A First Line of Defense

Community Acupuncture and Principles of Chinese Medicine Acupuncture as a healing modality can be traced back about 2,000 years and remains a popular form of healing. In this episode of Funny Feelings, Maria and Liza interview Ariel De Leon who owns a community acupuncture center in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Ariel has been part of a movement to make acupuncture accessible to everyone through community acupuncture clinics. She answers questions about healing techniques and about her practice Tigerlily Holistic while performing abdominal acupuncture on Liza. This episode was recorded in the quiet setting of Maria's apartment so that a treatment could occur during the interview.