Agency Details:

East West Academy of Healing Arts

By integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern Western medicine, we aim to promote peak performance and individual health and to improve our health care system through education, conferences, research, and clinical work.

Description:
East West Academy of Healing Arts (EWAHA) is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization founded in1973 by Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow, dedicated to integrating holistic Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Modern Western Medicine (MWM) with a special focus on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Qigong. We foster the practice of excellence in promoting optimum health through educational, clinical, and research activities. To do so, we utilize holistic subtle energy healing concepts of Body, Mind, and Spirit connecting with nature. Our goals include bringing the best of health care for all people, giving hope and results for our clients with serious and minor conditions where all else may have previously failed. We also coach world-class athletes. We celebrate the miracle of life. Our new program, "The International Children and Youth Project for Healing and Peace" will emanate this miracle.

History:
The East West Academy of Healing Arts is a non-profit corporation founded in 1973 by Dr. Effie Poy Yew Chow. Dr. Chow is an international health practitioner, acupuncturist, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advisor and a public health and psychiatric nurse with a Masters in Behavioral Sciences and a Ph.D. in Higher Education

East West Academy offers a range of services:

• Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation for private clients
• Stress Management
• Corporate health, & and motivational programs
• Consultation & educational seminars
• Group training in the Chow system
• Intercultural medical & health services exchanges
  
  

East West Academy has treated many satisfied clients from all walks of life: business people, athletes, physicians, educators, homemakers, engineers, accountants, ballet dancers, opera singers, journalists, artists, secretaries, longshoremen, architects, attorneys, chemists, nurses and many more. Most of our clients have been referred to East West Academy by Western health care professionals. And she often directs her clients to Western physicians and medical facilities.

Contact people:

Ann Colichidas, Special Projects Manager, (phone), (email) Effie Chow, Executive Director

Main office number: (415) 285-9400
Office fax number: 415-647-5745

Address:

117 Topaz Way San Francisco, CA 94131 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.eastwestqi.com

Miscellaneous Information

Besides English, which languages are spoken at your agency?
	Cantonese, Mandarin
What is the minimum age for volunteers at your agency?
	what is legal by law.
Is your agency wheelchair accessible?
	No
Does your agency have the capacity to host groups of more than 10?
	No
Does your agency have the capacity to host groups of more than 20?
	No

Last updated on June 5, 2009