Environmental Healing

Social Activism Liberated from the “Us versus Them” Mentality – Metta Meditation

Blog 2023, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine / By

*I gave this talk on July 29, 2023, at an Interfaith Prayer Ceremony standing beneath Luma the Cedar, in Seattle, on traditional, unceded Coast Salish land of the Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshot, Snoqualmie, Puyallup, and Tulalip people. Good evening. My name is Jordan Van Voast, I’ve been a practicing Buddhist for around 30 years. I don’t …

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#LUMA – Trees are Life

Blog 2023, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine, seattle / By

I heard about LUMA less than a week ago – an old growth cedar tree in North Seattle destined to be cut to the ground at the orders of a Bellevue based real estate development company, and approved by City of Seattle. What? In the hottest year on the planet in the last million years? …

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Purification by Water and Light

Blog 2023, Community Acupuncture, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine / By

Gratitude to all teachers, friends, and acupuncture clients for being a part of my life. Gratitude to the land, and the indigenous tribes of the Salish Sea for their wisdom and guidance in the challenging times ahead. Gratitude to the air, water, earth, sun and spirit. I look forward to seeing and serving you in …

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Mental Health Day in the Snowy Mountain Paradise – Mount Teneriffe

Blog 2022, Environmental Healing, Hiking, Mind Body Medicine, Peace / By

Last week, this body was enduring pain due to too much heavy lifting and gardening. A little secret – a good long walk naturally adjusts the spine, bringing it into alignment.  As usual, I always check the forecast before heading out into the mountains – morning showers in North Bend.  Not too bad I figured …

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Responding to Violence with Love Instead of Fear

Blog 2021, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine, Peace / By

I can only dimly imagine what it must have been like for our elected Congressional representatives on January 6, 2021, ordered to lie on the floor and prepare to don a gas mask, with the sounds of gunfire and an racist armed mob echoing in the cavernous hallways of the US Capitol building. I think …

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Embracing the Darkness

Blog 2020, COVID-19, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine, Peace, Sustainability / By

The darkness is fully upon us, and I invite her in so that I can know her more intimately. The darkness is not only in the form of winter, cold, and COVID aloneness, but of human depravity and ignorance in the time of the great unraveling. Our human civilization has wandered far from the path …

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Building A Better World Starts Here and Now

2 Comments / Blog 2020, Community Acupuncture, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine, Peace / By

In my last blog, I shared my experience of being abruptly pulled out of a silent retreat by COVID-19. I had intended to remain in silence for a month. Nonetheless, I felt fortunate to have participated in 12 days of rigorous spiritual exploration. Having been home for nearly a month and not having held an …

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Healing Ourselves, Our World, during COVID-19

2 Comments / Blog 2020, Community Acupuncture, Environmental Healing, Mind Body Medicine, Peace, seattle / By

Dear CommuniChi patrons and friends, We are living through an unprecedented time of uncertainty. Although CommuniChi has closed its doors until the COVID-19 public health emergency is over, I send prayers for your well being and offer these reflections for your physical/emotional health, and spiritual nourishment. And I invite your questions and concerns if I …

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Mexico City Medical Outreach with Tzu Chi International Medical Association

1 Comment / Blog 2019, Community Acupuncture, Environmental Healing, Peace / By

My first mission with Tzu Chi was to Haiti in February 2010 after the great earthquake that took the lives of an estimated 300,000 or more people. I witnessed such incredible suffering, not merely due to the aftereffects of the earthquake, the many lives taken, the families tragically affected, but also due to the severe …

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Systems Change

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I leave for one week in Mexico City next week.  After having been licensed as an acupuncturist for 22 years,  the opportunity to serve so many and help them heal in body, mind and spirit, is an incredible honor and a sacred trust that is never easy to step away from. (Please see my previous …

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