Alaina Speraw

Alaina Speraw graduated from Sonoma State College with degrees in Humanistic Psychology and India Studies. She did her senior research project in India on how a Tibetan refuge community was adapting to life in Northern India. After college she worked in the natural food industry managing health food stores and then representing manufacturers of vitamins.

She lived in Japan in 1981-2 where she had the opportunity to study traditional Japanese arts of Chado (tea ceremony) and Ikebana (flower arranging). After returning to the US she continued her studies of contemplative arts and became a meditation instructor in the Shambhala - Buddhist tradition after attending the 1980 Seminary in Lake Louise Canada.

Alaina attended Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine and became a licensed Acupuncturist in Califo ia in 1987. She founded Morningtide Acupuncture Clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Society of Acupuncturists.

After returning to the United States she provided Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine services at world class health resort Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, worked on the NIH funded Depression Study and with Solstice Integrative Medical Associates.

She currently lives and practices in Scottsdale, Arizona where she established Goldlake Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine and sees cancer patients at the Virginia Piper Cancer Center part time.