Said Isayed (he/him) is Traditional Chinese medicine doctor graduated from Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine after a six year Bachelor’s program in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and Allopathic medicine. Said spent five years interning in several Chinese hospitals and clinics, training under some of the most well-respected doctors of Chinese medicine. He focused strongly on the treatment of neurological diseases, auto immune disorders, men’s and women’s health, orthopedic injuries, mental health and painful musculoskeletal conditions.

In addition to acupuncture, Said is well versed in several types of bodywork including Chinese fire cupping, hijama (traditional Arabic cupping), tuina (Chinese medical massage) and guasha. He also practices Chinese and Arabic herbal medicine.

In 2016, Said relocated from Hebron, Palestine to Minneapolis, MN. He is fluent in English, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese.

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Tylyn graduated from CenterPoint Therapeutic Massage Program in 2020. She received training in Craniosacral techniques and completed Yoga Teacher Certification in 2022.

Tylyn uses a model of therapeutic bodywork to help clients address common soft tissue conditions, injuries acute and/or chronic, and limited range of motion. She will work with you to identify and treat physical pain caused by injury from lifestyle, accidents, sports, work, postural distortions, and repetitive use syndromes. Treatments involve working with a whole body approach in mind. She uses a collage of techniques from trigger point therapy, cross fiber friction, and therapeutic stretching.

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Eli’s (they/them) bodywork techniques are included in styles closer to clinical or medical massage modalities like trigger point therapy, myofascial release, and a variety of deep tissue adaptations. Most of their 16 years of experience as national board-certified bodyworker have been spent in clinical settings such as chiropractic offices and integrative studios. Eli enjoys volunteering at special events, races, conventions, festivals, and backstage at concerts, working on musicians and crew. Eli is very confident in sports massage, massage cupping, active isolated stretching, craniosacral therapy, and pregnancy massage from the first through third trimesters, including post-natal treatments for all bodies and gender identities.

Eli typically integrates more than one of these many styles into a session to meet the needs of their client. They also have an inquisitive and energetic approach to bodywork, which helps keep them grounded in their practice and their sessions fresh. Although a holistic approach to bodywork and aftercare is usually preferred by most people, like a full body massage, the more specific a complaint, the more they enjoy searching for the root of the problem. Eli is very interested in energy healing modalities and wishes to incorporate this into their sessions too. It is important to note that Eli does not do Swedish Relaxation Massage as a part of their repertoire.

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Betsy Ranum MA, RN, NBC-HWC

Betsy (she/her) helps people access states of deep rest, relaxation, reimagination, and regeneration through a unique union of energy work and integrative coaching. Betsy brings 13+ years of holistic nursing experience and graduate-level coaching training to create a warm, skillful, trauma-informed container for gentle yet powerful work.

Betsy’s work is especially well-suited for people who are:

-Looking for a soothing, gentle space to reconnect with themselves and their inner wisdom -Interested in the connection between their individual energetic wellbeing and that of the collective and planet -Wanting to honor their energetic sensitivity and/or sensitive nervous systems -Wanting a supportive environment for practicing rest and relaxation -Seeking energetic support with transitions and new ways of being -Creative, self-aware, and interested in how cosmic healing arts can support their work in the world

A registered nurse in Minnesota since 2012, Betsy earned an integrative nurse coach certificate in 2014, became a national board certified health & wellness coach (NBC-HWC) in 2019. At the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing, she completed Reiki 1 (2018), Reiki 2 (2020), and a MA in Integrative Health and Wellbeing Coaching (2020). Betsy is currently studying Reiki Mastery at the UMN with Deborah Ringdahl DNP, APRN, CNM.

Betsy’s nursing path has been unconventional: in 13+ years of nursing she’s never worked in a hospital. Before professional nursing, she worked in social justice movements and political organizing, sustainable farming and beekeeping, coffee shops and farmers markets, and cared for her dad who lived for 15 years with early onset dementia. Betsy’s caregiving experiences include public and preventive health; community holistic mental health; integrative/holistic psychiatry practices; supportive housing for individuals transitioning from unhoused, institutional, and incarcerated circumstances; the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition; housing for people living with HIV; a community clinic in Nicaragua; harm reduction sites; and home health care.

Betsy practices coaching and Reiki with deep humility, respect, and unconditional positive regard for the clients she works with—as a model for flipping the paradigm of care from power-over to power-with. She partners with clients, skillfully cultivating space for people to find their inner wisdom, explore challenges, and expand their own vision of what is possible. Trained in guided imagery, hypnosis, biofeedback, Enneagram, mindfulness, and other mind-body-spirit modalities, Betsy has years of experience supporting many people-–from woo-woo lovers to side-eyeing skeptics—to tap their innate healing skills and creative resources. Versed in the cosmic archetypes of astrology, Betsy also offers co-creative sessions infused with astrological insights for astrology lovers and the astro-curious.

Betsy is her own #1 case study in the art and science of integrative health and wellbeing. A raced-white, settler descendant, cis-gendered, queer woman with a highly sensitive nervous system, Betsy is on a humble and persistent lifelong journey to heal and transform patterns of generational, ancestral, and cultural trauma and systems of domination within her own mind-body-spirit. Her greatest hope is that this work might also radiate out: in service of others, her communities, the collective, and the planet. She loves to nap, read, write, dance, be quiet, be outside, think and talk about astrology and politics and water and all kinds of other stuff, hang out with her amazing friends and beloved partner, and hoof by the river—and just about everywhere—with their dog Danney Mars.

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Larissa Vados, PhD, LAc

Larissa (she/her) is a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Minnesota. In 2012 she graduated from Northwestern Health Sciences University with a Master of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine degree, and in 2015 completed her PhD in Acupuncture, Tuina and Moxibustion at Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Tianjin, China. Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine specialize in the treatment of neurological diseases. Taking advantage of this expertise, her main focus of study was treatment for stroke rehabilitation. She designed and carried out a randomized control trial in the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine looking at the use of both acupuncture and physical therapy in the treatment of acute and sub-acute ischemic stroke.

Larissa has several years experience working with a hospital-based inpatient interdisciplinary acute care pain management team, and an outpatient based chronic pain center. Larissa and her colleagues worked together to treat some of the most difficult pain management cases in the hospital system from both Eastern and Western perspectives. She enjoyed working every day to promote the use of effective and evidence-based integrative treatments such as acupuncture within the allopathic medical system.

In addition to her acupuncture and Chinese medicine training, Larissa is a STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor in both Mat and Reformer, having completed over 310 hours of training at Minnesota’s STOTT Certification Center in 2009.

Specialties: Stroke sequelae treatment and other neurological disorders, pain (acute and chronic), stress management, insomnia, allergies, auto-immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. In her Pilates practice she enjoys working with injured populations looking for rehabilitation, seasoned athletes looking to improve athletic performance and everyone in between!

You can book the following appointments with Larissa: Private acupuncture, private TCM acupuncture, cupping, Pilates training.

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