Community Group Acupuncture is offered at a sliding scale of $30-$50
Plus FREE Ear Auricular Acupuncture and Ear Seeds
Saturdays 1p-5p
Walk-ins are welcome
The Chillax Om Foundation’s work was recognized with the Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce Best New Business Award in April 2026 — voted by Evergreen community members — and featured in Evergreen Living Magazine, May 2026
The Wellness Hour is a free program of Chillax Om Foundation, Inc. (EIN: 87-1829729), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization,
CO Charitable Solicitation Registration #20263017303
& is separate from Dr. Andrea Renee Rivera’s private acupuncture practice that delivers 1:1 private treatments by appointment.
Our Mission — The work of Chillax Om Foundation, Inc., 501c(3) Non-Profit
Chillax Om Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to making integrative, natural healthcare accessible to everyone — regardless of ability to pay. Founded in 2021 by Dr. Andrea Renee, DACM, LAc., a licensed Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, our Foundation provides free and low cost $30-$50 sliding scale weekly group acupuncture, breathwork, guided meditation, and self-care training through our signature Wellness Hour program every Sat. 1p-5p at Chillax Om Downtwon Evergreen Clinic and Tues. 4p-5p at the Evergreen Resiliency Center in the Yellow House on HWY 73.
We serve Veterans and First Responders managing PTSD and chronic stress, teachers and healthcare workers facing burnout, seniors seeking relief from chronic pain, and any community member who cannot otherwise afford care. Every $15 donated funds one full treatment for a neighbor in need.
Since our founding, we have delivered over 1,000 free treatments, including 250 in Evergreen, Colorado in 2025 alone. In response to the EHS shooting in our community, we also launched a dedicated weekly healing circle for those affected by trauma and grief.
We believe healing should never be a luxury. Through donor support and community partnership, Chillax Om Foundation is building a future where natural, evidence-informed healthcare is within reach for all.
Why Colorado needs the Chillax Om Foundation Wellness Hour Program
Colorado has ranked among the two worst states in the nation for prevalence of mental illness for two consecutive years, and ranks 50th worst for adult substance abuse of alcohol and drugs (Mental Health America, 2025). Despite ranking comparatively better for access to care, residents consistently report that confusing insurance coverage and the high out-of-pocket cost of traditional therapy — ranging from $0 to $150 per session — cause many to delay treatment until they reach a crisis point.
The Chillax Om Foundation’s Wellness Hour program directly addresses this access gap by offering free, walk-in group auricular acupuncture using the NADA protocol — a treatment method recognized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense as having “good quality” evidence for treating PTSD, anxiety, depression, and addiction-related symptoms, and used in formal psychiatric training at institutions including Yale School of Medicine.
Since relocating to Evergreen, Colorado in October 2023, the Foundation has delivered over 250 free treatments annually to local residents, with particular demand from Veterans, First Responders, and community members managing chronic stress, anxiety, and trauma — confirmed by direct community engagement data showing educational content on these specific conditions receiving 300% higher engagement than other outreach material.
By removing the cost and insurance barriers that the data identifies as the leading cause of delayed care in Colorado, the Wellness Hour program offers a scalable, evidence-informed model for addressing the state’s mental health and substance use crisis at the community level.
“Yesterday was magical! I have been blissed out all day 💕”
– U. C. (3rd grade teacher in LA School District public school for 25 years)
- NADA auricular acupuncture (5 acupuncture points needled on the ear as shown in this photo) has been shown in a randomized controlled trial to reduce anxiety, depression, and substance use while improving quality of life and employment outcomes — with the greatest benefits for high-risk participants including those with trauma and criminal justice involvement. (Carter et al., 2017, Behavioral Sciences)
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Complimentary group PEMF Magnetic Field Therapy and 5 Color Medical Grade LED light therapy treatments are also Clinically Researched and shown to be non-invasive, painless and effective for inflammatory & poor circulation pain relief, stress relief, acne, hair growth, facial rejuvenation & wound healing, are also available for FREE 1st time treatment and $30 walk-in treatments. These treatments can be added on to a group acupuncture customized $30 treatment for just $20.
The Chillax Om Foundation 501c3 Non-Profit provided
over 250
FREE Acupuncture treatments with self-care training in Chigong, Yoga, Breathwork & Meditation
in Evergreen, CO in 2025
& over 750 in CA
from 2022-2024
Community Acupuncture & Self-Care Training
What
WhatCHILLAX OM Foundation, Inc. 501c3 Charity offers:
1. weekly FREE Ear Acupuncture and Ear Seeds acupressure
2. low cost group community acupuncture for a sliding scale $30-$50/treatment
On Saturdays 1p-5p.
Why
Why the Wellness Hour Works — The Science
The four practices in every Wellness Hour — NADA auricular acupuncture, yoga, mindfulness-based breathwork and meditation, and medical qigong — are each supported by peer-reviewed clinical research published in respected medical journals including JAMA Internal Medicine, Psychiatry Research, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and BMC Complementary Medicine.
Key findings from the research:
- NADA auricular acupuncture has been shown in a randomized controlled trial to reduce anxiety, depression, and substance use while improving quality of life and employment outcomes — with the greatest benefits for high-risk participants including those with trauma and criminal justice involvement. (Carter et al., 2017, Behavioral Sciences)
- Yoga (Kundalini, Hatha, and trauma-sensitive styles) significantly improved PTSD and depression symptoms across 20 randomized controlled trials in a 2024 meta-analysis. (Nejadghaderi et al., 2024, Psychiatry Research)
- Mindfulness meditation produced clinically significant reductions in anxiety, depression, pain, and stress across 47 randomized controlled trials and 3,515 participants. (Goyal et al., 2014, JAMA Internal Medicine)
- Medical qigong significantly reduced anxiety (SMD = -0.75) and stress (SMD = -0.88) compared to wait-list controls across seven randomized controlled trials. (Wang et al., 2014, BMC Complementary Medicine)
These practices work through a shared biological pathway: activating the parasympathetic nervous system — the body’s natural rest-and-recovery state — which reduces cortisol, decreases craving and pain responses, and restores emotional regulation. This is the same physiological mechanism disrupted by trauma and chronic stress, and restored by each of the four practices in the Wellness Hour.
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Everyone deserves access to essential healthcare. If we don’t manage pain and stress, it can take a toll on the quality of our work, personal relationships and our mental, emotional, physical health and wellbeing. With the Chillax Om Foundation’s FREE and low cost community acupuncture programs participants can break free of stress and pain and learn to become resilient by taking control of their emotional, mental and physical wellbeing long-term.
How
Community Acupuncture is a fully clothed group treatment of acupuncture that takes place in a large room or outdoor pop up clinic with a group of people together in comfortable anti-gravity reclining chairs.
What Patient’s are saying…
1. Jon Block — “I had the privilege of hosting Dr. Andrea’s Wellness Hour at our Abundant HealthPreneur retreat… She made everybody so relaxed, even if they were brand new to these modalities. Dr. Andrea is the perfect bridge to create more healing for organizations, where people are stressed or physically stuck seating or just caught in their heads. What a gift this woman is!
2. Dr. Mansi Shah — “She offered wellness hour at my retreat and it was a game changer for the offering. Our group of 25 was blown away.”
3. Elizabeth G. — “She has helped me with neck, back and my battles with PTSD. Though physical therapy and acupuncture… I highly recommend her.”
4. T.W. — “Renee is such a compassionate healer. This was exactly what I needed during a very stressful time. She works with so many different modalities, not just needles. She is also such a super gentle acupuncturist. It’s a nonpain approach all around.”
5. Fran R. — “The weekly acupuncture I receive from her resets my energetic center and helps me manage stress. I recommend Chillax Om as a kind thing to do for one’s well-being and balance.”
6. Own the Potential — “Dr. Renee saved me from years of stiffness and discomfort… after 4 treatments, my neck loosened in ways that even 10 years of yoga never accomplished. Her Chinese medicine has improved my internal health lowering my cholesterol and maintaining energy.”
7. Tiare W. — “Dr. Renee is the Stress Whisperer as far as I’m concerned. I never feel the needles when she work on me, and I usually feel at least 30% better when I just walk into her space.”
8. Maria G. — “The treatments are so effective — both soothing/relaxing and therapeutic/efficacious. She has actually saved me trips to the ER by working on a heart issue I have — in both the acute and long-term sense.”
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What the Press & Community are saying…
The Chillax Om Foundation’s work was recognized with the Evergreen Area Chamber of Commerce Best New Business Award in April 2026 — voted by Evergreen community members
— and featured in Evergreen Living Magazine, May 2026
CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR PRESS COVERAGE & POD CAST INTERVIEWS
Who
WhoDr. Andrea Renee Rivera (“Dr. Renee”), Acupuncturist and founder of the Chillax Om Foundation non-profit, has been a front-line healthcare worker throughout the Covid19 pandemic. This was her second time facing a global crisis since she lived and worked in the downtown Manhattan, NY area throughout the 9/11 terrorist attack and its aftermath. She experienced numerous bomb threats, toxic smoke from the Twin Towers, and military check points whenever she left her home and went to work in NYC. During Covid-19 she lived and worked as an acupuncturist in private practice in Los Angeles surrounded by riots, homeless camps and protests.
Since 2016, Dr. Renee has been providing the auricular acupuncture NADA protocol along with teaching self-care stress management, herbal medicine with diet therapy, and pain relief practices while delivering over 10,000 treatments at various Los Angeles, CA facilities including LA County USC Wellness Center, Venice Family Clinic, Pacific Coast Community Acupuncture Clinic and her own private practices in Hollywood and Pacific Palisades, CA and Evergreen, CO. “Through these experiences, I have witnessed participants feel stress relief, less pain, more energy, experience healthy weight loss, overall increased quality of life, including better relationships at work and at home after using the NADA protocol and mind-body practices.”
“It took me 20 years to completely recover my health, financial stability and establish a new career as an acupuncturist by 2020 just in time to face a second global crisis from Covid-19. Post Sept. 11th after my downtown NY jewelry store business closed, I had moved from NY to CA in 2003 to start a new life with limited resources. The next 4 years of post-911 life reinvention demands took a toll on my health and family relationships, causing my own personal experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with depression, anxiety, insomnia and chronic pain that lasted for three years. After trying allopathic methods and medications to alleviate my PTSD symptoms, I sought acupuncture and the mind-body practices of daily yoga, Chigong, Transcendental Meditation and herbal medicine for relief. Because of my prior 911 personal experience, I can recognize many people in my local LA community facing the same struggles over the last 2.5 years as we all continue the same battle of recovery post Covid-19.
Acupuncture, herbal medicine, diet therapy and mind-body self-care practices enabled me to not only recover from 911 but also kept me working on the front lines during Covid-19 as a licensed acupuncturist delivering nearly 3000 acupuncture treatments over the last 2 years helping others take their health back, go back to work and school and rebuild their lives despite the challenges. In Jan. 2021 after 5 years of seeing how acupuncture and using mind-body practices changed the lives of my patients while delivering over 7000 treatments and self-care trainings, I began the process of founding the 501c3 non-profit, Chillax Om Foundation. 2021 being the Twenty-year anniversary of Sept.11 happening during the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic was a powerful motivation to ask myself, “what more can I do to honor who and what we all have lost and help life go on for the survivors of these forever life changing tragedies?” This prayer was answered with “do the Wellness Hour Program now.” Now, with God’s grace and the very kind and generous support of my board of directors, volunteer staff and local community in fundraising efforts, I can help more people in becoming their own medicine, ending their suffering and returning to peace, health and wholeness….hopefully much sooner than I could post 911.
When: Weekly Saturdays 1p-5p
All are welcome to experience FREE Ear Auricular Acupuncture and Ear seeds acupressure. Community Acupuncture that is a customized body acupuncture treatment is offered on a sliding scale of $30-50. Everyone deserves accessible affordable essential health care.
Where: Evergreen, CO
Chillax Om Natural Health and Longevity Center
located at 4600 Plettner Ln., 1st FL #1C, Evergreen, CO 80439.
Walk-ins are welcome.
If you are an employer, community or public service organization in Evergreen, CO who thinks the Wellness-Hour 60 minute treatment program with ear acupuncture and self-care training in breathwork, guided imagery meditation, qigong and yoga can help your local community, colleagues and employees, contact Dr. Andrea Renee at AndreaReneeLAc@gmail.com or 310-461-7494 to schedule a six-week program and for additional information.