Jenna Aquilina

Jenna Aquilina, M.Ac.OM Dipl.Ac. L.Ac. has spent a lifetime focused on energetic & holistic medicine, with a love for learning and exploring that bridges the inner and outer realms of the body, mind & spirit. For 20+ years as a holistic practitioner she’s been weaving healing arts alchemy birthed from diverse life experiences and teachings.. This journey began when she was a very young child with a very strong past-life imprint towards medicine and the unseen worlds. As a teenager, her own experiences with health challenges led her to a holistic way of thinking, self-advocacy and a unique path on her own as a teenager before holistic was popular, and before you could look things up on the internet. Since then, she’s been learning from and seeing the unity, beauty, truth and threads of connection in traditions from all over the world.

Over the years Jenna’s worked with very diverse clients, helping with concerns like: anxiety, trauma and emotional well-being to chronic pain, surgical recovery, chronic illness, cancer adjunct therapy, addiction recovery clients, women’s health from menstrual and reproductive to menopause, including fertility, obstetrics, labor initiation, post-partum care, and diverse groups of people in community acupuncture settings. She began weaving energy medicine and additional needle-free tools and therapies into her treatments beginning in 2005 and started doing distance sessions with clients in 2010. By the end of 2021, she shifted away from a clinical Acupuncture and East Asian Medicine practice to focus more on online sessions, holistic mentoring, energy medicine and Vedic Jyotish

key background, education & Experiences

  • Working with the Wiraqocha, Saminchakuy, Mukis, Anchanchus & Q’oto Kuna Karpay , Don Mariano Quispe Flores 5/2024

  • Kriya Yoga Initiation, 5/2023

  • Study of Jyotish 6/2022 - present ~ Jenna was introduced to Jyotish and Vedic Sciences in 2002 after her beloved school NIAOM closed it’s doors and she had to transfer in order to complete her degree in Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture. Her interest deepened in 2010 after she spent a month immersed in Andean Peru, Q’ero healing practices and sacred sites. She experienced a strong past life opening from those experiences which led her deeper into a journey of questions exploring karmic imprints and past lives.

  • Retreat at Casa de Dom Inacio, in Abadiania, Brazil, 2/2019 ~ In 2019, Jenna finally traveled to Brazil to work with Brazilian Mediumship traditions at the Casa de Dom Inacio in Abadiania, Brazil. This helped her lean into inclinations for channeling and mediumship, building on experiences and spontaneous energetic channeling that happened while working with clients and facilitating classes.

  • Traditional Maya Healing Approaches for Body, Mind, Spirit, Arvigo Institute, 8/2018. Maya Spiritual Healing is a beautiful method of working with the spiritual healing qualities of plants, flowers, prayer and aromatics to heal energetic and spiritual challenges.

  • Unwinding Meridians of Acupuncture I, Upledger Institute, 12/2017 Applying craniosacral concepts to the energetic meridians and acupoints of the body assists the body in resetting without using needles or moxibustion. The gentle and non-physically invasive approach of craniosacral has been an important influence since first learning craniosacral.

  • Q’oto Kunas Initiation, 10/2015 The Q’ero place great importance on the Pleaides constellation, called Q’oto Kunas. In Vedic astrology it’s called Krittika. These energetic rites bring the energy of the stars to Earth.

  • Craniosacral II, Upledger Institute, 9/2015

  • Craniosacral I, Upledeger Institute, 12/2013

  • Advanced Energy Healing II, Rainbow Jaguar Institute, 9/2010

  • One-on-One study in Peru with Q’ero Paqos - Don Mariano Quispe Flores, Dona Asunta Quispe, Don Andreas, Don Pasquale, Don Claudio from 8/2010-9/2010 ~ Jenna traveled to Andean Peru to spend a month studying directly with Q’ero healers (paqos) in a one-on-one experience. Don Mariano Quispe Flores and Q’ero elders have been important teachers through the years. The Q’ero tradition is her primary shamanic healing influence.

  • Advanced Energy Healing I, Rainbow Jaguar Institute, 3/2010

  • Maya Abdominal Therapy, Professional Training, Arvigo Institute, 10/2009. Rosita Arvigo learned these beautiful techniques from her teachers don Elijio Panti, and Miss Hortence in Belize. Traditionally, Maya women would go to the island of Cozumel where the temple of Ix Chel is to learn how to care for their bodies and wombs physically and energetically throughout their lives. Jenna worked with these techniques for a long time during the time she was still practicing acupuncture and East Asian Medicine and saw many transformations physically, spiritually and emotionally. The importance of the physical and energetic womb, whether masculine or feminine cannot be understated. It is the seat of the second chakra or Svadiisthana and holds great creative potential in our lives.

  • Maya Abdominal Massage, Self Care, Arvigo Institute, 8/2009

  • Kanchis Wara - The Seven Layers of the Pachamama, Q’ero Elder Kuryek Akuryek, Don Mariano Quispe Flores, 7/2009

  • Energy Medicine Certification, Four Winds Society, 5/2008-9/2009

  • Andean Tradition Energy Medicine, Joan Wilcox ,11/2008

  • Reiki I & 2, 4&7/2005

  • M.Ac.OM (Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), 2004, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine

  • Herbal Apprenticeship in Wise Woman Herbal Tradition for 1+ year

  • Northwest Institute of Acupuncture of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Seattle, WA 2000-2002. *NIAOM closed in 2002.

  • International Institute of Chinese Medicine, Santa Fe, NM 1999-2000.

  • Dipl.Ac. (Diplomate of Acupuncture) NCCAOM, 2004

  • Herbal Apprenticeship at the National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs

  • BA in Psychology and Women’s Studies Co-Major, 1998, Wayne State University, Internship in Advocacy, First Response and Crisis Line at a Women’s Shelter

Q'ero healers with student