Portal
721 Bloor St West m6g1l5 Toronto, ON, Canada

Skills for Grief, right now - 2 sessions starting in May We mostly stretch together, learn about how emotions are processed, stored and released according to Traditional East Asian Medicine and have a bit of time to share our experience if wanted. The experience is subtly and significantly powerful and you can totally pass on sharing or turn your video off the whole time or connect as much as time allows. I want for you to have containers to heal, as is best for you.... 4 weeks of learning exercises to move Ki (Qi) and integrate Grief starting Friday May 22, 3-4pm https://www.facebook.com/events/2854598891253881/ and Wednesday May 27, 7-8pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/292205665130501/ pm me if you have questions. We need to grieve, it's very hard to do and we need different portals to try out to find the ways into our very unique experiences of Grief. These sessions supported into being by Traditional East Asian Medicine, Portal, Aurum Medicine and Wellness and Good Walk Herbs

Self-Shiatsu workshops - Free - Wednesday May 13 For anyone - 6pm https://www.facebook.com/events/1133236823681790/ For Front line Workers - 7pm... https://www.facebook.com/events/2684136475048300/ 45 min. Applying pressure to your head, face and neck. Experiencing touch, calm, kindness, ease for your whole body. Learn a way you can routinely destress and calm your nervous system. Once learned this sequence can effectively reduce stress within 5-30 min (timing is up to you).

Person centered care with Portal - Art | Acupuncture | Alive I want you to know how Traditional East Asian Medicine might support you in your day to day life. Do you want to know?... If yes, sign up here for a maybe monthly newsletter containing seasonal tips, respect for your knowing of your own health, insights on health and healing and inspirations to keep rising. Link for newsletter: https://aurummedicine.activehosted.com/f/7 If no, that's great. I want for you to have what you want. :) Please Share with care, Lamia

Hi all.. I have lots to offer in May! Check these out: for your grief, your ease and your connection.... Self-Shiatsu 45 min online workshop - FREE Wed May 13, 6 & 7 pm... Learn Self-Shiatsu for head, face and neck and deeply calm your whole system. Video link provided after for ongoing practice. Open to all (6-7pm) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/do-something-do-shiatsu-worksho For Frontline workers (7-8pm) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/self-shiatsu-to-destress-for-fr Community Circle for 2SLGBTQQIA community - FREE Friday May 15, 7:30-9pm In honour of Tammy Nielson a group of us are offering circles all month to support you in having space within community to share the impacts of this global pandemic. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/community-circle-for-2slgbtqqia Skills for Grief, right now (2 more series starting in May) This is a deep-listening, supported Space for You and Grief to BE in a 4-part workshop series over 4 weeks. I offer presence throughout and deep listening in a small (optional) sharing each session. We learn stretches to move Ki(Qi) which helps with processing the sensations of feelings and I talk about emotions in a Traditional East Asian Medicine context and then you share a bit (if you want) about your experience. Fridays 3-4pm Starts May 22 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/skills-for-grief-right-now-live Wednesdays 7-8pm Starts May 27 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/skills-for-grief-right-now-live

FREE WORKSHOP Frontline worker edition Come see if this is one way you can chill and restore and attend to your spirit and nervous system... sign up through eventbrite

FREE WORKSHOPS Wednesday April 8th 6pm - all welcome 7pm - Frontline workers specific (link coming soon) A daily or regular practice of self-soothing is deeply vital. Maybe this is your daily practice, come and see if it works for you.... with love #ilovemeiloveyou

Letter to my clients and community: Hello! How are each of you? ...Continue reading

Hi everyone... Can I get your input? What is more helpful for you to do at home to support your health? A package on how to revitalize this Spring with Food Medicine (aka Spring cleanse) ... OR a Grief Retreat workbook? Getting creative with what services to offer as I figure out how to earn an income and continue to serve community. Super open to other ideas too... please comment or pm me as you wish. AND THANK YOU! more details about pricing TBA <3

Great advice here. and for my wonderful clients... no worries about cancellation fees if you are sick last minute, please stay home and please take good care <3

Surthrival is possible. Healing is constant. Each tiny wave of kindness, an ocean of care. May be held in renewal, be nourished, one earthy piece of love soil at a time #brightlight #survivorsarephenomenal #weareallhurting... #weareallhealing See more

for everyone... if you are healing/dealing with mental health yourself, or if you don't, then you know someone who does Thanks Syd Yang for posting

Today, and many days, I am moved to tears by our incredible capacity for resiliency and by the tenderness we contain within our fierce and delicate hearts. You, brilliant beings are the light our lives are fighting for. The walls we may have built to protect us are to be respected and cared for. Our hearts, each one, a vast eternity of sorrows and joys. My respect to your brilliant light, your love for justice and your care for Life.

