About Us

Under the direction and supervision of Nan Lu, OMD, the Tao of Healing is staffed by sensitive, dedicated and caring healthcare practitioners who have trained with him many years. Like Dr. Lu, their goal is to help you reclaim the healing power you were born with.

Nan Lu, OMD, LAc

Dr. Nan Lu is a gifted cross-cultural communicator and healthcare practitioner who can interpret essential and timeless healing truths with clarity, depth, compassion and humor. He is a high-level Qigong or energy master and a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. His classical training has opened him to the special wisdom and knowledge transmitted to him by his gifted masters.

As spiritual guide and master, he teaches Wu Ming Qigong and in his practice, he helps patients understand Five-Element Consciousness—the role that spiritual, emotional and physical energy imbalances play in illness and disease.

Dr. Lu holds holds a doctorate from Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medcine, Hubei, China, and is a New York State-licensed acupuncturist. Classically and university trained, Dr. Lu is a master herbalist as well as an internationally recognized Taiji expert and Qigong master and the best-selling author of three TCM books published by Harper Collins.

Dr. Lu is the founder of Building Bridges of Integration for Traditional Chinese Medicine, a landmark conference for healthcare professionals. Dr. Lu has served as an advisor to the Rosenthal Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He currently serves on the boards of the National Association of Transpersonal Psychology and the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. He is an executive board member of the Center for Culturally Competent Education and Training, School of Social Welfare, SUNY at Stony Brook.

Dr. Lu has been featured in Newsweek (special issue on alternative medicine) and was a subject of the PBS documentary Harmony and Spirit: Chinese Americans in New York.