WHAT YOU NEED MOST TO HEAL BECOMES THE sacred gift YOU OFFER TO THE WORLD
Your greatest masterpiece lives within you and is waiting to be fully birthed and expressed
My name is Jen Gnisci, M.S., L.Ac. Creator of The Opening Point.
I am devoted to helping you reclaim health & wholeness from the core of your being. Let’s free your wild magnificence so it ripples through every aspect of your life.
As an acupuncturist & intuitive, soul-psyche astrologer, spiritual counselor and shamanic energy practitioner, I offer a spirited bespoke healing path that deeply roots you to your body while generating authentic connection to the sacred.
Being human can be hard.
I see you. I feel you.
I created The Opening Point for you.
Let me guess… you’ve done some healing work or maybe even a considerable amount yet it’s still not landing for you in a tangible connected way. Perhaps you’ve experienced many stops and starts, shuffling between different healers-medicines-therapists trying to put all the puzzle pieces together yet there is still something missing.
You see… something extraordinary happens when you intimately partner with one healer that energetically tracks and connects the language of your physical body and subconscious-unconscious mind with the longings of your heart and soul. As a result, every aspect of your being is profoundly witnessed and integrated.
I’ve been creating healing containers and guiding people home to their Souls for 15+ years through body-based soul-centered healing.
My intention is to bring more ease, purpose and potency to your healing journey.
I believe:
The world is at a turning point and so are you. The intense purging and mulching the world is experiencing is a mirror for what is happening to each of us individually. Our personal journey has become a collective journey. Now, more than ever, we are being called to claim our inherent wholeness through embarking on the sacred inward journey, where we courageously meet our shadow material and allow the alchemical fires to transform our suffering into psychic gold. The healing gifts we experience personally become a sacred service we offer to the world.
Who are you… when you are no longer your past or your conditioning?
What will you create… when you no longer create from the wound?
The many challenges and tests we encounter along the healing journey are sacred initiations offered to us by our soul.
You do not have to do this alone.
It is my mission to guide, mentor and witness the incredible beauty of YOU stepping into your full authentic power and awakening to your soul’s purpose.
“A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.” Marion Woodman
My healing journey has been more labyrinthine than linear. From a young age I was fascinated by all things soulful and numinous. I heard the call of my soul at age 17 and it wasn’t long after that I was living in Hawaii studying with a Kahuna shaman. My journey has been long, winding and adventurous but ultimately, my truest most authentic wildness surfaced through a repeated willingness to be ripened and changed by my fear and reluctance.
Chronic illness, unresolved traumas and a misguided subconscious had me treading water in a perpetual cycle of disconnected (from my body) and heart protected (from life). I am forever grateful to the healers and seers that helped me re-member my wholeness. The shamans restored my sense of belonging by reflecting the inherent safety of my root through merging my heart with the heart of the natural world. The elegant wisdom of the Taoist medicine lineages showed me how to connect my body to my spirit through my breath, my awareness and my hands. The somatic guides and energy mavericks delivered me into right relationship with myself opening the way to safety and intimacy with others. The precision of astrology and the cosmic arts revealed my soul’s curriculum and affirmed my path of sacred service to humanity.
Looking back, I know the indestructible spark of light within invisibly guided me through every challenging detour, and delivered me into the loving kindness of my teachers and fellow soul travelers that helped me across the great divide. Now I humbly and open-heartedly extend that sacred invitation to you. May health and wholeness claim every aspect of your being and may your life become your greatest work of art.
The Opening Point’s Origin Story
In my early days as an Acupuncturist people mostly sought my help for physical pain and chronic illness. For years I listened to pulses, glided my hands along channels and needled until one day, a holy moment occurred. You know the kind - where an extraordinary awareness punctuates the timeline of your life, and becomes the dazzling reference point that marks everything that came before this moment and everything that comes after it.
I was listening to my client talk about a challenged relationship with her mother when suddenly I experienced what felt like a scene change in the theater. I became aware that we both somehow slipped into a realm of timelessness where a third intelligence or consciousness arose between us.
A distinctly warm loving feeling permeated the room as my client’s soul essence preciously unfolded before me. The metaphysical source of her illness was revealed through the subtleties of what was longing to be healed with her mother.
This consciousness then showed me how to reflect my client’s soul essence back to her, how to light the way back home to herself, beyond the amnesia and separation of the egoic self and into the remembrance of her innate wholeness.
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My client and I instantaneously synchronized with the absolute knowing of her innate wholeness. We both knew she had fully healed her illness and heartbreak, and that her full recovery was intrinsic to this knowing.
That was the day I realized everything is healable when accessed through the realm of the soul.
Being a quadruple Aquarian and a lifelong seeker and explorer of the mystic, I wanted to understand the profound mystery I had experienced yet had no language for. For many years I sought guidance, mentorship and training from shamans, seers and mystics from around the world who helped me cultivate, purify and ground this sacred phenomenon into a safe, effective contained system of healing.
The Opening Point is my magnum opus, my love-letter to the resilience of the human spirit. Over time it has evolved into a comprehensive trans-disciplinary system of healing that inspires integration, wholeness and individuation through restoring connection, communication and allyship between the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual aspects of Self.
