| Monday—Thursday | 9:30 am—6:30 pm |
| Friday | 11:00am—7:00 pm |
| Saturday | 12:00—4:00 pm |
| Sunday | 10:00am—4:00 pm |
closing time shown is the time the last appointment begins
click here for practitioner schedule
Welcome to Sarana Community Acupuncture!
We provide effective and affordable acupuncture in a peaceful and comfortable
open space. We also offer Chinese herbs and acupressure massage. As a member of the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture (POCA), we charge sliding scale
fees of $15-40 per treatment with no income verification needed. Within
the sliding scale range, you determine what you wish to pay. Our goal is to separate the issues of money and treatment, to provide the best
possible care and to make it accessible to everyone.
We are located at 970 San Pablo Avenue, between Solano Avenue and Buchanan Street, in the south-west
corner of Albany’s Town Centre shopping complex.
There is ample parking and easy access to AC Transit
bus lines 72, 18, 52 and G.
About Community Acupuncture
Community acupuncture is a social justice movement that provides
affordable and accessible acupuncture to people of ordinary incomes and
creates sustainable living wage jobs for acupuncture practitioners while
building community. Pioneered by Portland,
Oregon’s Working Class Acupuncture,
Community
Acupuncture makes this safe, simple, effective, 2,000-year-old medicine
widely accessible in the West. In the U.S., acupuncturists often treat
patients on tables in small private rooms. The community acupuncture
model gets back to the roots of how acupuncture has been practiced in
Asia for thousands of years - in a group setting. In our clinic we
primarily treat clients in recliners, clustered in an open and peaceful
space.
Receiving acupuncture in a community setting has many benefits:
• Friends and family can be treated together
• It is comforting and relaxing to see others resting
• The group setting creates a collective healing energy that helps to strengthen each individual treatment.
• Treatments in a community space are affordable because we can see multiple clients per hour.
Accessibility & Welcoming Diversity
We appreciate the
diversity of human beings and are committed to creating a safe and
supportive environment. We do not discriminate based on race, national
origin, religion, age, size, education, language, ability, marital
status, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity or any other factor.
Our clinic is wheelchair accessible.
Our Walk-in Policy
We generally operate by appointment but we are always happy to accept walk-ins
during our business hours, as long as you are willing to wait a little bit to
be treated. So if you have a sudden headache, sense the beginnings of a cold,
or just feel stressed and need to have a break, come on over!
Community Massage
Enhance your relaxation experience by combining acupuncture with massage
therapy. Community massage is performed on a massage table in the common
treatment space, allowing you to benefit from the group healing energy in the
room. Acupressure-style massage usually does not require disrobing, but privacy
curtains are available if needed. Click here for more
information about our massage practitioner.
What does sarana mean?
Sarana is a Pali (ancient Buddhist) word for refuge. Refuge
represents a place of retreat and safety, but sarana also stands for an
individual’s commitment to participate, open-heartedly and
open-mindedly, in a community whose members seek clarity and awareness.
We chose this name to emphasize our intention that our clinic support us
all in sharing a safe relaxing community space and in acknowledging our
shared humanity and interdependence.
