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Michael Phillips, M.Ac.,L.Ac.
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As an acupuncture practitioner, I have spent over 30 years working with clients to provide insight and healing for their health and lifestyle issues. A graduate of the Traditional Acupuncture Institute (currently the Tai Sophia Institute: considered by many to be the preeminent school of acupuncture in the United States), I have served that school variously as faculty, clinical supervisor, dean of students, dean of faculty and, currently, as a distinguished lecturer. I maintained my clinical practice at Tai Sophia from 1987 until moving back to Columbia in the summer of 2011.
My undergraduate education was at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where I developed a love of theater, stories and myths as agents of transformation. This passion strongly influenced my desire to pursue work that explored healing and transformation. Fascination with the stories of our lives and those from other times and places has influenced how I practice, teach and continue to study. In addition to continuing acupuncture education over the years, I have studied regularly with mythologist, storyteller and social activist Michael Meade, who has profoundly contributed to how I hold the big picture of people’s lives in the treatment room and the classroom.
One offshoot of these interests is that I offer regular workshops on dreams and how they may inform our paths, as well as story circles where participants discuss the impact of timeless tales on these times we find ourselves living in today. More information on these workshops can be found on my blog.
I look forward to the privilege of getting to know you, your history and dreams, and the concerns you bring with you. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns and to schedule your initial acupuncture experience.
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Update: 2024
May and June are often my favorite months. Comfortable temperature, lower humidity, greenery, blue skies or nourishing rain, birdsong, frog symphonies and lighter clothing, to name just a few gifts. I learned from Chinese philosophy that after the heavens’ manifest gifts to the earth disappear in the autumn, they return resplendent in the spring and early summer offering gifts for us all to savor and finally harvest, share and store in the late summer.
I write this to encourage us all to keep emerging, just as we see new plants come up and out, no matter their surroundings. These past few years have challenged and limited us, as well as strengthened and expanded us, in ways seen and yet to be seen. We have known fear and isolation, discouragement and courage, hope and disappointment. While we may feel that we’ve moved on, we are likely carrying yet to be fully understood consequences of the pandemic and these politically...