Kelli Pallansch
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Wow I love reading how you pivoted in your practice. How powerful. I appreciate it even more given your science background. One of my closest friends worked in a biotech lab for years then went to acupuncture school. Her background and perspective really opened me up to all “the woo”.
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I bookmarked your podcast so will check it out later. And yes I’ve loved reading everyone’s intros for similar reasons. How cool you opened a clinic with your fiance!
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What meaningful work you’ve carved out with teen girls. I imagine it to be incredibly challenging so I love hearing how you are humbled daily by them and your work.
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Yes to all of this. I unraveled 2021 and am setting up for 2022 all while simmering some form of soup on the stove. I’m looking forward to this year and the balm too.
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San Francisco is such a gorgeous and difficult place to live – being here has continued to shake me down but I’m still here! It’s inspiring to read how you are rebuilding after being shaken down to your foundation. I am with you – I always say I don’t want to see patients just for elbow pain.
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Samson! What a sweetie. That’s exciting that you are hitting on what’s next in both your work and where/ how you live. And oh yes those old voices. So great that you are ready to move past them.
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That retreat sounds amazing and I am curious about practicing in the feminine /Yin wisdom. How cool. And how great you trusted that intuitive whim. I love reading about how that has continued to grow. I was so sad when I heard Lillian Bridges died last year. I had been considering one of her courses.
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Promise in being – what an intriguing activity, especially since the one you crafted continues to be important to you. And yes those a-ha moments! I am in awe of those moments where I allow myself to start saying stuff when I’m not really sure why and it really reaches into the person I’m talking to. That’s not an easy place to get to.
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I’m so curious about Nia. The thing that reliably kept me the most sane the past two years was dance! Lots and lots of spontaneous dancing in my home. I had no clue that dancing however I wanted when no one was watching could be so incredibly therapeutic.
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Wow what a story about your grandpa. I’ve been looking into Death Doula programs. What amazing work alongside acupuncture and plant essences, right? I love how you relying on your past experiences and inherent nature to be in all this uncertainty.
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Thank your for sharing all of this. This winter solstice moon WAS different! It has me re-evaluating how I spend the end of the year. And YES flow! I’m with you on that.
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As far as community, I always thought of them in a very large sense. Living in big cities has not helped this. So I always felt my presence or contribution to them as being inherently small. Now I’ve shifted to see that just how I sit in the park across the street has a very meaningful impact on the community around me, whether that’s the trees at my back and grass under my feet, a bird walking by, or how I am simply breathing with all these other people who are sharing a sliver of time in a park with me. Or a small act like going to my local book store to see if they will order me a copy of Kigo is meaningful community.
I’ve done both one-on-one virtual healing sessions (as practitioner and patient), and also participated in virtual sessions with groups of thirty or so others. They have all been profound to me and the virtual-ness has not impacted the collective feeling into a group or the medicine or the magic. What seems to benefit all of this is having the same people meet regularly, as well as a way to communicate with all or specific individuals outside of virtual sessions. I can most easily tune into the collective energy virtually when the session starts with some sort of guided meditation where we all close our eyes, breath together, and tap into it together. It’s not always possible, but the more people can have their cameras on and we can see each other in our spaces helps me a lot as well. In a way it’s easier to connect because most of us are in the comfort of our own spaces so it’s easier to open up and stay vulnerable. Animals pick up on it too and Cat and Betty both lay near me or on me in ways they typically do not, so that is another layer to the magic.
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Aw Professor! I love that name, and for a tuxedo cat? I’m sorry for your loss. I will love on ours more today in honor of Professor. We have Cat (our family name is Stevens) and Betty. Attached is them a couple days ago after I interrupted their nap.