Kototama Acupuncture
CHRONIC PHYSICAL PAIN
Chronic Pain Care
When pain becomes chronic, it is rarely just physical. Over time, it becomes a pattern shaped by the nervous system, stress, and the body’s learned responses.
Our approach combines ketamine-assisted therapy, somatic care, and acupuncture to help interrupt persistent pain patterns and support nervous system regulation.
Rather than focusing only on symptoms, this work helps create the conditions for greater stability, flexibility, and change.
NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
When Stress Becomes Difficult to Unwind
Stress, trauma, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm do not live only in the mind. Over time, they shape breathing, sleep, tension, mood, perception, and the body’s capacity to feel safe and connected.
Our approach combines psychotherapy, somatic therapy, acupuncture, and psychedelic-assisted care to support regulation, resilience, and deeper integration.
Rather than pushing symptoms away, this work helps restore flexibility within the nervous system so new patterns of experience can emerge over time.
The Kototama is not a theory or even a teaching. It is the life energy, or ki that gives birth to consciousness in all it's myriad forms."- William Gleason
"Kototama is more than acupuncture- it's sound medicine."
Kototama works with the vibrational principles of life itself, using sound-informed diagnosis and minimal needling to restore deep harmony. Rooted in the ancient Japanese principle of Kototama, or “sacred sounds,” this medicine views vibration as the foundation of healing.
Unlike modern acupuncture, which often focuses on symptoms or uses many points, Kototama emphasizes pulse diagnosis, precise minimal needling, bodywork, and sound. This establishes alignment of body, mind, and spirit at the deepest source.
FUTONOLITO
WA SA YA NA LA HA MA KA TA A
WI SI YI NI LI HI MI KI TI I
WE SE YE NE LE HE ME KE TE E
WO SO YO NO LO HO MO KO TO O
WU SU YU NU LU HU MU KU TU U
How it works
Kototama acupuncture restores harmony at the source-aligning body, mind, and spirit through the healing power of vibration.
The body, it's organs and meridians should resonate like notes or strings when tuned to their respected sound frquency. Like an instrument, it simply needs to be tuned to the larger ocean of sound from which is was created.
Acupuncture & Mental Health
The future of mental health is being shaped by looking to the past. Today, there is less emphasis on talk therapy and more awareness of what the body has to say. Eastern medicine has long treated psychological and emotional imbalances through a holistic approach that sees no separation between mind and body, and these wisdom traditions continue to inspire what we now call somatic psychotherapy.
Acupuncture for Psychedelic- Assisted Therapy
Psychedelics can open us to overwhelming, transpersonal, and often ineffable experiences difficult to put into words. Acupuncture helps to ground, resolve, and reorganize these energies. Unlike psychotherapy, that works through dialogue, acupuncture uses the wisdom of the body for insights to settle, take shape, and blossom into meaningful action in one's daily life.
Preperation
Acupuncture helps set the stage for a psychedelic journey by calming the nervous system, grounding the body, and establishing a balanced, receptive state.
Integration
Acupuncture supports psychedelic integration by restoring harmony, easing emotional stress, and allowing insights to land, and become fully rooted in the body
We offer both private and community acupuncture.
Acupuncture works best when used frequently as preventative medicine. We give you the freedom and flexibility to choose the type of care that fits your lifestyle and budget. We believe everyone should have access to acupuncture.
Private
Personalized, one-on-one care tailored to your unique needs in a quiet, focused setting.
Community
provides affordable, accessible care in a shared healing space that fosters connection and collective support.
Sliding Scale
Sliding scale spots may also be available for private acupuncture. Please contact us to inquire further
Customize your monthly treatment plan, alternate private and community sessions, add a somatic session to integrate and empower your own inner balance.
CONDITIONS TREATED WITH ACUPUNCTURE
Chronic Pain
- Sports Injuries
- Neck and Back Pain
- Shoulder Pain
- Sciatica
- Joint Pain
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Head Aches
- Migraines
- Neuropathy
Mental–Emotional
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Irritability
- Grief and loss
- Trauma
- PTSD
- OCD
- Addictions
- Insomnia
Internal Medicine
- Chronic Fatigue
- Brain Fog
- Digestive Disorders
- IBS
- Reflux
- Allergies
- Cold and Flu
- Immune Support
- Women's Health
- PMS
- Menopause
“The way to change the world is not to get people to focus on changing external circumstances or even to modify their own behavior. Rather, they first need to examine how they experience the world.”
-Chogyam Trungpa
When the body holds what words cannot
Some experiences live beneath language a, held in the nervous system, the breath, and the tissues of the body.
"Kototama is more than acupuncture- it's sound medicine."
Kototama works with the vibrational principles of life itself, using sound-informed diagnosis and minimal needling to restore deep harmony. Rooted in the ancient Japanese principle of Kototama, or “sacred sounds,” this medicine views vibration as the foundation of healing.
Unlike modern acupuncture, which often focuses on symptoms or uses many points, Kototama emphasizes pulse diagnosis, precise minimal needling, bodywork, and sound. This establishes alignment of body, mind, and spirit at the deepest source.
