Beads and Seeds
NADA Community Comes Together for ‘Beads, Pass It On!’ Video Challenge
NADA Members work together to create short videos to inspire their communities to try out ear acupressure for stress relief. Learn more about the 'Beads, Pass It On' Community Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOTFMgQJtc8...
Ear Acupressure Teaching Tool (PDF Version)
We invite you to download and share this info sheet, as well as to use it as inspiration to create your own. Use our language or adapt it to be accessible to your community. Most importantly, keep it simple and #passiton.
Ear Acupressure Teaching Tool
Simple ear acupressure can offer support for hard times and is especially well-suited for this global moment of expressing solidarity through physical distancing. We invite you to download and share these infographics, as well as to use them as inspiration to create...
Membership Café with Ralph & Nancy
In May 2020 the global NADA community gathered virtually for a special open NADA Membership Café with Ralph Raben (Director, NADA Germany) & Nancy Smalls (Founder, Maternal Substance Abuse Services, Lincoln Recovery Center). VIEW THE RECORDING ...
May Membership Café with Ralph Raben & Nancy Smalls
Come reflect and connect with the global NADA community for a special open NADA Membership Café with Ralph Raben (Director, NADA Germany) & Nancy Smalls (Founder, Maternal Substance Abuse Services, Lincoln Recovery Center). Join us May 20th at 11am MDT/1pm EDT/7pm...
NADA Community Challenge: #BeadsPassItOn!
We invite you to a #beadspassiton Community Challenge! Share your own video of putting on your beads** and then 'pass them on'. Email membership@acudetox.com with a short video (<15 seconds) of yourself putting on your beads. Use ours as inspiration and then get...
Ear Acupressure Outreach & Education Tool
Ear acupressure helps people of all ages. This simple technique helps everything from trauma recovery and healing, to quieting stress and anxiety, to helping with headaches and general wellness. It provides a balancing effect – some people feel sleepy while others are energized, some feel relief of depression, some seem to get a peaceful sensation of relaxation, and some don’t feel anything. Michael Smith said that it “helps kick in the body’s own healing system. It helps what needs helping.”
Adapting in Response to COVID-19 Part II
For April's Membership Café, we continued the conversation started at the March Membership Cafe: Adapting in Response to COVID-19 by bringing together two more NADA providers who serve as leaders in their communities. This month we heard from Victoria Taylor...
Adaptations during COVID-19: Safety Suggestions
In this dynamic reality, public health recommendations and indications are changing day to day. We are working to continuously distill messages from public health officials, as well as NADA members and trainers in order to share suggestions on how to proceed as...
Community Care in the time of COVID-19: Resources & Invitations to Connect
For more recent guidelines see: NADA Protocol for the Pandemic - Returning to In-Person Treatment In these times of expressing social solidarity through physical distancing, we encourage NADA members to be in virtual community with one another while adapting to safe...
Featured Resource: Beads and Seeds Outreach Tools
Beads and seeds are a simple technique to offer support for hard times. In our ‘Beads and Seeds’ Resources section, we have a compilation of articles and research on beads and seeds.
Reed Academy Study
The following article is reprinted from Guidepoints: Acupuncture in Recovery, April 2003. Title: Learning-Disabled Boys Benefit From Beads. Download the PDF: MagneticBeadsADHD
Compilation of Articles on the use of Magnetic Acupressure Beads
This collection of articles was published in Guidepoints and includes writing from Michael Smith. This short compilation can be used as an outreach and education tool when introducing people to the use of the acupressure beads and seeds as a simpler and more...
Mothers, Babies and Children Benefit From NADA
Mothers, Babies and Children with NADA: Beads and Needles
Ear Acupoints for Trauma Recovery and Healing
in collaboration with the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) A simple ear point stimulation technique can offer support for hard times. Based upon our experience as NADA providers, small magnetic beads or seeds can be taped to points on the external ear by any volunteer with...