On the new moon, the cusp of the Chinese Lunar New Year, she will guide you through acts of inaction to feel the spaciousness of stillness and receive its care. Together, we will still through fives aspects of a life cycle which resonate with 五行 wǔ xíng, the Five Phases in Chinese medicine. These phases express the constancy of change seen in the natural world, which resides in our bodies. Essential to life’s renewal is the constant flow from start to finish, beginning to end, with growth, flowering, and transformation between. Winter's Stillness is a ritual of renewal, to connect with our mystery and listen to what we want to bury and draw near, hold sacred, cultivate, express, and transform.
To slough off what we want to bury, we will dry brush our skin. Drawing near and holding ourselves sacred, we will soak our feet, sit in a sauna, and receive moxabustion (mugwort therapy) and acupuncture. Expanding upward, we will breath through an acupuncture channel meditation. Feeling the expression of our heart’s brilliance, we will listen to our pulse. Transforming our reflections and intentions, we will journal, burn what needs to be buried, eat home-cooked food, and nap.
Paige Barnes is a Chinese medicine practitioner, dance artist, and founder of Peony, an acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine practice. She integrates her experiences as a dance artist with her medical practice, forging new pathways for connecting people with the beauty of their body’s imagination.

Paige holds a MS in East Asian Medicine from Bastyr University, 2016 and a BA in Dance from the University 
of Washington, 1999. She continues her Chinese medicine education through Neijing Nature-Based Medicine with Dr. Edward Neal, recently completing the Level 1 program in 2021. Currently she is studying classical Chinese language with Sabine Wilms. Learn more about Paige at www.peonymedicine.com