Kitty Bradshaw
Herbalist, Acupuncturist, Health & Wellness Coach

Kitty is a licensed acupuncturist (L.Ac.) with an advanced clinical degree in Oriental Medicine (O.M.M.). Studying and working with Oriental Medicine since 1986, Kitty combines Traditional Oriental Medicine with Taoist healing methods to offer healing possibilities beyond the level of standard health care. Her deep understanding of Chinese medical herbs, combined with her intuitive abilities to diagnose and treat difficult problems, has helped many people regain and maintain their health.

Kitty’s holistic approach to healing combines acupuncture, acupressure, herbal medicine, diet and nutrition, Facial Rejuvenessence, and Chi Kung.

Experienced With Western Medicine
Kitty also has experience working with Western medicine. She maintains professional relationships with local medical doctors (MDs) from whom she receives ongoing referrals. Kitty attended nursing school, worked in several hospitals, and went on to co-found a well-woman’s health center in the early 1970’s.

Helping People
Kitty spent 12 years as a leadership and management consultant, serving a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies. During this time of working with people in very demanding, high stress jobs, her focus included contributing to their health, and the health of the organizations they worked in. 

At the same time she was working as a business consultant, Kitty taught an ongoing Chi Kung class, where she worked with people individually to help them to regain and maintain their health.

BIOM is the result of Kitty’s passion, and the high quality health care she provides is her commitment to you.

Michael Kessler
Executive and Personal Coach
Tai Chi, Aikido, & Chi Kung Instructor

Guided by his perspective that “your life is your career,” Michael has gathered a wide range of personal, professional, and educational experiences over the past 25 years, which include: a BS degree in Economics, an MBA degree in International Business, a Black Belt degree in Aikido, and many years of experience practicing and teaching the Chinese meditative martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan and Pa Kua Chuan.

From the time he began working on Wall Street as an analyst, technical writer, instructional designer, and trainer, to the time spent working at companies like Microsoft and Boeing, Michael has relied on, and applied, his 25 years of experience in the meditative martial arts of Aikido, Tai Chi, and Pa Kua to meet the continual challenges of the corporate battlefield.

Executive and Personal Coach
Michael combines his workplace experience, martial arts wisdom, and basic street-savvy to work with you to strategize the best ways to achieve the personal and professional goals you want to reach along your way.

By integrating martial art principles like listening, blending, sticking, yielding, and pushing into the coaching process, Michael works with you to discover the inner resources used by warriors to calm themselves before, strengthen themselves during, and heal themselves after a battle: Skills that remain useful today—at home, at work, and on the Way.

Working With Young People
Michael has significant experience working with and coaching young people. Since 1977 he has coached, taught, and mentored young people, in settings that include: inner city and suburban public schools, community colleges, Fortune 500 companies, and classes teaching the meditative martial arts.

Our world today is very Yang with lots of rushing to and fro, 24/7 energy output, little sleep and rest ... and the list goes on.

Much ado is made about Yang energy, and it is well rewarded monetarily. Not so with the Yin.

Sleep is Yin, and getting enough sleep is considered a sign of weakness; going slowly, whether on foot or auto, is considered aberrant. The Yin is nowhere to be found.

Take a look at the Yin/Yang Symbol at the top of this page. It’s a representation of how the energy of the cosmos is balanced. There’s the Yang light side of the symbol, and the dark Yin side. Both sides have a bit of the other side in it. This represents the constant change of Yin to Yang and Yang to Yin.

Reclaiming The Yin is a new way of presenting very old information. It’s a year-long opportunity to study, experience, and rebuild the quiet and creative side of yourself; that part of you ancient Chinese wisdom called - ‘Yin.’

We start by becoming aware of the stillness in nature that still exists around us, despite the din of news and noise that has become a constant presence. As we become more aware of the stillness around us, we’ll become more aware of it within ourselves - while learning new ways to make this ancient understanding a part of everyday living.

We begin in September ... at the time of Autumnal Equinox, when Yin energy is increasing in the northern hemisphere. We’ll follow its evolution through the entire year by looking at a different facet of Yin each month, particularly how this energetic force affects us physically, mentally, and emotionally. We’ll also pay close attention to the effects Yin has on our day-to-day activities, or what a poet from the past described as: “chop wood, and carry water.”

Some times require rethinking, or contemplating, new ways of doing things; we live in such a time. The challenges are many - global and personal. And while it may seem secure to hold on tighter to what’s familiar, and what has worked before, that may turn out to be like walking on thin ice.

This exploration into Yin informs and involves you in an active process of rebalancing the Yin and Yang in your life. It provides you with tools and opportunities to discover, and make adjustments to, whatever you want to change about yourself; along with appreciating what’s working for you, and starting to use those strengths more consciously.

As you being to ‘reclaim your Yin,’ you gain greater clarity about yourself in relation to the world, and the energy within and around you - especially what’s freely available in Nature.

If a frog is put in water which is already boiling, it will immediately jump out. But if a frog is put in room temperature water, and the temperature is slowly increased, the frog will continue adapting to it until it’s too late.

The pace and focus of today’s society have conditioned us to be much like the second frog. We adapt and adapt and adapt, and then find ourselves so out-of-balance that it’s difficult to get out of the pot before it boils.

We all know when something is “out of balance” — we say, “This doesn’t feel right”; or “I’m ‘off’ today.”

Being out-of-balance is ‘normal’ today, yet we still know when something is out-of-whack; but not knowing exactly what to do about it, we just take it in stride and keep going. Eventually all of these insignificant imbalances add up and begin to take their toll - we can’t just keep going. When we get sick, or become somehow incapacitated, then we have to deal actively with the imbalance. But as humans, we’re capable of living with an amazing amount of imbalance, which we adapt to, and just live with.

Women especially, are called upon to Reclaim their Yin, since Yin is the Nature of the woman. Women are the foundation of Yin among people, but we’ve long ago lost our experience and understanding of what Yin is. It’s time to Reclaim the Yin, and bring our lives into balance. And by becoming more balanced as individuals we automatically bring more Yin energy into our time, so the energy of the planet can benefit too.

Just as you can experience the effect Yin has on you regardless of where you live in the world, you can also participate in Reclaiming The Yin wherever you live.

Using information-age technology, we’re able to offer you this opportunity to explore this ancient information that continues to inform us today.

‘Reclaiming the Yin’ is a chance to deepen your experience of your life.

Acupuncture is not at all like the type of injection you’ve probably had that forces medication into the tissue by pressure.