Profiles for December, 2017

Elle MacLaren, as many an Acutonics practitioner before her, originally sought out acupuncture to help her with her issues. Issues in her case being hormonal. Then one day Sylvia Pelcz-Larsen, whom she’d been seeing in Boulder (where Elle had been living at the time), pulled out the tuning forks. “I said, Wait a minute, I’m here for acupuncture,” recalls Elle. “What’re these? What’re you talking about? She ended up using the forks more than the needles.”