Acupuncture for teachers and school social workers
wellness support for those who are supporting our children
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In services at schools: Acupuncture and meditation
Crossroads can come to your school to provide care for school staff and for students. We can set up mobile clinics within gymnasiums, classrooms, school yards, or anywhere people can sit in a regular chair. Our meditation workshops can be adapted for any age group.
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insurance covered for pain problems
Most school district plans in New Mexico cover acupuncture for pain problems. We offer care at our central clinic in Las Cruces, NM for issues such as low back pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, neck pain, athletic injury, joint pain, and sinus problems. And our affordable self-pay rates allow teachers to get support for stress, fatigue, and a variety of common ailments. Click below and we will check your insurance benefits and reach out to you with what your copay should be.
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Putting acu care in the hands of school staff
Schools are high demanding and stressful places to work. We train teachers and social workers in techniques like acudetox for addictions as well as ear acupressure to help their students cope with stress, concentration, and anxiety. Students are eligible to become licensed in the state of NM as an Auricular Detoxification Specialist.
benefits of acupuncture within schools
Bringing Crossroads into your school allows your teachers and staff to take an “acu nap” on a work break. We primarily focus on ear points for stress management, addictions prevention and treatment including smoking cessation, anxiety and depression. Many schools offer acupuncture for students as well. We also specialize in pediatric care.
Affordable group classes
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[Fridays 8:30am @ 424 N Main Las Cruces NM]
This breath-centered flow is designed to prepare the mind and body to let go into a gentle somatic and myofascial release. Also known as Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE), this is designed to help you heal from trauma, chronic stress, and injury. You’ll also get a chance to experience the “group qi” of community acupuncture, with calming and grounding acupuncture points applied by Ryan Bemis, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, to support your integration and shavasana experience. All levels of experience in yoga and physical ability are welcome. Dr. Bemis will be available to offer you a free consult, as well, if you are interested in learning more about getting acupuncture.
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11 /3 @ 7pm Dwell Yoga 424 N Main
11/5 @ 8pm Downtown Plaza Las Cruces
At this election time in the USA, anxiety is high, and the growing fear of violence in our world can leave us isolated from community. Crossroads Acupuncture in partnership with the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership and Dwell Yoga will offer this free community acupuncture for you to find your refuge amidst election anxiety, and for people to come together as a community and bring our focus of peace within, and around the world.
No matter who you vote for, we will offer this space free, no cost, for anyone that votes, plans to vote, or would like to vote. Acupuncture is just optional, and you are welcome to come sit alongside us without receiving the acupuncture as well. Treatments will be offered by Dr. Ryan Bemis alongside local acudetox community workers. We will offer a gentle placement of tiny needles around points on the body to help you find your inner calm and your grounded self, so you can leave more present during these chaotic times.
(NOTES: If you don’t want the acupuncture, you can still come and join us for the meditation. If you cannot vote, but would like to vote, you are welcome as well!).
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10/10 5pm MDT World Mental Health Day
Tension and trauma can lurk deep within our muscles and nervous system muscles, and can contribute to our emotional highs and lows, or as some people experience them as “extreme states.” This can look like pain, depression, anxiety, overthinking, hyperactivity, difficulty focusing, psychosis or altered and neurodivergent states.
How can we safely and gently learn from, work with, be with this big energy, and release old stories we cling to so we can be our most resilient self? How can we hold space for ourselves as we move through “extreme” feelings of up and down, all the intense and subtle, sometimes even overwhelming energetic, mood and emotional states in between? How can we transcend the labels, stories, and diagnoses that you have taken on from the western psychiatric system?
At this new, online, workshop, Crossroads Acupuncture will celebrate World Mental Health Day during the month of October by offering this free for anyone who has struggled with mental illness. You’ll learn how to allow your body to literally shake off past stories, trauma and help you rediscover yourself anew. Facilitated by Ryan Bemis and Amabel Narvaez, you’ll be step-by-step instructions in Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE). We will conclude with an Ecstatic Dance, a free-form dance practice to empower you to express yourself through movement to the beat of soul-filled music.
You’ll leave this workshop with new tools for you to safely co-regulate your nervous system through movement, breathing, and stillness on your own, on a regular basis. Most people experience deep relaxation, feeling grounded, and increased mental clarity.
This special free online space will offer you a trauma-informed, non-judgmental space to take a step towards transcending the stigma of mental illness and taking a step towards mental wellness. You may log in anonymously if you choose to do so, or keep your camera turned off during the exercises.
This class will be offered online with a zoom link provided prior to the class.
Dr. Bemis explains our somatic release workshops in a short video
THE ACU NAP…
A sleepy state of euphoria and bliss where the body finds space to heal and rest with tiny pins. Side effects may include smiling and feeling truly content.
But…
how does
acupuncture
work?
Your body has an amazing ability to heal itself, but sometimes due to prolonged stress, injury, and trauma, we can get “stuck,” sick and develop systemic inflammation. You might have frequent anxiety, frustration, constant pain, irritability, an upset stomach & sadness. Using needles to communicate with your brain and calm your nervous system; by tapping into your body’s innate ability to reduce inflammation: our acupuncturist will direct the body where to heal itself.As the needles are inserted into the corresponding energetic pathways (or meridians) energy is unblocked, a new equilibrium is created, endorphins are released and the nervous system encourages healing.
solidarity
& Partnership
with those on the front lines
As a 501-3-c non-profit organization, Crossroads partners with community agencies to expand access to acupuncture. We have trained over 500 teachers, social workers and other essential front line providers in jails, schools and shelters throughout the borderlands.
10 years
in the borderlands
integrative healthcare
Trauma-informed..Client-centered
Down-to-earth care…Everyday people
Acupuntura para tod@s
