The Satori Spa in Katonah, New York Bridges the Gap Between Eastern and Western Medicine
The term holistic medicine can sometimes conjure up the image of out of the mainstream, upscale hippies who put their healthcare in the faith of an untested science, while they thumb their noses at the norms of Western medicine. In reality, holistic medicine amounts to nothing more than a type of treatment which integrates Western medicine and Eastern medicine, according to Sandy Lussi of the Satori Spa in Katonah, New York.
So when Satori clients are referred in by their medical doctors, it naturally follows that they continue on with treatment that satisfies the best of both worlds. "It's great to do both, because there's things that medication can do to really help," she says, while the advantages Satori offers its clients are contained within.
Within a person's own body, that is. "It really helps the body help itself," she says of the medicine she studied for four years ( as did her Satori partner Gary Sapolin) at the Pacific School of Oriental Medicine in New York City. But her journey from Western Civilization to Eastern Medicine did not take the shortest distance between two points.
At 17, she left Pound Ridge to attend College at the University of Colorado, where she majored in Geology with two years of study in Biology. After graduating, she meandered off to California and made a living as a musician for several years.
She also began working in health food stores and acquired enough of an interest in herbs to consider pursuing the discipline academically. Only studying herbology requires a curriculum that encompasses acupuncture. "I wanted to become an acupuncturist, but I didn't want to use acupuncture," she says.
So she returned to her starting point in 1995 and after three years of witnessing the results of this 3000 year old technique at the Pacific School, she uprooted her focus from the study of herbs to practicing acupuncture. There she met Mr. Sapolin, who is a Katonah father of two boys, and formed a merger of knowledge in Satori that truly stretches across the prime meridian.
So when Satori clients are referred in by their medical doctors, it naturally follows that they continue on with treatment that satisfies the best of both worlds. "It's great to do both, because there's things that medication can do to really help," she says, while the advantages Satori offers its clients are contained within.
Within a person's own body, that is. "It really helps the body help itself," she says of the medicine she studied for four years ( as did her Satori partner Gary Sapolin) at the Pacific School of Oriental Medicine in New York City. But her journey from Western Civilization to Eastern Medicine did not take the shortest distance between two points.
At 17, she left Pound Ridge to attend College at the University of Colorado, where she majored in Geology with two years of study in Biology. After graduating, she meandered off to California and made a living as a musician for several years.
She also began working in health food stores and acquired enough of an interest in herbs to consider pursuing the discipline academically. Only studying herbology requires a curriculum that encompasses acupuncture. "I wanted to become an acupuncturist, but I didn't want to use acupuncture," she says.
So she returned to her starting point in 1995 and after three years of witnessing the results of this 3000 year old technique at the Pacific School, she uprooted her focus from the study of herbs to practicing acupuncture. There she met Mr. Sapolin, who is a Katonah father of two boys, and formed a merger of knowledge in Satori that truly stretches across the prime meridian.
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