Year of the Yin Wood Snake
Lunar New Year Talk 2025

Rachael Henrichsen lives in Santa Cruz, CA while nurturing her private practice, Red Gate Integrative Medicine.  She holds a Masters degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, a spiritual degree (equivalent to a M.A.) as a Lopön (teacher) of the Tibetan Bön, and a certification to teach Tibetan Buddhist Meditation from the Buddhist Studies Institute where she manages the Meditation Instructor Training Program. She is an associate professor at the Golden Gate School of Feng Shui and qigong teacher and holistic chef at the Yogic Medicine Institute.  Internationally, she teaches from experience from over 25 years of continued study with teachers of Tantric Buddhist, Bön, Chan, Daoist, and Zen traditional practices that include history, meditation, ritual, astrology, medicine, chado (the Way of Tea), and divination. In 2008, she began studying with the late Liu Ming, the founder of Da Yuan Circle and completed the Zi Wei Dou Shu apprenticeship program.