Tapager helping islanders through Healing Works Health Center
Lee Tapager, doctor of oriental medicine, said she came from Naples to Pine Island after a trip to Cayo Costa.
“As soon as I got to Matlacha, I knew if I could find a way to support myself I would love to live here,” Tapager said.
After having done Qigong, yoga and holistic health and healing classes in Naples and Lee County, she realized the work brought her closer to where she’d really wanted to be. After starting acupuncture as a treatment, she enrolled in acupuncture school and began her practice shortly after completing her schooling.
“I originally started in Matlacha and I was there for 9 years,” Tapager said.
For muscular and skeletal issues, she said, modalities, such as yoga and active isolated stretching, are used. She said she also utilizes Meditation as Medicine, which is a branch of yoga which directs energy to heal specific areas in the body or to overcome health issues or imbalances. She said all oriental practioners bring different skills which are collected exponentially over time. The majority of her work is finding out where a person is suffering from imbalances, she said, which she finds out predominantly by listening.
“So we review health history and all my treatment-unless someone specifically does not want acupuncture-would include acupuncture,” Tapager said.
After what she describes as a very comprehensive evaluation, her ultimate goal is to figure out what will bring the body back into balance, she said. She is currently helping with the community acupuncture clinic, Acupuncturists Without Borders. This international organization started by sending the acupuncturists into traumatized areas. Tapager began training for this in 2015 and had to undergo a treatment herself as a part of the training. This treatment, she said, shifted her center, giving her hope from a particularly painful experience.
Tapager said of all the training she’s received, she is very interested in Meditation as Medicine and her work in it has yielded incredible results. She encourages anyone interested in this modality to call her office.
“I’m appreciative of the people who support me and my practice. I’d like to thank the Pine Islanders for voting me best health care provider,” Tapager said.
Healing Works Health Center is at 6670 Rat Road, Matlacha, FL, 33922.
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