Hill Park Medical Center

Nubby Shober L.Ac

Nubby Shober, L.Ac. has eleven years of experience in acupuncture, Nogier Auriculomedicine, and intuitive healing. He has practiced in Petaluma for nine years, continuing the acupuncture practice of Nolan Cordon, MD, one of California’s very first medical acupuncturists.

Nubby began his journey into the study of both Traditional Oriental Medicine and clairvoyance in the jungles of Thailand as a Buddhist forest monk (dhutanga bhikkhu) for four years during the late ’80′s. Ordained in the lineage of Achaan Chah of Wat Pah Pong, he had the great good fortune while a monk to meet and study with a number of great Thai meditation masters, like Achaan Mahaboowa, Achaan Bpleean, Achaan Ganha, and Achaan Annun.

He is one of the few non-physician practitioners of Nogier Auriculomedicine, a comprehensive European system of acupuncture effective at treating neurological pain, viral disorders like shingles, and pediatric conditions like colic. He is also an instructor of Jin Gui Golden Shield Qigong.

Nubby’s specialty is body-mind medicine. By focusing on generating high energy levels, an open heart, and inner peace by transforming the underlying emotional and spiritual causes of disease, both health and happiness can be attained. A practicing clairvoyant, Nubby crafts individual treatments for his patients that include Taoist acupuncture, meditation, visualization exercises, and Taoist massage and self-massage. Buddhist meditation is taught for those struggling with intractable pain. Self-help is strongly emphasized, both to lower patient costs and to increase the speed and depth of healing.

A principle axiom of holistic medicine is that most chronic forms of disease are either caused, perpetuated, or exacerbated by our emotions. Which in turn are molded by our thoughts, which in turn are generated by our subconscious beliefs. When the emotional and ideational causes of disease are reversed, the full power of mind and spirit can be applied to healing. Emotions like anger, fear and jealousy create cascades of harmful hormones and biochemicals within our bodies that harm us. Emotions like love, gratitude and amusement produce the opposite effect, bathing the body in a healing cascade of positive biochemicals of our own creation.

“Our true nature is inherently divine. When we can be guided to release the unhappy-making thoughts, beliefs and emotions that get in the way of our connection with who we really are, the result is vibrant health, vitality, and happiness. Chi Kung, meditation and acupuncture are prime doorways that lead us back to our birthright.”

Nubby is a practicing Theravada Buddhist, and lives in West Marin with his wife Diane.