Jeri Ching-I Ho (she/her/hers)
Hi! I’m Jeri - I continue to be awed by the effectiveness, sophistication, depth and breadth of the Eastern Medical paradigm. I first came to Chinese Medicine as a 16 year old who seriously struggled with insomnia. The Western Medical doctor could find nothing wrong, but recommended lots of exercise and offered sleep medication, which worried me that this could be the start of a dependency on sleep medication. 7 years later, after graduating with a Bachelors in East Asian Philosophy and Religion (with lots of exercise, and very little sleep), I began going to an Acupuncturist for my sleep and digestion, who was also a Chen Style Taiji Quan Master, and began attending his weekly Sunday afternoon Taiji Quan class, at the Wheatridge Senior Center. Needless to say, I was the only person under the age of 45.
I practiced daily, as goaded by my very disciplined Chinese teacher! Over the next 5 years, the changes I noticed were subtle and yet profound - i felt a deep alignment in my structure, my body and mind moved through the world with more ease, my body felt strong, empowered, while also deeply at peace, I had lost 15 pounds my first year of learning Taiji without changing anything else, and most of all I would experience a warmth and relaxation well up and wash through my insides when I was completely able to surrender into the movement of the moment. Taiji transformed how I thought about health: rather than fixating on the “right” combination of the “right foods”, “right kind of exercise”, “right amount of exercise”, “right schedule”, it taught me how important alignment and most of all being able to fully relax are to access one’s innate health, healing, and human potential.
16 years later, it is through my daily Taiji, Qigong (Chee-Gong), or meditation practice that I feel most connected to life, my heart, and the immensity of our innate ability to heal. Over years of cultivating a stillness within through the internal martial arts I began encountering something latent in the bedrock of my consciousness - the loving interconnectedness in all of life. While those moments can be fleeting, the medicine in those moments suffuses my world with more light and compassion!
When not practicing Chinese Medicine, I love discovering and interacting with human history outdoors, attempting to understand ancient religious and philosophical thought, expressing myself through words, movement, music and crafts, eating outdoors, and cat-napping in puddles of sunshine! In my next life, I hope to be an indoor-outdoor house cat!
Classical Chinese Medicine
My practice approach is mainly rooted in the classical channels, philosophy, and techniques of Classical Chinese Medicine as passed down through Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th generation Taoist priest, whom I was very fortunate to study with throughout Graduate school, as I continue my studies in the Classical lineage. These channels access our Source energies, and are thus especially effective in the treatment of chronic, degenerative, and mystery diseases where vital energies have been impacted. Together we work to slow and reverse the course of chronic illness, and support you in filling out your lifeforce with more of you. At the heart of my practice is presence, listening, and personalized care to understand your condition, as well as understand you as an individual to gain insight into the root cause of what ails you. Deeper levels of healing is a return to wholeness, which surprisingly requires very little doing. Physical disease is the manifestation of what has already moved out of balance at the level of energy and Spirit.
Whole Women’s Health
As women we cycle monthly - like the tides, the sun, the moon, and the seasons; it is this deep rhythm coursing within us, which manifests every month, that ties us to the rhythms of Nature. As long as a woman cycles, her overall health is closely tied to, is based in, and we are able to understand any health challenges through the health of her Cycle. My work is rooted in the health, attunement, and maintenance of our nervous and reproductive systems, which are inextricably connected, whether a woman is still cycling or not, so that your base systems are in harmony, in their natural resonance.
Standing on the shoulders of giants
We are blessed to have this powerful and complete medical system that bears 3,000+ years of history. For 3,000+ years generations of clinicians have recorded and passed down their observations, findings, results, discussions and disagreements. I continue to deepen and expand my skills through the Classical Chinese Medicine lineage of Jeffrey Yuen, the Japanese tradition of Iyashi No Michi on Shinkyu University, and a Five Elements perspective with Thea Elijah, as well as integrative fertility with Randine Lewis and Fertile Soul.
Special thanks to the generosity in Spirit and dedication of my contemporary teachers and clinicians who continue to practice, cultivate, evolve and teach their experience, knowledge, and wisdom so that Oriental Medicine continues to be a viable alternative… Thank YOU!
Bachelors in East Asian Studies, specifically Chinese Philosophy and Religion from Wesleyan University, CT 2008
Masters in the Science of Oriental Medicine from Daoist Tradtions, NC 2017
6-month Classical Chinese Medicine Mentorship with Ann Cecil-Sterman, Virtual 2023
Continuing Education with Jeffrey Yuen, Josephine Spilka, Ann Cecil-Sterman, Evan Rabinowitz, Randine Lewis, and Tim Sullivan