MY STORY

I was born with a knowing I would become a doctor. My first introduction to natural medicine was through a family heirloom of herbal remedies by Saint Hildegard of Bingen, botanical illustrations intact with the Swiss–German script of my ancestry. Later, mystical wilderness experiences, along with the arrival of a serious illness following time spent abroad in Spain and Patagonia, led me to both receive and then pursue a medicine rooted in nature–classical East Asian Medicine.

MEET ALISON SCHNEIDER

Hello, I’m Alison! I am a mother, writer, acupuncturist and healer, in love with the world. My clinical practice is dedicated to women’s health, mental health, and pediatrics. For nearly a decade, I have been studying and integrating the tools of classical East Asian medicine and modern neuroscience to help whole families heal and thrive.

Informed by a multidisciplinary background in the arts, meditation, and movement therapies, I provide a unique lens in which to see, touch, and unravel old wounds. My holistic approach explores the intersection of functional medicine and thoughtful somatic practices to strengthen proper organ relationships, and illuminate the core beliefs imprinting your biology.

Through deep listening, you will learn how to care for your inner landscape, and to tend to the ecosystem of your nervous system, immune system, and psyche. This caretaking is health, which equates to wholeness. This is called nourishing life.  

HOW IT ENDS

My own life is enriched by the poetry of the everyday. I find joy in the forests, oceans, mountains, and flowers that surround us in Portland, OR, where I reside with my young daughter and her dad. Aurelia is beginning to sing, and we are remembering new songs.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Oregon Medical Board Licensed Acupuncturist

Certified Acupuncturist by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental

Medicine (NCCAOM)

National University of Natural Medicine, Master of Science in Oriental Medicine, High Honors

Traditional Mentorship Tutorial in Japanese Meridian Therapy

Traditional Mentorship Tutorial in Classical Chinese Herbalism

The University of Montana, Bachelor of Arts in English and Wilderness Studies, High Honors

TRAININGS

Kiiko Matsumoto Style Acupuncture 150 Hour Training Certificate

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) Mind Body Seminars

A Gathering of Senior Moxa Teachers: Japanese Immersion

Menarche to Menopause: Unique Japanese Acupuncture Strategies for Female Physiology: Menstruation | Fertility | Pregnancy | Post-Partum | Menopause

The High Art of Gentle Medicine: Teishin for Pain Management

Wisdom of Master Nagano: Foundational Training Series

Treating the Heart: Facial Teishin Techniques for Trauma, PTSD, and Depression

Taking Your Practice to the Next Level with Moxibustion

Under the Eagle’s Wing Mentorship and Apprenticeship Program with Shayne Case

Medicine Making: Flower, Stone, and Land Essences

Communicating with your Ancestral and Spiritual Guides

Strengthening Your Energetic Boundaries

M.E.T.A. Trainings: The Hakomi Institute of Oregon, Embodied Ethics

Heron Institute of Life Sciences: Sacred Mountain Retreat in Sichuan, China

Nourishing Life and Classical Chinese Medicine: Qigong, Meditation, and Herbal Science with Heiner Fruehauf, Phd, LAc, and Daoist master Wang Qingyu

Moving Mountain Institute: Cranialsacral Therapy and Myofascial Release

200 Hour YogaMotion Teacher Training: Yoga, Ayurveda and Plant Medicine

Aerie Backcountry Medicine, Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician