Samantha Story L.Ac.

05/29/2026

How a treatment table should look after all the stress in your face has been gua sha’d away. 🤍

05/28/2026

June & July books are open 🍥

Lots of wonderful people coming through this room and laying on this table. Some of you I’ve been working with for a decade and some of you are newer, all of you are wonderful. I’m feeling very grateful lately so I may gush a bit, I’m just so inspired by all of you.

What’s going on on the table: Acupuncture, lots of facial Gua Sha always, new myofascial facial work, Reiki, cupping, hypnosis and nidra and of course Breathwork. Oh and some custom flower essences to support new narratives and big life changes. 🍥

05/20/2026

Excerpts & included inspirations from my most recent newsletter. Sign up on my website to get on my mailing list.

I see healing as the process of self reclamation, becoming intimate with and reintegrating the parts of ourselves that have been hurt, discarded, injured, ill or just deemed undesirable. These are the places we have separated from ourselves. To heal is the journey of becoming whole, this can be a journey we do again and again, in tiny morsels and in big leaps, in a day and over lifetimes. If separation (in all it’s forms) is the dis-ease, than connection is the remedy. We all have parts of ourselves we aren’t claiming, parts we shun or fear, feelings we dare not feel, and parts of ourselves that have weathered the brutality of being in a body in this world. Healing asks us to become whole, to claim the entirety of self. The definition of whole in the OED is
1. all of; entire
2. in an unbroken or undamaged state; in one piece
3. a thing that is complete in itself
4. all of something
But maybe some of us are broken and damaged, in fact, maybe all of us are, can we still be whole? In my own experience yes. Healing and becoming whole begins with the willingness to get reacquainted with these discarded parts, to make contact with the wound. Willingness and tenderness and perhaps some courage are all that’s required. I’ve found that some wounds heal quickly and completely, while others need revisiting. We have many examples of fractured beings creating fracture around them, the journey to become “a thing that is complete in itself”, thus the journey of healing, is a worthy thing to dedicate oneself to, one to get curious and maybe even excited about, it might even be the thing this being human is about.

05/18/2026

The city is alive, the sidewalks, the critters, the plants, all alive. It’s easy to forget that we are also in nature when we’re in a city, it’s just inhabited differently. I took a trip to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens this weekend to smell the lilacs before the season ends. It’s such an incredible resource, but also good to remember that we don’t have to go somewhere special like that (though I do recommend it) to connect with a flower or a bird.

05/12/2026

Breathwork for Being Human is a container to hold the ‘both and’ of being a human on this planet at this time, the grief and joy, the difficulty and beauty, and all the spaces and places in between. Come exactly as you are, bring whatever is going on with you, we will release, make space and call in. Breathwork will meet you where you are and offer a way to hold, shift, understand and integrate your emotions.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care. Breathwork is a powerful and practical tool to work with your own energy, a bridge out of the critical mind and into deeper resources available to all of us.

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05/01/2026

Breathwork for Being Human is a container to hold the ‘both and’ of being a human on this planet at this time, the grief and joy, the difficulty and beauty, and all the spaces and places in between.

Breathwork for Being Human is a container to hold the ‘both and’ of being a human on this planet at this time, the grief and joy, the difficulty and beauty, and all the spaces and places in between. Come exactly as you are, bring whatever is going on with you, we will release, make space and cal...

04/28/2026

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
- The Wasteland, T.S. Elliott

04/21/2026

BREATHWORK - SPRING ENERGETICS
Online 8pm est 4/28

Spring is the season of the wood element, governed by the liver and gallbladder meridians. This is the season where what has been growing out of sight bursts through into visibility and the sunlight. Let us breathe in this potent time of renewal and growth, let us embody the energy of the color green and maybe even let in some hope and joy this season has to offer.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care. Breathwork is a powerful and practical tool to work with your own energy, a bridge out of the critical mind and into deeper resources available to all of us.

04/20/2026

I have opinions….
Practices like facial gua sha don't do just one thing so we can stop arguing over what that one thing is. These modalities benefit all aspects, lymph, nerves, circulation, tissue health and muscle function.
Also, we're long overdue for sone new language.
What do you think?

04/15/2026

When patients ask what acupuncture does, my answer is usually a less eloquent version of this statement. Acupuncture supports the free movement of qi and blood and thereby the balance of yin and yang. The theories, points and strategies of Chinese medicine are more complicated and our individual experiences of dis-ease and disease in our bodies can be uniquely complicated. It’s helpful for me when I get far out on a complicated limb to return to this basic underlying principle.