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Real Wellness
I find myself part of a trillion dollar "Wellness" industry that largely tells people they need to buy the right stuff to look and feel...

Madison Kolla
Feb 26, 20243 min read


Spring Equinox Gathering - Ostara
I'm so thrilled to offer these Wheel of the Year gatherings in an ongoing way. In honor of the Spring Equinox and Easter, we'll dive into...

Madison Kolla
Feb 26, 20241 min read


Imbolc - the Glimmer of Light
Imbolc is for marking this very point in the cycle - it's still winter, still hibernation season, still a phase of rest and dormancy -...

Madison Kolla
Jan 10, 20243 min read


Solstice Gathering - December 23rd
Join me for a small group gathering to honor winter solstice, and the long nights. We'll sit in this fertile place that seeds and...

Madison Kolla
Dec 8, 20231 min read


All Babies Should Be as Safe as my Babies.
Letting myself be peeled open by the horrors in Gaza. I have been so damn privileged in this life to have the option to look away, to not...

Madison Kolla
Oct 23, 20232 min read


Depression - the Underworld Journey
I covered a community acupuncture shift recently - seeing folks at a far quicker pace than I have been in the past year and a half. With...

Madison Kolla
Oct 23, 20235 min read


Digging up the Bones - Working with Ancestors
As we approach All Hallow's Eve, they say the veils between worlds become thin. We might remember or think of our dearly departed more...

Madison Kolla
Oct 20, 20233 min read


Ode to Oats
I love late summer and early fall. Harvest - so much to pick and use and preserve. The bounty of garden and fields abounds. And that...

Madison Kolla
Sep 6, 20234 min read


And The World Split Open Once Again
The world split open once again - to welcome Rune. Her birth was a marvel, in all the ways - a miracle, even. Because it is, no matter...

Madison Kolla
May 9, 20232 min read


I'm that White Woman with no Business Making a Living Practicing Acupuncture
My plan was to attend naturopathic medicine school. I was completing my undergrad prerequisites when I met someone studying Chinese...

Madison Kolla
Aug 18, 20225 min read


Ode to the Sensitives
One of the main areas of my practice is in supporting sensitive folk. You know who you are. The feely ones. The teary ones. The...

Madison Kolla
Jun 10, 20222 min read


Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Support
Supporting new parents is an absolute passion of mine. Acupuncture is a fantastic tool for the myriad of discomforts that come up...

Madison Kolla
Jun 9, 20223 min read


Hemma Goodbye and Offering
Some bittersweetness this month as we say goodbye to hemma in the home it's been in for the past 15 years. It has truly been such a...

Madison Kolla
Jun 9, 20222 min read


Spring | Vernal Equinox | Ostara
Welcome Spring. The vernal equinox. Ostara. The season of Earth's regeneration. Of birth and rebirth - eggs and ducklings and baby...

Madison Kolla
Mar 17, 20222 min read


Winter Nights
Where I live on the southern tip of the west coast of so-called Canada (WSÁNEĆ territory) snow is a brief and rare-ish winter treat. This...

Madison Kolla
Jan 8, 20223 min read


On how I don't do Yoga anymore
I received an email this summer, from an Ashtanga Yoga practitioner in Costa Rica thanking me for my blog post about why I do Ashtanga...

Madison Kolla
Sep 20, 20214 min read


Littles Learning
My toddler is picking up words, sentences, phrases at an astonishing rate these days. It's mostly hilarious and amazing, but it sometimes...

Madison Kolla
Apr 30, 20212 min read


Nature
Get out into nature, they say. As if this thing called nature exists only outside of us, out of doors, away from the city and apart from...

Madison Kolla
Mar 23, 20211 min read


Hello there, and Online Sessions
Hello there. I’m Madison. I’m here with a nervous system capable of travelling to the most expansive, euphoric, far seeing highs, and the...

Madison Kolla
Mar 23, 20212 min read


Descending into the Dark (Season)
I've spun a story for you, pulled up from the depths of winter. This story begins with an idea. A possibly quite novel idea. That (y)our...

Madison Kolla
Nov 20, 20203 min read
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