Understanding and acknowledging how things are is a terrific starting point. It’s what led Ilan Migdali to not just understand how health insurance worked in California, but opened up a path for him to create an insurance network that specifically aimed at helping acupuncturists to thrive.
Beyond the creative and practical work Ilan has done with insurance, he’s also a student of the Balance Method and in particular looking at the yi jing and how the transformations of the gua can be stimulated within the body using particular acupuncture points.
I always hope that when I speak with people Ilan a bit of their broad perspective might wear off me. Maybe it will broaden your perspective as well…. We’ll find out right after a word from the people you can thank for making Qiological possible
In This Conversation We Discuss:
- What brought Ilan to acupuncture
- Discovering how insurance worked
- How Acucare got started
- The importance of knowing what you’re here for
- Part of a successful practice is that one has joy
- Michael’s experience of working with insurance and how it influenced his work
- Introduction to Dr. Tan's balance method and its effectiveness
- Ilan's practice in Israel and working in an HMO setting
- Distinguishing selfishness from selfcare
- Acquiring a personal understanding of the trigrams
- Ilan’s book The Perfect Seasons
- You tell them through the needle you see them
- A Seasonal Treatment, working with Golfer’s Elbow
1. Be present and sensitive, Trust your heart, and ENJOY your practice.
2. Communicate, and make sure to connect with your patients.
3. Stay on course, It gets better, more fun and lighter every year that you practice
Ilan Migdali, L.Ac
I was born 70 years ago in Israel.
After the 1982 Lebanon war, I left and began studying Massage and Bodywork while living in a spiritual community. In 1983 I joined Emperors College to study Oriental Medicine and in 1987 passed the Board. I traveled to China’s hospital in Beijing, and lived in an Ashram in India. Returned, married Lesley and had our first child and opened a clinic in Hollywood.
In 1994 I met Dr. Tan and began apprenticing with him. I established Acu-Care in 1996 and received a contract with Cigna. We have grown over 27 years to 800 + members in California and are managed by our staff in Pasadena.
In 2000 I expanded my acupuncture practice to Simi Valley, and established a third clinic in Beverly Hills two years later.
I began teaching the Balance Method in Israel, and invited Dr. Tan to teach. I wrote and published “The Perfect Seasons,” The book is sold internationally and details the practice and rational of Seasonal Balancing.
I moved back to Israel in 2016 and returned to California in 2023 to be closer to my two children and see Acu-Care grow.
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