Dr Jane Hong:
about
Healing is not becoming someone new. It is returning to who you were before you learned to hold everything alone.
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My story
Healing is not becoming someone new. It is returning to who you were before you learned to hold everything alone.
My path into this work did not begin in acupuncture. It began in pharmacy.
I was trained to understand physiology through chemistry and numbers. I learned how to manage symptoms with precision and how to interpret what the body was reporting through laboratory data. That education shaped the way I think. I continue to respect it deeply.
At the same time, I began noticing patients whose results appeared normal while their lived experience did not. Their symptoms could be managed, but remained unresolved. Many were intelligent and capable people who could not explain why they still felt unwell.
I did not yet have language for what I was observing. I only sensed that the story of health was more complex than I had been taught.
HOW IT STARTED
Long before I ever considered formal training in acupuncture, I encountered a different perspective through my uncle. One afternoon he studied my posture and facial structure and began naming health patterns I had never spoken about with unsettling accuracy. It sparked a curiosity that would alter the direction of my life.
In the early 1980s, my uncle survived a devastating accident. When doctors told him he would only have 6 months to live without surgery, he declined and chose instead to devote himself entirely to understanding healing. He studied relentlessly. Manual therapies, energetic systems, nutrition, self-built devices. Within his small community he became known as someone people sought when conventional answers had nothing more to offer.
For a period of time I visited him weekly in private apprenticeship. We spoke about modalities, systems, recipes, and the deeper mechanics of how bodies change. When his health declined and our lessons ended, the imprint of those conversations remained.
The First teacher
Years later, I reached a point in my own career where the life I had built no longer felt aligned with the truth I sensed internally. From the outside, everything appeared great. I not only succeeded at becoming who I was expected to be, I excelled at it. Yet that life I proudly built began to feel increasingly confined.
Leaving pharmacy was not a single decision nor a gentle pivot. My life dismantled over time and forced me to confront what happens when the life you built no longer matches the truth in your body. There was grief in releasing an identity I had invested years into forming. There was vigilance and uncertainty as I allowed one chapter of my life to close before the next was clearly visible. Choosing alignment required more courage than any professional achievement I had pursued before.
What returned in its place was coherence. From that point forward, my perception deepened.
Through further training in acupuncture and Chinese medicine, and through continued exploration of nervous system regulation and subtle energetic organization, my understanding of transformation evolved. I had once believed that meaningful change required intensity or disruption. Experience revealed a gentler possibility. Softer adjustments, applied with consistency and precision, can reshape patterns that once seemed permanent. This perspective shapes how I practice today.
The realignment
Today, my work centers on helping people return to coherence within their own bodies. I work with the nervous system, structural patterns, and subtler energetic organization that influences how a person experiences their life.
Many who find me are accustomed to being strong for others. They have learned to function through discomfort and to remain steady in environments that demand resilience. Over time, this strength can become a form of holding that the body no longer needs but does not know how to release alone. When safety is re-established and structural patterns begin to shift, change often unfolds naturally.
Spiral of Return emerged from the understanding that healing rarely occurs linear. What appears to be repetition is often a deeper integration of what has already been learned. My role is not to force transformation, but to guide its unfolding with precision and steadiness.
What i do now
• B.S. Microbiology
• PharmD — Doctor of Pharmacy
• MTOM — Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine
• DAcCHM — Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese
Herbal Medicine
• Masters Certificate in Nutrition Consulting
• Spinal Flow Technique Practitioner
• Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT®)
Level II
• Holy Fire® Reiki Level II
• Medical Cannabis Certification
• Currently training in Somatic Energy Integration
Training & credentials
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Structured nervous system recalibration and subtle system reorganization.
Los Angeles, California
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