Practice Philosophy

Hi, I’m Tanya. I’m a Chinese medicine student with deep roots in west Chinatown, where multiple generations of my family have worked, lived and celebrated.

Numinous Acupuncture is built on a praxis of building community power through community-led healthcare.

As a child of Chinese settlers who has benefitted deeply from living in Toronto, I would like to shine a light on the land on which I practice.

This neighbourhood sits on Tkaronto, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat.

Many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples now call this place home. It is covered by Treaty 13 and is native land to many wonderful food and plant medicines.

I am grateful to practice my ancestral medicine here knowing that, for centuries, the original stewards of this land were, and, in deeply systemic ways, still are forcibly forbidden from practicing their own ancestral medicine.

I’m endlessly inspired by those Indigenous knowledge-keepers who endeavour to pass their healing wisdom on to future generations, along with the work of civil rights activists such as the late Mutulu Shakur, who recognized the power of acupuncture as a grassroots tool and opened North America’s first acupuncture detox clinic.

Continuing the work of those who came before me, I practice this medicine through an inclusive, de-colonizing scope and will endeavour to do so in curiosity and reciprocity with the land, my patients and my peers.