Golden Lotus Healing Arts

Golden Lotus Healing Arts is a holistic health practice in Arlington offering acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Its approach treats people as multi-dimensional beings whose mind, body, soul and spirit all affect wellbeing, and it frames care around eight pillars of health and wellbeing. The practice also draws on what it calls spirit medicine and on work with the shadow self, aiming to address what it sees as missing from mainstream healthcare.

Practitioner Meagan came to acupuncture as a patient in 2006, during a period when she felt lost, and credits her first treatment with finally getting her to apply for a volunteer post in Quito, Ecuador, where she lived for a year. There she worked on women’s rights and anti-violence efforts and provided legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. After returning and settling in Cambridge, she enrolled in a three-year Chinese medicine program to become an acupuncturist.

What to Know

• Her training included nine pre-med courses, three assistantships, 11 specialized clinics and four board exams before licensing.
• One patient testimonial describes relief from long-standing neck and shoulder tension after a first treatment.
• She aims to work with people who truly want to get better.
• The practice is a member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.