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Tara Radsliff is a board certified acupuncturist practicing in Portland Or.

02/19/2024

Dr. Tara Radsliff and Dr. James Arellano are celebrating the New Year at Lan Su Chinese Garden! Come join us as we share about Health and Wellness in the year of the Wood Dragon, with an emphasis on understanding the cycles of nature and ways to live in harmony with them.

Details at link in bio!
Thursday, February 22nd 1-2 PM
Free with Admission to the Garden

01/03/2024

Welcoming Winter | Reflections and Updates from Dr. Tara Radsliff

As we enter a new calendar year, I find myself as I often do reflecting on the ever-changing cycles of energy. Every year I find myself more deeply connected to these cycles, more connected nature, more interested in my own ancestors and how they might have experienced the world.

Read more in my newsletter, linked in comments 🤍🤍🤍

09/28/2023

🍂 Embracing the Wisdom of Fall 🍁

As the leaves slowly change colors and fall to the ground, we are reminded of one profound and obvious message that fall carries—letting go.

But what's less obvious is how we let go. What happens when we hold onto disappointment, hurt, and anger, whether in relation to ourselves or someone else? How do we relate to feelings of resentment? Do we carry the weight of ill will towards ourselves or others in our hearts?

I’m pretty sure we all feel these things. Blame towards systems, cultures, institutions; resentment towards family, friends, and even ourselves.

This fall, I invite you to embark on a journey of release and renewal, closely linked to the symbolism of the season. In Classical East Asian Medicine, Fall is associated with the Metal Element and the Lung and Large Intestine—breathing (inspiring!) and, well, bowel movements.

When we're weighed down by resentment, old wounds, or just other people’s ideas of how the world should work and who we should be, we can't fully breathe in the goodness that life offers. We're left feeling, quite literally, like crap.

I didn't really learn how to skillfully let go until my early thirties. And let me tell you, I was full of crap and I wasn’t very happy or inspired. Learning about forgiveness was a huge key for me.

I know, forgiveness is a loaded term in our society. It means a lot of different things to different people. I'm excited to explore one way we can approach Forgiveness that is helpful and nourishing, and practice with you as we delve into the Metal Element in our upcoming Fall Humming with the Seasons class.

Learning to forgive has profoundly transformed my life, and I'm incredibly passionate about sharing this invaluable skill with others.

09/14/2023

🎉 Celebrating Professor JR Worsley's 100th Birthday (9/14/1923 - 6/2/2003) 🎂

Professor JR Worsley - Though we never met, you're undeniably my teacher. Through your videos, I've come to carry your voice and wisdom within me. Studying with Judy Worsley, I've felt the profound impact of Worsley Classical Five Element Acupuncture in the clinic and learned to respect Nature and Natural Law as a Way of Life. Thanks to the Worsley Institute, I've had the incredible opportunity to engage in the most rewarding life path, among an amazing community of practitioners. Thank you, Professor Worsley, for your impact on my life. 🙏

Today marks a century since JR Worsley's birth. His acupuncture journey began in the 1950s across Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea. With blessings from his mentors, Master Hsui and Master Ono, he began teaching in the UK in 1971 and later the US.

Professor Worsley's gift lay in distilling acupuncture's complexity into a deceptively simple essence. Staying true to his teachers, he emphasized direct transmission through oral tradition, observation, and clinical training. He bridged cosmological concepts with clinical practice. He taught that practitioners were Instruments of Nature, and our simple yet lifelong challenge is to develop our innate senses of sight, sound, smell, and touch. 🌿

He viewed five-element acupuncture as more than practice. It was a Way of Life. Nature was the ultimate teacher, and treatment aided nature's ability to constantly move away from and return to center in endless cycles.

As we celebrate Professor JR Worsley's 100th birthday, let's carry his teachings forward. Honor nature's wisdom, embrace uniqueness, and delve into the Spirit of the Points. We uphold the legacy of this remarkable teacher, whose influence transcends time and place.

What aspect of nature's wisdom inspires you most? 🌿

07/30/2023

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today i bike commuted for the first time since river was born 💙 usually mine and ‘s schedules are so tight - he will need to leave for work as soon as i get home - i don’t have enough time to bike commute.

this weekend river’s abuelita is staying with us and i enjoyed the total luxury of riding my bicycle to a class on herbal abdominal diagnosis with one of my most loved and revered teachers. riding my bike, feeling my legs, sun on my skin, light sweat on my body, heart and lungs rhythmically expanding and contracting to move blood and oxygen through my body, it was total bliss 🌻

i’m so excited to be reconnecting with my herbal mentor who moved to hawaii two years ago. herbs are a stronger intervention than acupuncture, so i always see what we can achieve together with acupuncture alone. but sometimes a little more help can be really supportive. in these instances, gently palpating your abdomen can communicate so much to me about what is happening in your body and how to help 🤲🏼

03/24/2023

💙 Why I’m Here 💙

🧶 In Chinese culture there is a concept called yuán fèn 緣分. When we were in China to meet my teacher’s teacher Sifu Wang, he said to us: there are 7 billion people on the planet, and yet somehow we found our way to each other. We have a shared fate, and it is this that brought us together. Our yuán fèn 緣分.

🎨 In the treatment room, we also have a yuán fèn 緣分. Where modern western medicine tries to rule out the impact of the physician through double blind studies and placebos, East Asian Medicine understands that we are all connected and we impact each other. My humanity as the provider is not a variable that can be accounted for and erased. I can’t be replaced by a chatbot or an algorithm. I am a person, just like you, living a complex, challenging, and beautiful life. And when we both bring our full selves into the treatment room some essential thing can emerge that is unique to us. Our yuán fèn 緣分.

🦋 There is a reason we’ve come together, wether it is connecting through social media, in-person community, or in the treatment room. There is something unique we have to offer each other and something unique we get to create together. So, I am here, sharing about my life, what I am learning, what I am noticing, who I am. So that we can find each other.

03/03/2023

morewithlessing

You know those commercials for prescription medications with the lengthy list of adverse effects and the cheery music and people? Do you ever sit back and look at all of our modern living and see the same thing? The way every new solution creates a new problem that needs another solution?

This Buckminster Fuller idea is nothing new, but the phrase "morewithlessing" stuck with me after being introduced to it by one of my teachers. Fuller understood that we could all change the path of human history by making efforts that were applied strategically, accurately, and precisely.

We exist in a commodified, industrialized system where we equate more with better. So we over do, we over buy, we over effort. But, just like those commercials, the more we intervene, the more mess we make.

It is easy to hide behind more. To create a false sense of safety. It is also an easy way to put oneself in a position of power, of knowing more.

The art of lessing is an ongoing, challenging, deep practice for me. How can I rely less on the chronic over-tensing of my body to support me? How can I think or analyze less? How can I say less? How can I use one less acupuncture needle in this treatment? And what opens up for me in this process?

This process is so vulnerable, enlivening, and transformative for me. It is a practice of trust. Of trusting that I have what I need, intellectually, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Trusting that you have what we need. And that really what we are doing is getting out of the way.

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Portland, OR
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