Marina Gan- Acupuncturist, Yogi, Mother, Maker, Homesteader
We recently sat down with long-time Ruscombe practitioner Marina Gan for an update on her practice, and what’s going on in her world. Ruscombe has so many creative individuals practicing their healing craft in our lovely mansion, and it’s inspiring to learn how they incorporate a healing presence into their daily lives.
Ruscombe: Hi Marina, let’s start with a little background about yourself and your practice.
Marina Gan: I received my Master of Acupuncture training at the Tai Sophia Institute (Now Maryland University of Integrative Health) and have been licensed in Maryland and in practice for 15 years. My acupuncture practice is informed by nearly 20 years of yoga teaching and practice, as well as study in meditation. I also have a deep personal interest in nutrition and the ways in which we nourish our bodies as well as the deeper less tangible aspects of our ourselves. I am passionate about empowering my clients to understand and learn from their bodies, and I am devoted to helping the people I work with experience greater ease, purpose, and awareness.
R: How did you come to your specific practice?
MG: I like to say that I experienced the closest thing I can imagine to a “calling”. I had just received a handful of acupuncture treatments from a friend who at the time was a student at the Tai Sophia Institute, in the clinical phase. It was my first experience with five element acupuncture. We had a family friend while I was growing up who was an acupuncturist, so it was not foreign to me, but I had never received anything other than acute one-off treatments. During the time I was receiving weekly acupuncture treatment at Tai Sophia, I was completing my final pre-requisites for an entirely different graduate program, which I was to begin in a couple of months. We planned a short break from my acupuncture treatments while we both did some traveling, and, a series of completely serendipitous and unexpected events led me to feel an unwavering conviction that I needed to change course, and study acupuncture. Within weeks I unenrolled from the program I was about to begin, and applied to acupuncture school.
