In Madness Radio’s “Borderlands Acupuncture,” Will Hall joins Crossroads and the Rahrami tribe to explore how local healers in northern Mexico use acupuncture and community care to recover from violence and reclaim mental health.

Just before COVID-19 hit the Americas, the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement joined farmers and community healers in Nicaragua to explore solidarity and self-reliance in healthcare across Central America.

Crossroads Acupuncture is more than a Las Cruces clinic — it’s the hub of an international project bringing acupuncture to underserved communities. Culturs Magazine profiles the teachers and healers at the heart of the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement.

The story of how Crossroads was founded through solidarity with women in Cd. Juárez, bringing acupuncture and hope to some of the darkest corners of the “murder capital of the world.”

After the 2019 Walmart shooting in El Paso, Las Cruces’ local NPR station featured Crossroads’ disaster-relief clinics offering free ear-acupuncture for survivors and first responders.

Cassie McClure and Neighbors Magazine sat down with us to learn more about our clinic in Las Cruces, NM, our acudetox training program and our global Barefoot Acupuncture Movement, which works in addictions, disaster relief, and humanitarian aid and development. The article can be read in the July 2021 issue, and is available to read for free on lascruces.com.

Who can call themself an “acupuncturist?” The answer is a tricky one, at least in North America.

At the Barefoot Acupuncture Movement, I have found that this question is best answered, discussed and debated with a historical lens, which is the angle that Bob Quinn, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and professor in the field, took in in his most recent “quintissentials” blog: The Return of the Barefoot Doctor.

Acupuncture is a portable medicine. In the 1960’s the barefoot doctors in China took Chinese medicine into the countryside. Over the years acupuncturist’s response to natural disasters has show us that acupuncture can be practiced in makeshift shelters or tents. It also has a place in refugee camps, churches of impoverished communities and rural villages. In this conversation acupuncturist and activist Ryan Bemis talks about how acupuncture and liberation theology go together and can help to relieve a lot of suffering.

Acupuncture is becoming more accessible—one ear at a time.

Ear acupuncture, also known as auricular acupuncture, is the most widely used form of acupuncture within Western health settings in the United States and Europe.