Hi, I'm Leilani.

I'm dedicated to tending the landscape of the body and the body of the Earth. Right now, this looks like mothering, healthcare and the healing arts, nurturing love for our bodies and our world, joining in with the groundswell of protection for people, places and more-than-human beings, and tending my relationships with the web of life around me.

In one-on-one care, I practice as a Licensed Acupuncturist, offering acupuncture, integrative functional medicine, and dreamwork. In practice since 2012, I specialize in women's menstrual cycle health and fertility, relief of stress and stress-related illness, sleep issues, and recovery from pain and injury. You can learn more about my practice here, or read stories and reviews from patients here.

With groups, I facilitate the Work that Reconnects and other experiences to support folks' inner resilience, and help liberate the gifts each person carries in these times. I like to weave practical wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine with deep ecology and land connection. Together, my husband and I also facilitate group workshops and teach traditional Chinese martial arts and qigong. You can read stories and kind words from participants here.

I have deep respect for many ways of knowing: indigenous wisdom; traditional practice; methodical scientific research; intuition and dreams; personal experience; and more. Each of these is invaluable in both medicine and ecology.

I value all expressions of care and all life-honoring ways of responding to the challenges in our society. I consider it crucial that we respond in diverse ways, all with the shared intention to help keep life going, in a more balanced, just, and beautiful way.

I see the "great turning" toward a life-sustaining society not as something that will happen, but as something that is happening. It's not an expectation for the future (will we "arrive" in a life-sustaining society? I don't know!), but a name for a transformation already underway; one that includes what's happening inside us and in the ways we live. To offer up some doses of active hope - and because I love talking with people - I host Turning Season Podcast, a series of conversations with inspiring folks rising to their own roles in this great turning.

I trust the process of truth-speaking in respectful community space as a necessity for healing and insight. Meaning, I believe in "honoring our pain for the world" by sharing and witnessing honest expressions of grief, anger, fear, and numbness. I'm also committed to doing practices that move these energies through, so we don't carry heaviness or stagnation, or perpetuate what we're hoping to move on from. I value intentionally transitioning into purposeful action. The same is true for personal pain, healing, and growth.

And all at the same time, I'm into fully receiving the gift of this life as much as I can. By which I mean, yes, please and thank you to fun, laughter, pleasure, music with a groove, playing at the beach, hip hop dance class, joy in others' joy, hiking to the overlook, singing together, and whatever’s lighting my kids up at the moment.

Formal education and certifications:

• I have a B.A. with a focus in Political Economy and Holistic Health from the Evergreen State College (2004)

• My Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine is from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) in Portland, Oregon (2012)

• I studied functional and integrative medicine Aviva Romm, MD and midwife, and I'm a Certified Practitioner in Women's Functional and Integrative Medicine through WIMI (2025)

• I'm board certified in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine from NCBAHM (2012)

• I'm a Certified Dreamworker through the Rocky Mountain Institute for Projective Dreamwork (2021)

• I teach and counsel women on the use of the Justisse Method of Fertility Awareness, and earned a certification as a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner through Justisse Healthworks for Women (2010)

• In martial arts and qigong, I'm certified as an Assistant Instructor through the North American Tang Shou Tao Association (2010)

Other deep wells of wisdom that have shaped me and my work are the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, the work of Joanna Macy, lineages of Classical Chinese Medicine, and learning with the Mamos and Zagas of the Kogi, Wiwa, and Arhuaco tribes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. I cannot imagine where I would be without my teachers and I give thanks for them and their teachers every day.

If you would like to explore one-on-one care, group facilitation, online learning, or speaking engagements, read about my offerings here, or contact me here.

I look forward to meeting you.