Medicine that brings you back to yourself.
About Me
I serve health practitioners, spiritual seekers and individuals who wish to listen deeply, choose wisely, and meet the invitations and challenges of change with clarity and ease.
Here’s the truth:
your body already knows.
The pulse, the breath, the quiet undercurrent of your own presence — these are the first teachers. Most of what passes for medicine skips that part. It jumps to protocol, prescription, performance.
I approach the dialogue of health differently. I trust that the most powerful medicine is always the medicine you choose. My role is to hold a field where you can hear it, trust it, and act on it — whether that means a treatment plan, a retreat vessel, or a deeper course of study.
“Josephine’s teaching illuminates the essential truth that healing is not a formulaic endeavor—it is a living, breathing art rooted in meeting each individual exactly where they are.”
Elyse B.
Whether I’m guiding a practitioner through advanced strategies of the channel systems, or sitting with someone facing cancer or autoimmune illness, I bring clarity and choice to whatever is arising.
As a human, you are not one size fits all and there are no quick fixes. Instead, together we create the conditions for reclaimation and transformation from the essence outwards into your world.
traveling together
Our Vessel For Change
Once we step in together, you’ll find the following as foundations of our journey:
Choice as medicine. True healing happens when you choose your path. Together we make sure you know what your choices are.
Lineage with life in it. Classical Chinese medicine and spiritual practice come alive in you through our work together.
Slowness is power. Bodies move like mountains. Retreats, treatments, and study unfold at body time.
Practical mysticism. The unseen is honored, but always in service of real change in real bodies.
I go slow,
breath by breath,
moving with the body. Bodies move like rivers carving stone, like trees turning toward the sky.
I haven’t always chosen to go slow. But again and again, I have chosen to work with people at the edge of life: those facing cancer, AIDS, and autoimmune illness. Being with people from birth to death has shown me what it means to live fully — right up to the last breath.
For more than 30 years, I’ve practiced classical Chinese medicine and Buddhist meditation. My courses and retreats weave those threads with the living wisdom of plants. Practitioners come to refine their seeing and touch; individuals come to remember their own agency.
This isn’t about following my way.
It’s about finding yours.
Clinical Practice: Over 30 years in acupuncture, herbal medicine, and integrative health.
Teaching Expertise: Creator of The Nectar of Plants (30-hour, CEU-approved), Body Geography, The Three-Legged Vessel, and Weaving the World.
— Clinic Director, Assistant Academic Dean and Supervisor for Daoist Traditions Acupuncture School 2010-2017
— Wake Up to Your Life Curriculum Teacher 2007-present. Shambhala Buddhist Teacher and Meditation Instructor 1989 - presentMentorship: Clinical supervision and small-group practicums for licensed practitioners.
—Serving as a spiritual friend since 1989 in one-to-one and group settings.Lineage: Rooted in the five channel systems of classical Chinese medicine and 35+ years of Buddhist practice.
— Studies with Jeffrey Yuen 1999 - present.
— Karma Kagyu, Shangpa Kagyu, & Nyingma lineage studies in Tibetan Buddhist practice 1984-present.Continuing Education Provider: NCCAOM — CEUs available for multiple courses.
End-of-Life Care: Buddhist practice with death and dying meditations, studies with Rhea Mader of Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
Speaker & Writer: Guest on Qiological, The Essential Oil Revolution and The Aromatherapist podcasts, widely published through Monday Morning Notes on Substack, Acupuncture Today.
I am devoted to creating spaces where you can listen deeply, receive completely,
and where diagnosis becomes dialogue, treatment becomes nourishment, and your own knowing has space to surface.
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When I’m not teaching or practicing, I’m often found reading, writing, taking pictures, contemplating the tarot cards or the I Ching, walking in the mountains or by the sea.
We are living until we are not.
Your chance for growth, healing, and contribution doesn’t end until your last breath. If you’re ready to meet your life and work with presence, I’d be honored to walk beside you.