About
I'm Jason Taylor.
I came to this work as a patient first.
After years of not finding answers in the conventional medical system, I found my way to Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and eventually acupuncture — and finally started getting better. That experience shaped everything about how I practice now. I know what it's like to be the person who's tried the usual approaches and is still looking for help.
Before I came to acupuncture, I worked as Education Director at the Ecological Society of America, where I helped establish the Society's Traditional Ecological Knowledge section in collaboration with Robin Wall Kimmerer. Between that work and the movement practices, the same pattern kept showing up: healing is what living systems do on their own. Your body already knows how. My job is to use acupuncture to remind it.
My primary approach is called Five Element acupuncture. What that means in practice is that I'm not just treating the symptom you walked in with — I'm looking at the whole system and finding what's actually driving it. Two patients with the same back pain often need very different treatments, because the thing causing the pain isn't the same in both of them. It's why patients frequently notice improvements well beyond what they originally came in for. When a more direct approach is called for, I draw on Tung Style as a complement.
Most of my patients arrive having tried other things. Some have had acupuncture before — often good acupuncture — and are looking for something with more depth. Others are dealing with peripheral neuropathy, chronic pain, insomnia, or stress that hasn't responded to the usual approaches. Many have recently relocated to the Olympic Peninsula and are rebuilding their care from the ground up.
Training and credentials
Master of Acupuncture, Maryland University of Integrative Health (2014). Master of Environmental Studies, York University. Bachelor of Science in Biology and Sociology, Dalhousie University. Former Education Director, Ecological Society of America. Diplomate of Acupuncture and Board Certified through NCBAHM. Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Practitioner (AEMP), licensed in Washington State. Advanced Detoxification Specialist (ADS) through NADA. Former board member, Washington Acupuncture and Eastern Medicine Association (2017–2018). Practicing Qi Gong since 2007 and currently teaching at Blue Mountain Yoga in Sequim.
Interviews
Herbs and Dreams Podcast — Healing is Aligning with Seasonal Rhythms & Other Ways of Knowing
A conversation with herbalist Lauren Morgan about the path from ecology into acupuncture, how Five Element theory tracks with ecological thinking, and how dreams are framed in classical Chinese medicine as a diagnostic signal. October 2025.Listen →
KSQM 91.5 FM — Working on Wellness Forum — Eastern Medicine, Modern Health: The Art of Acupuncture
A live radio forum hosted by the Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic on how acupuncture approaches chronic pain, insomnia, and nervous system regulation. June 2025.Watch on YouTube → · Listen on SoundCloud →
The Ten Thousand Heroes Show — Episode 111: Five Elements Acupuncture and the Seasons of Life
A conversation with host Ankur Delight about the path from environmental science and bat research into Five Element acupuncture, and how the seasonal framework applies to the rhythms of a year, a day, and a life. November 2023.Listen → · Watch on YouTube →
Outside the clinic
I spend most of my free time outdoors with my family, exploring the Peninsula. It's the same landscape my patients are living in, and paying attention to it is part of how I stay calibrated to what people are actually dealing with.
License verification: active Washington State license through the Washington State Department of Health Provider Credential Search.