My journey into Acupuncture began with a lifelong curiosity about the body, medicine, and healing.

Since attending Acupuncture school in 2016, I’ve been continually inspired by the depth of Chinese Medicine, which challenges me to grow both personally and professionally.

Alongside, I train as an intuitive healer, exploring how the physical and spiritual worlds meet to shape our health, choices, and experience of life.

My African heritage and global path—from Kenya to the U.S. to Europe—inform my work and remind me that our joys and struggles are deeply shared across cultures.

In practice, I weave Chinese Medicine with intuitive healing while considering the social, structural, and personal forces that shape us.

In the course of this work, sitting with women, listening to their bodies, hearing the same fractures named in different voices, I began to write.

What started as personal reflection became something larger: a framework I call The Instinctual Woman, for women reconnecting with instinct and intuition after a lifetime of conditioning. The Somasana Journal is where that work lives, essays and reflections on identity, the body's knowing, and the slow return to self.

The acupuncture, the energy work, and the writing are not separate. They are two expressions of the same work: remembering and returning to oneself.

My role is to be a catalyst—awakening beauty within and without, regulating the nervous system, fostering emotional balance, and helping you reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence as a pathway to meaningful change.

Looking forward to holding space for you in your healing journey.

Vallerie Mwazo

Education & Credentials

• ASCA Recognized MTC Practitioner

• NCCAOM Board Certified (Dipl. O.M.)

• Infertility Series Course with Jane Lyttleton (2024)

• Healing Community Trauma in Times of Crisis, Acupuncturists Without Borders (2024)

• D.C. Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Herbalist

• Virginia Licensed Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Herbalist

• Bachelors of Science and Masters of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine

• Dr. Hammer/Shen Pulse Diagnosis

Training & Mentorship

• Level 1 Heart-Mind School with Annie Bond

• Mentorship with Dr. Khalid Shakoor on Energetics, Race, Black and African Culture (2016–Present)

• Consciousness Series with Zenen Torres, Cancún, México

• Professional Dancer with Companía Bajo Luz

Practice

• Founded Somasana (2022)

• Online Women's Energetic Circle (2023–2024)

• On-going Sound Baths in collaboration with local businesses and wellness providers

• Previously : Serasana Katy, Cherry Blossom Healing Arts