Kyle Chapin

LMBT, Acupuncturist
Swedish I and II, Deep Tissue, Asian Massage

Being encouraged by family and friends started my career as a Massage Therapist. I was told I had “great hands”. I went to Massage school after college. I obtained a B.A. in Philosophy, emphasizing my studies on Eastern religions and philosophies, at American University. I had always had a passion for Eastern cultures, which were spurned from a long-term practice with the Martial Arts and meditation. From my studies, I had learned how these ancient teachings showed a deeper meaning of the spirit, mind, and body connection. This is when my love affair with the healing arts began. After being in the field of Massage Therapy for more than a decade I began treatment with a Five Element Acupuncturist. Acupuncture changed my life by awakening a deeper sense of values. When I would leave my practitioner's office the world became new again, full of possibilities that I had never realized. I received so many amazing gifts I wanted to share them with the world. I went back to school and obtained a Masters degree in Acupuncture from the Tai Sophia Institute.

I continue to work as both Massage Therapist and Acupuncturist. I feel that the gifts from each modality are immense and have merits by their own rights. Over the past 15 years of my practice as a healer, I have honed my ability to teach, to influence and inspire others through speaking, and have cultivated a healing presence and sense of observer that keeps me in a constant state of being a learner, of reflecting on not only what I do but how I am being. I feel that the cultivation of this observer is more important often than the technique and I marry these two—teaching and being—in my practice, in my conversation with others, and in my teaching. Helping educate the school and the public of the gifts of massage on the therapeutic level is a vision that I hold. One of my deep desires is to bring in new ideas and innovation to the theory and practice of massage and the healing arts.