My Story

Born to immigrant Taiwanese parents, Ming-jen Chen and Shu-fei Chen, in Acjachemen and Tongva territory (Southern California). I was raised by my grandmother, Ing-Yang Hu until the age of 12 with Taiwanese Hokkien as my first language.

My path to healing started in my early 20’s, when I was a full time Policy Analyst for the City of Long Beach, CA. I was experiencing burn out working 60-80+ hours a week managing citywide sustainability programs and policies, volunteering as the lead organizer of a local environmental non-profit Green Long Beach!, sitting on the board of directors of two environmental conservation non-profits, and working with university students on an advisory committee. I struggled with extreme fatigue, debilitating chronic pain, auto-immune conditions, reproductive health complications, and struggled with depression, anxiety and substance abuse.

Western medicine offered no support and pushed me further into distress, and in desperation I turned towards ancestral healing modalities of acupuncture, TCM, qigong, plant medicines, and energy healing. After working with different practitioners, I was able to turn my health around and found teachers that helped me anchor these modalities as embodied practices.

I left my full time career after a decade, and devoted myself to apprenticing with my mentors and elders. My mentors include human teachers I have apprenticed with, and teachers in the other realms that have shown up over the years to share their knowledge and medicine for my own recovery & reclamation process.

My Teachers & Spiritual Lineages

  • I am a Certified Usui/Tibetan Holy Fire Reiki Master & Teacher, dedicated to the art of energy healing for over 15 years. Under the mentorship of Raa’na Jarrahain, I am certified to teach and attune others to Usui/Tibetan and Holy Fire Reiki. Certified teacher and member of the International Center for Reiki Training. 

  • Da Yan Wild Goose Qi Gong systems, Taiji, Pai Da Gong, Medical Qi Gong with JoAnna Schoon.  

  • Mentorship with Elder Haize Hawke Rosen, an ordained Yoruba priestess, ordained priestess of the Temple of Isis, birth & spiritual midwife, and elder of the West African and Egyptian Khemetic lineages. I was initiated in 2017 in the Khemetic mystic ritual arts of healing, Temple of Isis Priestess training, Earth & Water Keeper, Womb rites, and ritual mediumship. 

  • Elder Rosalba Fontanez in the Andean Wisdom lineages and Quechua shamanism, receiving the teachings of Munay-ki Rites initiation, despacho, and fire ceremony. 

  • Western herbalism with Julie James. Plant mysticism and plant medicine with Tete Bero. Plant medicine and TCM herbalism with Amanda Grover

  • Kambo Facilitation training, 13 years ago in Los Angeles, co-facilitated ceremonies for 3 years, solo dieta with kambo for 2 years. 

  • Full spectrum certified Doula in 2016, with Maria Ramos and the Collective Wings Perinatal Project. Postpartum Womb Sealing Ceremony.

  • Indigenous elders in Peru, with Shipibo, Cocama, Ashaninka, and Quechua indigenous lineages for over 10 years. Papa Gilberto Mahua Ochavano, Juana Silvano Teco, William Llerena Murayari.

  • Master Plant Teachers: Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Ajosacha, Rosa, Santa Maria, Tobacco, Artemisia, Romero, Cedar.

  • Ancestral Guides, Primordial Teachers: The Kontomblé, The Neteru, Isis, Anubis, Orisha Oxumare, Quan Yin, Green Tara, Maestro Kambo, Elder Dragons council, Los Niños Santos, the Star Nations.