Staff
Jill Nielsen-Farrell, MSW, LAc, Dipl. OM
Wenatchee Community Acupuncture was founded in 2020 by Jill after she ran a successful community acupuncture clinic in Delaware, Ohio for six years. Jill is a trauma-informed acupuncturist who graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s in Psychology, holds a MSW from Indiana University and completed her Chinese Medicine training at the American Institute for Alternative Medicine in Columbus, Ohio and Daoist Traditions in Asheville, North Carolina. Jill is also a 200-hour certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and teaches mindfulness-based meditation through the lens of the Poly Vagal Nervous system theory and other streams of knowledge.
Jill is deeply influenced and indebted to a diverse array of teachers, especially Jeffrey Yuen, Pema Chödrön and, more recently, Sarah Thomas, Lama Rod Owens, Spring Washam, Tara Brach and Lama Tsultrim Allione. The greatest teachers in her life have been her two sons, now young men. Jill’s operating philosophy as an Acupuncturist - and as a human being - is rooted in all of these guides and their encouragement for constant personal growth and self-cultivation in order to be of benefit to others.
Jill is also indebted to the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture, an organization that facilitates the development of community acupuncture clinics across the United States and internationally. Her heroes are activists of all kinds and ordinary people who have overcome extraordinary challenges.
Jill's education, experience and 30 year meditation practice has provided her with a deep reverence for the interconnectedness of health and well-being both within the individual and as it relates to their experience with the outside world. Every service and class she offers is infused with this devotional understanding.
When Jill is not at Wenatchee Community Acupuncture, she can be found resting, hiking, getting her ass kicked at CrossFit, practicing (and sometimes teaching) yoga and Buddhist-inspired meditation, letter writing with the Compassion Prison Project, supporting the proliferation of Recovery Dharma, meditating, learning and serving with the folks at Bhumisparsha, building fires, listening to some epic Spotify playlists, gardening, writing, hanging out with a diverse set of kindred spirits and loving on her sons and dog, Kaia.