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  Lead Acupuncturist and founder of the practice, Tara began studying traditional forms of medicine in the mid-1990s.   Beginning with Asian bodywork, qi gong, and meditation, she later trained in community based western and native herbalism. She worked as massage therapist specializing in shiatsu, tui na and orthopedic massage for close to 20 years before beginning formal study of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2011. Tara received her Master's degree at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, and Bachelor's at UC Berkeley in Medical Anthropology.

 Tara enjoys bringing resonance, connectivity and celebration to the process of the practicing medicine. She partners with patients to cultivate health while finding levity, humor, comfort and joy in the (sometimes challenging!) healing process. 

 

From acupuncture to herbs to bodywork, Tara is grateful to have the opportunity to fully show up, a curious, diligent researcher who aims to bring heart to each session.  She is proud to be a part of a great, profoundly rooted medical tradition and is grateful to the teachers and elders in her spiritual and medical lineages. Currently, Tara is deepening her work through the study of Classical Acupuncture, the extra ordinary vessels and complement channels as well as Daoist Healing with Da Yuan Circle

 

    Tara believes in making sure all kinds of populations access acupuncture, herbal medicine and Traditional Chinese medicine. She can treat fluently in Portuguese and (so so) Spanish and has worked through her career in choosing to align with projects and organizations that bring holistic health into more accessible public health spaces. Most recently she transformed her private practice, Tara Bianca Rado Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine into the 501c3 non-profit organization, Durham Integrative Health and Acupuncture Center, moving to officially offer a sliding scale. Previously she volunteered monthly at Caare in downtown Durham with folks in recovery and under-served elders, among other volunteer projects.  She loves working with the LGBTQ community and is educated on the healthcare aspects of gender transitions and respectful of the full diversity of the expression of sex and gender.

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In her free time, Tara spends a lot of time in the kitchen and the garden and is currently studying Zi Wei Dou Shou/ Polestar Astrology and pilates. She is the proud mama of a very cool and happy teen at DSA in Durham, the apple of her eye. 

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Attention is the beginning of devotion ~ Mary Oliver

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Durham Integrative Health and Acupuncture Center

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819 Broad Street, Durham, NC 27705

 

Please park on Broad St. and come to the back entrance.

The number to text is in the confirmation emails.

 

 tarabiancaacupuncture@gmail.com

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This practice is a 501c3 charity organization 

Federal ID #933732628

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