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Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.
 
Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine
 

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Robert Coons is a resident of Toronto where he teaches Tai Chi, Meditation, and Tea Ceremony. He studied with secular Daoist disciple Hai Yang, and various teachers in China such as Yin Qin (Yang Style Taiji), He Caitong (Taiwan Cha Dao), Yu Jiang (Xin Yi Liu He Quan), and others. Today he continues to cultivate the Golden Elixir and is very happy to talk to you, so send him an email or visit his substack Immortality Study. You can also buy his tea at tcmsix.com/shop/
And check out his newest online class: https://courses.qigongmeditation.online/tea-mastery-course

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Lisa Rohleder has been a licensed acupuncturist in Portland, Oregon, since 1994. She founded Working Class Acupuncture (https://workingclassacupuncture.org/) in 2002 with the goal of providing low-cost acupuncture to the community through a cooperative, grassroots, financially self-sustaining model. She’s currently one of the executive directors of the POCA Technical Institute (https://pocatech.org/), the only accredited acupuncture school dedicated to training community acupuncturists. She writes about the overlapping topics of acupuncture safety, acupuncture regulation, trauma informed care, and community acupuncture at https://acusafetynerd.com/
 

Tyler Phan received his Ph.D. from University College London (UCL) in 2017. Before his Ph.D., he earned his M.A. in Religions of Asia (now M.A. in Buddhist Studies) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) in 2013. His research focus is in medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) with a relationship among religion, ontology, bodies, post-colonialism, and race in Asia and North America. His previous research included a cross-country ethnography of Chinese medicine in the United States, examining the historical marginalization of Asian/Asian Americans through policy and legislation, which resulted in his Ph.D. dissertation called "American Chinese Medicine" and finishing his monograph called When White People Took Our Medicine as well as the comic book series A People’s History of Acupuncture in America.
 
Tyler's Dissertation: American Chinese Medicine
 

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LoAn Guylaine TRAN is a 24th generation disciple of the Daoist Complete Reality Dragon Gate Pure Yang lineage of Mount Wudang, under the name Sincere Phoenix 誠鳳. First an activist and professional project manager for humanitarian organisation with a focus on women’s rights in the context of anti-trafficking and prostitution, her spiritual quest took her through year-long immersions in Buddhist and Yogic practices throughout Asia, before leading her into a 9 years Daoist apprenticeship at the Five Immortals Temple, Wudang, China. She now teaches Daoist arts of Energy and Spirit and practices Chinese medicine and Daoist healing, with an ever-renewing interest for the interactions of the form and the formless. www.featherbeings.com
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Isaac Saul is an independent political journalist and the founder of Tangle, a politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the right and left on the big news of the day.
 
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Lindsey Wei, Daoist Name -Wei Cheng Ling, 魏诚灵, is a 24th generation lay disciple (俗家弟子sújiā dìzǐ) of the Chun Yang Sect of Wudang Daoism.  She trained Traditional Chinese Gong Fu in a remote mountain temple in the Wudang Mountains, Hubei Province, China under her master Li Song Feng for over 9 years before returning to the US in 2010 to start her martial teaching career.  She is a practitioner of Tai Ji Quan, Qi Gong, Ba Gua, Double Edge Straight Sword (Jian), as well as other weapons arts.  Her passion is combining ancestral skills and indigenous world views of how to steward the earth, exist and thrive in wild places, with the life way of internal martial arts cultivation and health practices.  She leads martial training camps in wilderness settings as the context of studying the Dao as it follows Nature.  
Wei is the author of The Valley Spirit —A Female Story of Daoist Cultivation, a personal memoir published by Singing Dragon in 2012.  Her second book is a biography of one of her martial mentors, Path of the Spiritual Warrior –Life and Teachings of Muay Thai Fighter Pedro Solana, published through Purple Cloud Press in 2020.        
Lindsey teaches online courses as well as in person camps at varying locations in southern Oregon on Takelma and Klamath native lands.  
Her website is: www.wudangwhitehorse.com
You can also follow her work on Youtube, IG @lindsey12wei and FB @lindsey.wei 

 
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