Continuing the tradition of care
and access for our communities,
and the legacy of our Liberatory ancestors.

You can book private appointments with lara at Zócalo Wellness, where a variety of insurances are accepted, including OHP.
You may also inquire about sliding scale House Calls ($75-125), via the Contact form below.
They also practice through Working Class Acupuncture at CODA, a recovery treatment center, and seasonally offer pop-up community acupuncture at the Sou'wester. Stay tuned for their next offering!
lara is an ongoing student and teacher with the Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School. They have permission to teach the Ma Wang Dui Birds, Concentrating the Hun, and Training the Po Qigong forms.
lara typically offer these forms through the Bhakti Yoga Movement Center and a summer backyard series. Stay tuned to this website for updates.
For current students that have learned these two forms, beginning October 21st, lara will be offering an hour to practice them at POCA Tech the acupuncture school lara went to. Please sign up for the class session sliding scale for:
$10 here
$15 here
$20 here
Or feel free to setup recurring payments if you think you’ll be committed each month.
3rd Tuesdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm
-Schedule for 2025:
October 21st
November 18th
December 16th
lara is also a co founder and member of Slow Blink Puppet Collective that was founded some time in 2017. They put together a show called ‘Ciclos’ that premiered at the Side Yard Farm in the Fall Equinox of 2024 and again at the Dekum St theater on the Winter Solstice of 2024. The are slowly crafting their next project encompassing pie travel, Sasquatch, Biz as Usual, and Chachi BT.
Follow Slow Blink for upcoming events!

offerings

Based in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional lands of the Cathlamet, Molalla, Willamette, Multnomah, Clackamas, Tualatin, Kalapuya and Chinook peoples.

Guabonito is the original ocean healer, who brings our first Taíno Casike into balance in our Taíno mythology. Much of lara’s medicine comes from the medicine of guabonito.

about

lara pacheco (they / them / she / her / naturaleza) is a Taíno, Latinx, NGC and queer mamita that holds privilege with their light skin and hetero-presenting marriage. lara believes that part of our collective liberation is accessed through decolonizing ourselves, and weaving into the web of ancestral medicine. lara directly works through this realm with plants, fungi, puppets, music and dance.

lara spends time in one of their ancestral lands, Boriken (Puerto Rico), helping the work of Caminando La Utopía.

lara was a co-founder of Brown Girl Rise, and the founder of Atabey Medicine of Seed & Thistle Apothecary — an educational resource that centers Queer, Trans and Genderfluid Black and Indigenous voices within herbalism, now called Moon and Mirror.

As a survivor, lara was brought to the work of acupuncture because of its simple application, yet powerful healing potential for all kinds of people. They are greatly honored to accompany anyone else along their healing journey.