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Lorie Dechar’s intuitive work as an alchemical acupuncturist is supported by a strong foundation in practical experience and theoretical understanding, including:
- Twenty years practicing acupuncture; seventeen in private clinical
practice in Manhattan and Nyack, New York
- Status of master practitioner, senior faculty member, and senior clinical supervisor at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture in New York City, one of the oldest and most highly respected programs in the United States
- B.A. in English and French Literature, Bennington College, 1973
- Master’s Degree in Acupuncture from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in Columbia, Maryland, 1985
- Completion of a two-year program in Traditional Chinese Pharmacology with Dr. Ted Kaptchuck at Tri-State College of Acupuncture, 1993
- Training as a psychotherapist at the New York Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training
- Ten years in analysis and supervision with Jungian training analyst
and expert on European alchemy, Dr. Nathan
Schwartz-Salant
- Completion of a two-year psychotherapist certification program at the Focusing Institute in New York City
- Nationwide lecturing and workshop leadership
- Ordination as a Zen student of Zen Peacemaker Priest Claude
AnShin Thomas
and Board Member of the Zaltho Foundation
For the past eleven years, Lorie has lectured and led workshops
nationwide, including:
- February 2007: Touching the Spirit: Emotional and Psychological Healing, ProD Seminars, Vancouver, British Columbia
- October 2006: The Fertile Soul Retreat, Austin, TX; Alchemical Healing for Couples with Benjamin Fox
- February 2006: Esalen
Institute , teacher/lecturer
- June 2004: Tri-State College of Acupuncture, graduation keynote speaker. “The Creative Power of Chaos,” was subsequently published in The Meridian Times, the journal of the Acupuncture Society of New York (ASNY)
- October 2003: Cambridge, Massachusetts, lecture and demonstration of acupuncture point location at the Center for Acupuncture Education & Research (CAER)
- April 2003: Esalen Institute, teacher/lecturer
- April 2002: Esalen Institute, spotlighted seminar leader
In addition, Lorie is:
Lorie has published articles on the psychospiritual aspects of traditional Chinese medicine in Meridians Magazine, the Journal of the Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, the Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, and The Meridian Times.
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TAO
The character is comprised of two parts, one that signifies a head topped with two plumes and the other a foot. Plumes in ancient China were used to mark the rank of a military general. Thus “head” in this case also means “the leader” while “foot” means “to go,” “to follow” or “to travel along a path.” The character for Tao makes reference to the highest and lowest parts of the body. What is between the head and foot is the universe of the Self, the “all that is” that is Tao. Thus, Tao is where my foot stands here and now!
The Chinese word Tao has an etymological relationship to the Sanskrit root sound “da,” which means “to divide something whole into parts.” The ancient Sanskrit word dharma is also related to this root. In the Buddhist tradition, dharma means “that which is to be held fast, kept, an ordinance or law... the absolute, the real.”¹ So, both dharma and Tao refer to the way that the One, the unfathomable unity of the divine, divides into parts and manifests in the world of form.
Tao is not an answer to the question, “What should I do?” but a response to the question, “How do I do it?” This knowing how — how to heal, how to grow, how to live, how to rediscover my self and my origin — is an ongoing process, a way to walk through our lives rather than a static thing or way to be. It is a stone rolling down a hill, a leaf falling from a tree, light replacing shadow as the sun rises above the tops of the trees. Tao makes a space in the known where the unknown can happen. Poised right here, right now, at the place where I stand, Tao is the ongoing ever-imminent, ever-astonishing arising of the possible.
1 Soothill, Dictionary of Buddhist Terms.
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