Barefoot Acupuncture Movement

Live free Master Class streaming now with the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement: Acupuncture and holistic healing in underserved populations, through the Pacific College of Health and Science.

Learn about our work in the borderlands, as well as other similar projects in the West Bank and in Harlem. Join us!
https://youtu.be/c3urc5gbSgo

Acupuncture & Holistic Healing In Under-Served Populations Join us on Sept 22 for a free live webinar with these inspiring panelists:🎙Ryan Bemis from Barefoot Acupuncturists at the US-Mexico border🎙Carla Cassler fr...

FREE MASTER CLASS!
9/22 Thu 5pm MDT
Featuring Ryan Bemis from Barefoot Acupuncture Movement at the Border

Hosted by the Pacific College of Health and Science. RSVP here!
https://www.pacificcollege.edu/news/calendar/acupuncture-holistic-healing-in-under-served-populations-master-class-series

Also you will meet:
Carla Cassler from Acupuncturists Without Borders
Juan Cortez from NY Harm Reduction Educators
Hear about their work in Tijuana, the West Bank of Israel/Palestine, and Harlem, working empowering communities with border refugees, in areas of conflict, and with harm reduction with substance use disorder clients.

The Santo Domingo Pueblo of New Mexico is intent on reducing op**te overdose rates in a state ranking among the highest op**te related deaths in the USA. They have launched a new acudetox clinic through the support of the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement and the needling leadership of Lucia Darlach, PhD.

We celebrate Women's International Day all this month by sharing stories like these. Read more and learn how to support our efforts to support women like Lucia by clicking on our profile link: (barefootacupuncturemovement.com)

Today, 2 years after the pandemic came to the border region, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Community Acupuncture Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where people like Sara here serve people in underserved areas of the city.

We celebrate Women's International Day by sharing their stories. Read more and learn how to support their efforts by clicking on our profile link (barefootacupuncturemovement.com)

On Friday, February 18, acupuncture therapies continued at the San Romero de America migrant care center in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, where Angelina and Patricia, two of our volunteer Barefoot Health Promoters, have provided their services for more than three years applying the NADA ear acupuncture protocol (National Acupuncture Association of Detoxification).

Read more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

Our project sprouted through the support of Catholic Workers Peter Hinde and Sister Betty Campbell of Casa Tabor. This quote is by Dorothy Day, who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement, a project of hospitality for and solidarity with the poor. Our work uses needles to facilitate hospitality and solidarity.

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city. They are training other women how to offer acupuncture, as well.

Celebrating the power of working class women with needles this month, you can support their work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

Moxa applied in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in a free clinic within a church.

Moxa (also known as moxibustion) involves heating the dried leaves of Artemisia*, commonly known as mugwort, and applying it to acupuncture points. Traditionally taught to patients and their family members in East Asia, moxa is cost-effective (25 cents per treatment) and easily applied within any community space. Our Japanese rice-cone moxa curriculum was inspired by the use of moxa to treat Tuberculosis by the Moxafrica project in Uganda and South Africa. Our students learn how to apply several basic, simple, and safe Moxa protocols to treat a variety of conditions.​

This month we celebrate Women's Day, and you can support this women's project Promotores Descalzos by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

The Barefoot Acupuncture Movement offers comprehensive project planning from needs assessment, pilot development, and training designed to meet the needs of each particular, unique community as a complement to existing healthcare options in consideration of local contexts and traditions. This Mayan Women's Cooperative in Coban, Guatemala, is one of the groups we have worked with.
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This month, we are raising money for projects in our network serving women, led by women, to celebrate International Women's Day.

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This month we are celebrating women around the world offering care for other women through basic techniques like ear acupuncture and acupressure, like this special group of our Barefoot Students in rural Nicaragua.

The NADA model is a standardized auricular (ear) acupuncture protocol taught to community health workers. These types of Barefoot clinics provide a barrier-free approach to recovery and disaster relief services that can be offered in a group setting for people seeking assistance. Also known as acudetox, the model was developed in New York at Lincoln Hospital as an addiction therapy and has since been integrated into a variety of disaster relief, prison, and mental health settings.​

​As part of our NADA ear acupuncture courses, we teach health providers, community health workers, parents, and teachers how to apply ear acupressure techniques for stress relief, focus and concentration, as well as food and drug cravings. These techniques are great for kids, and can also be used on both adults and children.​

You can support this work by making a donation.

Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

This week we are celebrating international Women's Day by raising funds for our volunteer women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Their work has inspired other global projects to spawn over the past decade. After 2 years of a pandemic, these women are rebuilding their local healthcare systems, serving migrants and others who lack access to a doctor.

You can support their work by making a donation.
Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovment.com

This week we are celebrating international Women's Day by raising funds for our volunteer women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. You can support their work by making a donation, and if you donate $50 or more, we'll send you a free T Shirt!

