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The Way of Yin by Kris González

Online Learning Journeys to help you connect to your body, cycles & rhythms. Anchored in the wisdom

Kris González L.Ac.
◡Courses in Radical Self-Care
◡Nourishing Life 養生 yǎng shēng
◡Chinese Medicine Gynecology
◡Reproductive Medicine
◡Menarche to Menopause & Beyond

09/15/2026

Thank you to everyone who showed up for the free talk today. You were so present and engaged, asking the most amazing questions. If today confirmed anything, it's that this life phase was never only physical. It's also a psycho-spiritual journey.

Early Bird Enrollment is officially open for When Earth Bears Metal: Perimenopause as Your Crucible ꕥ Forged into Power.

This is my annual 6-Week Immersion where we meet twice a week:

🗡️ Tuesdays, Root Teachings, live teaching on each element and how it relates to your changing body and spirit

❤️‍🔥 Thursdays, The Hearth, live discussion, somatic practice (qigong), and the mirror work of finally listening to the questions this season has been quietly asking, because you matter too

Plus, you'll gain lifetime access to Alchemy of Perimenopause, a self-study e-course, and a home in the White Tigress Den (our community), where we practice sacred witness and discernment together.

Save $50 until Sunday, September 20th at midnight PST.

Comment "METAL" and I'll DM you the link to learn more.

Be fierce with your own tenderness.

Meeting you in the descent 🌘 Kris

09/14/2026

You're Invited! 🌕 Autumn Equinox Celebration

Autumn Equinox, also called Qiu Fen 秋分, is one of the year's two true balance points, day and night in equal measure, before Yin fully receives the exuberant Yang of the year. In East Asian Medicine, this moment belongs to the Metal element, closely connected to our Lungs and Large Intestine, to our breath, and to what we hold onto and what we're ready to release. The Harvest Moon, the full moon nearest this equinox, has marked this same turning point across earth-based traditions for generations.

This is Harvest season. Together, we'll reflect back on everything this year has grown in us and gather it in with gratitude before the dark half of the year begins. This is also where we practice Autumn's oldest art,... the art of letting go. Metal asks us to choose, consciously, what we carry forward and what we lay down to rest until the next cycle.

In our upcoming gathering, we'll feel this shift together with seasonal teachings, autumn qigong practice, the building of a nature mandala by all of our hands using seasonal flowers, fruits, and leaves, and a collective letting-go ritual. I cannot wait to celebrate the 🍂 equinox with you all.

🌕 Harvest Moon: Autumn Equinox Celebration
📅 September 19, 2026 · 2-4 PM
📍 Claremont Yoga, Claremont, CA

Comment "RSVP" and I'll send you the link to register.

09/08/2026

As someone who attunes to the seasons, I always get a bit giddy whenever Autumn 🍂 comes around, especially since my own 6th life cycle (the Alchemical Years in Womb School) lines up with the season itself.

Here in the West, we call this life stage perimenopause, and lately it's all anyone's talking about. The pendulum has swung, HARD, from decades of "don't touch HRT" to doctors now shaming other doctors for not prescribing it.

I'm not anti-HRT. But I'm deeply skeptical of the medical school gap, where more than 90% of OB residents report feeling unprepared to manage menopause. And I'm skeptical of any solution that treats this as only a hormone problem. You are fundamentally changing in...every...way.

You're not falling apart. You're being asked to change shape.

This phase isn't a disease. Yes, it's rife with change, sometimes real chaos and unraveling, but how you experience it depends on how you arrive at its door. And a lot of us are arriving utterly depleted.

HRT or not, that choice is yours to make. But that's not the ultimate question this season is asking. Whatever you choose, it doesn't absolve you from the assignment of perimenopause. And the mandate? Hint: it's you!

Nobody else can do this part for you.

It forces the real question: who are you when there's no one left to please? What's true, and what have you simply inherited? Can you care for yourself with the same dedication you've given everyone else?

"The key question causes germination of consciousness." —Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Our culture never gave us a roadmap for this psycho-spiritual journey, so we've been white-knuckling it. But survival isn't the goal. Transformation is.

This season is your crucible. What survives isn't diminished. It's forged.

Come explore the map with us and bring your whole self.

✨ Free Class: The Perimenopause Threshold & Chinese Medicine 🗓️ Tuesday, September 15th, 11am PST

Comment "TALK" and I'll send you the link.

See you there, loves.

09/01/2026

⚔️ Silver Edge: Pre-Menstrual Power and the Metal Element

PMS is normalized, but it's not normal.

Underneath the "symptoms" there's a current of wisdom that your body is communicating to you. Your Luteal (pre-menstrual phase) is known as your Inner Autumn. It's a season that reaps the harvest, draws its energy stores IN, tends to what's close and protects.

But I get it. Our culture doesn't support body or cycle literacy. Instead, we're taught to disconnect, ignore, and push through our bodies' own messages. But eventually, the signals will get so loud, they will literally stop you in your tracks.

Let's learn to listen before the body has to shout. Come explore how the silver edge of our pre-menstrual time is where we cultivate our Powers of Discernment.

📅 September 12, 2026 · 3:30–5:30 PM · Claremont Yoga, Los Angeles 🪽

This is an intimate in-person gathering, so spaces are limited 🪔 Be sure to claim your spot.

