Practitioners

Tatyanna Teeuwisse, LAc

Tatyanna is a licensed acupuncturist in the State of California. She holds a BA in Feminist Studies and a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She attended a PhD program in Classical Chinese Medicine, and continues intensive postdoctoral studies of CCM on a regular basis with her primary teacher Jeffrey Yuen, 88^th generation lineage holder with unparalleled knowledge of the roots and applications of this profound healing system.

Tatyanna studies qi gong, tai chi, and meditation with sifu Yung Xiang Tseng.

Tatyanna's practice is also informed by in-depth training and 22 years' experience in herbal medicine, nutrition, cleansing, massage, and yoga. Clinically, she has worked with a large population of people suffering from emotional and sleep-related disturbances, immune, autoimmune and degenerative conditions, musculoskeletal problems, digestive and endocrine imbalances, and reproductive issues from menses through menopause.

She is a long time member of the South Bay Birth Community and works extensively with women to support conception, maintain a healthy pregnancy, and prepare and recover from an optimal childbirth.

Tatyanna enjoys helping patients relieve symptoms and regain peacefulness, vitality, and purpose –both through treatment and lifestyle counseling. She believes whole­heartedly that everyone can learn to access and direct the body's innate wisdom and ability to heal, and works with utmost dedication to that end.

Mary Jo Aloi, CCH

Mary Jo Aloi is certified as a classical homeo­path by the Council for Homeo­pathic Certi­fi­ca­tion and is a re­gis­ter­ed mem­ber of  The Society of Homeo­paths, North America. She holds practitioner diplomas from The School of Homeo­pathy, Devon and from  The Dynamis School for Advanced Homeo­pathic Studies. She continues to study with internationally recognized masters of homeopathy.

She is focused on constitutional homeopathic care, working with people to reduce their overall level of susceptibility and increase their health over the long term through her extensive training and committed competent care.

Mary Jo brings a strong intellectual background in science, as well as a deeply spiritual and connected presence into her practice of the art and science of homeopathy. Because of her sincere desire to use her knowledge and skills to make a positive difference in her community, she left her career as a chemist and embraced homeopathy. She feels a deeply rewarding satisfaction in being able to support others in healing and growing.

Dr Julie Esterly, DC

Through­out her career Dr. Esterly has been fortunate to practice in inte­gra­tive healing groups. She is happy to be working currently with excel­lent prac­ti­tioners at Whole Medicine with whom she can consult and make inter office referrals.

Dr. Esterly has studied with many chiropractic and somatic pioneers including George Goodheart (Applied Kineseology), Arlan Fuhr (Activator Technique), Van Rumpt (Direct Non Force Technique), Donald Epstein (Network Spinal Analysis), Moshe Feldenkrais (Feldenkrais Method), Stanley Keleman (Formative Psychology), Marjorie Barstow (Alexander Technique) and Charlotte Selver (Sensory Awareness).

In addition to working with patients, Dr. Esterly is enthusiastic about the ocean, art, exercise, Universal Sufism, serving on the Board of Director's for Capacitar International and the intersection between spirituality & social action.

Edward Jonathans, IMC

Edward Jonathans, BSc - IMC, holds a BSc in Kine­sio­logy from San Jose State Uni­ver­sity and attended the UC Santa Cruz Educational Therapy - Masters certificate program.

Ed was certified in 2003 by Dr. Rick Margo, the former director of clinical research at Interactive Metronome as an IM therapist. Edward then led a movement disorder study investigating Interactive Metronome's efficacy as an treatment for early to mid-onset Parkinson's Disease.

A member of the Association of Pediatric Therapists - Bay Area Chapter and Parents Helping Parents, Jonathans has lectured on and been interviewed as an authority on the use of Interactive Metronome.

Edward Jonathans is strong believer in non-pharmaceutical approaches to health and socio-emotional issues because of his own experience, strength and hope. Silicon Valley's hyper-competitive, interrupt driven technology rich culture may often fragment our attention and potentially ourselves.

Interactive Metronome training provides every person an opportunity to witness how they learn. While this learning is specific to motor movement and personal timing, it uniquely reveals how we also learn new cognitive skills and emotional responses. The added benefit of re-learning how to maintain focus, remain balanced and avoiding distractions is that you'll realize the value of slowing down and efficiently executing previously difficult tasks.

In addition to his Interactive Metronome training, Jonathans has served as a trainer and consultant to the Stanford University based Positive Coaching Alliance. PCA uses youth sports as a social platform to teach personal ethics and organizational leadership. Jonathans shares many PCA sports psychology and mental visualization techniques to facilitate each clients progress towards self-stated functional goals.