I grew up with my Daoist Chinese grandmother who was a Jin Shin Do acupressure practitioner, environmentalist, and human rights advocate that lived close to the land in her forested cabin on the Salish Sea. I am deeply inspired by my grandmother, Meiling, and other ancestors to reclaim the indigenous healing traditions of my Chinese, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Irish ancestry through acupuncture and herbalism. I worked many years as a field ecologist, educator, and yoga teacher before finding my way back to East Asian Medicine.

I developed a proclivity for the power of observation: the cycles of nature, both within and without our bodies, reflect how we are a part of the greater cosmos. As a naturalist, poet, medicine maker, dancer, and martial art practitioner, I find endless inspiration in the mystery of nature, the forces that create us, and the potential to come back into balance with the rhythms and cycles of our earth/body.

I give continued thanks to the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) and Nooksack people on whose land I was born, and it is my aim to explore settler responsibility through indigenous solidarity, and by recognizing the oppressive structures that inequitably affect specific groups who all deserve the right to healthcare and holistic healing.

With the liberation of all beings as a throughline in my work, I look forward to providing care through community acupuncture.

I give gratitude to all my teachers, the more-than-human kin, my ancestors, and this medicine that moves through us.

– Moon