Stone Guardian Acupuncture 1.0! This is the first picture ever taken of a Stone Guardian Acupuncture clinic. The Independant Community Center was the site of the very first pop-up clinic and the very first interation of Stone Guardian. We would set up there every week for a few months in 2015.

We had flyers printed up that we would post around Philomath and Corvallis to generate awareness of our first pop-up clinic. Not sure if they resulted in any leads but we still have one of the orginal flyers stashed in the clinic.

Kort and Spider at the door of the first brick and mortar Stone Guardian Acupuncture clinic.

Before our first Salem Saturday Market we did a booth test. Ultimately we decided to wait on Community Acupuncture at the market for a few years.

We certain over estimated the initial demand of our products at the Salem Saturday market. Each week we were just happy to cover the cost of the booth.

Here’s Kort and Spider, bright eyed and bushy tailed at day one of Stone Guardian at the Salem Saturday Market.

Our last year setting up our booth at the Salem Saturday Market we added Community Acupuncture and learned how hard it was to control the temperature in a booth on a parking lot in the summer.

Our first batch of Pain Liniment starts aging! It wasnt for a few years that we would learn to let it sit longer. These days we won’t even think of bottling before three years.

When the demand increased for our Pain Liniment we started bottling it in large bottles. This would become a double edged sword. We would see an increase in revenue but we would also see supply issues a we would have a harder time keeping up with demand.

It was pretty awesome seeing our name on the sign at the corner of Capitol and D.

When we opened our brick and mortar clinic we created a “massive” online marketing campaign. Mostly this was social media, Google and review sites like Yelp. In those early days I don’t think we got a single lead from an online source. It wasn’t until we took out a business card sized advertisement in the Statesman Journal that we had any success in marketing. These days we get a bit of traction from our online footprint. Guess Salem just wasn’t ready for the internet when we first opened.

We took the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic very seriously and did everything we could to minimize the spread at Stone Guardian. Spider even shaved his beard to better fit behind a mask.

In July of 2021 Jonthan Ho joined Spider at Stone Guardian Acupuncture.

On Christmas Eve 2024 Jonathan and Spider signed papers to move Stone Guardian from Building B into the big building at 910 Capitol.

We launched our Pain Clinics in January of 2024 to contend with the sheer number of former patients that were unable to get on the schedule due to how busy we had become. This was one of the best decisions we ever made. This meant that when someone called because they’d thrown their back out, rather than telling them we would put them on the waitlist, we could say, “How about this weekend?”

Due to the success of the first Pain Clinic at Stone Guardian Jonathan began offering a second one on Wednesdays.

In January of 2025 we started offering Community Acupuncture again, this time right here at 910 Capitol.

It’s become a bit of a tradition here at Stone Guardian to close the clinic every lunar new year and throw the Yijing and set up a Lego build. This is the annual Lego build we did for 2025 in the new space.