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The first point of contact with people is empathy:
This week we are celebrating international Women's Day by raising funds for our volunteer women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. You can support their work by making a donation, and if you donate $50 or more, we'll send you a free T Shirt with this design on the back...

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50% of the world's population lacks access to basic healthcare. Often, women volunteers and community health workers come to the aid of people in need.

Today, 2 years after the pandemic came to the border region, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

We celebrate Women's International Day by sharing their stories. Read more and learn how to support their efforts by clicking on our profile link...

Today, 2 years after the pandemic came to the border region, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

We celebrate Women's International Day by sharing their stories. Read more and learn how to support their efforts barefootacupuncturemovement.com

This Tuesday 3/8/22, international Women's Day, we celebrate the everyday but extraordinary women around the world who have shown for us the power of their love for community and healing using acupuncture. Our project was inspired by this refugee project in 2008 in Uganda, when a small group of women learned the NADA ear acupuncture protocol, and they used that in huge ways among the refugee camps that they lived within.

Today, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

You can support their efforts by making a donation on our website: barefootacupuncturemovement.com

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

Tuesday 3/8/22 is international Women's Day, you can support their work by making a donation.
Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovement.com

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

Tuesday 3/8/22 is international Women's Day, you can support their work by making a donation.
Learn more by clicking on our profile link

Romero of the Americas Migrant Shelter
Cd Juarez, Mexico

Two years after the Covid pandemic began, a group of women Barefoot Health Promoters in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are offering acupuncture for migrants in shelters throughout the city, and are slowly re-opening their Barefoot Clinics within maquila neighborhoods where they serve people in underserved areas of the city.

Tuesday 3/8/22 is international Women's Day, you can support their work by making a donation.
Learn more: barefootacupuncturemovement.com

RIP, Paul. We are so grateful for your inspiration.

The power of sitting in silence with needles...

If you donate $50 or more before January 1, 2022, we will send you a free T-shirt commemorating this song by León Gieco and Mercedes Sosa: Solo le pido a Dios!

Donate here: barefootacupuncturemovement.com
(Link on profile)

Your donations go directly to support our partners in these ways:

On the US-Mexico border
Volunteer-run Barefoot Clinics operate in churches and shelters that house them on the US/Mexico border. In 2022, we will train dozens of new workers operating in over 20 refugee shelters.

In Central America
Our 100% scholarship-based Barefoot Schools train volunteers from the home communities of migrants, to strengthen local healthcare systems in Central America. We put simple, safe, and cost-effective tools in the hands of community farmers, health promoters, and indigenous healers, so they can offer vital support in stress management and mental wellness.
Here's how you can make an impact by making a tax-deductible contribution:

Help us to partner with communities as we teach everyday people how to use acupuncture as an agent for social and intrapersonal change.

Donate and learn how to get involved here: barefootacupuncturemovement.com
(Link on profile)

Your donations go directly to support our partners in these ways:

On the US-Mexico border
Volunteer-run Barefoot Clinics operate in churches and shelters that house them on the US/Mexico border. In 2022, we will train dozens of new workers operating in over 20 refugee shelters.

In Central America
Our 100% scholarship-based Barefoot Schools train volunteers from the home communities of migrants, to strengthen local healthcare systems in Central America. We put simple, safe, and cost-effective tools in the hands of community farmers, health promoters, and indigenous healers, so they can offer vital support in stress management and mental wellness.

Thank you to all of our generous donors for supporting our 2021 initiative: Healthcare for Migrant Communities!

In 2011, we were invited by groups in Cd Juarez, Mexico, to help respond to violence in the region. Today, our Barefoot Health Promoters serve marginalized neighborhoods in the former murder capital of the world. In 2015, they founded “Promotores Descalzos,” the first free-tuition community acupuncture school in the world was founded in 2015, through the Catholic Diocese of Cd. Juarez, Mexico. In November of 2018 they found hundreds of immigrants sleeping on the Paso Del Norte ("Passage North") Bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas. We began to learn their stories. They are fleeing kidnapping, gang violence, trafficking, and poverty.

After 2 long years of putting a pause on our community acupuncture courses in Juarez, the COVID-19 pandemic leaves them with much rebuilding to do. They are focused currently on offering care within the migrant shelter, and will resume courses for new health promoters to learn community acupuncture next spring.

If you donate $50 or more before January 1, 2022, we will send you a free T-shirt commemorating this song by León Gieco and Mercedes Sosa: Solo le pido a Dios!

Donate here: barefootacupuncturemovement.com
(Link on profile)

That WAR does not make us indifferent:

In 2011, we were invited by groups in Cd Juarez, Mexico, to help respond to violence in the region. Today, our Barefoot Health Promoters serve marginalized neighborhoods in the former murder capital of the world. In 2015, they founded “Promotores Descalzos,” the first free-tuition community acupuncture school in the world was founded in 2015, through the Catholic Diocese of Cd. Juarez, Mexico. In November of 2018 they found hundreds of immigrants sleeping on the Paso Del Norte ("Passage North") Bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas. We began to learn their stories. They are fleeing kidnapping, gang violence, trafficking, and poverty.

