye and Offering
Some bittersweetness this month as we say goodbye to hemma in the home it's been in for the past 15 years. It has truly been such a...
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- Mar 17
- 2 min
Spring | Vernal Equinox | Ostara
Welcome Spring. The vernal equinox. Ostara. The season of Earth's regeneration. Of birth and rebirth - eggs and ducklings and baby...
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- Jan 8
- 3 min
Winter Nights
Where I live on the southern tip of the west coast of so-called Canada (WSÁNEĆ territory) snow is a brief and rare-ish winter treat. This...
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- Sep 21, 2021
- 4 min
On how I don't do Yoga anymore
I received an email this summer, from an Ashtanga Yoga practitioner in Costa Rica thanking me for my blog post about why I do Ashtanga...
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- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min
Littles Learning
My toddler is picking up words, sentences, phrases at an astonishing rate these days. It's mostly hilarious and amazing, but it sometimes...
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- Mar 24, 2021
- 1 min
Nature
Get out into nature, they say. As if this thing called nature exists only outside of us, out of doors, away from the city and apart from...
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- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Hello there, and Online Sessions
Hello there. I’m Madison. I’m here with a nervous system capable of travelling to the most expansive, euphoric, far seeing highs, and the...
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- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Descending into the Dark (Season)
I've spun a story for you, pulled up from the depths of winter. This story begins with an idea. A possibly quite novel idea. That (y)our...
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- Aug 23, 2020
- 7 min
Initiation: a postpartum unravelling
I became a mother at the break of dawn. Sky glowing pink and orange, light spreading, room brightening. On the floor, moans and guttural...
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- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
Covid Protocols
I'm feeling so grateful to be able to reopen the yome for one-on-one sessions. Luckily, we're already very well ventilated and socially...
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- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
Pandemic Check In
Photo by Guillaume de Germain on Unsplash I've been struggling to write this post for the last month. Feeling the need to put something...
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- Nov 22, 2018
- 2 min
Mental Health Peer Support
We need each other. This lesson is taught to me over and over again. Especially when it comes to mental illness - or, as I prefer to call...
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- Apr 25, 2018
- 2 min
Self Discovery
It took losing my mind to find myself. Bit of a bold statement, that. And I'm certain it's not the only way to find yourself. Probably...
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- Jan 19, 2018
- 3 min
Self Care for Mental Health
Now this is a topic that I have devoted much thought and energy to over the past year. It was inevitable that it would prompt a blog post...
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- Jan 4, 2018
- 3 min
Welcome Yome
Welcome 2018, Welcome Yome. I've spent the past several days reflecting on the last year, on its many challenges, and the changes that...
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- Sep 8, 2017
- 6 min
September
September. This past week especially, the change has been palpable. Cold, crisp mornings. Breeze slightly more cutting, bit of an ominous...
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- Jun 27, 2017
- 2 min
The Unclinic
I am in absolute awe of the humans who have come forward since the launch of my “unclinic” in the forest. DIA is not relaxing, feel-good...