Chinese Medicine

Getting Out of Your Own Way to Heal

If there is one thing I try to consistently impress on my patients as they heal with acupuncture is that the healing is being generated from within.  I use the needles to signal the body to self-adjust, to self-correct.  There is no masking of the pain or disabling of your body’s healing mechanisms.  We are working with (not against) your…

Letting Go of the Weight for Good

Acupuncture has gotten a reputation for helping with weight loss. Something about “magic ear seeds” that help you dump the weight has garnered attention in minor circles and I constantly get approached by people wanting to know if acupuncture can help them shed the weight. When women (as well as the occasional man) come to me specifically for acupuncture for…

Dr. Richard Teh-Fu Tan

Countless practitioners around the globe were in shock and devastated by the recent news of the passing of Dr. Richard Teh-Fu Tan. To say that I was deeply affected by this news is an understatement.  Today I find it important to write something about this Master teacher that had such a profound impact on my practice. After my first seminar…

The Importance of Seasonal Attunement for Optimal Health

“Not only are we in the Universe, the Universe is in us.“  “To learn is to become closer to Nature”    Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium. “In the past, people practiced the Tao, the Way of Life. They understood the principle of balance as represented by the transformations of the energies of the universe.” (from one of…

Spring Attunement: What’s My Liver Got to Do With It?

“The months of the Spring season bring about the revitalization of all things in nature. It is the time of birth….this is the season in which the universal energy begins anew and rejuvenates…one should attempt to correspond to it directly by being open and unsupressed, both physically and emotionally.” Huangdi Neijing “The Liver holds the office of General .[and] storm[s]…