The Mountain-Ear is located at: 20 E. Lakeview Drive, Unit 109 (inside Brightwood Music). Our mailing address is PO Box 99, Nederland, CO 80466

We are also located at: 245 Apollo Drive, PO Box 99, Black Hawk, CO 80422

Phone: (303) 810-5409 Email: info@themountainear.com Website: www.themtnear.com

Nandy Wentzel, L.Ac., Dipl. Ac., just opened the place of her dreams. Both the location and the profession came to her in her dreams. Although she’s been practicing in her own business since August 2004, she opened in Nederland in June of 2022. She is offering some special pricing to locals so they can experience the unique healing in her specially created environment.

Wentzel has been practicing acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine for over 20 years. One day as she was folding laundry, with her two babies playing around her, she felt an intense calling that she was supposed to be an acupuncturist. So, she enrolled in the Maryland Institute of Chinese Medicine within a month. This training by masters from lineages of masters was followed by clinical training in Shanghai.

She felt this calling again after her two sons headed to college. In a dream she was told to move to Boulder. She had always dreamed of living in the mountains so when the realtor suggested checking Nederland out, that is what she did. Wentzel had never even visited Colorado but instantly knew she wanted to start her practice again and share Eastern healing traditions with the people in this mountain town. As she walked her dogs (all rescues) in the mountains she met the nicest, like- minded people that she had ever known.

Wentzel says “These two pieces of my life have been my greatest blessings and joy (other than family, including fur kids) and they have one incredible thing in common: they found me.” Her favorite thing about being an acupuncturist is that she can apply the ancient traditions from the East to help heal those in the West.

Most recently, Wentzel completed her certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center of Nutrition Studies at Cornell. She is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of Colorado as well as holding national certification with NCCAOM (National Certification Committee for Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine). Besides the training with masters in Maryland and Shanghai, she has completed a Graduate Certificate of Chinese Herbs. Formerly, she had received a BS degree in Natural Resource Management and Wildlife Biology from the University of Maryland.

Incorporating not only acupuncture to heal the body and calm the mind, she also employs other tools from Chinese medicine. Some of these are moxa, gua sha, tuina, dietary therapy, cupping, e-stim and qigong. She creates customized herbal blends for each patient according to their needs. Chinese herbal medicine has 5,000 years of continual use and is the heart of Traditional Chinese medicine. They can be both therapeutic and preventive as they heal bodies and maintain optimum health and longevity for clients.

A specialty of Wentzel’s is facial rejuvenation acupuncture. She was one of the first acupuncturists in the Washington DC area to complete training in this technique. She now specializes in applying this knowledge to aid clients in aging well, menopause treatment, pain management and the practice and pursuit of longevity. She loves to help people transform their skin and age as beautifully as possible.

When treating a client, this acupuncturist reserves that hour for total focus on her client. Others may take multiple clients in an hour but for her she wants to heal as completely as possible. This includes a massage with topical herbs, jade roller or cupping as needed. Her treatment room speaks of her desire to make those who enter totally comfortable and immersed in their healing. You will find her specially found objects of healing (including origami cranes created by her two now grown sons) and longevity, heated fleece table warmers, aromatherapy, healing music and Himalayan salt lamps. All who visit are invited to leave feeling they are emerging from a mountain temple retreat feeling restored, grounded, and rejuvenated.

Wentzel is also passionate about plant- based nutrition and cooking, animal rescue and welfare, Tibetan Buddhism and meditation, yoga, traveling (especially Asia and mountains) and creating living environments that embody feng shui. Her life is shared with her husband from Tunisia (26 years married), her two boys who are starting careers as engineers and Army officers and their three rescue dogs and six cats.

In the future she envisions an expanded space to offer treatments which complement acupuncture such as Himalayan salt rooms, infrared sauna rooms, dedicated therapeutic massage and her own skincare products crafted from Chinese and local mountain herbs.

Nandy Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs is located at 80 Big Springs Drive, Unit 201K. Appointments can be made by calling 720-431-3700 or emailing nandy@nandyacupuncture.com. Her website is www.nandyacupuncture.com.

Sponsored by the Town of Nederland, with funds from the American Rescue Plan Act.

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