Anne Park L.Ac

Anne Park, licensed acupuncturist and Yosan alumnus, is available for appointments at her office in Emeryville, California (Emeryville is a tiny little city sandwiched between Oakland and Berkeley and is most famous as the home of Pixar studios). Her practice is named Energy Matters.

Anne Park is an excellent healer. When she was in Los Angeles I had several treatments with her, always with great results. Her contact information:

Energy Matters is located in the Emeryville Health and Wellness Center at
1240 Powell Street, Suite 2A
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-597-9923
info@EnergyMattersEastBay.com


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Bump: Wright Therapies

Our classmate Karen Wright L.Ac will be starting her practice at the In Focus Wellness Institute in Santa Monica, California. Take a look at her website and make an appointment today!

Bump: Stephanie Yong L.Ac

Our classmate Stephanie Yong has opened her acupuncture practice in Torrance! I highly recommend her for all your health needs. No website yet, but here is her contact information:

Stephanie Yong, L.Ac
Torrance Medical Plaza
3655 Lomita Blvd., Suite 308
Torrance, CA 90505
310-341-0210

Bump: Crossfit Pacific Coast

Our classmate Traver Boehm L.Ac has opened up a Crossfit gym in Santa Barbara. Take a look!

Crossfit Pacific Coast

Evosia Blog

Take a look at our friend Jun Wah Lee's blog. It's fabulous, just like Jun Wah.

Yosan Graduation!

Hey everybody, your blog authors just graduated!!! (Sort of - we have a few more weeks of classes and clinic before it becomes official.)

It's been a long journey - when I started four years ago at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York, I was married and living in suburban Queens. Now I'm no longer married (whew) and live on the west side of L.A. with a dog and cat and a lovely lady named Nini.

I want to send out a few thank you's to the universe... Dr. Alex Feng, 师夫, mentor, inspiration. Dr. John Pai Wen-Chiang of PCOM NY, for your passion and the lovely way you sing the name 血府逐瘀汤 Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang, I still remember it. Dr. Roger Tsao, pulse master and karaoke legend. Dr. Steve Jackowicz, for lighting the fire and expanding the way I thought about TCM. Tom Leung, for giving me a chance. The whole Kamwo crew - Jenny, Judy, J2, Rocky, Mandy, Ming Jie, Yangguang, Ray, Jacky, Stacy, Matthew "celebrate good times" Weitzmann, Jonti, Will, Hongwei and Helen holding it down at Grand Meridian, all the guys behind the herb counter including my drinking buddy Mr. Chen... 凉瓜牛肉饭，夏枯草饮，咖啡没糖阿... all my supervisors at the Yosan clinic including Dr. Naiqiang Gu, Dr. Joseph Chang-Qing Yang, Dr. Yuhong Chen, Dr. Zhang, Dr. Jin... and to all my lovely classmates at both schools, some of whom have taught me far more than I could learn in a classroom. To all of you, thank you for making me who and what I am today. I love you.

And to Nini, for healing me, for letting your light shine, for your beauty both inside and out, thank you. I love you.

To my parents and my family, for giving me life, for shaping my life, for being you, you're all wonderful. I love you.

To everyone at Wu Tao Kuan, Zhi Dao Guan, Oishi Judo, Sawtelle Judo, Bryan Hawkins Kenpo Karate, Park's Tae Kwon Do Long Beach, Wu Jian Pai New York, 上海体育大学，Benzene Dojo in Asakusa, thank you thank you thank you. Martial arts and Chinese medicine are inextricably intertwined, all training in one leads to the other, like two sides of the same coin, as a wise man once said...

To the Great Spirit, God Almighty, The Universal Mother, Guanyin, Jesus Christ, the Jade Emperor, all the various spirits and demons that helped me or hindered me and gave me a lesson, thank you. George Clinton said everything is on the one. Everything is on the one. Everything is on the one.

Bump: Peter Panken L.Ac

Peter Panken's mustache is better than this one.

I started my TCM education in New York City. I met some wonderful people there, including Peter Panken L.Ac, sweat-lodge enthusiast and all around nice guy. He was my supervisor at the Fortune Society externship, doing free NADA ear acupuncture and full-body acupuncture for recently paroled people.

Every Wednesday we would take over the community room and set up four tables and a circle of chairs. The chairs were for people getting ear acupuncture only. One day it was slow and I got the NADA protocol in my ear. About a minute after the needles were inserted, I was so relaxed felt like I was going to slide off my chair.

The Golden Needle Sutra

Here's another Chinese medicine blog by Kim Nguyen. Kim trained at ACTCM in San Francisco and now practices in Virginia.

Bump: Being Alive and Carolyn Leigh, L.Ac

Recently Nini and I had the opportunity to see patients at Being Alive, the HIV/AIDS support organization based in West Hollywood. Yosan has an externship program that provides free acupuncture once a week to Being Alive members. This program is supervised by Carolyn Leigh, a licensed acupuncturist and Yosan graduate.

Being Alive does great things for the community. All services are provided free of charge, from support groups to chiropractic, acupuncture and Reiki. If you or someone you know has a diagnosis of HIV, Being Alive is one of the best resources available. Donate your time by volunteering or send a tax-deductible donation via the internet. It takes just a few minutes and any amount helps. There are also a variety of fun events you can attend to support the organization.

Carolyn Leigh is a great supervisor and talented acupuncturist. In addition to Being Alive, she sees patients at the Delson Chiropractic and Wellness Center in Santa Monica and the Chiara Wellness Center in West Hollywood. Call 310-365-6855 to make an appointment.

Rootdown Bump

Rootdown is a fun website for acupuncturists, TCM students and TCM groupies. If you're an acupuncturist or in school, go ahead and put up a profile! It's like Myspace or Facebook for TCM, except there are also resources like herb info, acupuncture info, et cetera. The resource aspect is similar to Wikipedia, in that you can add new information to existing entries.

Professors at TCM schools also have profiles! Take a look at Dr. Yue-ying Li's profile. You can also post or buy online CEUs!

Yosan Bump

If you've read the sidebar, you know that I and my co-blogger Nini Mai are clinic interns at Yosan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Yosan is in Los Angeles at 13315 West Washington Boulevard, near the border of Culver City, Venice and Marina Del Rey.

We both transferred from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City, where we began our Chinese medicine careers. While there are great things about Pacific, in the end the negatives outweighed the positives and we made the move to the West Coast.

Part of what attracted us to Yosan was the fact that it is a nonprofit institution. It may surprise you to learn that most of the acupuncture schools in the United States are for-profit companies. I can really feel the difference - while no school is perfect, I can tell that at the end of the day, the people in charge at Yosan have our best interests at heart and want us to get the best education possible.

Yosan has an interesting history - it was founded by two brothers, Drs. Daoshing and Maoshing Ni. Dr. Dao and Dr. Mao, as they're known around school, are the sons of OmNi (nee Hua-Ching Ni) who is a well known master in the Daoist tradition. In addition to the standard TCM curriculum, Yosan has an extensive series of qi-development courses, most of which overlap with the forms taught at their Chi Health Institute.

Yosan is named for Hua-Ching Ni's father, Yo San Ni.