Profiles

Every first and third Thursday of the month, Certified Acutonics® Practitioner Laurie McDonald and her acupuncturist colleague Terrie Harris hold a free Women Veterans Clinic at the headquarters of Acupuncturists Without Borders in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Terrie started the clinic three years ago and asked Laurie to join during the fall of 2015. Participants sit in chairs arranged in a circle, and Terrie inserts five needles into each person’s ears, a protocol for stress and PTSD known as NADA.

In 1996 we had been working as clinical faculty at Northwest Institute of Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine (NIAOM) in Seattle for several years. We thought of ourselves as fairly mainstream practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It was about that time that the school hired Donna Carey to be the new Clinical Director. To welcome her and find out more about our new boss, we took her to lunch. In sharing our backgrounds with each other, we learned that Donna had been employing the use of sound, in her prior practice in Wisconsin. Our interest was stimulated by her description of the use of tuning forks to stimulate acupuncture points. We asked her about receiving treatment with sound so we could have a first hand experience of the sound work. So began our excellent Acutonics adventure.

Whether known as teacher, sound practitioner, professional musician, composer, vocalist, wellness specialist, or ceremonialist, Lynn is committed to bring healing heart-by-heart, to assist in creating harmony and peace on the planet.

Dori Miller began her studies in 2005 with Maren Good in Westfield, NJ. She completed Acutonics I, II, III, IV and Sedna with Maren and has also studied with Ron La Place (Fibonacci). A senior at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, she is currently applying to graduate schools to obtain her Masters in Fine Arts.

“I’m a mystic born into a scientific environment,” says Maren Good, who indeed grew up in an area that uniquely blended the mundane (the natural beauty of Richland, Washington), the ulramundane (her own inner world, which gravitated toward the planets and the unexplained), and the übermundane—1950s America.

Recently Amada Simon was here visiting from England. Coming to the Mothership was a focal point as she planned a yearlong retreat to focus on sculpture, drawing and writing. Her stops in the US included a trip to New York, time here in New Mexico, and then on to Texas, South America and many other parts of the world. Amanda is a student of Joanie Solaini and she has completed Acutonics Level I & II.

If it hadn’t been for the burning rice fields in Chico, California, Judy Bernard might never have gotten into Acutonics. Mm, probably an over exaggeration. But when your eventual profession isn’t even a profession, when it’s not a major and it’s still in its infancy, when it doesn’t yet have a name, chances are you’re gonna find your way to it in a rather circuitous-fortuitous manner. The way Judy Bernard did.

Every month it is our pleasure to feature a student who is on the path toward certification as an Acutonics Practitioner. This month we are pleased to introduce you to Diane Wenslawski a student of Katie Mink and Laurier Herron who came to visit the Mothership. If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming newsletter please let us know about your activities.

Theresa Lee lives in Riondel, Canada, a very rural, rather remote area of British Columbia. Theresa estimates there are probably at least a dozen people there using tuning forks (on themselves and others). Although she hadn’t settled there with the intention of founding an Acutonics community, one seems to be sprouting up around her anyway.