Tara Matthews, L.Ac

Tara Matthews, L.Ac, ERYT 500  holds a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and a love of healing practices ranging from nutrition to energy medicine to yoga. During her undergraduate and graduate work, she worked as a yoga teacher, energy work practitioner and personal fitness trainer in Montecito, CA and opened a health food store while studying for her state medical boards, fine tuning her exploration of both the esoteric and physical world, an art form that she still integrates today.

Tara is also an active, accredited KRI Kundalini Yoga Level 2 Yoga Teacher enrolled in Level 3 also trained in Hatha and Gong Healing practices, Certified IMW Wisdom Practitioner, and licensed and full-time Acupuncturist and Chinese Medical Practitioner. She brings a rich meditation and yoga lineage anchored in almost 20 years of Practice. As the co-founder and spaceholder of Soul Body Ojai, she aspires to inspire others to create a sustained weaving of practical awareness that comes with a daily practice of meditation, yoga, prayer technology and self-care through seasonal cycles. As a wife and mother, she understands the challenges and reward healing in the real world can bring, and she utilizes her gifts to help others see the beauty, meaningfulness, and articulated wholeness present as their life experience.

Tara sees patients, teaches yoga and workshops, facilitates Mystic Circles and Journeys around the world, and sees clients in Southern California and beyond.

My Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine sessions specialize in pain management, stress related issues, infertility, gynecology, digestive disorders, and general wellbeing.

Shamanic Energy Work is more free ranging and works with deep seated emotional and soul body integration patterns that affect life perception and can help the patient to realize freedom and peace, and health more fully.

During our first session, we include time for an initial exploration of your needs, your physical and energetic body condition and goals. We will then clear the energy meridians of the body to provide a clear pathway to deeper work. Secondary sessions and beyond depend upon decided goals and may include acupuncture, cupping, herbal and nutritional medicine suggestions, dietary amendments, tuina and guasa (Chinese myofacial release techniques), and yogic exercise prescriptions. Shamanic Energy work sessions are separate from Chinese Medicine and also include initial exploration and deeper work on the emotional and soul body level and may include breath work, guided emotional transformation techniques, Oneness Prayer Technology, Earth Medicine and Sound Therapy.

Acupuncture and Chinese Medical Session (Initial Session 90 min) $120
Acupuncture and Chinese Medical Session (Regular Session 60 min) $85
(These sessions may include myofacial release techniques, cupping, moxabustion, cranial sacral augmentation, and/or electro-acupuncture depending on patient’s needs)
Acupuncture Healing Dozen (11 Sessions to be used within one year~ include free initial intake): $850

Add-ons:
Reiki Energy Healing $50
Gong Therapy $50
Sat Nam Rasayan $50

Herbal Prescriptions: $15-$30

Cupping only (3o min): $55
Shamanic Energy Work Session (90 Minute): $175
Soul Remembering $120
Mentorship Sessions $120

Private Customized Yoga Sessions (60 minutes): $120

State Board of California, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Primary Health Care Provider
Institute of Modern Wisdom, Certified Wisdom Practitioner
Usui Reiki Level 2 Pracitioner
KRI Level 2 Practitioner of Kundalini Yoga
Santa Barbara Yoga Center Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor