Acupuncture and Tai Chi for health, wellness, and pain relief.

Are you experiencing physical or emotional pain? Do you want to improve your balance and strength? Our healing practice offers acupuncture and Tai Chi in an integrated program, drawing upon traditional Chinese medicine and Western interventions for an effective, proven approach to pain relief, activity and sports injuries, and mental health conditions. We serve clients in Berkeley, Oakland, El Cerrito, and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

What’s new

We are offering Tai Chi and Chi Kung classes via Zoom. Click here to see what an online class looks like.

We continue to offer telemedicine appointments for patients who are experiencing physical pain, emotional stress or both.

Please click here for our special “Working From Home Stress-Reduction Package.” Plus, watch the message below from John about managing our fears, riding the wave and staying in the game!

Meet John

Meet John Luna-Sparks, director of White Magnolia. John is a licensed acupuncturist, a nationally certified diplomate, and head Tai Chi instructor

Resources

White Magnolia's 3 Phase Protocol for Pain Relief

White Magnolia's Safety Guidelines

Read the blog

You’re Getting Sleepy…

What Is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

Acupuncture and Autoimmune Diseases

White Magnolia Acupuncture and Tai Chi | 2806 San Pablo Ave. | Berkeley, CA 94702 | 510-570-8195
Servicios en Español | Wheelchair accessible

Acupuncture Wrapped: An overview of some of the most exciting discoveries in 2020

Published January 18, 2021

As we enter a new year, it is natural to want to look back on the last one. As humans, we have the gift and the hurdle of marking time, so it can feel helpful to recall memories we want to hold on to or look for lessons we can take with us.

To that end, here are three

Intention setting in the new year

Published January 4, 2021

It’s that time of year again: the time when many of us engage in the practice of setting a new year’s resolution.

It seems, though, that hand-in-hand with new year’s resolutions is the prediction of inevitable failure. That as soon as you pick a resolution, you won’t actually make it through the whole year sticking with the new behavior,

Winter and your Kidneys

Published December 21, 2020

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, health is achieved by living in balance with nature and the seasons. Winter, the season of the Water Element, is the season for slowing down, reflecting, and conserving our resources. We all feel this tendency, but we don’t always listen to our bodies. In Western culture, being active is rewarded and expected. We feel