Our Story
The Threads of our Beginning
These lie in a mutual curiosity of how we are affected by what we think, how we eat, what our deep emotional patterns are, how we move, what comes to us through genes and how it all fits together. We have a mutual fascination with how Chinese medicine sees the body and how it connects to your mind and spirit.
Our Principals
Meet us, Naomi and Rebecca! Together, we formed the Red Tent Health Centre in 2009. We’d both been in private practice prior to that and were seeking to build a strong community that could support people with their health during the trials of fertility, pregnancy and parenthood. We thrive on helping people understand how their body works and how it can improved through the lens of East Asian medicine.
We’ve given over 18,000 treatments and counting.
Our Training
We trained at the University of Technology Sydney and hold a BA Health Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine. We have been influenced by many masters in the East Asian tradition, in particular, the gentle approach of Japanese acupuncture.
We are heart-centred practitioners who take the time to listen. We have a deep passion for our work and we look forward to meeting you.
Our Values
There’s a Chinese saying “nourish the mother to nourish the child”. We value taking care of one’s self, so you have enough left to give others. This needs to be number one, as much as possible! We also value the importance of family, empathy, compassion, love and community.
Our Philosophy
Activism through healing. The more people who feel connected to themselves, their bodies, their emotions, their values and their goals in life – the warmer and cosier our communities will be.
Happier, healthier humans are good for the planet and for each other.
Why name our clinic ‘Red Tent’?
The Red Tent is the name of a book by Anita Diamant. Published in 1997, it became an international bestseller as it struck a chord with so many. Diamant re-imagines a small part of the bible, the story of Dinah. She tells it from her perspective as a woman and a midwife and breathes life into it like never before. From menstruation to fertility, miscarriage to pregnancy, birth to breastfeeding, parenting to sexuality, death and more, Dinah’s life is touched by it all.
The “red tent” was a sacred place in which the tribal women in the story go during their menstrual cycle, for special coming-of-age rituals and to birth their babies.
We created our own Red Tent as a place for healing and nurturing, to tend to all the issues women have always faced and will continue to for centuries to come.