Awaken Now Acupuncture & Wellness

08/27/2026

Eating clean and still bloated? Food is only half of it.

Digestion is a nervous-system event. Eat fast, eat stressed, eat standing up between calls - and your body simply isn't in the state where digestion works well. The cleanest meal still lands badly in a stressed body.

Add in the fact that stomach acid and enzyme output can shift with age and chronic stress, and 'I eat well, so why do I feel like this?' starts making a lot more sense.

Before cutting another food group: sit down, take three breaths before the first bite, chew more than feels necessary. It sounds too simple to matter. It's usually the thing that does.

Signals #6. Which one sounds like you?

08/26/2026

Join Dr. Marina for one of her new 12 week virtual Immersions. Link to more information here:

Each program runs as a structured, small-group cohort combining functional-medicine education, nutrition, nervous-system regulation, movement, and daily peer support. Participants finish with a personalized blueprint and a set of sustainable habits they keep for good.

08/26/2026

Join Dr. Marina for one of her new 12 week virtual Immersion Programs. You can find the links here:

Each program runs as a structured, small-group cohort combining functional-medicine education, nutrition, nervous-system regulation, movement, and daily peer support. Participants finish with a personalized blueprint and a set of sustainable habits they keep for good.

08/25/2026

Your labs came back "normal" — so why do you still feel exhausted, foggy, or just off?

Join me live for the first Awaken Now Live — a free 45-minute session on the three blind spots in standard testing, and what your body is actually trying to tell you. You'll leave with a simple exercise you can use that night to walk into any appointment with a clearer picture.

🎁 Plus: everyone who joins gets my free 2-minute quiz that matches you to a food plan you can start eating from this week.

🗓 Wednesday, Aug 26 · 11am PT · Free
👉 Register free: https://awaken-now-acupuncture-wellness.kit.com/0ef2daacee
💻 Or just join live on Zoom on the day — hop in whenever you're available: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81043977517?pwd=rbNlNYcaAlXG2SeeVaxVgf04gePX4T.1

Open to everyone. Come as you are. 🤍

08/24/2026

Ask me anything.

Once a month I open the floor to your health questions - the ones there's never time for in an appointment, and the ones you've been told not to worry about.

Fatigue that won't lift. Labs that keep coming back fine. Perimenopause symptoms nobody warned you about. Gut stuff you'd rather not type out loud (you can be vague, I'll understand).

Drop them below and I'll answer the most-asked ones on Friday.

No question is too small. Most of the ones I get asked privately turn out to be the ones everybody was wondering about.

08/21/2026

I've been keeping a secret — and it happens this February.

From the 22nd to the 27th, I'm taking a small group to Mexico for my first in-person healing retreat.

Six days of functional medicine, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, nourishing food and deep rest, with a small group healing side by side.

Why a retreat and not another appointment? Because immersion changes what information can't. Your nervous system finally settles. Habits get lived instead of listed. And you're not doing any of it alone.

It's intentionally small, and the waitlist hears everything first — always.

💬 Comment RETREAT and I'll send you both ways in: join the waitlist for first access, or see the full details and reserve your room if you already know it's for you. No deposit, no decision either way. 🌿

Prefer the link? Waitlist → https://awaken-now-acupuncture-wellness.kit.com/96eceb0d37
Full details & booking → https://www.awakennowhealth.com/mexico-retreat

08/20/2026

Your labs came back normal — so why do you still feel exhausted, foggy, or "off"?

If that's you, come spend 45 minutes with me. I'm going live, free, for the very first Awaken Now Live.

I'll show you three real blind spots in the way standard testing works — the reasons you can feel unwell while your bloodwork looks perfectly fine — and walk you through a live exercise to map your own symptoms into one clear picture you can take to any doctor.

Everyone who joins also gets my free Food-Plan Guide, matched to how you feel right now, to keep.

📅 Wednesday, August 26 · 11:00am PT
💻 Live on Zoom · Free to attend

👉 Save your spot here (I'll send your guide + reminders): https://awaken-now-acupuncture-wellness.kit.com/0ef2daacee
Or join us live on the 26th: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81043977517?pwd=rbNlNYcaAlXG2SeeVaxVgf04gePX4T.1

08/20/2026

Rage, frozen shoulder, ringing ears, 3am wake-ups - these can all be perimenopause.

Most of us were told to expect hot flushes and irregular periods, and not much else. But estrogen receptors are everywhere: joints, inner ear, brain, connective tissue. When estrogen fluctuates, all of them feel it.

Which is exactly why so many women end up seeing four specialists for four separate problems that share one root.

If you're in your 40s and collecting symptoms nobody can explain, it's worth raising hormonally.

Signals #5. Which of these surprised you? Tell me below.

08/18/2026

It's open. A free community where we heal together.

For years I watched the same thing happen: two patients, near-identical labs, near-identical plans - and the one with support around her got better faster. Every single time.

So I built the room I always wished I could hand every patient on the way out the door.

Inside you can ask the questions you've been dismissed about, learn to read your body's signals, and get an actual answer. I'm in there personally, not just supervising.

It's completely free. Join us at the link below, and bring the friend who needs this room too.

08/17/2026

Dr. Marina is featured in the Argonaut. Here's the link to the full piece: https://www.argonautnews.com/online_features/awaken-now-acupuncture-and-wellness-spa-offers-3-new-whole-person-programs/article_4417ac87-7e34-45f1-adb1-bfd23e48fa1a.html

Are you ready to take charge of your health - only a few seats left for the Whole Body Reset starting September 1st.

More info on this program here: https://awakennowhealth.net/landing-page-419134

Join us!

For anyone who is tired of bloating, brain fog, fatigue, and flare-ups no one has connected the dots on: a small-group reset that helps you find your triggers and feel like yourself again.