Tatyana Ryevzina, LAc
I grew up in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States as a teen, living in New York and Chicago before moving to the Bay Area in 1998. I have been involved with the various Eastern healing and spiritual traditions for almost 20 years. I began as a Yoga instructor and as a practitioner of Ohashiatsu bodywork and have been practicing Chinese Medicine since 2003. In addition to my private practice, I have worked as an herbal pharmacist and as an herbs instructor at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland. I currently volunteer at the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic in Oakland, serving low-income women with cancer.

I have been deeply inspired and revived by my discovery of Community Acupuncture practice model. I see this type of acupuncture practice as the most sustainable and most fitting to my values. It makes sense to me from the point of view of healthcare access, social justice, spirituality, and as an antidote to isolation.

I live in Albany with a wonderful partner and three cats. I am a somewhat sporadic practitioner of Buddhist meditation; I enjoy swimming, knitting and reading books in Russian.

Pamela O’Malley Chang, LAc
I grew up in Massachusetts, daughter of a Chinese immigrant biologist father and an American-born librarian mother whose father was a Chinese herbalist. Initially rejecting medicine as a career, I became an architect/civil engineer specializing in eco-friendly residential renovation. After side-trips into the nonprofit world, and a bout with early-stage ovarian cancer,
I received a Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine from the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland, California and am licensed to practice acupuncture in California.

Having a deep-seated desire for a world with ample resources for people to create their own solutions to everyday problems,
I am delighted to be a founding partner of Sarana Community Acupuncture and a member of the growing Community Acupuncture Network.

Outside of work, I am a volunteer at the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic—a free alternative therapies center for low-income women with cancer, and am a contributing editor to Yes!Magazine, journal of the positive futures network.
I practice a variety of tai chi and qi gong forms, am an enthusiastic if mediocre violinist, and have dreams of creating a deer-free organic vegetable garden in my Berkeley backyard. I am also a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School,
a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Micronesia), and the owner of a solar-electric roof.