because everyone deserves access to acupuncture
15 years making healthcare accessible to everyone in the borderlands and beyond
Support barefoot acupuncture
Donations this year go to support the work of women in Latin America. We will be training grassroots volunteers working in some of the most underserved areas in the hemisphere how to offer care for their own people.
Get Acupuncture. Give Back.
Every treatment at Crossroads helps fund care for people who can’t afford healthcare.
“The effectiveness of the service delivery, the cultural competence in which these health promoters offer care, happens because they are the ones healing their own people. It’s less about acupuncture and more about their resiliency, their resolve to serve their people week in and week out.”
—Ryan Bemis, Latina Lista
“I went out to a migrant center where asylum-seekers were stuck in Mexico awaiting their court date in the U.S. A group of Catholic women who had been trained in basic auricular acupuncture gave treatments to a small group of mostly men. One young woman with an infant was in the group; she had been deported. They all sat in chairs in a circle. The barefoot volunteers went around the room and gave everyone the identical treatment of five points. I treated a few people myself. I watched the local Mexican women as they worked, and I have to weigh that their skills were about three times as good as mine. They needle only five points many times each week, and I rarely have occasion to do this.”
—Bob Quinn, Blue Poppy Press Blog
Experience healing, give back
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Come drop into a space of resilience, release, and restoration.In this monthly workshop, you’ll experience the transformation of our trauma-informed breathwork followed by acupuncture to help you let go of stress, let go of old patterns, and reconnect with yourself in a deeper way. This is an opportunity to slow down, breathe, feel, and rest — so you can leave more grounded, open, and renewed.
We’ll begin with guided meditation, continue with a somatic breathwork experience, and close with a restorative acupuncture integration led by Ryan Bemis, Doctor of Oriental Medicine.
Suggested donation: $50 or more
This fundraiser supports Crossroads Acupuncture’s nonprofit grassroots work with community health promoters and survivors of trauma in Guatemala and Latin America.Please bring: warm clothes, an eye mask, a blanket, and a notebook/pen.
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Un encuentro mensual en español para calmar el estrés, recuperar el equilibrio y aprender herramientas prácticas de autocuidado. Exploraremos acupresión, tapping, prácticas somáticas y la sabiduría de los Cinco Elementos y la Medicina China.
Our vision:
a more resilient world
…where people have the tools and capacity to care for their people.
Barefoot Acupuncture in action
The stories, the people, the spirit behind the work of Crossroads Acupuncture and our partners in the borderlands and beyond.
Support Solidarity and Healing in Guatemala
Roots and Bridges
From jails and shelters in the borderlands to the highlands of Central America, we invite you to join our work with survivors of genocide and the everyday heroes bringing trauma-informed care to those who need it most.
our mission
Global in scope, Crossroads Acupuncture is our local Las Cruces clinic within Crossroads Community Supported Healthcare, a 501c-3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to make bareefoot healthcare accessible and affordable to people of all income levels through the support of local communities.
breaking down
barriers
to integrative healthcare
As a 501-3-c non-profit organization, Crossroads supports the growth of clinics for the homeless, for people with addictions and psychiatric problems. We also train nurses and counselors how to offer acu based care within jails, hospitals, recovery programs, refugee care, and disaster relief.
Our leadership
Board of Directors:
Pat Fahy
Sara Ciaverelli
Gianna Picchioni
How we work
Crossroads Acupuncture partners with people and with communities to build resiliency through acupuncture.
"When you come in for acupuncture here at our clinic, you’re getting help for yourself, and you’re helping us help other community health workers who are on the front lines in their own underserved communities.”
Ryan Bemis, Crossroads Executive Director
Even in a place like Juarez, Mexico…
Listen to how our project was born in 2010 in the murder capital of the world, in Ryan’s commencement Address at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine’s Doctoral and Master’s graduation ceremony