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!! What do you mean the schedule is full? !!

You may have noticed that our schedule has been super full lately. Sometimes, patients are having to wait a day or two to get the time slot they want. We wanted to apologize for the inconvenience, and to say that the ability for patients to get treatments when they need and are able to do them is one of our most important ongoing goals. If you need a treatment right now, we want you to be able to have one. We’re working on the jam. The schedule should already have more slack in it and will probably have more by Thanksgiving. Thanks for your patience.

But, there’s a few important implications of this development. Some temporarily frustrating implications, but mostly some exciting implications. Some implications which have to do with cooperatives, and YOU! 


Over the next few weeks, stay tuned here and on facebook for a little discussion about hiring community acupuncturists, starting new clinics, revolutionizing acupuncture training, and about a very fun conference/party this coming spring right outside of Providence. At the annual POCAfest, community acupuncture punks, patients and other community members from all over North America will be getting together to make big plans and have big fun right here in Rhode Island.

Celebrate Labor Day with a Free Acupuncture Session

Thank you all for your hard work, for the honey you've
helped make. Now, come on in, relax and enjoy some
along with a free acupuncture treatment.

Labor Day has come to mean the end of summer for many people, but the meaning of this holiday is a celebration of all the hard work we do. What better way to celebrate hard work than receiving a free relaxing acupuncture treatment. On Sunday September 2nd from 10a.m. to 4p.m, Providence Community Acupuncture will provide free treatments for all newcomers and $5 treatments for existing PCA patients. Call 401-272-2288 to save a spot in advance.

PCA has been on a mission to provide the Providence community with access to affordable, quality acupuncture and to create living wage jobs for our workers since 2007.  Over the past 4 years PCA has been doing just that, now serving on average 300 patients weekly. Through the dedication of the staff, volunteers and patients PCA continues to grow and generate awareness on the benefits of acupuncture.

Over the last three decades acupuncture has developed in the U.S. and continues to increase in popularity for the treatment of both acute and chronic conditions. Acupuncture is one of the oldest, most common and dependable medical therapies used in the world; it has been proven to be exceptionally safe, and effective. It is by nature simple effective health care.

Acupuncturists use thin, sterile disposable needles inserted superficially into specific areas of the body in order to help the body's ability to heal. All PCA acupuncturists are experienced acupuncturist, and licensed by the state of Rhode Island.  They are passionate about providing high quality acupuncture for a wide range of conditions at affordable rates.

So instead of saying farewell to summer renew, recharge and relax with PCA. Skip the beach traffic and join Providence Community Acupuncture for a free relaxing acupuncture session.
For more information, click here.

Fruits of our Labor

LABOR DAY CELEBRATION: FRUITS OF OUR LABOR:
Sunday, September the 2nd, we'll be celebrating all the kinds of work we all do in our worlds with a harvest-type party in and outside the clinic. The theme is Fruits of our Labor. If you'd like to help us prepare the spread, or clean up, or have ideas about the party, please email us at providencecommunityacupuncture@gmail.

And, don't forget to become a member of the new, world-wide cooperative dedicated to seeding and nurturing community acupuncture. Sign up for the people's Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA) at https://www.pocacoop.com/membership/join-patientcom/

While Gathering Recliners

A blog post by Manchester Acupuncture Studio's Andrew Wegman about the simple and important connections made while building and running a community acupuncture clinic.
Originally posted on the website of The People's Organization of Community Acupuncture:
https://www.pocacoop.com/prick-prod-provoke/post/while-gathering-recliners

There seems to be some real momentum starting to move forward prepping for a secondManchester Acupuncture Studio clinic here in southern, NH.  For my part this weekend, I'd been out picking up recliners from folks selling their unwanteds on Craigslist. And I'm remembering how much I love the recliner gathering part of opening a clinic.

I don't know if it's simply Glorious summertime in New England, but I'm getting to meet folks who are clearly looking for a connection of some sort - a chance to offer a pat on the back, share a story of two, or making an extra effort to see the recliner off safely.  All to a person, simply show genuine interest in the acupuncture clinic the chair will be working at and the marvel that it fit in the back of my wife's Prius.  

It's been a real treat meeting a kind couple with a rust-colored recliner who happened to know of regular estate sales who will normally have recliners for 'next to nuthin'.  She'll be keeping me in the loop for future reference.

I was equally happy to have met the older man with a red Lane recliner, who's son 'didn't want it any more' who's recent attack of Bell's palsy got him a referral to his local Community Acupuncture clinic in Concord, NH. The last chairs of the day were delivered by a generous Dad with a big truck who lived across town from the clinic, who insisted making a trip so I didn't have to make a second one.  For his troubles, he got to see where his chair will seat many happy fannies.

One could make the observation that our clinics are simply spaces for connections to made; person to clinic, person to new friends and staff and fellow clinic-goers and of course, person to themselves.  I'm remembering the process of gathering for the creation of these spaces, is openly representative of the connections to be made, and a lot of damn fun!

an Acupunkik Oath

Shared by a comrade from Poke Community Acupuncture in Vancouver, B.C.


Because acupuncture does not have to be 
expensive in order to be effective ∂ Because
military budgets balloon while health care is 
cut ∂ Because nothing breaks through the
isolation of pain, illness and depression like 
healing in a room with other humans ∂ Because
our favourite way to spread the word about how 
well acupuncture works is to make it available to
people ∂ Because we are pleased to challenge 
the notion of value being attached to price
∂ Because there aren’t enough spaces where 
strangers switch off cell phones and slumber
side by side ∂ Because for thousands of years 
acupuncture has been practiced in groups ∂
Because returning acupuncture to its roots makes 
us the happiest of humble radicals ∂ Because
the vast majority of us love our work so much we 
couldn’t imagine doing anything else –
We are a part of the community acupuncture movement.




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