About
Dr. Nayeli Navarro
During a time of great emotional confusion and physical pain, I had my first bodily encounter with Chinese thought and practice. Playing Tai Ji Chuan reunited me with my body and breath. After going through the first healing crisis of my life, I quickly became an avid practitioner: first studying Wu style with students of Bruce Francis in Brookline, Massachusetts, then Yang style with recent Chinese immigrants, and finally and most enduring practice with a rogue Chen style master, Henry Wong, in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. In 2005 I had the honor of studying in Beijing, China with masters in his lineage in Ditan Park, Beijing.
Through my practice of Qi Gong, Tai Qi Chan, and push hands, Henry Wong imparted to me an understanding of substantial and unsubstantial or yin yang theory and the transformative, mutually created, inter-connectedness of Qi. I carried these seeds of experience within me as I retreated from the business of life to a simple farming life in Northern New Mexico. While growing both traditional food crops and medicinal plants, I received many healings from both cuarnandos, sobadoras, and acupuncturists. It was beautiful to witness the cultural connections between these traditional healing practices. From my mother and elders I grew up: knowing that cold, heat, and wind could enter the body and cause harm, using plant and mineral based remedies, and visiting sobadoras for massage and ventosas to relieve menstrual cramps and digestive problems. Through acupuncture, I was able to release childhood trauma, in addition to whiplash from an auto accident, food poisoning, repetitive stress injuries, and shingles.
While studying Oriental Medicine at Southwest Acupuncture College I began my formal training through the International Center for Traditional Childbirth, Institute for Birth, Breath, and Death, and with local midwives to be a doula and later a midwife assistant. Since first providing care at my sister’s side during the birth of her first son twenty years ago, I have supported over a hundred women and families during this precious rite of passage. It is a joy to incorporate my knowledge and skills as an acupuncturist prenatally, during the labor, and postpartum. In the past, I especially loved sharing Chinese Nutrition to young parents through a Nourishing Beginnings hands-on class through Breath of my Heart Birth Center in Espanola, New Mexico and held sacred space for infant loss through circles at Tewa Women United.
The deeper I went into my own healing the more aligned my path to become an Oriental Medicine practitioner became. I am a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (New Mexico) and a Nationally Board Certified Diplomat in Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), with special training in Scalp, Auricular, and Koran Hand acupuncture. With upmost awe and gratitude, I am most indebted to my Classical Chinese teachers, from the lineage of Daoist master Jeffery Yuan. Working with clients, I draw on the insight and practices of the many teachers and healers who have touch my life. I do so by practicing: compassion, self-discovery, remembrance of our original nature, renewal through re-connection, and a strong belief that healing is transformation.
Through my practice of Qi Gong, Tai Qi Chan, and push hands, Henry Wong imparted to me an understanding of substantial and unsubstantial or yin yang theory and the transformative, mutually created, inter-connectedness of Qi. I carried these seeds of experience within me as I retreated from the business of life to a simple farming life in Northern New Mexico. While growing both traditional food crops and medicinal plants, I received many healings from both cuarnandos, sobadoras, and acupuncturists. It was beautiful to witness the cultural connections between these traditional healing practices. From my mother and elders I grew up: knowing that cold, heat, and wind could enter the body and cause harm, using plant and mineral based remedies, and visiting sobadoras for massage and ventosas to relieve menstrual cramps and digestive problems. Through acupuncture, I was able to release childhood trauma, in addition to whiplash from an auto accident, food poisoning, repetitive stress injuries, and shingles.
While studying Oriental Medicine at Southwest Acupuncture College I began my formal training through the International Center for Traditional Childbirth, Institute for Birth, Breath, and Death, and with local midwives to be a doula and later a midwife assistant. Since first providing care at my sister’s side during the birth of her first son twenty years ago, I have supported over a hundred women and families during this precious rite of passage. It is a joy to incorporate my knowledge and skills as an acupuncturist prenatally, during the labor, and postpartum. In the past, I especially loved sharing Chinese Nutrition to young parents through a Nourishing Beginnings hands-on class through Breath of my Heart Birth Center in Espanola, New Mexico and held sacred space for infant loss through circles at Tewa Women United.
The deeper I went into my own healing the more aligned my path to become an Oriental Medicine practitioner became. I am a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (New Mexico) and a Nationally Board Certified Diplomat in Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), with special training in Scalp, Auricular, and Koran Hand acupuncture. With upmost awe and gratitude, I am most indebted to my Classical Chinese teachers, from the lineage of Daoist master Jeffery Yuan. Working with clients, I draw on the insight and practices of the many teachers and healers who have touch my life. I do so by practicing: compassion, self-discovery, remembrance of our original nature, renewal through re-connection, and a strong belief that healing is transformation.