Dr. ANYA YUDIN-BAEHRLE L.Ac, DAOM, MQT

Founder and Clinical Director

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SUMMARY:

 

A true healer at heart, Anya started The Sage Place in September 2017 in San Francisco Bay Area after a long journey towards realizing her true passion - helping others find a way of living their best, most balanced lives. Anya combines a holistic approach to health and well-being with her unique style of transformative life-coaching and mentoring. 

 

Since moving to Connecticut in 2021, Anya has been treating hundreds of patients with a variety of health conditions including Long Covid, Lyme Disease and related immune flare-ups. She has also provided successful support to patients undergoing invasive oncological treatments. 

 

 Anya specializes in auto-immune and neurological disorders, treatment of pain and injury, and has extensive knowledge and experience in the use of herbal medicine. As a mother of 3, she loves working with adolescents and young athletes. Anya is also a dedicated Qi Gong practitioner and Medical Qi Gong Therapist who has completed Qi Gong training programs in Korea and China.

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Anya was first exposed to the power of Chinese Medicine when she was a teen watching her mother studying it in order to incorporate it into her dental practice. Already then, Anya was amazed at the versatility and effectiveness of acupuncture and other medical modalities of Chinese medicine. Her appreciation for holistic medicine deepened even further while confronting her own health challenges years later, and she came to embody the principle of “Physician, Heal Thyself.”  

 

Anya completed her Master’s Degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine at the highly regarded Five Branches University. She then earned her Doctorate in Orthopedics and Classical Chinese Herbal Medicine at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences, where she was also a faculty member and taught acupuncture.  After extensive clinical work, Anya journeyed to her externship at the China Hospital in Taichung, Taiwan, where she had an opportunity to learn from top practitioners in the field of Internal Medicine, Facial Rejuvenation, and Orthopedic Acupuncture. During Qi Gong training in Qingchengshang  (Cheng Du Province), she received her Chinese name Ya Xiao Wei (“Gracefully Cultivating for the Benefit of Others.”) Anya is a National Board Certified Licensed Acupuncturist, licensed to practice in the states of California and Connecticut.   

 

Outside of her practice, Anya is an avid athlete, marathoner, and a yogi. Using the “Qi-Running Method,” she applies her understanding of human body and energy management into her running, turning it into a meditative and low impact experience.