Marco Chung-Shu Lam

Marco Chung-Shu Lam draws from his Chinese heritage an affinity for both traditional Chinese medicine and the Taoist world view. The ancient sages believed that health and peace came from being in harmony with the deeper currents of nature.

Marco earned his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara with a thesis on the holistic treatment of immune disorders. His education includes graduate work in both Taoist and Buddhist Studies and time spent practicing Qigong and Chinese Medicine in a Taoist Monastery. Marco was an instructor at the Connecting Point Massage School in Telluride, Colorado where he taught Shiatsu and whole food nutrition. He studied Chinese Medicine at both the Tai Hsuan Monastery and at the Hawaii College of Traditional Oriental Medicine. He received his Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the Southwest Acupuncture College, a nationally accredited school.

Marco has a gentle touch and works with many patients who are afraid of needles, including children and elders. Marco practices the living system of herbalism and integrates the traditional Chinese herbology with the use of many local medicinal herbs that he harvests himself. He invites you to the path of Chinese Medicine and to the fullness of health that you can experience.

For more information about Marco's medical practice, please visit his Boulder Acupuncture website.

Sue Van Raes

Sue Van Raes, is a Nutritional Therapist and practices Structural Integration. She is committed to educating her clients on whole body health and awareness. Her private practice focuses on education, along with life coaching through diet, nutrition, and holistic health.

Sue is certified by Diana Schwarzbein, MD as a referral health care practitioner, working with healing metabolism, balancing hormones and food allergies. This work has brought incredible insight and precision to her practice. Sue works with clients both individually and in on going group programs.

Sue works closely with surgeons to create nutrition programs suited to pre and post-operative patients. These programs have been specifically formulated to prepare the patients through the surgery transition and have proven highly successful.

Sue Van Raes has been studying dance and yoga for the last 15 years. She obtained her white belt NIA certification in 2000. She completed her Teacher Training with Richard Freeman. Sue teaches both privately and to classes around Boulder. Sue strives to bring both gentle flow and precise internal alignment to her classes.

As we bring alignment and balance to our lives, we are able to manifest our dreams and live a life of balance and optimal health.

Judson Frost

Judson Frost has been practicing the healing arts since 1999. He has been trained in over 8 techniques, which include Structural Integration, Neuromuscular, Deep Tissue, Swedish, Shiatsu, Craniosacral, Thai Massage, Healing Touch, and Reiki. He has apprenticed with Acupuncturists, studied with Shamans, Buddhist Monks, and Meditation Masters. He offers much more than just a physical release of tension. Judson works on many levels of ones being, the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual or non-physical. Judson is one of the owners and visionary of the Mandala Center and also teaches Yoga and Meditation there as well on an ongoing basis.

Jamie Furstoss, Certified Breema practitioner

Jamie Furstoss is a certified Breema practitioner and Self- Breema teacher, having received her certificate training in Oakland, California. Over the last 14 years she has studied Breema with numerous senior teachers in British Columbia, Washington, and Colorado. She says, "Breema originally attracted me because of its natural, deeply nurturing quality. It supports my experience that we are innately self- healing, if supported in the fullest of ways."

Seth Braun

High Energy Health: Creating Self Care Routines for Atypical Schedules

Seth Braun loves dandelion greens and cacao, but not necessarily together! Seth is a Health Counselor, a growing field that assists clients in navigating the means to good health. He is board certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in Manhattan. IIN teaches the future of nutrition by bringing the best and brightest names in health and nutrition together in one program. Seth's teachers include, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Barry Sears, Oz Garcia, Dr. Mercola, Sally Fallon, David Wolf, Dr. Neil Barnard, Paul Pitchford and many more.

Seth is a certified 4 Gateways coach, one of only a few dozen in the world and is the new program director for the first national certification program, which will bring 24 people through a life transforming process of how to help others.

Braun is a published author, and a speaker on natural health. Additionally, he has been a teacher and student of A Course In Miracles for the last 12 years.

What can I help you accomplish? That is the question isn't it?

Charley Cropley, Naturopathic Physician

Dr. Charley Cropley has been a practicing Naturopathic Physician, teacher and author in the Boulder/Denver are for the last 27 years. He has trained hundreds of doctors in his methods of nutrition and self-healing. Charley teaches people to master illness by mastering themselves. He teaches four skills: Nutrition, exercise, thinking and relating with others. He is widely regarded as one of today's leading teachers in the art of Self-healing. He lives what he teaches.

Jessica Ahmed, Certified Homeopath

Jessica Ahmed is passionate about people fulfilling their greatest potential, free from health barriers, and has found homeopathy to be an elegant way of facilitating this vision. What interests her is working with people so they are fully empowered in taking care of their own health.

She developed an affinity for integrative medicine during her pre-medical and biology studies at the Barrett Honors College of Arizona State University, where she decided to focus on natural health care. Her thesis explored using culturally traditional healing wisdom alongside contemporary Western research for optimal treatment of type 2 diabetes in Native Americans. She studied homeopathy at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, completing her training in Boulder at the Homeopathy School of Colorado. Currently Jessica is studying Oriental medicine and will have her Master's degree from Southwest Acupuncture College in 2008.

