1-on-1: Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
One of the distinctive facets of Chinese medicine is that it is intersectional by nature. Rooted in a cosmology of interconnection and holism, the medicine treats the body, psyche, and spirit as phenomena that arise together and continuously influence one another.
Physical symptoms often coexist with psycho-emotional patterns and our inner landscapes—emotional, mental, and spiritual—can influence the how illness takes shape in the body.
Chinese medicine recognizes that these dimensions of our experience are like rivers that flow concurrently with one another and which ultimately feed the same watershed: the watershed of our overall health.
I bring a trans-disciplinary approach to my sessions which weaves
acupuncture, psycho-emotional work, and ritual/rites-of-passage practices to support healing and transformation on concurrent levels of your being.
Our Work Together
Acupuncture + Chinese Medicine
We begin with a comprehensive intake to better understand your body, mind, and state of your Qi (energy). Using Chinese medicine diagnostics - such as tongue, pulse, listening, palpation, and more - we can identify patterns of imbalance and areas that may need support.
Acupuncture uses tiny needles inserted at specific points along the body's energy meridians to bring the body/mind back into balance and harmony, helping with pain, sleep, stress, digestion, hormonal imbalances, and overall wellbeing. We also sometimes employ other modalities during our sessions, such as gua sha, cupping, and moxibustion.
Sessions also explore diet and lifestyle practices - seasonal eating, food energetics, and daily habits - which can help bring you back into harmony and support greater vitality, balance, and ease in your life.
Psycho-Emotional
We will explore the tributaries that flow into your emotional watershed, such as your ancestral/lineage material, your own life experiences, and the impact of the larger culture on your knowing of the world. Through excavating below the surface, we access the parts of ourselves that once became exiled and where our belief systems initially took root. Learning to better relate with your unconscious parts supports the deep work of gaining greater agency in how you love, learn, work, relate, and respond to the circumstances of your life.
I refer to this work as psycho-emotional acupuncture.
Just as acupuncture locates points along the body’s meridians, this work attends to the key places along the 'points' and 'meridians' of our lives that have become closed or neglected. These blockages, when left untended, can leave us feeling stuck, heavy, or disheartened. Through a careful and compassionate process, we support these places to soften and open, inviting the natural movement and flow of energy to where there has been stagnation. A more balanced psycho-emotional state helps physical symptoms to shift and allows for a renewed sense of aliveness and spaciousness.
Ritual, Ceremony + Rites of Passage
We are not meant to move through life’s transitions alone. Our humanity longs to be witnessed as we grow and change. Being witnessed within frameworks of meaning and beauty is an essential part of our growth and integration.
Ritual, ceremony, and rites of passage can help us let go of what is ready to be released and welcome in a new way of being. Ritual and ceremony are universal human technologies for transformation - deeply cultural and psychological - and map beautifully onto our healing journeys, initiations, and transitions. They help us declare the new, the healed, and the liberated. They also help us honour and release what is stuck, complete, and concluded, so that we can make way for all that is yet to come.
If you feel drawn to this approach, we can explore how ceremony, ritual, and rites of passage might support you as you step forward with greater clarity, strength, and purpose.
In recognition of the challenge that capitalism poses to many people, I have made a few slots available at a significantly reduced rate. There are many in our midst who need more help due to the daily, systemic and inherited impacts of racism, classism, ableism, sexism and gender oppression. If this is you, I invite you to reach out.
"If the spirit is at peace, the heart is in harmony; when the heart is in harmony, the body is whole; if the spirit becomes aggravated the heart wavers, and when the heart wavers the body becomes injured; if one seeks to heal the physical body, one needs to regulate the spirit first.”
- Liu Zhou, 6th century confucian scholar
"Tali is an innate healer & medicine carrier. Tuning into my whole system, to emotional patterns, eating habits, body type, and her skills of observation of my pulse and tongue, she gives wholistic life recommendations and acupuncture/Chinese medicine sessions that I’ve noticed really have made a difference in my health. My experience working with Tali on a regular basis helped me address some core issues and gave me the experience of someone really tracking me as the complex and whole being that I am. I highly recommend Tali as an ally to your healing journey."
- N.J., dance facilitator & ritualist