The Pelvic Acu

Pelvic Care for Acupuncturists - Continuing Education CEU / PDA for Acupuncturists NCCAOM, ABORM, CA + FL Approved

09/04/2026

Seven years ago Megan and I sat in the same acupuncture school classroom. Different clinics now, different cities, same thread between us.

So when she walked into my Louisville practical, she wasn’t walking in blind. She’d watched me for years. She knew I came into this work as a physical therapist first, then an acupuncturist, and that the pelvic floor has lived in both of my hands since the beginning.

She still said this was some of the best knowledge she’s ever taken into her practice.

That’s the part I keep coming back to. Not a stranger discovering pelvic care for the first time. A colleague who already knew what I do, choosing to learn it deeper.

She said it herself. Whether you’re considering pelvic acupuncture or not, this knowledge belongs in your hands.

Megan, thank you for showing up, for trusting me with your learning and for sharing this so openly. It means more than you know.

09/03/2026

Comment TORONTO and I’ll drop the link straight to your inbox.

We have never taught in Toronto before. This one is new, and I could not be more excited to be hosted by Amber and Meaghan at TAO.

April 10 and 11, 2027. Twenty CEU and PDA. Two days of hands on muscle specific needling and palpation technique with a room full of acupuncturists ready to close the gap in pelvic care.

Every practical starts the same way, a room of strangers, and ends the same way too, a room of colleagues who know exactly what to do with their hands when a client walks in and says the thing they’ve been too afraid to say to anyone else.

Registration is open. Comment TORONTO and I’ll send you the link, or go straight to it here: thepelvicacu.com/pelvic-acupuncture-course-toronto

Let’s do this.

09/02/2026

Weird things I do in my pelvic health continuing education business (that I’ve never shared out loud).

Most of what you see is the polished version. The programs, the practicals, the curriculum built on three pillars. What you don’t see is the playlist I blast every time someone signs up, or me sitting with your intake before you ever walk in the room, learning how you learn before I teach you a single point.

And you definitely don’t see me crying after a practical. But I do. Every time. The work you’re all going to go do is going to change lives you haven’t even met yet.

Gratitude isn’t a caption line for me. It’s a daily practice.

What’s the weird thing you do in your practice that nobody knows about? Drop it below, I read every one.

08/31/2026

Recurrent pregnancy loss more than doubled a woman’s odds of seeking out acupuncture during IVF. Higher BMI cut it.

A 2026 retrospective study out of University Hospitals Cleveland tracked 799 women undergoing frozen embryo transfer, looking at who engaged in acupuncture and Chinese medicine around their cycle, and who did not. Rodgers Melnick et al, F S Reports, 2026.

This is not a study about whether acupuncture works. It is a study about who believes it works for them.

RPL patients and patients on their third or more failed cycle were significantly more likely to engage. Patients with a higher BMI, a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, or high risk pregnancy supervision were significantly less likely. The authors point directly to weight stigma as one likely explanation.

If you treat fertility patients, this is worth sitting with. Who is already finding your table. Who might not know it is open to them.

Save this for your next fertility intake conversation.

08/30/2026

The rest of 2026 is already spoken for, and I could not be more excited about the rooms we are stepping into.

Seattle, we are coming back to you in September. Montreal, you filled your first room in a day, so we opened a second, and now that one is full too. In October, a small group of our most advanced practitioners will gather for something new, a pelvic care mastery retreat. And we close the year in Hallandale Beach, in a room I am already dreaming about.

Every city on this list started the same way. An acupuncturist who felt the gap and decided to close it.

08/28/2026

Did you know horseback riding can be therapeutic for the pelvic floor?

A twelve week hippotherapy protocol, one thirty minute session a week, pairing basic horsemanship with pelvic floor exercise, increased resting pelvic floor tension and active contraction strength in women with stress incontinence.

Movement matters. Even the kind that does not feel like exercise at all.

08/27/2026

94,000 women. One BMJ review. A pattern too consistent to set aside.

Latthe and colleagues pooled 122 studies and found sexual abuse, childhood abuse, anxiety, and depression named again and again as predictors of chronic pelvic pain, across dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and non cyclical pain alike.

If you treat pelvic patients, you are treating trauma. Not occasionally. Consistently.

Here is what most of us were not taught. Point selection gets covered in school. Room craft does not.

How to set expectations before the table. How to leave while she undresses. How to approach her face before her pelvis. How to narrate every step so her nervous system never has to guess what happens next. How to wait a session or two before you touch the pelvis at all, letting the body meet you in the easier places first.

The needles are the tool. Safety is the medicine that lets the tool work.

Save this for your next pelvic intake. Comment BLOG for the full blog.

Source: Latthe, P., Mignini, L., Gray, R., Hills, R., & Khan, K. (2006). Factors predisposing women to chronic pelvic pain: Systematic review. BMJ, 332(7544), 749755.

08/26/2026

Dolly Parton has died at eighty.

A songwriter, a builder, a woman who put free books into the hands of millions of children and never lost her warmth doing it. And underneath the rhinestones, a body that collapsed on stage in 1984 from internal bleeding she had pushed through in silence.

Endometriosis. A partial hysterectomy within the year. A dark time after that she did not pretty up when she wrote about it.

She did not have to say a word. Silence would have cost her nothing.

She said it anyway.

I think about that every time a client finally names what she has been calling cramps, or female problems, or just how her body is, for years. That permission is the medicine underneath the needle.

Dolly gave a generation of women that permission before most doctors did. We get to keep giving it.

Rest well, Dolly. Thank you for the truth you told when you didn’t have to.

08/25/2026

This has been the year of full rooms.

California. Colorado. Virginia. Already behind us, already full. Now the fall calendar is closed too. Seattle. Montreal, twice. Florida. Every seat, claimed.

I want to sit in that for a second because it is not a flex, it is a signal. It means acupuncturists all over the country and into Canada decided the pelvic floor is not something they refer out anymore.

We close out the season in Hallandale Beach. Nine acupuncturists, two days, hosted by Andrea Hirshorn, who went through the Advanced Certificate herself and is now opening her doors to host her second Pelvic Acu Practical. A graduate building the room for the next acu behind her. That is the whole model.

2026 is full. 2027 dates are coming and I do not want you finding out after the room is already gone again.

Comment PRACTICAL and see which have already dropped!

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