OUR TEAM
NATHAN A TEISMANN, MD
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SHAMANIC MEDICINE PRACTITIONER, BREATHWORK, MEDITATION, AND VISION QUEST LEADER
Medical Training
Dr. Teismann grew up in St. Charles, Illinois, and attended University of Michigan, graduating with a degree in Botany in 1998. He then worked at the American Alpine Institute in Bellingham, Washington, leading alpine climbing trips in the North Cascades. He attended medical school at the University of Chicago and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Alameda County Medical Center-Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, in 2008. Between 2009-2020, Dr. Teismann worked as an emergency physician at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco and served on the faculty of the UCSF School of Medicine, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. While at UCSF, Dr. Teismann authored 18 publications and was the recipient of numerous teaching awards. He continues to practice emergency medicine today with SFEMA/Sutter in San Francisco and in Lake County, California.
Shamanic Training
Following a period of intense emotional and physical challenges in his early 40s, Dr. Teismann’s life was transformed through his work with the Q’ero, an indigenous group native to the Sacred Valley in the Peruvian Andes. While being guided through a process of deep emotional and spiritual healing, Dr. Teismann recognized his calling to integrate these traditions into his own practice. He subsequently completed a curriculum in traditional Q’ero Medicine through study with Alberto Villoldo and Marcela Lobos at the Four Winds School of Shamanic Medicine, which deepened his understanding of the spiritual elements that underlie all human disease. Concurrently, he began training with Ocean WhiteHawk, a metaphysical teacher and healer who founded the Samadhi Center, a global spiritual training center based in Hong Kong.
Breathwork & Psychedelic Medicine
Beginning in 2005, Dr. Teismann began studying pranayama breathwork and began a practice of sudarshan kriya through the Art of Living Foundation. In 2017, he received training in Holotropic breathing from Stan Grof, MD, who originally pioneered the technique, which uses the breath to create a state of elevated awareness.
In 2019, Dr. Teismann trained with Phil Wolfson, MD and Julane Andries, MFT at the Ketamine Training Center, and subsequently joined them in clinical practice at the Center for Transformational Psychotherapy in San Anselmo, California. The CTP was among the first clinics to offer ketamine-assisted therapy for mental illness.
TIFFANY ALLEN
CENTER DIRECTOR, YOGA, MEDITATION, CHILDREN’S MEDITATION, SOUND HEALING, CHANTING, SOUL PORTRAITS
Musical Training
From a very young age, Tiffany felt deeply connected to music. She began learning music at the age of 4, and over the next 3 decades, studied and taught as a classically trained pianist. Today, she uses music as a healing tool, frequently integrating sound healing into her yoga and meditation classes. Further, her experience as a piano teacher provided her with valuable training on how to relate to children, which she carries forward today during her children’s meditation classes.
Reiki Practitioner
In early 2000, Tiffany began training as a Reiki Practitioner. Over the next 24 years, she worked with veterans, women and children, connecting with and working together with their energies to bring healing from within.
Yoga and Meditation Training
Trained in meditation through the Chopra Center and in Somatic Movement Meditation through the Kindred Curriculum, Tiffany brings many years of formal training coupled with a longstanding personal practice of Yin Yoga to the Center. Her sessions combine yoga and meditation with sound healing using singing bowls, creating a powerful therapeutic effect for her clients. Tiffany also draws on her training in meditation and spirituality with the Samadhi Center in Hong Kong in order to assist clients with their individual journeys of healing.