Blue Lotus Healing Arts, LLC

Blue Lotus Healing Arts is a women-owned, multidisciplinary wellness center in Needham offering acupuncture, massage, energy healing and yoga, along with qigong and mat Pilates. Its foundation is the Taoist nature tradition behind classical Five Element Acupuncture. The center treats its core practices of acupuncture, yoga and massage as complementary paths to healing and awareness, and it aims to be a community space where people can exercise, meditate, relax and heal.

Kathleen Krivak is a licensed acupuncturist, energy healer and shamanic practitioner who earned her master’s degree with honors from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in 1994. She later taught and supervised at the school’s student clinic and treated patients with HIV and AIDS at a clinic in Washington, DC. Practitioner Kirsten Allen, a Wellesley College graduate, earned her acupuncture master’s from the same institute in 2001 and has long worked in private practice.

What to Know

• Kirsten Allen holds national board certification in acupuncture from the NCCAOM and is licensed by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine.
• Kathleen Krivak has studied Buddhist meditation for 26 years and trained in shamanic healing with Eliot Cowan and Tom Cowan.
• The Traditional Acupuncture Institute is now Maryland University of Integrated Health.
• The center is listed as a women-owned business with the Charles River Regional Chamber.