The History of Windpath Healing Works
I started Windpath Healing Works LLC in 2001. Presently I share space with 2 dentists, who, like me, go out of their way to make sure their patients are relaxed and comfortable as they receive care. Our office is located in a high-rise condominium about 2 miles north of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD.
My Logo
My logo has two parts, a yin-yang symbol, and a flower growing within it.
Understanding the Yin-Yang symbol is core to understanding East Asian (Chinese, Oriental) medicine. This symbol consists of a circle split by a curve, and the 'comma' on one side of the curve is dark with (ordinarily) a small light circle within it, while the 'comma' on the other side is light and contains a small dark circle. The dark side represents Yin, and the light side Yang. Together they make up a circle that represents All.
If all things are encompassed by the circle, then all things have Yin or Yang character. But the fact that Yin lies within Yang, and vice versa, also implies that nothing is entirely Yin or Yang. Thus Yang mid-day is bright and energy is high, but even at mid-day we know that Yin mid-night will come, a time of darkness and rest. At mid-night we also know that mid-day will return, that light and energy will rise again. The curve separating Yin and Yang remind us that energy falls, rises, moves ceaselessly, changes its character moment by moment. Another way to put this is that Life is dynamic--opportunity comes and goes; health changes, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
While every person is a balance of Yin and Yang, some people tend to show imbalance in distinctly Yin or Yang ways. For example, someone with migraine headaches is often suffering from a "Yang Rising" condition--too much Yang in the head, Yang not flowing freely throughout the body. A person with swollen ankles may be said to have an imbalance such that Yin is pooling, not flowing freely. The goal of Asian medical care is to help life energy to flow.
Now think of the flower growing in Yin-Yang balance--it represents the idea of a healthy balanced body. In the center of the curved line is the flower's seed--the place where it begins, a place of balanced movement. The seed sends roots into the dark, into the Yin, where they suck up nourishment for the whole body of the plant. The seed sends stem and flower upwards into the Yang, to flourish in the sunlight and air. The seed starts in balance, and reaching both into the Yin and into the Yang, creates balance in its growing. So also, a healthy human being maintains a balance of Yin and Yang and can 'bloom' a full life.
