Self-massage to relieve feelings of anxiety and promote more calm and ease
Relief at Your Fingertips
If you could use more calm and ease in your days, and restful sleep at night, may I introduce you to self-massage with acupressure?
This is a simple, natural tool you can use to care for yourself. You'll learn to massage the same powerful points on your body that an acupuncturist treats with acupuncture needles, for similar effects. You'll be pressing on the points rather than puncturing them - hence the name, "acupressure."
Have ever had that calm, "blissed-out" feeling after an acupuncture treatment? Or after a hot bath, or a run?
Here you'll learn some points on the landscape of your own body that people use to shift into that state themselves
What You'll Learn
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How to find acupressure points and treat them on yourself, to promote the balance that brings calm and ease
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The basics of acupressure and how it helps balance your body and mind
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How and when to do acupressure (and when NOT to)
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A thorough Core Routine of self care for anyone looking for more calm, groundedness, and restful sleep
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Key points you can turn to for quick relief whenever you need to
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Optional additional acupressure points for people who have other common symptoms, such as digestive issues, headaches, and insomnia.
You'll have ongoing access to me via the Comments section on each lesson, where I'm happy to answer your questions as you make this a part of your life.
Hi, I'm Leilani
and I would love to help you feel better. Giving you a natural, empowering tool to find relief and stay well - that's one of my favorite things to do.
I'm a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist in Irvine, California. Every day, I help people with my own hands (and needles), AND by teaching them to support their own well-being. I help people understand how to heal and experience optimal fertility, through food, therapeutic exercise, diving deep into their own dreams, and self-massage with acupressure. I've taught Fertility Awareness since 2006, and in been in practice as an acupuncturist and herbalist since 2012.
As an acupuncturist, I can (and frequently do) put needles in myself. But even for me, acupressure is much more straightforward to work into my day.
I can do it for 1 minute, or 20 minutes.
All I need is my hands.
I turn to acupressure every day, whether to ease a headache, relieve allergy symptoms, or simply prepare for restful sleep.
When I'm not doing acupuncture or acupressure on myself or someone else, I'm usually immersed in mothering and family, being outdoors, making music, and giving myself to our "great turning" toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining society, through my work at School for the Great Turning, and as host of Turning Season Podcast.