Liz Asch Greenhill, LAc.
I offer acupuncture and somatic work for transformational experiences, deepening embodiment, heightened creativity, end-of-life care, pain, and to regulate the nervous system.
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I do not manage care or do primary care. If we are a good fit, I can serve as an auxiliary person in your network. I am a certified herbalist and can bring herbal medicine into your treatment plan. I offer hands-on work as an acupuncturist and hands-off work as an educator on creative embodiment and as an assistant to help bring new methods of integrative creativity to individuals and groups of artists and thinkers.
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I am the creator and host of Body Land Metaphor Medicine, a free guided visualization resource on the podcast platform. Listen and get a sense of what it’s like to work with me. These are deep listening experiences that require time set aside in a still, quiet place. They can be listened to in bed for insomnia, via headphones on public transportation for self-regulation, in groups as a guided meditation with an integration discussion afterwards, and so on. They are not to be listened to while driving or multi-tasking. Listen on Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, or download directly here on my website. Please share widely. These are a public offering.
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You can sign up for a session here for one-on-one acupuncture in my office on East Burnside (second floor, no elevator) across from the Jupiter Hotel/Doug Fir. Or, reach out to me for my availability for a session at your hotel, home, or hospice place of care. I work with individuals and groups (families, coworkers, creative teams, housemates).
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I am fully vaccinated and take all Covid precautions. Please take precautions and cancel if you have Covid. Last minute cancellations will be charged a fee.
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I am in-network with Providence, MODA, and Pacific Source. If I am out-of-network with your health insurance, you can pay up front and I will give you a superbill to send in to your insurance company so that they reimburse you directly. If the out-of-pocket cost prohibits you from coming in, please email me and let me know. If you are a community organizer for a BIPOC non-profit, you may receive up to four free sessions per year. Sign up under the BLM option for your free healthcare.
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Welcome back to Body Land Metaphor Medicine, an archive of guided visualizations that engage the superpowers of your imagination to help you relax and restore. These salutary stories are informed by Surrealist art, Eastern Medicine, and Somatic methods for self-regulation. I’m your creator and host, Liz Asch Greenhill. I am an author and artist, and the acupuncturist at Night Sky Acupuncture and Ideaphoria.
In this visualization we envision the ribcage as a shelter for both rest and play.
This one goes out to Ruby.
Feeling a little lighter?
Let’s amplify that sensation with this visualization to help you somaticize the sensation of freedom.
Work your head’s inner teardrop until it glows up your brain.
This one’s like a brain massage. But anywhere you got a gland you can do this. Don’t stop here. Google glands and keep going.
Calm stress and ease anxiety while nourishing your neck and back. This is a 12 minute guided visualization.
Find yourself in a quiet stream in the forest where everything aligns around and within.
Together we centrifuge the heart clean and clear with a shimmy-ing hula hoop of UV light. Wut.
Read MoreReplenish yourself with the flavors of the earth.
Help protect and repair the planet.
And maybe support your local juice joint?
Approximately 2/3 of our bodies are water. In Chinese Medicine, water is the yin energy that anchors us, calms us, and replenishes our nervous system. Take a plunge into some fresh natural river imagery to refill your 67%.
Feeling grateful for water? Make a donation to help clean up the Verde River in Arizona, the Lower Snake River in Washington, and support the Waterkeeper Alliance.
Keeping it real, keeping it surreal, and keeping it brief. Let’s do more with less with a season of extra shorty visualizations for the now. Wishing you good health, good luck, and composure for the continued intensity of 2020.
This visualization goes out to the leaders working for positive change. Thank you for your efforts, your passion, and your sacrifices. We use metaphor as medicine to land in our bodies. We send ripples through the body with our breath, ignite the heart, and entrust the pelvis and the mind to support our nervous system so we can rest and recharge.
Feeling a bit drained these days? Working on your hashtag boundaries? We’ve got some six feet of separation self-care for ya. I talk super briefly about how fractal patterns of self:other are part of the body’s defenses from the perspective of Chinese Medicine and then we drop into a super soothing visualization that helps you disentangle your energy from others which ultimately benefits your immune system.
Read MoreTurn the dial down on your nervous system to catch some solid sleep and bring your body into repose. When we invite the deep yin into our being, we can surrender our nervous energy and find a sense of peace.
Tune in to my first visualization for teens wherein we do several somatic exercises with visualization to move energy in the ribcage and diaphragm, to land in our bodies with a sense of belonging and connection. Adults are welcome to do this too, of course. It’s really for anyone. Let me know how it goes for you! You can find me at Night Sky Acupuncture or on Instagram at Metaphor_Medicine.
Our first visualization for kids! This exercise is designed to help kids feel surrounded by safety and tenderness as an experiential antidote to anxiety, worries, and fear. I recommend that adults do the exercise alongside the kids so that they can share their experiences afterwards. Let me know how it goes!
This episode is not a guided visualization, but rather it’s a talk about doing this work on one’s own. I walk you through the way I use guided visualization as a practice in my self care. If you listen and give it a try for yourself, I’d love to hear how it works out for you.
There’s music coming from the ribcage when we use the superpowers of our imagination to turn the diaphragm into a DJ. Sound weird? Give it a try and let me know if you feel different after.
Using metaphor medicine we clear the lungs with a series of varied images and acts of tenderness, practicing how to move energy in the body.
Today’s jam is about poetry and jellyfish and feeling them deep in your being to regulate your Central nervous System.
Read MoreTogether we look to the movies to inspire our immune system to fight with swords. Then we clean up and take a long qi shower. We are using our imaginations to help us feel better.
This GV (guided visualization) is 22 minutes. Allow some extra time on the end to rest and continue the visualization in your own mind-body or else just space out. You can listen solo or with your family and then all compare experiences. Your immune system contains a dynamic and rich blueprint of biodiversity which runs without your input largely, but in this visualization, we offer our input, using language to speak directly to our cells, to communicate our intentions and desires for all hands on deck throughout this magnificent system in our bodies and in each others.