I am offering Shiatsu again! So grateful to return to this practice after a sweet break while I transitioned clinics and Life! 60 min session - $108

Clients sometimes say "Acupuncture is like Therapy!" and while it is not therapy at all, it is a system of medicine that is 1000's of years old that includes the interconnectedness of whole human beings with the world around us. There is so much information about how our bodies work, and what to do with what the body/mind/spirit is doing that goes unsaid in the dominant Western Medical model. We humans have feelings, so in an Acupuncture session one may talk about how our e...motional experiences impact our Qi and how our stuck or free flowing Qi can conversely impact our emotional world. Each Acupuncturist brings their unique presence to their practice and I like to talk about the connections our organs have to emotions and how we can use Food and movement and Acupuncture and Herbs in emotional healing. This is one way, in a sea of many ways, to reconnect with our inherent knowing of our feelings and understand the world within us and around us. You can simply be stressed out and Acupuncture can help. You can be doing trauma healing work and Acupuncture can support or amplify that healing. You can need a break from dealing with PTSD and come for a session. There are so many ways to heal, deal and feel well... May we all have the conditions to emerge from unjust struggle, heal harm and together, build a healthy world. wanna know more? ask me or your favourite Acupuncturist <3 #communityhealing #enoughforeveryone #wecanheal Artist: Avogado6 (https://www.instagram.com/avogado6_art/?hl=en)

Art is healing. Period. To create or bear witness or enjoy or appreciate... Art is healing happening.... my first sharing of writing begins today! from "The Grief Chronicles...." Complicated grief... my mothers life and terminal death I loved her before I knew I should be wary of love That to love means to lose means to ache into the universe of my bones at the final truth of death and dying. From that consciousness not yet impacted by loss and she died before her "time" she would say with plenty to be grateful for and I would agree and I would say she still had so much to give and she does if I dare again to love her still See more

Super Snack for Super Humans (aka YOU!) Walnuts + Pumpkin Seeds + Mulberries + Goji Berries = YUM and nourishing... I use this snack for in between clients and to avoid buying snacks out when I am Ha/ungry. If you have loose stools, go easy with this mix as it does get things moving! Walnuts (Hu Tao Ren) -Tonify Kidneys, nourish Blood, Warm lungs and moisten Intestines Pumpkin seeds (Nan Gua Zi) - Nourishes Blood and Qi Mulberries (Sang Shen) - Tonifies the Blood, nourishes Yin, Lubricates the Intestines Goji Berries (Gou Qi Zi) - Tonifies the Yin of the Liver and Yin of the Kidneys. Brightens the eyes. Moistens the Lungs. Calms the Heart any questions? ask me or any local Acupuncturist / TCM Herbalist

Random tips for simple ways to take care to meet ever increasing needs for collective resiliency. These tips will repeat, be things you know and things you don't know. I have done 1000's of treatments now and there are common threads that can potentially serve us all. There are many ways we can take care that don't cost money. Knowledge is power, Traditional East Asian Medicines are vast and have been effective for 1000's of years. I want to benefit you in any way that ...resonates for you all Very Alive People raising our collective health. Today's TIP: Chewing is on of the most frequent suggestions for anyone with any digestive upset. This costs nothing more than the time it takes to chew. and if you are a fast chewer and need to keep moving quickly, just chew fast while you chew more. Really makes a difference for gut health, absorption of nutrients and bowel health. #notimelikethepresenttogethealth #endoftheworldasweknowit #whatwedoknowwillrepairus

This is so GREAT! 10 fully subsidized BIPOC spots for an incredible program....

So so true. So much healing is possible. we all deserve the conditions to do so.

Been seeing a lot of folks coming through with the never ending cough. If you have this cough and have access to a Dr, please go see one to determine if it is pneumonia. A few folks I know are getting that diagnosis... and knowledge is power! #wholistichealth #empowerhealth #wholisticmedicinetothefront #makespacefortraditionalhealing