Seeing

Healing is an art.

So the healer should be an artist. Inside the clinic, the craft, the lineage, and the space I built by hand.

Watch

Hydration, in the view of Chinese medicine.

A short teaching on how you hydrate matters more than how much you hydrate.

More teachings coming to YouTube soon.

In the Treatment Room

The work itself.

Classical channel needling along the back at Gateway, Hillcrest San Diego Fire cupping during a session at Gateway Acupuncture Facial acupuncture at Gateway Acupuncture Moxibustion at Gateway Acupuncture Tui na bodywork at Gateway Acupuncture Pulse-guided needling at Gateway Acupuncture

The Space

Built by hand.

I renovated the clinic myself and documented the whole transformation. A sanctuary is something you make from your heart.

The treatment room at Gateway Acupuncture, Hillcrest San Diego Tea service in the Gateway Acupuncture sanctuary
Before & after renovation photos coming.

The Artist's Hand

Art and the practice.

The same attention that guides a needle guides the motion of creation.

Taijitu, a hand-painted yin-yang diptych by Diego Garcia
Taijitu. A hand-painted diptych.
More pieces
shared over time

Lineage

With my teachers.

This medicine is passed hand to hand. Read about the lineage →

Diego Garcia with his teacher Master Kao San Lun
With Master Kao San Lun, my qi gong teacher and the lineage holder of Little Nine Heaven kung fu and Xi Sui Gong, who teaches across Asia.
Diego Garcia with his Daoist alchemy teachers Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy
With Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy of the Alchemy Learning Center, my teachers in Daoist alchemy.

Photos with Ann Cecil-Sterman and Jeffrey Yuen coming soon.

The Making

An evolving craft.

The clinic, the brand, the site: built and reworked by hand until each felt right. Watching a thing find its form is its own kind of art.

Gateway Acu 1.0 — the first clinic

Before
coming soon
After
coming soon

Gateway Acu 2.0 — the clinic today

Laying the new floor by hand during the Gateway Acupuncture build-out
During the build: laying the floor by hand.
Before
coming soon
After
coming soon

The homepage, then and now

The original Gateway Acupuncture homepage on a phone
The original site, when the clinic was Gateway Acupuncture & Wellness.

The site you are reading now is the after. As the work turned fully toward classical medicine and Daoist alchemy, Gateway Acupuncture & Wellness became Gateway Acupuncture & Alchemy. See the homepage →

The mark, finding its form

Early ouroboros concept for the Gateway mark
The first concept.
An early colored draft of the Gateway emblem
A colored draft.
The finished Gateway Acupuncture & Alchemy mark
The finished mark.

The cards

Business cards
coming soon