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Ear Seed Training
April 4, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
in collaboration with Albany Community Acupuncture and Pachakuti Collective
Learn how to treat yourself and your community with simple, effective NADA protocol for: pain management, digestive balance, stress relief, addiction recovery, sleep support, and more. $0-$40 suggested donation. The workshop includes:
- kit with 40 seeds, applicator, ear map
- instruction on point location and seed application
- history of ear seeds/NADA in healing justice and community medicine
Simple. Powerful. Balancing. Help anyone feel better right away. Accessible for everyone to learn and practice. Join us for 2 hours of historical and practical education on ear seeds and how you can heal yourself and others with this tiny seed, the vacarria plant. It is so powerful at removing stagnation and relieving pain in any body system that in Pinyin it is called Wang Bu Liu Xing – “even the emperor cannot stop us.” Learn more below!
Access: The workshop will be held on the second floor of the NATURE Lab building, which is currently only accessible by a flight of stairs. If stairs will present a barrier to attending the workshop please get in touch ([email protected]) in case we can accommodate your participation in another way.
Background information
Auricular acupuncture and ear seeds stimulate the vagus nerve – our primary pathway to a parasympathetic “rest and digest” state. It is ideal for use in group settings and has been proven effective internationally for addiction, withdrawal, emotional regulation, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
This simple 5 needle protocol was developed first in the 1970s in Hong Kong, then adopted in the Bronx by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords to treat addiction. In recent decades, Acupuncturists Without Borders and many other on-the-ground justice medicine initiatives primarily employ this protocol for quick, powerful and accessible community medicine.
Facilitator Bios
jei laura is a Qariwarmi community herbalist, Usui Reiki practitioner, and story weaver of the Andean and Irish Diaspora oriented in healing and climate justice. They are a community steward of Pachakuti Collective, an Indigenous/Queer/Trans/Gender Expansive collective dedicated to stewarding liberated and healing relations between humans and our other than human kin.
Albany Community Acupuncture was founded by Gina Mauro L.Ac (pictured far left) after her time doing relief work through Acupuncturists Without Borders in Western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in September 2024.
Born and raised in the Albany area, Gina has always felt a strong call to serve the Capital Region community in a meaningful way.
Tayna Rivera Gonzalez is queer and indigenous multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner guided by ancestors, healing justice lineages, and the land. Their focus always comes back to embodiment, grounding, and how we can learn so much about healing from our human and non-human kin. They like to explore body movement through dance and somatic healing and offer reiki, somatic meditations, ear seeds, and ear acupuncture in the tradition of the Young Lords and Black Panthers. They express deep gratitude and reverence to all of their past and future teachers and are a Co-Steward of Pachakuti Collective
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