Passing4normal

When you don’t have access to therapeutic touch, using your own touch can build immunity, and can create calm and healing. Emma Destrubé, acupuncturist, herbalist and somatic therapist, tells us how to use acupressure points and self-soothing touch to take care of our own health, wellbeing, and sense of connection. Find out more at emmadestrube.com Emma Destrubé is a board-certified, licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and is a registered somatic movement therapist/educator. Emma approaches her work with the belief that change is always possible, and that given the right context, support, and nourishment, every body has the potential to thrive. After studying at McGill University in Montreal, she relocated to Los Angeles to study somatic movement, including Continuum, Body-Mind Centering, and Taoist meditation and internal cultivation practices. She apprenticed under Emilie Conrad, somatic visionary and pioneer of the internal movement practice Continuum. As