Field Meridians Healing Clinic

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Amidst ongoing change, loss, and survival, it is essential to create space for grief and renewal. This season, Field Meridians’ Healing Clinic centers practices of mourning, transition, and crossing over a threshold. How can we recognize the death Winter has brought, and how might we make room for new growth?

Inspired by the Healing Clinics of the Black Panther Party and broader traditions of community care, this month’s clinic will feature breathwork, acupuncture, energy work, and herbal support with a focus on deathwork and grief care. These practices draw from lineages of traditional Chinese medicine, plant knowledge, and community-based healing, offering both preventative and restorative approaches often inaccessible to many.

Throughout the clinic, we will hold a rhythm of open group sessions and individual treatments, alongside quiet moments for rest, reflection, and integration. Herbal tea, ambient sound, and informal knowledge sharing will be available as gentle supports. We will have a small lending library available to browse.

We invite participants to come as they are—to tend to grief, to honor transitions, and to reconnect with their bodies and community within a shared field of care.

Dr. Sol will be teaching a separate workshop from 3-4PM. If you would like to attend, please RSVP separately here.

about the facilitators

Amanda Hemminger – Amanda is a 500 hour trained Hatha, Tantra, Ayurvedic yoga teacher and Usui Reiki practitioner alongside TCM massage therapy. She has studied eastern philosophy and somatic practices in Indonesia, Costa Rica, and throughout the United States. She eccentrically and playfully combines her studies to formulate a personalized approach to massage, energy work and movement. She shares Reiki at a monthly affordable community acupuncture event hosted at the underground music dance space in Greenpoint, Light and Sound Design.

Leah Yassky – Leah Yassky is a yoga and breath work teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. With a background in choreography, her teaching bridges anatomy and expression, physiology and psychology. Leah is currently pursuing a doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Her practice cites the work of Allan Wayne, Nevine Michaan, and Anna Halprin.

Jena Myung – Jena Myung practices art and healing in NYC, where they have been based for the last 9 years. They work with light touch, reflowing energy, meditation, sound and food to create playful and calming spaces that support the body’s natural ability to heal.

Kimberly Chou – Kimberly Chou Tsun An is an artist, community organizer and cultural worker based in Brooklyn, NY, with roots in Taipei, Taiwan and Detroit, MI.

She practices folk herbalism inspired by traditional Chinese medicine and other Asian healing traditions, interwoven with popular Western herbalism and plant wisdom indigenous to Lenapehoking / New York / the Northeast — an evolving, adaptive form of “Asian American herbalism,” to lovingly borrow language from herbalist and teacher Erin Masako Wilkins.

She is an acudetox specialist, trained in the five-point ear acupuncture protocol first developed in the 1970s by members of the Young Lords and Black Panthers as a form of radical community care.

Wonhee – (they/elle) born and raised on matinecock/lenape hoeking.
five point auricular acupuncturist, intuitive shiatsu bodyworker, community herbal medic, breathwork guide, harm reduction specialist, firekeeper, corean knotwork/maedeup artist.

Sol Meria Do Valle – Dr. Sol is a doctor of East Asian Medicine passionate about helping people reconnect with their bodies and move through pain, stress, life transitions, and gender affirming surgery with care. They strive to create a grounded, affirming space where people can heal, restore balance, and feel deeply supported.

Sarah Rosenblatt – Sarah Rosenblatt is an acupuncturist who offers trauma-informed, patient-centered, and gender-affirming care. Sarah treats chronic pain, spiritual-emotional health, digestive and hormonal conditions, and injury recovery. She is also known as artist Syan Rose, whose illustration work uplifts social movements and queer/trans community. Book an acupuncture or cupping appointment at SarahSyan.com.

whats included

• Yoga mats
• Pillows
• Blankets

what to bring

• comfortable clothes

disclaimer

This clinic may involve gentle or intentional physical touch, as well as movement-based activities that could include standing, sitting, lying down, and traveling up or down stairs. Participation is entirely voluntary — you may opt out of any touch, movement, or exercise at any time without explanation. Please communicate your boundaries clearly to facilitators and fellow participants.

To protect our community — especially immunocompromised and high-risk participants — we encourage all attendees to exercise awareness and care:

• Please refrain from attending if you feel unwell or have been recently exposed to a contagious illness.
• Masking is encouraged when in close proximity to others. Masks will be available on-site.
• Hand sanitizer and handwashing stations will be provided; we encourage regular use.