Support Kindred through our pause. Buy a specially priced treatment package now.

We’ve just made it possible for you to buy pre-paid treatment packages online.

As you know, we have shut our doors temporarily in order to join efforts to slow the spread of the Coronavirus. Like many small businesses, especially social businesses like ours where the fees from our services go right back into the clinic operations, closing will take a heavy toll on our financial ability to sustain our mission. In order to guarantee that we can come back strong and keep making regular acupuncture an accessible reality for local individuals and families with working class incomes, we need help from our community of existing patients and from those of you who’ve been considering coming for acupuncture. Specially priced treatment packages are available here. Each one sold will help significantly offest our losses every day of this shut-down. Choose a sliding-scale fee for a 5 pack of treatments where you get a 6th treatment free. Or, purchase a ten pack where you get two treatments free. You can find the link here.

None of us know when business as usual will return. Or, if business as usual will return at all. We do know that community acupuncture is very well suited for these times. It’s cheap. It’s closeby. It emphasizes regulating the basic sytems in our body so that we can get healthy and then stay healthy. Community acupuncture has always been about making this miraculous natural medicine accessible on a large scale to a majority of people. It has always been about transforming healthcare from a profit-driven sytem of high intensity, techno-pharmaceautical intervention to a gentle but powerfully effective web of holistic and preventative care offered locally, and supported and sustained by the members of that community.

We’ll be posting health tips, such as self-administered acupressure, recommended resources about COVID19, links to mutual aid efforts, and info about the ongoing fight for universal healthcare. We can get through this crisis together. And, together we can build more resilient and relevant and effective and democratic sytems of care as we move forward.

Closing for now. Safest option.

We are committed to our mandate to promote the best possible outcome for community health and safety. So, today, in light of the COVID19/Coronavirus epidemic, we are closing the clinic until Friday, March 27th. We are following the best advice from public health professionals and scholars, who all agree, that based on world-wide data, the best thing we can do is to encourage "social distancing" towards "flattening the curve" of transmission of the virus.

Our choice is a hard one, and heartbreaking in some ways. We realize many people in our community rely on us for healthcare, and there is so much we can do with acupuncture to keep people's immune sytem strong and resilient as well as helping with innevitable stress and fatigue. But, acupuncture cannot treat this virus. What we CAN do is to join efforts to slow it's spread. And, that means closing down for at least the next two weeks.

Please stay in touch with us through our website, and/or through our facebook and instagram pages, for updates. We'll post other health tips and info about the pandemic and how it relates to our communities,

We'll also let you know ways to support Kindred and affordable acupuncture during these extraordinary times.

Remember: Check in with loved ones. Remain generous and connected, even if that's by phone or online. Do not engage in xenophobia. Stay informed; avoid unreliable news sources. And support local and national efforts to enact universal health care. If some of us are left behind, we're all at risk.

With love,
Korben and Rachel and Gayle and Lissette and Amy

Working together to stay healthy in ordinary and unusual times

It remains to be true that for the vast majority of you, it still makes sense to come get acupuncture, maybe now as much as ever: but, of course we want to figure out how to be as thoughtful and precautionary as possible. 

As you probably now know, we have coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in our little state; and, of course, Rhode Island is inseperable from the rest of our world. It's not time to panic, but it's a good time to review what we can all do to reduce transmission of this and other diseases. And it's a good reminder of how interconnected we humans are... we can help each other.

STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK. First and foremost, please stay home if you're sick (fever, sore throat, coughing and sneezing which is not from allergies). We do not charge a fee for appointments cancelled because of illness. But we do ask that you notify us so that we can open up that appointment slot for someone else. 

WASH HANDS! Be responsible to yourself. Take care of yourself, and take precautions. Washing your hands is the single most important thing you can do to help stem transmission of this and other viruses. Get adequate sleep, eat nourishing foods. But Wash. Your. Hands. 

BE RESPONSIBLE TO OTHERS This includes staying home if you're sick. It includes coughing into your elbow or a tissue. It also includes being self-aware. If you're under the weather, or if you've been around someone who is, consider avoiding places where you might contact vulnerable people (kids, elders, immune-compromised folks), like daycare centers, nursing homes, and hospitals. 

WHAT WE'RE DOING. 

• Our practitioners will wash our hands and arms thoroughly before and after each client.

• We are having every patient wash hands and forearms as soon as they come in to the clinic.

• We are changing the sheets after every patient.

• We can cover your feet for warmth but may stop covering upper body. So, bring a sweater. 

• We're doing extra sanitizing around the clinic.

• We pledge to stay home if we're sick.

• And we're keeping an eye on the RI Department of Health for updates and recommendations.

Check in with loved ones. Remain generous and connected, even if that's by phone or online. Do not engage in xenophobia. Stay informed; avoid unreliable news sources. And support local and national efforts to enact universal health care. If some of us are left behind, we're all at risk.

If you are among the populations at higher risk of succumbing to the COVID 19 virus, you should be very carefully limiting your exposure. Otherwise, and if you can follow some simple quidelines at the clinic, we want to see you for acupuncture. Getting acupuncture is one of the best things you can do to help your immune system function at its best, and also to de-stress. So let's help each other through this unsettling time.