“It’s not important to follow a list of accomplishments about anyone. Academic and practical externalities don’t define us. Learn it and forget it, master it and move on. Trying to find a comfortable vantage point from which to rest in the changeable landscape of space and time and doing so in human form with a human mind is at best a seductive deception. The empathic gifts of healers and wisdom holders the world over are not magical or even rare. It is my experience that we are complete. Embracing our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual state—regardless of what we think our abiding self is—may in fact unlock our empathic capacity for ourselves, those around us and the world we live within. This is the path of healing.”
—Eréne Lejeune
About Eréne
Eréne has taught, written about, and used traditional medicine in her work for more than two decades. You can usually find her in Bellingham, Washington-the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary homelands of Coast Salish Peoples.
Eréne feels fortunate to continue to have the opportunity to study and travel with great knowledge-holders of traditional medicines, ritual, and spiritual practices from around the world. Her work is in a continual state of growth, and it always reflects—and is in honor of—these peoples and influences. She is dedicated to the respectful reintegration of living wisdom traditions to promote human understanding and reciprocity with the natural world.
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Eréne Lejeune, སྔགས་མ་ཀུན་བཟང་མ། has studied, taught, written about, and used Traditional Medicines and meditation practices for over 25 years. From Chinese Daoist and Tibetan Buddhist medical and spiritual traditions—as well as Indigenous Medicines from North, Central and South America—she began her lifelong interest into Asian contemplative and spiritual traditions and traditional medicines of the world in 1998 after spending a stint at university studying biological anthropology. There she met a Mayan Shaman practitioner who taught her the traditional techniques of visceral manipulation as a path, and she eventually found the practice of Chi Nei Tsang, a Chinese abdominal and organ massage technique. She later traveled (and studied) through Central and South America, eventually landing in the Bay Area where she met Gilles Marin, founder of the Chi Nei Tsang Institute. She received her practitioner and teaching credentials from the institute in 2003.
She was fortunate to study Daoism, Chan/Zen, Tantric Buddhism, Chinese Polestar Astrology, Feng Shui, Dream practice, Chinese Bupin Herbs/nourishment and the Three Treasures(Santidao), Classical Chinese Medicine Theory, ritual and other wisdom traditions with Liu Ming, founder of Da Yuan Circle from 2005 until his death in 2015. Eréne is currently president of Da Yuan Circle, a Bay Area religious non-profit centered around his expression of these traditions.
In 2008, Eréne met and began her study in Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM) with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang, a renowned Traditional Tibetan Medicine Doctor. She accompanied Dr. Nida to his home in Amdo, Tibet in 2010. She was also fortunate to study with Dr. Machig Sogdzon, a Tibetan Medicine professor in Amdo/Qinghai. After completing a unique clinical internship in the Himalayan territory and in the urban clinic at Qinghai Hospital, she became Executive Director of The Sorig Institute until 2012. In 2014, Eréne was among a small cohort of students that completed the Four Tantras (Gyüd Shi). She has received the transmission and blessings from Dr. Nida to use the holistic practice of Traditional Tibetan Medicine as a practitioner and received her Ngakma ordination from him as well. In addition to TTM, Eréne has studied the Creation stage Guru Yogas, Completion Stage Yogas of Tümmo, Illusory Body, Dream, Clear Light, Phowa and Bardo. She has been teaching Nejang Tibetan Healing Yoga (naljor (རྣལ་འབྱོར།) and has also received the Lüjong Trulkhor and Tümmo Yogas teachings. She continues to study with Dr. Nida.
Outside of these traditions, she has trained in Daoist medicine and longevity practices as well as rejuvenation practices from the Tibetan tradition and has a Master Herbalist diploma in Western Herbal Medicine and was adjunct faculty for the Golden Gate School of Feng Shui.
Eréne is dedicated to the preservation, application and dynamic reintegration of all human Wisdom Traditions as an essential contribution in the modern world. As a result of this dedication, Eréne consults with various institutions and organizations and has helped develop curricula of traditional medicine and wisdom schools as well as various publications and intangible cultural heritage programs in collaboration with the knowledge holders of those traditions. Currently, and in community with other dedicated practitioners of East Asian traditional philosophies, she has started an online program with Da Yuan Circle which is a qualified continuing education provider for licensed acupuncturists. DYC will also publish several more works including The Butterfly Book 2nd Edition by Liu Ming now available. Check back for more information or visit Da Yuan Circle
all travel photos belong to Eréne Lejeune and may not be used or shared without permission.