Yin Medicine
Eastern Medicine for the People
A whole new way to deliver the medicine of acupuncture.
I’ve been an acupuncturist and healer for the last 12 years, and over time my skill sets and what I have to offer has grown and changed. I have undergone several, rigorous, multi-year long trainings that have deepened and stretched my capacity to hold people through intensive healing transformations. With this synthesis of practice I’ve developed a multi-modal methodology to work with clients on their health and well being.
This method is Yin Medicine.
What is Yin Medicine and Why Choose it over Traditional Acupuncture Treatment?
Yin Medicine won’t be for everyone.
Yin Medicine is for you who are sick to death of looping inside patterns of illness. You who are curious about where in your body those patterns were truly born and taken root. You who are willing to let your ego’s identities die death after exquisite death in service to your healing and wholeness. You who are ready to release the mental grip of fear inside of stories of physical pain and disease, and let yourself feel and trust the truth of your body, even when it aches. Of course these things can take time, there are factors at play.
THE SPECS…
A 6 month container of Eastern Medicine and Transformational Coaching
Hour long 1:1 calls twice per month where we go over your acupressure protocols, learn Eastern Medicine theory, and work together on your emotional and behavior patterns.
Customized herbal medicine throughout the program.
Access to a video vault of personalized information you need, Qi Gong routines specific to your needs, breathing techniques, and other important methods of Eastern Medicine self care.
Inside of Yin Medicine you will learn to harness your body’s own innate healing power. You will not just receive the medicine of acupressure, you will learn your meridian system and how to activate your own energy centers to regulate your body's function on a deep level. You will be able to use the techniques you learn at home and whenever you need them.
When I look at the body, I use a 4 layer model.
In order from most dense to most subtle, I see the physical body, the emotional body, the etheric/energetic body, and the mental body. Each layer of the body contributes to and affects the health of all the other layers, and change in the subtle layers typically happens faster than change in the more dense layers.
The meridian system of acupuncture runs through all 4 layers.
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
I have spent the last decade studying and synthesizing a system of medicine that brings together many different lenses and techniques and delivers a person into the next level of vitality and a more whole, integrated state of being - something you can take with you for the rest of your life.
This approach is no quick fix, and it requires a deep level of commitment and self responsibility.
In Yin Medicine, I teach you the ancient system of acupuncture meridians that imbue your body with energetic life force.
I teach you how to activate and regulate your physiology with the deeply functional wisdom of Chinese Medicine.
You learn the meridians, the acu-points for your body, their functions, and how to activate them.
You learn the internal grid of your meridians, the channels where your life force runs through your body.
You learn not only the location of these energy pathways, you learn their expression and function.
You practice connecting with the sensations of energy you feel, and learn which energy centers and organs they relate to.
You learn how to activate your innate healing power.
You learn to touch your body with reverence along the meridians.
You practice opening and reception with every touch.
You give your whole being a pathway to bone-deep transformation.
No needles necessary.
In addition to my 12+ years of practice in Chinese Medicine, I have lived for the last 7 years as a deep practitioner of the feminine spiritual path. I am uniquely skilled in the synthesis of spiritual law, energetic patterning, what shows up in the physical body as a result of that patterning, and how to create health in the body, mind, and heart from this perspective.
I have also studied and certified in the realms of trauma healing, parts work, and structural dissociation.
This is not just the principles of acupuncture applied to the body. While I hold deep reverence for Chinese Medicine and acupuncture as stand-alone modalities for health (as they are truly unparalleled on a physical-health level for internal medicine), there are a ton of people today who are ready for and searching for a multidimensional approach to their whole health and well being.
This means I work with people who are ready and willing to make shifts on all levels of their being - from the subtle energetics of the etheric body, through the mental and emotional realms, and into the densest layer of the physical body.
Me, Liana Russo, L.Ac MSOM
This is physical work, but it is also soul work.
You are not handing yourself over to me to “repair” you. Instead, you’re devoting yourself to a process of willing self inquiry, softening into openness, and expanding your capacity to hold your emotions and stay present with the sensations of your body.
The acupressure instruction and transformational coaching I offer, along with herbal medicine and adjustment of the 4 Pillars of Health, are there to guide all 4 layers of your body into alignment and provide a structured container for your body and mind to relax into during this process.
Transformational Coaching Paired with Chinese Medicine Mythopoetics
The core of my coaching methodology focuses on revealing the covert patterns of emotion, thought, and behavior running underneath the physical symptoms and issues that arise in your body.
I have a particular mastery of sight for these patterns and for using the principles of acupuncture to assist in unearthing the hidden emotions trapped by them.
