Disaster Response
Support With NADA After Earthquake in Croatia
By Sara Bursać This article comes from Guidepoints News from NADA Spring 2021 Issue. Sign-up to receive Guidepoints in your inbox quartlery. The Guidepoints newsletter is the only publication devoted to the...
One Year Later: Revisiting Our COVID-19 Community Letter & 2020 Resources
Breath in, breathe out. Before you read this, give yourself an immune boost. uncross your feet, relax the shoulders, close your eyes, and tune into your breath. stay here for a few moments. or more than just a few – we all need that quiet space...
New Guidepoints News from NADA Issue Published (Fall/Winter 2020)
Sign-up to receive ‘Guidepoints News from NADA’ in your inbox quarterly. Stories in the Fall/Winter 2020 Issue: NADA Philippines Health Mission to Bicol Disaster Area During the Pandemic Danish Hospice Integrates NADA...
Liberation Acupuncture and the Road of Recovery Ahead of Us
by Ryan Bemis This article first was published in Medicinal Roots Magazine Summer 2020 Issue and has been republished here with permission from the author and publisher. In February 2020, on the eve of the Coronavirus outbreak in the Americas, I’m...
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...
NADA Protocol during COVID-19 – Guidelines for In-person Treatment
by Claudia Voyles Note: the following statements are intended as best practice recommendations for NADA Protocol treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic based on most recent measures published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for healthcare...
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...
Proyecto Salud y Acupuntura para el Pueblo’s Approach to Re-Opening
https://youtu.be/W5wZlbdgVP4 Jose Santini shares about how Proyecto Salud y Acupuntura para el Pueblo has approached re-opening their community healing space in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This video was originally created for the HeartH Star Streaming Festival. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NADA, Community Care & COVID-19
Adapting in Response to COVID-19 For this monthly Membership Café we held a community conversation with NADA members Adela Nieves Martinez (Detroit, MI), Stacy Sayre (Denver, CO), and Claudia Voyles (Austin, TX). Each a leader in their...
ADS self-care to keep oneself calm & healthy
Self-care for NADA-trained providers is always important. It’s not just an invocation to our members as a response to the current moment - it has always been part of the NADA training. On page 42 of the NADA Training Resource Manual, we outline the...
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...
Open Letter to our NADA Community: Community Care & COVID-19
Below is an email sent to our members on March 18, 2020. Please check links for ongoing information. Inspired by the principles of emergent strategy, we'll be continuously adapting in the coming weeks. To our beloved NADA community, Before you begin to read through...
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.
Colorado Acupuncture Medical Reserve Corps
Supporting Resilient, Healthy Communities with Acupuncture Care In Disasters and Emergencies See the full presentation (pdf)
NADA Phillippines and Typhoon Yolanda
NADA in action in response to Typhoon Yolanda See the full article
Ear Acupuncture and Humanitarian Aid
History, application, and improvement of the NADA model by Ryan Bemis, DOM, NADA RT © 2013 National Acupuncture Detoxification Association Download a PDF of the article (with graphics). Abstract The NADA model is a training and therapy approach involving a...