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Jennifer Gnisci, M.S., L.Ac., Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM), Licensed Acupuncturist & Chinese Medicine Clinician, Nationally Board Certified Diplomate
Jennifer Gnisci is a Soul-Centered Acupuncturist, Energy & Somatic Healer, Spiritual Intuitive, Astrologer, Relationships & Transformation Coach and Metaphysician. Her work is trauma informed and Hermetically inspired. She is passionate about helping people awaken to their true nature and soul’s purpose through bridging embodied earth-based healing traditions with the elegance and precision of the cosmic arts and sciences.
She is the founder of The Opening Point, a comprehensive trans-disciplinary healing system that cultivates and guides the journey of embodied Self Mastery through integration of Spirit-Mind-Heart-Body. Drawing from lifelong study and dedication to her own healing path, Jennifer weaves together healing modalities such as acupuncture & Chinese medicine, energy medicine, astrological counseling uniting the ancient wisdom of alchemy with cutting-edge practices in nutrition, biology and neuroscience.
Life-long Spiritwalker and equal parts aspiring mystic and goof ball, Jennifer is regularly enchanted by synchronicity and paradox. Connecting with the natural world and her soul tribe of humans, writing poetry and stargazing inspire her heart to sing.
Credentials & High Fives from Saturn
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Certified Transformational & Relationships Coach - Alyssa Nobriga’s Institute of Coaching Mastery
Family Constellations Facilitator - Inner Arts Institute, Samvedam Randles
Basic Facilitator Training in Shadow Work w/ Cliff Barry
John Wineland Fierce Love - The Art of Sacred Intimacy
Trauma & Relationships - Thomas Hubl & Terry Real
Intimacy & Relationships Module 1 & 2 - Lifeworks, NYC
Inner Bonding: Relationships & Intimacy, Inner Bonding Educational Technologies - Dr. Margaret Paul, CO
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Ongoing Student of the Clairvision School of Meditation
Shaktipat Initiate of Kriya Yoga via Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda
Certified Pranayama Holotropic Breath Work Practitioner – Erin Telford via David Elliott Lineage
Chakras & Egyptian Alchemy - Ohm Center, NYC
Barbara Brennan Energy Medicine - Lifeworks, NYC
Certified Theta Healing Practitioner, Basic and Advanced DNA, Dig Deeper: Working with Subconscious Beliefs - Theta Healing Institute of Knowledge, NYC
Astrological Studies: Student of Steven Forrest, Kelly Lee Phipps, Mitchell Lewis, The Centre for Psychological Astrology, NCGR-NYC, Jeffrey Wolf Green; Self Study w/ Dane Rudhyar, Martin Schulman, Barbara Hand Clow, Isabel Hickey, Stephen Arroyo, Jeanne Avery, Sue Tompkins, Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas, Jan Spiller
Meditation (Buddhist, Vedic, Egyptian), Chanting, Breathwork - Ohm Center, NYC
Advanced Meditation Immersions - Joe Dispenza, CO & CA
Meditation Studies, Direct Awakening, Evolving Wisdom - Craig Hamilton
Certified Healing Touch Practitioner – Healing Touch Program, NYC
Student of the Hermetic Sciences & Kybalion – self study
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Munay-Ki Sacred Rites Facilitator, Peruvian Quechua Lineage – Marcela Lobos, The Four Winds
Certified Energy Medicine & Shamanic Practitioner; Mesa Holder & Initiate of the Peruvian Quechua Lineage - Alberto Villoldo & The Four Winds Shamanic Society Light Body School
Advanced Master Certification in Destiny & Soul Retrieval - The Four Winds Society Light Body School
Certification in Shamanic Journeying - The Four Winds
Ausangate Expedition & Initiation, Peru
Shamanic Initiations, Ceremonies & Shadow Work: Peru, Chile, Mexico
Shamanic Discoverer Certification - Serge Kahili King, Kauai, Hawaii
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Masters in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine - TriState College of Acupuncture, NYC
Acupuncture & Energy Medicine - Turtle Bay Acupuncture, NYC
Certified in Clean Needle & CPR – NYC
NCCAOM Nationally Board Certified Diplomate & Licensed Acupuncturist in NY & CO
Post Graduate Advanced Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Certifications
- A Daoist Perspective to Health & Healing; The Metaphors of Illness; The Heart & Pericardium: A Journey through the 9 Palaces; Women in Daoism; Nourishing Yin with Acupuncture; Ghost Points; Mu Points; Influence of Shamanism into Chinese Medicine; Treating Disorders of the Spirit - Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Daoist Priest of the Yu Qing Huang Lao Pai (Jade Purity School, Yellow Emperor/ Lao Tzu Sect)
- Clinical Training in Pulse Diagnosis; The Sinew Channels: Treating the Morphogenetic Field; The Divergent Channels: Defense & Autoimmunity; Dynamic Pulse Diagnosis; The Eight Extraordinary Channels; The Luo Channels - Ann Cecil Sterman, NYC
- Foundations of Integrative Fertility Medicine in the Modern Clinic - Dr. Julie Von, NYC
- Treating Trauma with Chinese Medicine; Deepening Perspectives on Pulse Diagnosis - Lonny Jarrett, MA
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Functional Medicine Certification - Functional Medicine University
Cranial Sacral Certification - Dr. Ron Wish, Great River Craniosacral Therapy Institute, NY
Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis Certification - Dr. Karen E. Wells
Dual Degree Neurobiology and Indigenous Studies, B.S./B.A. - Evergreen State College, WA
I honor all of my teachers, earth-bound and timeless with bone-marrow-level gratitude.