I’m Lilly Atlihan, LAc., licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, artist & oracle practicing in San Miguel de Allende
I graduated from Pacific College of Health and Science with a Masters of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MSTOM) in 2020. Since 2014, I have also studied and translated Traditional Tibetan Medicine.
I’ve helped hundred of patients with a broad range of complaints, including injury, infertility, immune disorder, digestive disorder, insomnia, mental-emotional distress, and reproductive health issues.
I also offer oracular guidance. As a spirit medium, I help clients find answers to pressing life questions by delivering messages from the Unseen.
To book a session or find out more, contact me via email or WhatsApp
My practice is located in Guadalupe. I look forward to supporting your healing.
The Full Story
I’m a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, artist and oracle. My practice of the healing arts is informed by 20 years of study and practice in mystical and animist traditions including Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese metaphysics, Central Asian shamanism, West Asian folk magic, and Microanimism.
For me, the practice of the healing arts, ‘fine’ arts, folk craft, ritual and divinatory arts are not fundamentally separable. It is the interweaving of these threads that creates the body of my work.
What does that look like in practice? Well, if you come for acupuncture for a shoulder injury, I will use my knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine channels to treat your pain and support your tissue recovery. But the deep knowledge my hands have cultivated in fiber art, in kneading dough, in pouring offerings comes with me into the treatment.
Similarly, if a person comes seeking oracular guidance about an upcoming life change, the knowledge of the seasons and elements, the signatures of time and the potencies of plants and foods that I have cultivated in my study of traditional medicines comes with me into the reading.
Whatever service I am offering, being able to use my skills and hands to help others experience transformation is an incomparable joy.
My path of practice began when I started studying Tibetan Buddhism two decades ago. Inspired by my faith, I cultivated a devotional practice of ritual art, moved to north India, became a Tibetan language interpreter, and began 10 years of study, translation and practice of Traditional Tibetan Medicine. In Mongolia, in 2013 I first received the call of my Spirit Guides, though I would not begin acting as a medium until much later.
When I returned to the US, I studied Traditional Chinese Medicine and earned a Masters in Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine at Pacific College of Health and Science in NYC.
After graduating, I worked for several years at a fast-paced practice in NYC focused on reproductive health. There I gained an enormous amount from working with a high volume of patients, addressing a wide range of reproductive health problems, alongside digestive, metabolic, mental-emotional, immune, and sleep issues.
The most essential thing I learned in working in that environment is that the body is older than capitalism. Our bodies are descended of ancient stuff and the imposition of extractive logics upon them takes an enormous toll. We are meant to dance and work, and to lie idle and feel the dirt. There are no substitutes for time spent speaking with a tree or yearning towards the sky.
My healing practice is thoroughly integrative. I fully support the use of modern biomedicine alongside traditional medicines, they are excellent complements to one another. But no matter what tools we use, we cannot outrun our animal bodies. And so I’ve set out to create a practice that honors that truth.
While I love the practice of acupuncture and herbalism, I have also received a calling to spirit mediumship. I keep these modalities separate, but both are integral to who I am and what I bring to the world. Bring me your questions, and I will do my best to bring forth answers.
Welcome.