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🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Join Alec as he interviews Dr. Fernanda Durlene about finding inner Chi through discovering our true body type. Dr. Fernanda discusses her unique approach to wholeness through Chinese medicine, starting with a diet specific to our own body type, as well as achieving balance through rest and meditation.
Dr. Fernanda Durlene graduated from the University of California in Irvine with a B.A and received her Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from South Baylo University. She has also completed her doctorate degree from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. She has a post-doctoral certificate in cannabis medicine and treatment protocol. Fernanda holds an Arizona state license for acupuncture (L.Ac) and a National Diplomate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from NCCAOM. She operates a holistic retreat center in Sedona, where she offers her expertise in acupuncture, meridian yoga, life coaching, Chinese herbs and cannabis, reiki and more.
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0:00.0 | First, give a background of what you do and how you got into Chinese medicine as for context for those listening and watching. |
0:18.7 | So thank you, Alec, for having me here. |
0:21.1 | I got started with Chinese medicine. |
0:23.4 | I was in a completely different career. |
0:25.3 | I owned a school in California, |
0:27.5 | a preschool kindergarten, |
0:29.0 | and I did that for many years. |
0:31.1 | And I start, |
0:32.7 | just like anybody who comes to some kind of healing format, |
0:35.5 | was because of my own personal illness and things that I was |
0:38.9 | struggling with. And I at that time, I also, besides owning the preschool, I also owned a yoga studio. |
0:46.0 | And I was a yoga teacher and I was learning about the chi and how the body heals. And I became |
0:51.6 | so interested that I decided to go to acupuncture school, not knowing it was a five-year program, but I got my master's in acupuncture, continued the yoga studio. |
1:04.4 | And then at some point, I decided to completely change careers. |
1:08.6 | And that's when I moved to Arizona and Sedona and open a health |
1:12.5 | retreat center. And I started having retreat groups here, then more individualized and offering |
1:19.6 | acupuncture, yoga, meditation, really an opportunity for people to come out and be with themselves, |
1:26.5 | being in the nature setting, because I'm super isolated |
1:29.4 | from town. It's very quiet out here. And the acupuncture is something that interests me because |
1:37.3 | it has that foundation, that's something I can explain to my patients, all right, you know, here's what's |
1:43.2 | going on and this is why you're |
1:44.8 | having this coming up. But as we started talking, this conversation today is really about the |
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