Register Here: https://gateway.thewayofyin.com/in-person-workshops

08/31/2026

✨ Free Class: The Perimenopause Threshold & Chinese Medicine

🗓️ Tuesday, September 15 🕒 11am PST

Spread the word...it's that time of year again. I'm giving my annual talk on Perimenopause and how Chinese Medicine views this life phase not as a disease, but an opportunity...one of our "Three Golden Opportunities" in fact.

💺 Buckle up because we're really going to get into it this year. There's A LOT of noise out there. I took 6 months off socials recently and returned to a feed filled with [peri]menopause content that fed on all of our fears. This talk will help you to zoom out a bit and gain new perspectives. Come with your questions.

We'll be discussing:
❔ What Perimenopause is, when it starts, and how long it lasts
🌀 7-Year Life Cycles of Female Physiology
⭐ Our Three Golden Opportunities: Menstruation, Postpartum & Perimenopause
🗺️ Your Cycles mapped along the 5 Elements/Phases
🎑 Perimenopause as your "Harvest" season
💊 Why Perimenopause isn't just about your hormones
🫂 How you can best support yourself through this threshold

✨️ Register Here: https://gateway.thewayofyin.com/free-perimenopause-talk-2026

08/28/2026

Every month, your body asks a smaller version of the same question perimenopause will eventually ask on a bigger scale. What needs holding, and what needs releasing? The assignment during both is discernment.

Want to learn more about this pre-menstrual edge, and why it's not the problem you've been told it is? And how it prepares you for the threshold of perimenopause?

Come sit with us, in circle.

⚔️ Silver Edge: Pre-Menstrual Power & The Metal Element

Part of my Womb Ways series at Claremont Yoga, where we explore the wisdom living in the blueprint of your cycle.

September 12th | 330-530pm | Claremont Yoga

✨ Comment "RSVP" for the link or visit the link in bio.

🪔 Limited spaces available.

08/19/2026

Our Earth element organs, the Spleen & Stomach are responsible for rotting and ripening, transformation and transportation. This is literally where Qi + Blood are formed. Earth, and our digestive process is the ground every other element must return to before it can become the next one, the fulcrum that carries us through every transition, between seasons, between phases of the cycle, between stages of life.

So, how are you digesting life? This question matters. Everything we move through, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, runs through this same ground, and lands, ultimately, in the womb. Blood is the root for females, so if we're not digesting well, we're not able to build blood well.

This is exactly what we'll explore together in The Womb Palace: Earth, the Season Between All Seasons, our opening gathering of Womb Ways. Through gentle movement + discussion, we'll observe the tissues and sense organs that reveal how our own Earth element is doing, through self-massage, acupressure, and qigong. I hope to see you there!

🌍 The Womb Palace: Earth, the Season Between All Seasons
📅 August 22, 2026 · 3:30–5:30 PM
📍 Claremont Yoga, Claremont, CA (Los Angeles County)
💵 $47

Comment "RSVP" and I'll send you the link to register.

08/17/2026

It's been a while since I posted an intro post. I frequently take breaks from this space and there's a lot of new followers here. Hello and welcome fam! I know the algo game changes all the time so I'm not even sure posts get shared to my actual followers 🤷🏼‍♂️, so be sure to sign up for one of the waitlists in my bio to make sure we actually stay connected.

There are many ways that we can explore the womb continuum together from online immersions, certifications, continuing education credits (for fellow acus) and even in-person workshops. I share a lot in my newsletters as well.

If it's the first time we're meeting, my name is Kris and I'm a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. I got my degree at Yo San University Acupuncture School here in Los Angeles County. I love teaching and swimming in conversations about female cycles and how intimately connected we are to the earth and celestial 🌌 bodies. If that's something that tickles you too, then you're in the right place.

I've been in practice since 2011 and over the years I've collaborated with the most amazing people. I'm all about collaboration over competition. It truly does take a village, so I hope this might be a space for you to feel a sense of belonging.

As we start to dip into the Yin side of year, let's remember to pause in the abundance of Yang, take care of our somas and hearts 💓. There are some exciting things coming up so stay tuned loves.

08/13/2026

Let's gather in person as we connect with our wombs and the cosmic movements that shape them, the seasons turning outside us, and the seasons turning within.

Your Womb Palace isn't separate from the world around it. It's in constant conversation with it, digesting not only what you eat, but every season, every shift, every transition you move through. When that digestion runs smoothly, you flow. When it stalls, you feel it... heaviness, fog, a resistance to change that Chinese Medicine calls dampness.

This is Earth's work, and Earth is the ground every other element returns to, the same ground your Womb Palace calls home.

Come explore what your own Earth element is asking for, through self-massage, acupressure, and qigong, and build a plan for moving through your own in-between spaces with a little more ease.

🌍 The Womb Palace: Earth, the Season Between All Seasons
📅 August 22, 2026 · 3:30–5:30 PM
📍 Claremont Yoga, Claremont, CA (Los Angeles County)
💵 $47

Comment "RSVP" and I'll send you the link.

05/30/2026

Felt like a garden fairy 🧚‍♂️ hanging with friends this morning. Feeling so blessed to learn womb and earth tending from Vivian and Carina at the beautiful .

Love how traditional medicines have so much in common. We mindfully harvested herbs, offered to***co and hair back to the earth. We learned about herbal bajos, teas and womb massage.

We connected with our somas, each other, our ancestors and the land. Thank you for facilitating such a wonderful workshop for the community. Deep bows & blessings.

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