This medicine travels through teaching. Below is a documented record of confirmed engagements across medical, practitioner, and community settings.
Medical & clinical audiences
Acupuncture for the OMS Practice
A one-hour presentation and live needling demonstration for oral and maxillofacial surgeons on integrating acupuncture and Chinese medicine into surgical patient care, to improve outcomes and quality of life. Booked through the Ashi Collective, followed by Q&A.
Dr. Asha Devereaux · Non-Pharmacologic Approaches to Pain
Dr. Asha Devereaux, MD, MPH, is a Coronado pulmonologist, quadruple board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonology, critical care, and holistic medicine. She invited me to present on acupuncture in clinical care, focused on pain relief, for the webinar on non-pharmacologic pain management that lives on her YouTube series.
Teaching practitioners
Release Chaotic Energy, Reclaim Energy & Vitality
Co-presented a continuing-education webinar for licensed acupuncturists and alchemical practitioners alongside Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy of the Alchemy Learning Center.
Community teaching
Introduction to Daoist Alchemy
A community lecture on Daoist alchemy: what it is, and how it works to transform the patterns that shape a life.
The Five Elements, the Nine Palaces, and You
How the five elements and the nine palaces map a person, and how to read which parts of your life are thriving and which are stuck.
The Thirteen Ghost Points
The story and the medicine of the thirteen ghost points, the classical treatment for the patterns that keep a person stuck.
Gay Men's Spiritual Retreat
Keynote and workshop on Daoist Alchemy and the Five Elements, addressing body image and recovery from addiction through Chinese medicine and Daoist alchemy.
Press & mentions
Community Highlights: Meet Diego Garcia
A published profile in SD Voyager's Community Highlights series for San Diego practitioners and business owners. The article appears under the practice's original name, Gateway Acupuncture & Wellness.
"Health is not something I do; it is who I am."
Ghost Heart / Ghost Road: Who's in the Driver's Seat?
Named by hosts Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman as a senior student and co-presenter on the Release Chaotic Energy webinar. A mention on the show.
For speaking inquiries: info@gatewayacu.com