After 2 long years of putting a pause on our community acupuncture courses in Juarez, the COVID-19 pandemic leaves them with much rebuilding to do. They are focused currently on offering care within the migrant shelter, and will resume courses for new health promoters to learn community acupuncture next spring.

If you donate $50 or more before January 1, 2022, we will send you a free T-shirt commemorating this song by León Gieco and Mercedes Sosa: Solo le pido a Dios!

Donate here: barefootacupuncturemovement.com
(Link on profile)

The road to Chinabenque in Guatemala, lined by corn crops planted on steep slopes, is just a few years old. Prior to that, with no drivable path to get there, the native Mayan communities of this region had been sheltered from many of the globalizing world's problems. Today, climate change, the pandemic, migration, poverty, and injustice all contribute to healthcare problems for the people.

Healthcare access has increased since the road was built, through the help of Guatemalan Village Health, who brings COVID-19 vaccines to this region, and have also began to offer barefoot acupuncture this month. They train community health workers from the villages how to offer prevention and community education. These workers are a lifeline for these people.

Our 100% scholarship-based Barefoot Schools train volunteers from the places like this. We work through partnerships with groups like Guatemalan Village Health to strengthen local healthcare systems in Central America. We put simple, safe, and cost-effective tools in the hands of community farmers, health promoters, and indigenous healers, so they can offer vital support in stress management and mental wellness.

Learn more about how to support this project through our 2021 initiative: Healthcare for Migrant Communities: barefotacupuncturemovement.com

That WAR does not make us indifferent:

In 2011, we were invited by groups in Cd Juarez, Mexico, to help respond to violence in the region. Today, our Barefoot Health Promoters serve marginalized neighborhoods in the former murder capital of the world. In 2015, they founded “Promotores Descalzos,” the first free-tuition community acupuncture school in the world was founded in 2015, through the Catholic Diocese of Cd. Juarez, Mexico. In November of 2018 they found hundreds of immigrants sleeping on the Paso Del Norte ("Passage North") Bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas. They began to learn their stories of fleeing kidnapping, gang violence, trafficking, and poverty.

After 2 long years of putting a pause on our community acupuncture courses in Juarez, the COVID-19 pandemic leaves them with much rebuilding to do. They are focused currently on offering care within the migrant shelter, and will resume courses for new health promoters to learn community acupuncture next spring.

You can directly support our partnership with groups like these as they work to make their world a better place.

If you donate $50 or more before January 1, 2022, we will send you a free T-shirt commemorating this song by León Gieco and Mercedes Sosa: Solo le pido a Dios!

Donate here: barefootacupuncturemovement.com
(Link on profile)

A school for kids that once was pre pandemic, in Guatemala.

Our 100% scholarship-based Barefoot Schools train volunteers from the home communities of migrants, to strengthen local healthcare systems in Central America.

Learn more about our work with the communities in Central America and how you can support: barefootacupuncturemovement.com

In Chinabenque, Guatemala, we partner with Guatemalan Village Health, who support local community health workers to offer COVID-19 vaccines and tests in this region. Together we train community health workers who live in and serve the villages.

Our 100% scholarship-based Barefoot Schools train volunteers from the places like this. We work through partnerships with groups like Guatemalan Village Health to strengthen local healthcare systems in Central America. We put simple, safe, and cost-effective tools in the hands of community farmers, health promoters, and indigenous healers, so they can offer vital support in stress management and mental wellness.

Learn more about how to support this project through our 2021 End of year appeal : Healthcare for Migrant Communities: barefotacupuncturemovement.com

Help make our vision come true of a world where people in underserved areas have the tools and capacity to care for their own communities with minimal dependency on outside aid.

If you donate $50 or more before January 1, 2022, we will send you a free T-shirt commemorating this song by León Gieco and Mercedes Sosa: Solo le pido a Dios!

Donate here: barefootacupuncturemovement.com
(Link on profile)

Your donations in 2021 will go directly to support our partnership with this special group of working class women volunteers in these ways:

On the US-Mexico border
Volunteer-run Barefoot Clinics operate in churches and shelters that house them on the US/Mexico border. In 2022, we will train dozens of new workers operating in over 20 refugee shelters.

In Central America
Our 100% scholarship-based Barefoot Schools train volunteers from the home communities of migrants, to strengthen local healthcare systems in Central America. We put simple, safe, and cost-effective tools in the hands of community farmers, health promoters, and indigenous healers, so they can offer vital support in stress management and mental wellness.
Here's how you can make an impact by making a tax-deductible contribution: