Come home to the rhythm of your own body.

There’s a rhythm in the body that knows how to return.
Even after stress, after loss, after being stretched too thin for too long.
That return is what I practice.
And it’s what I offer.

I’m Dr. Janet Vigil, a nationally board-certified and Arizona-licensed doctor of acupuncture and practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine. I’m also the founder of Mountain Goat Acupuncture.

But the heart of my work lives beyond any credential.

You’ll feel it in how I listen to your body.
In how I trust its intelligence as a source of knowing in its own right rather than simply as a delivery system for the mind.
In how I honor your timing.
And in how I welcome every part of you, just as you are.

Why I Chose This Path

For many years, I worked in corporate tech, and it served me well for a long time.
It gave me structure, financial security, and a way to prove I could succeed in the world I was raised to believe in.  I’m grateful for what I learned there.  I still draw on it today as an entrepreneur.

But eventually, the scales tipped.
The rewards were no longer worth the cost.
I didn’t want to age in that world.
I didn’t want to keep trading my nervous system for approval.
I didn’t want to keep silencing the part of me that knew there was another way.

So I began listening.
To the fatigue that didn’t go away with rest.
To the constant scanning for the next shoe to drop.
To the migraine attacks that went from a quarterly to monthly to weekly and then daily event.
But I also began listening to the part of me that never left.
The part that was still intact, just waiting to be heard.

I left behind the world that told me how to succeed and stepped into one where I could feel what was real.
The body.  The breath.  The yes that comes from within.
That’s what led me to Asian medicine, and what keeps me here.

This path isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about restoring what’s whole.
It’s about sovereignty.
And I offer it now, not as a promise or prescription, but as a place where you too can come home.

What You Can Expect From Me

You can expect to be met without judgment.
Without rush.
Without the pressure to name or explain what’s still unfolding.

You can expect me to listen—not just to your words, but to the story your body is telling.

You can expect quiet when quiet is needed.
Laughter when the moment calls for it.
Warmth, even in the midst of uncertainty.
And a kind of steadiness that doesn’t flinch when the truth is hard to hold.

I don’t follow a script.
I follow you.
And together, we let your system show us the way back to wholeness.

My Clinical Approach

I practice a style of acupuncture that is both classical and deeply contemporary, rooted in the body’s internal pathways of communication, known as channels. These are the rivers of connection that weave through your organs, tissues, breath, and emotions. They reflect where energy is flowing, where it’s blocked, and how the system is trying to rebalance itself.

Each session begins with presence. I listen to your pulse, your words, your tissues, your tone. I listen to what’s being said and what’s being held. I let the channels speak before I decide how to respond.

My primary lens is channel-based acupuncture, shaped by the teachings of Dr. Wang Ju-Yi. His work helps me read patterns at the surface of the skin and trace them to deeper internal dynamics. I also draw from Dr. Richard Tan’s Balance Method and Master Tung’s imaging systems, which allow me to restore coherence across the entire system using anatomical mirroring and precise point combinations.

Alongside these traditions, I draw from the wisdom of modern anatomy and physiology: organ systems, connective tissue, fluid dynamics, and the nervous system that integrates all aspects of us into a responsive, self-regulating, coherent Being. But I also recognize that health isn’t just physical. Our emotional, mental, and relational experiences arise from within the body and are shaped through our interactions with the world around us. They affect how we regulate, how we respond, and how resourced we feel.

These are just a few of the built-in entry points we can work with to signal the body toward greater coherence. Trillions of pieces of information move through you every second—mechanical, chemical, electrical—without you needing to manage a single one.

When I place a needle, I’m not overriding that intelligence. I’m tapping into it.
I’m offering a signal your body can recognize.
Because healing doesn’t happen through force. It happens through resonance: when the body recognizes and responds to a signal that feels true.

We are always in exchange—with our own physiology and with the world around us.

That’s why my presence matters.
The treatment isn’t just the technique. It’s the field we create together.
That’s the medicine.