ASIAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL STUDIES Located in central Tucson, the Asian Institute is a small, eclectic college that offers Masters degree programs in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Its bustling teaching clinic offers affordable acupuncture and Chinese herbs to the community. The institute is affiliated with the University of Arizona through research projects and with the Arizona Center for Integrated Medicine. Linda’s husband, Alex Holland, M.Ac., L.Ac., is president and co-founder of the Asian Institute. He is also a TCM faculty of the AzCIM as well as a Commissioner for ACAOM—the National accrediting body for acupuncture schools. The mission of the Asian Institute is to offer quality and compassionate education and healthcare that focuses on the whole person—body, mind and spirit—and the healing of the community and planet one person at a time.

Located in central Tucson, the Asian Institute is a small, eclectic college that offers Masters degree programs in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. Its bustling teaching clinic offers affordable acupuncture and Chinese herbs to the community. The institute is affiliated with the University of Arizona through research projects and with the Arizona Center for Integrated Medicine. Linda’s husband, Alex Holland, M.Ac., L.Ac., is president and co-founder of the Asian Institute. He is also a TCM faculty of the AzCIM as well as a Commissioner for ACAOM—the National accrediting body for acupuncture schools. The mission of the Asian Institute is to offer quality and compassionate education and healthcare that focuses on the whole person—body, mind and spirit—and the healing of the community and planet one person at a time.

Dear Friends,

I was trained in California and Beijing, China and have been practicing Chinese medicine and acupuncture for over 20 years. I practice privately at Acacia Acupuncture in Tucson, as well as at the University of Arizona Campus Health Sports Medicine Department, where I delight in assisting students and faculty find better balance physically and emotionally. I practiced acupuncture at Canyon Ranch Health Resort for 6 years, where I developed "Acuphoria", an anti-stress protocol. I am a co-founder, with my husband Alex Holland, of the Asian Institute of Medical Studies that offers Masters degree programs in acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

As a practitioner of Chinese Medicine these many years, my commitment is to help relieve pain and distress and open the way for greater aliveness and joy. I work from a Taoist perspective of straddling the Middle Way and balancing Doing-Not-Doing, not unlike Carl Jung’s concept of “holding the tension of the opposites”. I find comfort in paradox and dancing with Yin, Yang and Jung and look for humor in the human condition. My focus is on preventive medicine and holistic wellness education, psychospiritual mind-body healing, women's health, issues of aging and being in transition. My most rewarding and joyful work is Akashic Acupuncture that I developed in 1996 to get to the Heart of the Matter. It includes reading the Akashic Records of an individual to give voice to the Soul, its purpose and its eternal presence.

We’re all on a unique journey that often feels like a roller coaster ride between heaven and hell. Yet somewhere our lives intersect where we get a flash of recognition that we’re all one and all in this together, each imperfectly perfect. What a blast of awakening! I believe that we’re all here to wake up and that all healing is homecoming. My role is as wayshower along the path.

To our unfolding!

Linda Joy

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