Yelty’s passion for acupuncture and Oriental medicine germinated as she experienced the great healing potential of these holistic modalities herself.
Yelty decided to devote her career to inspire others by promoting healing through her education, intensive training, and her own experience of battling with a 16-year health crisis. Yelty sought various treatments ranging from well-established, conventional medicine to holistic medicine. She was told by many providers that her diagnosis was idiopathic and she had to live with it for the rest of her life.
Taking ownership of her health, she continued her quest, and discovered a naturalistic, holistic, and powerful healing journey through acupuncture and Oriental medicine which has allowed her to untangle her problems one layer at a time. Over the next few years, her body was restored to a healthy state.
Yelty spent four and a half years of training in an Oriental Medicine & Acupuncture School in Minnesota with Chinese Herbal Medicine Specialization. Additionally, she received trainings and certifications from several internationally renowned Oriental medicine doctors to deepen her practice.
Yelty enjoys practicing both TCM internal medicine and musculoskeletal dysfunction. She offers care for acute and chronic pain symptoms resulting from repetitive tasks, trauma/injuries, aging, incorrect posture, overexercise, muscle overuse, sedentary lifestyle and post-surgical recovery.
As a holistic practitioner, Yelty has successfully treated a wide variety of cases, most notably: snapping hip syndrome due to hip replacement surgery, fibromyalgia, numbness and tingling in hands, urinary tract infection, concussion injury, eustachian tube blockage, stage-3 tuberculosis, and side effects from medications such as a TB drug.
Other successful cases include longstanding painful swollen ankle, chronic painful wrists, plantar fasciitis, knee pain, testicular pain, PMS, TMJ, acute and lingering common cold symptoms, and chronic shoulder pain.
Prior to practicing acupuncture, Yelty was a computer scientist. Her past experience prepared her for a rather unique, intuitive, logical and analytical approach to her practice. The 3,000-year-old acupuncture and oriental medicine healing modality opened up her eyes to a natural and holistic way of living and healing through zang-fu foundational theory, meridian system and yin/yang balancing in the human body. The body energy network systems are not too different from the binary computing network system. She observed that everything in life is interconnected; some concepts can be translated and some are interchangeable in context.
Yelty is a traveler and outdoor enthusiast. Her love and curiosity for nature, wildlife, and cultural diversity led to her interest in the interconnectedness of life. She is a certified Qi Gong, meditation and mindfulness practitioner and also an advanced T’ai Chi practitioner, following the lineage of a renowned T’ai Chi master & Oriental medicine physician, Master Cheng Man-Ch’ing.
