Specializing in Chronic Pain
in Mill Valley and the Castro District in SF
I have been helping people heal from chronic pain for more than 20 years.
I have extensive experience with migraines and other headaches, neck and back pain, and low back and hip pain, as well as carpal tunnel and other repetitive stress injuries to the hands and arms.
I am passionately committed to helping people find relief from chronic pain, as I know how chronic pain takes the joy out of life.
I am constantly in awe and gratitude to have this amazingly powerful modality of acupuncture to use to help people.
While I specialize in chronic pain, I also treat many other challenges and disharmonies that people experience.
Below you will find out more about me, and I invite you to contact me directly for a free 30 minute phone consultation to talk about your situation and how I may be able to help you.
Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine
I have been training in and practicing acupuncture for over 15 years.
Acupuncturists have more education than many know. A Master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture) requires 3000 hours or four years of full time study.
This Master's of Science program includes study and practice in Chinese Medicine theory, diagnosis and treatment methods, acupuncture, herbal medicine, physiology, and pathophysiology, as well as 1,000 hours of supervised clinical experience.
I continue to study Korean and Japanese acupuncture with senior acupuncturists through apprenticeship and continuing education seminars.
The Korean and Japanese acupuncture that I practice is a classical style of acupuncture that is part of an exciting movement to bring back ancient ways of healing that had been largely lost or forgotten in both Asia and the West. These powerful techniques were resurrected and kept alive by a small number of Japanese and Korean acupuncture masters, and I continue to study and train with masters in these acupuncture lineages.
My understanding of the miraculousness of the body and how it functions and self-heals, and how the life-force moves through the channels in the body, has grown deeper from my years of study and practice of Asian medicine.
Yoga Therapy for Chronic Pain
I have over 20 years of experience in using yoga therapy to help people recover from chronic low back and neck pain. My training and experience with yoga therapy taught me how to see and understand how the body works, and what it needs to heal from chronic pain.
I first used yoga to heal my own chronic pain and injuries with yoga and then helped thousands of clients through yoga therapy. This has given me the experience and training to help others with their injuries and chronic pain.
My training in yoga therapy includes 3 years of assisting master-level teacher Anne Saliou in therapeutic yoga classes for back and neck care, and a year-long apprenticeship with master-level teacher Patricia Sullivan. I completed the 500-hour Advanced Studies program at the Iyengar Institute of San Francisco in 2004.
I have also trained with many other teachers for therapeutic yoga, including Aadil Palkivala, Judith Hanson Lasater (restorative yoga teacher and physical therapist), and Gary Kraftsow.
Yoga Teaching
I believe that the real purpose of yoga is to bring harmony to our relationship with ourselves and those around us, and to cultivate awareness which is the key to all healing.
I have been teaching yoga since 2002 and have been a student of yoga since 1991.
I have led retreats in Nepal, Thailand, and New Mexico, as well as at the three practice centers of the San Francisco Zen Center: Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in the mountains near Big Sur, CA, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Sausalito, CA, and the Zen Center in Hayes Valley in San Francisco.
Zen Buddhist Training
I lived at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, a Zen Buddhist monastery in the California mountains, for four years of intensive training in Zen Buddhist meditation and daily-life Zen practice.
After leaving the monastery, I spent a year in Asia studying Yoga and Tibetan Buddhism in India, Nepal and Thailand.
My experiences with these teachings taught me about the nature of the mind and the universe, how to to quiet the mind, and how to connect with the life-force that supports and moves through all things.
About Samantha
Samantha Ostergaard Acupuncture & Yoga Therapy
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Acupuncture for Chronic Pain
in Mill Valley
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Acupuncture for Chronic Pain
in Mill Valley
and the Castro District, SF
Acupuncture Acupuncturist Yoga Therapy Chronic Pain Back Pain Neck Pain Migraines Headaches Sciatica Hip pain leg pain arm pain hand pain Castro District San Francisco, Mill Valley, Marin
Training in Japanese acupuncture with one of the Masters, the beloved Doctor Bear, who was blind and yet could perceive more with his hands than most can see with their eyes.
