Event Details
- Mar 29 2025
- Expired!
- 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Peirce Education Rooms (Welcome Center)
- Peirce Education Rooms
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TICKETS
$40 | $35 Members (Please sign in to receive member discount)
Community Acupuncture is a means to provide affordable acupuncture – both in terms of money and time – by giving up a little bit of privacy. Join Kayla Simmons (MSAOM), Jamie Schlier (MAc, LAc) and Melody Ry for community acupuncture every other Saturday at the beautiful Pittsburgh Botanic Garden from 10am-12pm.
Speakers
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Jamie SchlierAcupuncturist
Jamie Schlier has an undergraduate degree with a BS in Exercise Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Acupuncture from the Won Institute of Graduate Studies. Jamie’s clinical interests include women’s health, sports medicine and performance optimization, autoimmune conditions, and pain management. She blends techniques from Acupuncture Physical Medicine, Kiiko Matsumoto Style, and Worsley Five-Element Acupuncture. As an acupuncturist, Jamie emphasizes the body’s innate ability to heal itself. Acupuncture needling, gua sha, moxibustion, and cupping are all tools she uses to guide the body, mind, and spirit towards inner harmony.
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Kayla SimmonsAcupuncturist & Herbalist, Owner of Nourish & Move PGH
Kayla Simmons is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, massage therapist, and yoga instructor who uses a blend of these modalities in each treatment. She has been working with and studying the various human body systems for the last ten years with an emphasis on understanding how to bridge the mental, emotional, and physical bodies. In 2014, she completed her 200-hour Hatha yoga training with the Himalayan Institute and then immediately began a four-year graduate program in Asheville, NC to achieve her Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
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Melody RyAcupuncturist & Herbalist
Melody Ry began her career in medicine by studying Massage Therapy in 2009. After finding that clients needed more support, she turned to Chinese Medicine for answers. She has over 3000 hours of training in Chinese Medicine with intensives in gynecology, herbal medicine, Tui Na, western orthopedics, pediatrics, 5 element acupuncture, and various microsystems such as hand and ear acupuncture. Her training at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts included study under Master Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest from the Jade Purity School, Lao Tzu sect, and a 26th generation priest of the Complete Reality School, Dragon Gate sect. She enjoys specializing in treating pain and looks forward to sharing Chinese medicine with every new patient that she encounters.
Community Acupuncture is a means to provide affordable acupuncture – both in terms of money and time – by giving up a little bit of privacy. Join Kayla Simmons (MSAOM), Jamie Schlier (MAc, LAc) and Melody Ry for community acupuncture every other Saturday at the beautiful Pittsburgh Botanic Garden from 10am-12pm.
Speakers
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Jamie SchlierAcupuncturist
Jamie Schlier has an undergraduate degree with a BS in Exercise Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Acupuncture from the Won Institute of Graduate Studies. Jamie’s clinical interests include women’s health, sports medicine and performance optimization, autoimmune conditions, and pain management. She blends techniques from Acupuncture Physical Medicine, Kiiko Matsumoto Style, and Worsley Five-Element Acupuncture. As an acupuncturist, Jamie emphasizes the body’s innate ability to heal itself. Acupuncture needling, gua sha, moxibustion, and cupping are all tools she uses to guide the body, mind, and spirit towards inner harmony.
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Kayla SimmonsAcupuncturist & Herbalist, Owner of Nourish & Move PGH
Kayla Simmons is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, massage therapist, and yoga instructor who uses a blend of these modalities in each treatment. She has been working with and studying the various human body systems for the last ten years with an emphasis on understanding how to bridge the mental, emotional, and physical bodies. In 2014, she completed her 200-hour Hatha yoga training with the Himalayan Institute and then immediately began a four-year graduate program in Asheville, NC to achieve her Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
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Melody RyAcupuncturist & Herbalist
Melody Ry began her career in medicine by studying Massage Therapy in 2009. After finding that clients needed more support, she turned to Chinese Medicine for answers. She has over 3000 hours of training in Chinese Medicine with intensives in gynecology, herbal medicine, Tui Na, western orthopedics, pediatrics, 5 element acupuncture, and various microsystems such as hand and ear acupuncture. Her training at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts included study under Master Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest from the Jade Purity School, Lao Tzu sect, and a 26th generation priest of the Complete Reality School, Dragon Gate sect. She enjoys specializing in treating pain and looks forward to sharing Chinese medicine with every new patient that she encounters.
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