Jipala is incredibly intuitive and professional – reaching beyond traditional acupuncture. Her experience, talent, and wisdom continues to help me through both physical and spiritual issues, allowing me to create a path towards healing and well-being in my everyday life. M.M
“I’ve been seeing Jipala religiously for some years now. At first it was about aches and pains and now those inevitable byproducts of life are but a footnote to my regular sessions. Jipala has taken the time to get to know the real me, he who lives behind the mask, and that’s who she treats and helps walk the path of life. Jipala, the gratitude I feel for you is boundless.” J.S
“I have been seeing Jipala for menopausal symptoms including hot flashes,night sweats irritability, brain fog and dry eyes. All my symptoms have steadily improved or vanished under her care. In particular, her treatment during an intense period of hot flashes felt miraculous and I am so grateful they are gone. Each session is relaxing and I always sleep deeply after a session. Jipala listens and I have found that having a healer listen with empathy has helped me care for myself and make improvements in my lifestyle during this important threshold.” C.M
“I started seeing Jipala because I knew that the root of my physical ailments had an emotional, even spiritual root to them. I had many issue, Hypothyroidism, weight gain, palpitations, shortness of breath, sleeplessness, no energy, restless leg syndrome and more. I was feeling betrayed by my body. Jipala was a patient, intuitive and gentle guide. The healing doesn’t happen all at once, it’s more like a spiral healing. But over time you start to feel a difference. The old wounds don’t hurt so much or interfere with your life as much. You feel lighter, you are able to see and feel the world with clearer vision and a pure heart. I found I noticed things, as if I was seeing them for the first time. My temperament was more even, I wasn’t so reactionary, my physical ailments slowly started diminishing. Jipala works with great integrity and authenticity. She is…
I am totally stuck right now, what is the average citizen going to do about the state of the world’s affairs? As I watch the horror show of the current events unfold in front of my face, I ponder the use of my energies. What would actually help at this time? And what is effective and useful work? Activism, Prayer, Revolution, Apathy, Denial, Community building, Ignorance, Self-foolishness, Entitlement? “I think this is the most urgent political task. Never before have we had to work politically with so much integration of our own psyches into the political process. We don’t have the luxury of just doing politics, of just doing good works on the outside and not living them on the inside, because anything superficial won’t hold.” From “When the Heart Speaks,” Deena Metzger interviewed by Elizabeth Good, April 1984 issue of The Sun Magazine. Real Self-work is one answer. Adjusting,…
For Detachment’s Sake An age old question, do people change over the course of their life time or not, some heavy material to suss out. The burden of consiousness develpoment is all yours to tinker with. There are plenty of resources to stick your nose in and people to question but in the end, it is comes down to you and You. Are you brave enough? To let your own ego identity break down and to come to the humble conclusion, that you do not even matter very much on this planet. It was never really about you, your family, your possesions, your stories and your career or anything like that. It is about something much greater. It is about the connection amongst you and other living things, that is what is important. That connection is what motivates incrimental movements of change within your personalilty. Love is probably the only…
Photograph credit: Ryan Niven Humility, being truly humble means not wanting anything for the self, pure devotion. untainted love and willingness to give without reward and return. This is not coming from the limited perspective of the ego, that needs to be pampered, preened and fluffed. This is coming from an entirely different world of concerns, not to be misconstrued for martyrdom and co-depency. This is giving of the self and not expecting or even asking for any kind of reciprocity. “This work of the spirit, it is the one who thinks less and has the desire to do less that accomplishes more. What we have to do is beg like those who are needy, when they come before a wealthy emperor and lower our gaze and humbly wait.” St. Teresa of Avila This is the work of loving. Loving the people in your lives, and the world of mysteries…
“Acupuncture was the missing piece of my recovery from binge eating disorder. I had the intellectual piece down and I understood and was aware of my patterns. I was working on the emotional piece in therapy, but still felt stuck. Although I was new to acupuncture and didn’t understand how it worked, I felt a difference after my very first appointment. I understood intellectually how to break my patterns, but it felt too hard and too much like a battle. Jipala’s work shifted my energy and allowed me to soften and be gentle with myself. I was slowly changing and could feel a distinct difference. It was unlike any other method I had tried before. Although our main focus was healing binge eating disorder and related anxiety, Jipala helped with many other issues such as irregular periods and high blood sugar caused by PCOS, sinuses, the common cold, plantar fasciitis,…
I just had a grotesque flashback of some vivid movie about black slavery in the Southern part of the United States. I wonder what can justify that kind of treatment of other human beings? Pop, another flashback, a scene in a Star Wars film. The rebel pilots say that all the bad things they have done and all the killing they have performed were justified because it was done for the right cause. The mind is a powerful weapon. All these horrible things happen and they are condoned because of what we believe. That doesn’t seem right but it is does seem to be how things work. There is a bumper sticker that I like a lot, which says “Don’t believe what you think”. It is a major emphasis of many spiritual practices to learn how to evade our own programs of mind control, to see the illusions of our…
I just visited the most amazing exhibit in NYC. The murals of the Lukhang Temple and the Potala Palace, Tibet. They were created in the 17 th century and kept secret for many years. The temple of the serpent water spirits. The vast landscape depicts copious images painted with ground mineral pigment, showing every aspect of human development from pre-conception through all stages and aspects of human existence on through death and beyond. There are Buddhas, Deities, humans, Demons and animals: the murals keep your eyes roving up and down and side to side, feasting on the raw, gory, beautiful pictures. They stir something deep within, foster a insatiable craving for comprehension. What were the intentions of these murals? I was so attracted to the pictures, that I almost could tolerate leaving them and had a strong desire to see them again. I enjoyed the radical pictures of demons, and…