Amanda Anuraga from Tacoma East Asian Medicine (USA)

Amanda received her Masters of Acupuncture through the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine. Women's health, digestion issues, relief for pain, stress, anxiety and recovery support for post-surgery, PTSD, substance abuse, and eating disorders. These are underserved populations that fascinate her and are what she'd like to help heal in the community.

Reya Born from Brilliant Medicine (USA)

Reya has been practicing TCM in the Seattle area for 15 years. She graduated from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine in 2003. Her hands-on diagnostics creates custom designed and unique treatments for each patient. Reya is passionate about furthering the medicine both through patient education and practitioner access to Engaging Vitality®.

Kailey Brennan from Kailey Brennan Acupuncture (USA)

Kailey received her Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine from The Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CSTCM) in Denver. She is in private practice in Fort Collins, Colorado and provides acupuncture and CranioSacral Therapy for veterans and their families through the non-profit Healing Warriors Program.

Nicole Sharkey from Sharkey Acupuncture (USA)

Nicole Sharkey is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese medical practitioner in Seattle, WA. She received her master’s degree from the Seattle Institute of  East Asian Medicine (SIEAM), formerly SIOM,  in 2011. Nicole uses acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, nutritional therapy, Qi Gong (movement therapy), and Tui Na, (Chinese therapeutic massage). She use a wide array of techniques to best fit each patients, including the use of very gentle, and non-insertion acupuncture techniques for the needle-shy.

Susana Byers from Susana Byers, Lic. Ac., MSTOM, Dip. OM (USA)

Susana Byers is a licensed acupuncturist and board certified by the National Commission on Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She earned a Master of Science degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine and Bachelor of Professional Studies degree from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in New York City. In addition, Susana is also certified in Clean Needle Technique by the Council of Colleges and Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM). She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University. Susana is licensed to practice acupuncture in California, Massachusetts, and New York.

Gemma Casasampera (Spain)

Leon Gobert (Netherlands)

Nina Siegling from Akupunktur Berlin Pankow (Germany)

Nina graduated in Berlin 2003. Since then, she has been working in a private clinic in Berlin mainly in the field of Gynecology. She teaches acupuncture and herbal classes at the Institute of Chinese Medicine Shou Zhong. In 2014, EV came into her life and she loves to get information through palpation.

Jeanette Waterval (Netherlands)

Velia Wortman (Germany)

Velia studied cultural anthropology at the University of Toronto, medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London and Chinese medicine in the Netherlands, China and Germany. Her main teachers are Ted Kaptchuk, Giovanni Maciocia, Dan Bensky and Volker Scheid. She has taught Chinese and natural medicine at several German medical schools and written case studies and articles Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and dietetics. She is possibly Dan Bensky’s oldest student, having met him in 1993 when he first started teaching in Europe. Dan taught a course he called “Expanding Palpatory Awareness”  which I think is still a pretty good description of one aspect of what Engaging Vitality® tries to achieve. 

Velia Wortman, praktische Ärztin mit Zusatzbezeichnungen für Naturheilverfahren und Akupunktur;
Studium der Völkerkunde und Medizin in Toronto und London (GB); 
TCM-Ausbildung für Akupunktur, Diätetik, chinesische Kräuterheilkunde in Holland, UK, Deutschland und USA; 
seit 2005 verantwortlich für den ""Thementag TCM-Wissenschaft"" beim jährlichen TCM Kongress Rothenburg; 
seit 1997 in eigener Praxis in Nürnberg. 
Übersetzungen von Fachbüchern für chinesische Heilkräuter und Akupunktur für Urban und Fischer, Thieme International und Elsevier Publishers. 
Verfassung wissenschaftlicher Artikel und Reviews für die Zeitschriften ""Qi – Zeitschrift für Chinesische Medizin"", ""AKU"", ""Chinesische Medizin"" und ""Journal of Chinese Medicine"".

Angelika Zabel from TCM Zabel (Germany)

Angelika earned her Diploma in Chinese Medicine at the European Institute for Oriental Medicine in Munich. She is working as an alternative practitioner with Acupuncture, Gua Sha, Cupping, TriggerPoint Therapy and some other applications in her own practice and likes treating all kind of people and issues.