Balance is paramount in her life, and she consistently works to cultivate a well-rounded world view with explorations into being a professional musician and an enthusiastic world traveler.

For more information about Jessica's homeopathy practice, please visit her Modern Traditions Medicine web site.

Tracey Sobel, Dipl. O.M., L.Ac.

Acupuncture can treat the following and more: allergies, fertility issues, anxiety, panic attacks, auto-immune disorders, headaches, chronic fatigue, insomnia, pain, digestive disorders, and stress.

In Tracey's practice, she utilizes acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage and nutrition. Tracey has studied Chinese and Japanese style acupuncture and has developed a very gentle technique. Her studies of oriental medicine has given her specific training in OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Oncology, sports therapy, and pain relief. She has studied with Virginia Doran and learned her techniques for facial rejuvenation. She has studied herbal medicine professionally for 10 years and on her own for the last 20 years, giving her a very deep understanding of plant medicine. She has studied nutrition for the last 10 years and deeply believes that nourishing our bodies is vital for true heal.

Ty Romijn

Ty Romijn began his healing arts study after becoming sick while traveling in Guatemala during the summer of 1993. While volunteering at an orphanage in Guatemala, he met a volunteer doctor, who explained to him the physical organs of the humyn body. Then a T'ai Chi practitioner, who showed him the graceful, health promoting movements of T'ai Chi Ch'uan forms. Thirteen years later, he is a licensed acupuncturist, certified Zero Balancing practitioner, and a T'ai Chi Ch'uan instructor; thanks to many great teachers along the way. His own transformations inform both his touch and his ability to hold space and teach.

After a year of intensive T'ai Chi Ch'uan (Tung Family) study in Steamboat Springs, Colorado(1993-1994), he attended Heartwood Institute in Garberville, CA (1994-1995). After studying Polarity, Zen Shiatzu Acupressure, Jin Shin Do, Skilled Touch for the Seriously Ill, Seated Massage , Oriental and Modern Nutrition, Hatha Yoga, and T'ai Chi, he finished his time at Heartwood interning with Paul Pitchford ( Author of Healing with Whole Foods) in Oriental and Modern Nutrition and Zen Shiatzu Acupressure.

After getting married and having two children (Zenobe(10) and Prasad(8)), he attended the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture here in Louisville, Colorado. While in Acupuncture school he studied and became certified in Zero Balancing( a body therapy, which addresses both energy and structure)(2000). Ty has taken numerous advanced Zero Balancing classes including: Spirit of the Organs(Visceral work), Alchemy of Touch, Geometry of Healing, ZB and Kids, The Art of ZB, as well as assisted in many Core ZB classes. Ty brings with him a sincere desire to assist his clients in their transformation and growth.

Cheryl Burns, CMT

Cheryl Burns has been a student of the body since beginning her life as a dancer at the age of three, and she now brings this love of movement into her bodywork practice. After earning a B.A. in religious studies and philosophy at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, she went on to study integrative massage in Asheville, North Carolina and later traveled to Thailand to delve into the world of traditional Thai massage. For the past three years while living in Asheville, she has maintained a private practice, assisted teaching massage at the Center for Massage and Natural Health, volunteered bodywork for people with HIV/AIDS, and worked at various clinics and spas. She now comes to Boulder to study body psychotherapy and dance therapy at Naropa University, and is very excited about exploring the mountains here with her dog.

Through bodywork, Cheryl works to create a nurturing space in which clients can discover their own innate healing capacities, their personal moving stillness. Intuitively applying techniques, she integrates styles from Swedish massage, neuromuscular and deep tissue, Reiki, reflexology, and Thai. She also loves offering full (typically 2 hours) Thai sessions to clients, fully clothed, on a mat on the floor: this work involves opening the flows of energy through compression, acupressure, and stretching. In meeting clients where they are through improvising with modalities, she invites them to connect with and listen to their bodies in order to discover their own dance of integration.

Cheri Shanti, CMT

Cheri Shanti works as a Spiritual Touch Pracitioner in her massage practice, incorporating the spiritual into the physical work. She is a certified massage therapist, certified yoga instructor, Ordained Priestess, and Priestess of Rhythmical Arts. She also offers Hot Stone Massage, Swedish, Deep Tissue and Vibrational Healing Sessions.

Cheri incorporates her deeply intuitive touch into her massage practice. She enjoys integrating guided visualizations, meditative practices and lifestyle coaching into her bodywork.

Benjamin Woodard, RH (AHG)

Benjamin Woodard RH (AHG), Clinical Herbalist, studied medical herbalism, naturopathy, Tibetan medicine, Chinese medicine, nutrition and psychology through Naropa University, University of Colorado Boulder, The North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, The American Herbalist Guild, and extensive internship and apprenticeship. He is in private practice in Boulder, but also works extensively in international social justice medicine with groups like Natural Doctors International, and the Nicaraguan InterCultural Alliance.

Benjamin uses a gentle but effective approach, fusing his training in psychology with his approach to practical healing, highlighting our emotional and mental processes around health. He commonly uses herbs, nutrition, and homeopathy to work with GI issues, allergies, depression and anxiety, women's issues, medication withdrawal, addiction, pre/post operative care, improving immunity and nutritional regimes to better wellness!