Ear Seed Training

Learn how to treat yourself and your community with simple, effective 5NP for: pain management, digestive balance, stress relief, addiction recovery, sleep support, and more. $0-$40 suggested donation.

Simple. Powerful. Balancing. Help anyone feel better right away. Accessible for everyone to learn and practice. Join us for 3 hours of historical and practical education on ear seeds and how you can heal yourself and others with this tiny seed, the vacarria plant. It is so powerful at removing stagnation and relieving pain in any body system that in Pinyin it is called Wang Bu Liu Xing – “even the emperor cannot stop us.”
Auricular acupuncture and ear seeds stimulate the vagus nerve – our primary pathway to a parasympathetic “rest and digest” state. It is ideal for use in group settings and has been proven effective internationally for addiction, withdrawal, emotional regulation, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

This simple 5 needle protocol was developed first in the 1970s in Hong Kong, then adopted in the Bronx by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords to treat addiction. The first hour of hour workshop will be focused on watching and discussing segments of a documentary about their work. In recent decades, Acupuncturists Without Borders and many other on-the-ground justice medicine initiatives primarily employ this protocol for quick, powerful and accessible community medicine.

1-2pm
Screening and discussing portions of the documentary "Dope is Death" profiling the rise and fall of the first acupuncture initiative on the East Coast. The Black Panthers and Young Lords began collaborating in early 1970 to combat the heroin crisis in the South Bronx by developing the 5 Needle Protocol as a means to radically and powerfully serve their community.

2-3pm
Learning!
- What ear seeds are, the different kinds, and how they work
- The actions and indications of the five points of the 5 Needle Protocol
- How to locate these points on yourself and others.

3-4pm
Practice! Practice! Practice! Floaters will be circulating to help you with point location.
- Partner up
- Locate points on your partner
- Help your partner locate points on their own ear