Acupuncture & Whole-Woman Healing · Boulder County, Colorado
Five Element acupuncture, custom herbal medicine, and unhurried whole-woman care — for the seasons your body moves through.
Licensed acupuncture & herbal medicine · New patients welcome
Our philosophy
Symptoms are weather. You are the landscape. Most care chases the storm of the week — we tend the terrain it moves through, so that calm is not a lucky season. It is where you live.
Lunaria practices classical Five Element acupuncture and East-West herbal medicine — slow, root-level care for women whose bodies are asking, politely or otherwise, for a different pace.
The medicine
Every modality here answers to the same diagnosis — yours. Open each to see how it works and who it tends best.
Five Element acupuncture treats the person carrying the symptom, not the symptom alone. We read pulse, tongue, season, and story, then choose a handful of points — most women describe the session itself as the most restful hour of their week.
Chinese herbal medicine is the slow, daily half of your care: a formula composed for your constitution and refined at every visit. We review everything you currently take and coordinate gently with the rest of your care team.
Cupping draws circulation into muscle that has learned to brace; moxibustion warms the channels with smoldering mugwort. Both are quiet, old technologies for telling the body it is safe to let go.
Our bodywork sessions blend tui na and myofascial techniques with the same diagnostic frame as your acupuncture care — so the work goes where your pattern needs it, at a pace your nervous system can trust.
No rigid protocols. We translate classical dietetics into a kitchen you actually live in: what to warm, what to ease back on, how to eat with your cycle and the season, in changes small enough to keep.
Facial renewal sessions pair fine facial needling with constitutional points, gua sha, and lymphatic work. Skin reflects terrain; we tend both, and the brightness that follows is yours, not borrowed.
The five seasons
Five Element medicine reads health as a turning wheel — five seasons, five organ networks, five ways energy gathers and releases. Turn the wheel; find the one that sounds like now.
Winter · Kidney & Bladder
It can feel like — Depletion, fear, running on empty — or the wisdom of true rest.
Winter care rebuilds your reserves: restorative points, warming moxa, marrow-deep rest. This is where burnout recovery and postpartum care begin.
What we tend
Not sure your concern “counts”? It counts. A free fifteen-minute call will tell us both whether this medicine is your fit.
Your first visit
Your first visit begins with seventy-five unhurried minutes. Your history, your cycle, your sleep, the things other appointments never had time for — plus the classical diagnostics of pulse and tongue.
Symptoms are weather; your constitution is the climate. We trace the pattern beneath what you’re feeling and show you the map — in plain language, never jargon.
A warm room, linen and low light. Needles finer than a hair, placed gently — most women feel a soft heaviness, then deep rest. You’ll have twenty-five quiet minutes that belong to no one else.
You leave with a plan that respects your life: visit pacing, an herbal formula if it serves you, and small seasonal practices. Care that fits is care that lasts.
The room
You will not hear a phone ring. You will probably hear the kettle.
breathe in
This is the pace of a treatment here. Stay as long as you like — the page will wait.
A letter, before you book
Dear you,
Most women find this room after years of being told everything looks normal. I believe you that it doesn’t feel that way — and I’ve built a practice around the radical act of taking that seriously.
I trained in classical Five Element acupuncture and East-West herbalism, and what two decades of tables and teacups have taught me is simple: bodies don’t need to be argued with. They need to be heard, warmed, and given a reason to trust the quiet again. That is the whole method. It works better than it has any right to.
Come as you are. The kettle’s on.
— Elowen
P.S. — You may be greeted by Juniper, our resident clinic dog and director of calm. She takes her work very seriously, usually from the sunniest corner.
The people you’ll meet
The practitioner you meet first is the one who stays with your care. No handoffs — just the few of us, and the time it takes to do this well.
L.Ac., MSOM
Founder & Lead Acupuncturist
Five Element acupuncture · women’s health
Twenty years of tables and teacups, and still the most curious person in the room.
L.Ac., Dipl.OM
Acupuncturist & Herbalist
Custom herbal medicine · digestion
Composes a formula the way some people cook — by feel, then by precision.
L.Ac., LMT
Bodywork & Facial Renewal
Therapeutic bodywork · facial acupuncture
Believes the nervous system listens to hands long before it listens to words.
The investment
Lunaria means “honesty” — the silver-pod flower — so our prices live right here, not behind a phone call. Superbills provided for out-of-network reimbursement; HSA and FSA welcome.
Money should never be the needle that keeps you from care — our community clinic runs on a sliding scale, no questions asked.
The seasonal letter
Winter · WaterIn the classical calendar, winter is not a failure of summer — it is the season the body banks its reserves. Here is how to follow it.
Read gently →Kitchen medicineFour phases, four small shifts — no protocols, just warmth in the right places.
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First-timersHonest answers to the question everyone asks on the way to their first table.
Read gently →Questions, answered plainly
Something else on your mind? Call us — a human answers, usually before the third ring.
The needles are finer than a strand of hair — nothing like an injection. Most women feel a brief tingle or a soft heaviness, followed by deep relaxation. Many fall asleep on the table. If anything ever feels sharp, we adjust it; your comfort is part of the medicine.
It depends on how long your pattern has been with you. Many women feel a shift within the first one to three visits; deeper terrain work often unfolds over a season of weekly or biweekly care, then tapers to tune-ups. We will always tell you honestly what we recommend and why.
We provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement, and most HSA/FSA cards work for acupuncture. We will help you check your coverage before your first visit so there are no surprises.
Soft, loose clothing you can rest in — most points are reached at the arms, legs, and head, so you stay comfortably dressed and covered with warm linens. Come as you are; we keep the room warm.
We review every medication and supplement you take before composing a formula, and we are glad to coordinate with your physician or care team. If herbs are not right for your situation, we simply will not use them.
Warmly, yes. Acupuncture has a long tradition of supporting pregnancy, from early-trimester nausea to birth preparation and postpartum recovery, with points chosen carefully for each stage. Tell us where you are in your journey and we will tailor everything around it.
New patients begin with a free fifteen-minute call — for the question you’re not sure counts. It counts.
(303) 555-0177hello@lunariahealing.com214 Juniper Lane, Suite B · Boulder County, CO