About Guest House
Like a guest that overstays its welcome, we sometimes get stuck in feelings, routines, or dynamics that stagnate our moving through life.
This stuckness resides in our house-body and manifests in health issues like pain, chronic disorders, and illness. These are signals to self-examine. It is the body’s invitation to get curious, oust what is no longer needed, and flow in life’s transiency like the guest that comes and goes. It is a calling to take up residence in one’s life with purpose, willpower, and a generosity of spirit.
The Acupoint
Guest House is the name of the first acupoint on the Yin Wei Mai trajectory. This sequence of points supports continuity of Self through transitions, mediation between internal and external terrains, and satisfaction in occupying our bodies and lives. It is an analgesic point, a point that grounds patients experiencing trauma, and a detoxification point used during pregnancy to protect the guest in a mother’s womb.
The Practice
As a practice, Guest House offers self-exploration through process-work where physical ailments are portals to deep self-knowledge. Guest House initiates conversation and affords the language to understand medicine in a multi-dimensional way, operating outside of corporate, capitalist, exclusionary systems that are meant to divide and standardize. It is founded on relationships that uncover and foster what is already beneficially present through deep listening and observation.
About Chinese Medicine
Why is Chinese Medicine relevant today?
Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest living medical practices, so how can a millennia-old system be relevant to the health needs of today? Biomedicine views the body as a machine that can be repaired through intervention. A modern result of this paradigm is dissociation from the body, perceiving illness as something that happens to you and needs to be fixed.
Chinese Medicine views illness as an opportunity. Just like in human interaction, problems arise when there is a breakdown in the body’s communication. By examining the relationships involved, this timeless healing system re-establishes connection and harmonizes imbalances to relieve symptoms. The opportunity is to grow aware of needs that are not being met, recalibrate, and better align with our life’s purpose, whether we are conscious of it or not. It is an emphasis on prevention vs. cure.
Caring for each other in a fragmented world.
While there is a plethora of modalities to work with, techniques are just a vehicle. The actual process of healing goes back to relationships – of our presence together, in noticing the knowing direction of your mind-body, and making space for wholeness to emerge.
Amidst current existential threats, Chinese Medicine’s offering to care by listening, observing, and helping where needed is a necessary counterpoint to our polarized and compartmentalized lives. We’re in this together.
About Aimee Chang
Practitioner of Chinese Medicine
I trained and worked as a licensed architect and owner of a vineyard and winery. The Architect and The Winemaker are valued in society as alchemical, magically transforming drawings into buildings and grapes into wine. These are fields where oneness, genius, and exceptional constitutional gifts are valued and rewarded. Where individuals compete for awards endowed and titles bestowed because we are groomed to believe in a scarcity of resources.
In contrast, when I think about the most transformational experiences in my life, it is in communion with others, connected to the abundance of the universe. Lying on our backs, staring at the Milky Way emerge from a blackening sky. The resonant vibration of instrument and audience emotion as the music swells in a performance hall. The partnership in labor of body, baby, and the strength of all mothers who came before.
Chinese Medicine shows me that a microcosm of the universe exists in each of us, rooted in a consciousness of unity. Our bodies hold all the intelligence needed and we are the alchemists of our own transformation. When we suffer, we can feel alone. But in presence together, things shift, and we expand towards wholeness of being. This is healing.
I’m on that journey towards awareness, alignment, and actualization.
Practice
Mother, student, creator, and believer that we are all inherently valuable with the capacity for change and growth
Graduate of UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Sonoma State, and Pacific College of Health and Science (2026 candidate)
Clinical training with The Moshen Center, Five Seasons Healing, Yinova, and Columbia Health, plus specialization studies with Jing Shen Pediatrics