Tea Drinker, Book Lover,
Nature Stroller, Silent Sitter,
Acupuncturist, Zero Balancer, Cranial Sacral,
& Energy Healing Practitioner....
Nature Stroller, Silent Sitter,
Acupuncturist, Zero Balancer, Cranial Sacral,
& Energy Healing Practitioner....
"I see the essence of healing take place when that which is most essential & right, but has been forgotten due to various stressors, traumas, and just plain old life, gets brought back into awareness and our being gets reorganizes around the pivot of its own most inner wellness. When this takes place, what was simultaneously a stressful, exhausted, and maybe even despairing existence, likely to be experiencing chronic tensions with various aches and pains, possibly having a hard time sleeping, digesting, etcetera, is able to heal and once again express it's life energy with purpose and enthusiasm rather than overwhelm, anxiety, and fatigue.”
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Todd’s passion and curiosity about the healing arts likely began when he was a teenager and he experienced a profound shift in consciousness when being treated by acupuncture and other energy healing methods by one of his mother’s close friends. A few years later, his journey into the study of the healing arts was further solidified while he was a freshman attending the University of Florida and was taking the required course, English 101. It was there that he met the respected and famed African American prolific author and professor, the late James Haskins.
One day in the middle of class, when the professor’s eyes met with Todd’s, he abruptly stopped his lecture to ask, “Mr. Turetsky”, what he was “doing at the fine University of Florida?” Although at that time, it was pretty clear to Todd that he was pretty much clueless about what he was doing "at the fine university”, caught off guard, Todd answered the professor’s question fueled by the voice of his father’s voice within side his own head that he needed to study something "safe and secure", and said that he was there “to study accounting”. In response to his answer, all the professor could do was shake his head and say, “Boy, them numbers gonna take over your head and that’s a damn shame!”
Throughout the term, the teacher would not let up on the lesson he was intent on conveying to his student, and on the last day of the semester, with the teacher’s arm around the student’s back, and a glimmer in his eye, the sage-like professor gave Todd one last piece of departing wisdom by saying; “Son, please don’t let them numbers take over your head.”
It was at this point in his life that Todd knew he needed to find and follow his own path. Looking for guidance as to how to do this, he turned to his mother's maternal wisdom. In response to this turning, Todd's mom conveyed upon him the lesson that would lay the foundation for his future life endeavors: “You must have the courage to listen to your heart rather than to your head.”
This “following of the heart rather than the head” is what led Todd into an in-depth study of the eastern contemplative and healing traditions. It was there that he came into contact with the rich philosophy underlying the East Asian Medical tradition and knew that he had found his life’s work in the never-ending study and passion of the alleviation of human suffering.
One day in the middle of class, when the professor’s eyes met with Todd’s, he abruptly stopped his lecture to ask, “Mr. Turetsky”, what he was “doing at the fine University of Florida?” Although at that time, it was pretty clear to Todd that he was pretty much clueless about what he was doing "at the fine university”, caught off guard, Todd answered the professor’s question fueled by the voice of his father’s voice within side his own head that he needed to study something "safe and secure", and said that he was there “to study accounting”. In response to his answer, all the professor could do was shake his head and say, “Boy, them numbers gonna take over your head and that’s a damn shame!”
Throughout the term, the teacher would not let up on the lesson he was intent on conveying to his student, and on the last day of the semester, with the teacher’s arm around the student’s back, and a glimmer in his eye, the sage-like professor gave Todd one last piece of departing wisdom by saying; “Son, please don’t let them numbers take over your head.”
It was at this point in his life that Todd knew he needed to find and follow his own path. Looking for guidance as to how to do this, he turned to his mother's maternal wisdom. In response to this turning, Todd's mom conveyed upon him the lesson that would lay the foundation for his future life endeavors: “You must have the courage to listen to your heart rather than to your head.”
This “following of the heart rather than the head” is what led Todd into an in-depth study of the eastern contemplative and healing traditions. It was there that he came into contact with the rich philosophy underlying the East Asian Medical tradition and knew that he had found his life’s work in the never-ending study and passion of the alleviation of human suffering.
The Details of Todd's Energy Healing Based Path & Career
With the heart being held as the foundation, the details of Todd’s formal study and practice of the healing arts are: He attained Master’s degree in Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 1997. He holds two certificates in the practice of Japanese acupuncture from the Bastyr University in Seattle and the Toyohari association in Tokyo.
Although an acupuncturist by license, Todd’s expression of the healing arts has been profoundly influenced through the work Dr. Fritz Smith, the founder of Zero Balancing. Dr. Smith, a medical doctor, osteopath, and five element acupuncturist created a brilliant synthesis of eastern and western paradigms of medicine into one treatment modality that simultaneously works on both energy and structure. To read more about Zero Balancing, please click here.
Todd has also served as part of the faculty at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medical College in Berkeley, as well as at the Han University, formerly the Asian Institute of Medical Studies in Tucson.
Outside of formal educational institutions, being a zealot by nature, for many years Todd has extensively and passionately sought out and studied with several masters of acupuncture and manually based medicine in Japan as well as the USA.
After graduating in 1997, he practiced full-time in Northern California in two different integrative medical clinics until 2007 at which point he and his family went to live in southern India for several years. Since returning to the USA in 2010 he practiced in Southeastern Washington until 2013 when he and his family decided to return to their heart’s home of Sonoma county, California.
In addition to his studies and practice of the medical arts, Todd has been deeply immersed in eastern meditative practices for over two decades, which is what above all else, informs and inspires his life work.
Personally, he is married to a beautiful heart oriented woman (Maitri) and has two wonderful daughters (Jessica and Rachael) who all do a very good job at keeping him from going to sleep in the comfort of complacency.
Although an acupuncturist by license, Todd’s expression of the healing arts has been profoundly influenced through the work Dr. Fritz Smith, the founder of Zero Balancing. Dr. Smith, a medical doctor, osteopath, and five element acupuncturist created a brilliant synthesis of eastern and western paradigms of medicine into one treatment modality that simultaneously works on both energy and structure. To read more about Zero Balancing, please click here.
Todd has also served as part of the faculty at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medical College in Berkeley, as well as at the Han University, formerly the Asian Institute of Medical Studies in Tucson.
Outside of formal educational institutions, being a zealot by nature, for many years Todd has extensively and passionately sought out and studied with several masters of acupuncture and manually based medicine in Japan as well as the USA.
After graduating in 1997, he practiced full-time in Northern California in two different integrative medical clinics until 2007 at which point he and his family went to live in southern India for several years. Since returning to the USA in 2010 he practiced in Southeastern Washington until 2013 when he and his family decided to return to their heart’s home of Sonoma county, California.
In addition to his studies and practice of the medical arts, Todd has been deeply immersed in eastern meditative practices for over two decades, which is what above all else, informs and inspires his life work.
Personally, he is married to a beautiful heart oriented woman (Maitri) and has two wonderful daughters (Jessica and Rachael) who all do a very good job at keeping him from going to sleep in the comfort of complacency.