About Me

Hi, I’m Tian Tian.

I’m a Holistic Wellness & Transformation Coach and Sacred Space Holder.

I help high-achieving, sensitive individuals who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, and burned out reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and return to a life that feels aligned and alive.

My approach is somatic and intuitive, rooted in ancestral eastern wisdom and backed by modern science. I guide you to slow down, reclaim your wholeness, and live with authenticity, joy, and ease, fully grounded in the truth of who you are.

Ready to come home to yourself?

My Coming Home Journey

Upbringing

I was born in Dalian, a beautiful coastal city in Northeast China, and raised by my loving grandparents. They called me Tian Tian (甜甜), which means “sweet sweet,” a name that reflected my playful, joyful nature as a child.

At age 11, everything changed. My grandparents’ health was declining, and I was sent to the US to live with my father, a man who was practically a stranger to me, in pursuit of a “better education” and a “better future.”

I arrived in a predominantly white suburb in Massachusetts and quickly learned that being different wasn’t safe. To survive, I changed my name to “Mary,” stopped speaking Chinese, and mastered the art of assimilation. I became the straight-A, high-achieving, always-agreeable immigrant daughter.

Over time, I internalized the belief that love, safety, and belonging had to be earned. I came to believe my worth was measured by how much I achieved, how little I resisted, and how well I fit in. I became a master at shape-shifting, though I wouldn’t realize until much later the true cost of trading who I was for who the world wanted me to be.

The Rock Bottom

By the time I turned 30, I had built the life everyone said would make me happy. On the outside, everything looked perfect: I held degrees from NYU and Harvard, worked on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, and was in an 11-year relationship that seemed headed toward a picture-perfect future.

On the inside, I felt dead. My body was the first to fall apart. I experienced hair loss, severe insomnia, chronic inflammation and pain, and digestive issues. Mentally, I felt numb, dissociated, and completely disconnected from my body and myself. I was clinging to a version of socially approved success that was slowly destroying me.

Letting go wasn’t just scary. It was absolutely terrifying. That life had taken decades to build, and walking away felt like losing everything I had ever known. But what felt even scarier was continuing to live a life that was so out of alignment. So I did the most terrifying thing I could imagine. I jumped off a cliff without knowing where or if I would land: I quit my job, ended the relationship, and left the city I once called home.

For the first time, I allowed myself to feel what I had buried for so long. The grief of abandoning my culture. The rage of never feeling enough. The ache of constantly contorting myself to fit into places I didn’t belong. I dropped the mask and let it all break open.

I let it all fall apart. And in the wreckage, something unexpected happened. I began to feel again. I began to remember. What looked like a breakdown was, in truth, the beginning of my breakthrough.

The Healing Journey

With nothing left to prove, I asked myself a question I had avoided my whole life:

“If I’m not my job, my relationship, or my resume… who am I?”

While I didn’t have an answer, I felt a deep longing to reconnect with the part of myself I had hidden away. I began to slow down and listen inward. I gave myself permission to rest, to cry, to create, and to simply be. In that stillness, I heard a voice I hadn’t listened to in years. The voice of my intuition, my inner child, the girl who once believed life was sweet.

For four years, I traveled the world and lived close to the land. I stayed in Hindu ashrams in India, Daoist temples in China, and meditation and yoga retreat centers in Bali. I studied with wisdom keepers, healers, and teachers who guided me back to ancient traditions of healing, embodiment, and remembrance.

I practiced yin yoga, qi gong, and taiji to reconnect with my body and show my nervous system it was finally safe. I turned to sound healing, expressive arts, tea ceremony, and ritual to process emotions that had lived in silence for too long. I immersed myself in nature and began to remember the way. I learned how to be with myself, even through discomfort, and slowly created space within. Little by little, I shifted out of survival mode. I began to feel safe in my body again.

Healing wasn’t about becoming someone new. It was about coming back to who I had always been.

My Higher Purpose

As I rebuilt my life from the inside out, my purpose became clear. I am here to help others reclaim their truth, their voice, their aliveness, their joy, and the wholeness of who they are.

Today, I guide people who are ready to peel back the layers of conditioning and come home to themselves. Through 1:1 coaching and group containers, I hold grounded and sacred spaces for transformation.

My work brings together trauma-informed somatic practices, embodiment, nervous system regulation, neuroscience, psychology, and indigenous spiritual wisdom, bridging ancient traditions with modern science to create a holistic path toward healing and self-reclamation. Everything I offer is rooted in lived experience.

If you feel tired of holding it all together, of living a life that looks good but feels hollow inside…

If you’ve spent years chasing safety and validation outside of yourself...

If part of you is whispering, “there must be another way”...

I see you.

If you’ve found your way here, know that it’s not a coincidence.

You’re being called to follow the whisper within.

When you are ready, I’ll be here to walk you home.

Certification, Training & Experience

Meditation, Cultivation & Lineage Practice

  • Daoist Lineage Practitioner – Longmen Pure Yang Lineage, Five Immortal Temple (Wudang Mountains, China 2024–Present)

  • Parting Clouds Daoist Education Program – Multi-year study in Daoist philosophy, internal alchemy, meditation, and ritual (2024–Present)

  • Daoist Studies Summer Seminar: Nourishing Life with Louis Komjathy (2024)

  • Siddha Maha Yoga – Shaktipat Meditation Practitioner & Volunteer (India, Bali, Online; 2022–2024)

  • Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya & Meditation Practice – Sadhguru, Isha Foundation (2023)

  • Zen Meditation Practitioner & YUZ Group Lead – San Francisco Zen Center & Green Gulch Farm (2018–2020)

  • Vipassana Silent Meditation Retreats (10-day) – Goenka Tradition (California, 2016 & 2018)

  • Harvard Mindfulness & Meditation Retreats – Boston (2018 & 2019)

Ancestral & Metaphysical Studies

  • Ancestral Healing Code – Thomas Hübl (2025)

  • Chinese Astrology & Cosmology – Meng / MissTangQ (2025)

  • Human Design Level 1 & 2 – Interior Creatures (2022–2023)

Formal Education

  • B.S. Finance & Philosophy, New York University (2007-2011)

  • MBA Harvard Business School (2016-2018)

Coaching Training

  • ICF Certified Life & Health Coach – Health Coach Institute (2024-2025)

S0matics & Embodiment Training

  • Practitioner of yoga since 2009

  • 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training – Ashtanga Vinyasa, Pranayama & Kriya (All Yoga, Bali, 2023)

  • Trauma-Informed Yin Yoga Certification (50 Hours) – Soulful Yin Yoga (Online, 2023)

  • Qi Gong & Taiji Practice – Integrated into ongoing Daoist cultivation studies

Sound Healing Training

  • Certified Sound Healer Level 1 & 2 – Life Changing Energy (Online, 2023)

  • Mentorship – Sound Healing Hawaii (Honolulu, 2023)

  • Intro to Bowls Play – Seattle Sound Temple (2023)