When these deeper emotions release, the patterns of energy holding your physical symptoms in place can begin to dissolve as well.
Seeing and accepting the patterns of behavior you’ve been running is the first crucial step to signalling to your body that it’s safe to move and function in a new way.
In this program, you are:
1. subtracting:
You will be required to drop your masks,
some you won’t even know (at first) you’ve been wearing because they were put on so long ago that they’ve been disguised as your personality and parts of your identity. When the masks begin to come down and you have a deeper appreciation for and acceptance of the truth of what’s been underneath all along…
THAT is when your body will begin to respond differently at the deepest root level.
THAT is when your symptoms can really shift for the long term.
You will be guided to question what you know to be true about yourself - because maybe it’s not, and maybe it never was.
Maybe some of the things you believe about yourself or about the world around you were conditioned into you by painful circumstances of your youth.
Maybe they were lies told to you by sick, fearful, or angry people at a time before you were capable of discerning for yourself what is true.
Maybe they were true once, but as you’ve grown and developed, they no longer fit your reality.
Maybe you are much brighter, much more whole, and much safer than you have ever been led to believe.
Of course, I cannot promise you will go from severe illness to total wellness in 3 months, but you will learn and practice the tools necessary to create far deeper coherence with your body and environment at the root level, ones that will continue to support your health for the rest of your life.
2. Adding
You’ll be building a new framework for visualizing and working with your own physical and energetic system.
You will learn:
Foundational theory based in natural law of the two fundamental energetic principles, Yin and Yang - how they interact, and how they directly apply to your life and your body.
The meridian system of acupuncture, the 5 elements, and how they express in your unique body.
What you inevitably trade, on a physical level, for prioritizing productivity, discipline, and mental ideas of who you are and what health “should” look like.
How to be fluidly devotional to your health, rather than rigid, dogmatic, and disciplined.
Functional and practical adjustments to how you relate to the 4 Pillars of Health.
How to feel energy in your fingers, hands, and body so you can easily apply acupressure to yourself (and others).
Individualized, therapeutic acupressure protocols to be administered to yourself multiple times weekly that will help you create new, balanced, and functional energetic patterning in your body.
WHY and HOW the acupressure protocols work to repattern your energy.
How to set up a sacred, energetically clean, and private space for yourself for your self-administered energetic work.
How to notice and start shifting patterns that are simultaneously showing up in your physical body and external life.
How to begin to determine which of your physical symptoms are stuck emotions that can be cleared through a more straightforward practice of emotional release, and which require more committed patience and presence through a physical practice or deeper excavation of ingrained patterns of thought and belief.
How to match your energetic output to the seasons of the year - so that you stay within the bounds of real therapeutic participation with your body, rather than pushing past appropriate limits and setting yourself up for future symptoms and health crashes.
So what’s the plan? Where do we start?
True Commitment. Love of the body.
First, you must desire to spend a focused period of time committed to full spectrum healing and seeing it all the way through to a higher plane of health. Dabbling and then becoming discouraged when you haven’t been made to “feel better” right away isn’t it.
the Yin Medicine program:
You are entering an online, all-inclusive 6 month container where you will be held through a multilayered process of deepening into your body and releasing internal patterns that contribute to unwanted physical symptoms.
1:1 calls 2x/month where we deepen your knowledge of your body’s physiology and energetics, study the Meridian System and foundational principles of Eastern Medicine, practice acupressure protocols individualized to your own system, receive customized herbal medicine in tincture form, and untangle the roots of your programmed patterning.
Book a free intro call with me to learn more.
Investment: $4499
*Payment Plans Available, please inquire.
To begin, fill out your application:
Who I don’t work with *inside of the Yin Medicine container:
People who:
Are committed to being vegan or vegetarian
Are unwilling to participate in any physical exercise or dial back overly-intense exercise regimens
Are unwilling to challenge self concepts and personal identity (examples: “I’ve always been a night owl, it’s just who I am and it will never change.” Or, “I am asexual and that is just my natural identity, I refuse to believe it has anything to do with my health.”)
Are committed to identities of victimhood around their health (examples: “I AM a person with [x,y, or z condition, diagnosis, symptom] and doctors told me it would never change so my life is just hard now.” Or, “Nothing ever goes right for me, it’s just my bad luck that I keep spraining my left ankle.”)
Are fully enmeshed with the western medicine/allopathic model and already have a treatment protocol they are committed to or a long list of meds they are working with.
Want me to fix them. This path requires a level of personal responsibility and understanding that the shifts you make in this program are almost entirely to do with your level of readiness, receptivity, and participation.