Dr. Aaron Leon Kenin, DACM, Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

Our Story

I’ve became interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine when I was around 10 years old. At that time I started taking kung fu and judo classes at Wu Tao Kuan, a martial arts school in Berkeley. I became good friends with the teacher’s son and close with his entire family. His father, my martial arts teacher and mentor, is Dr. Alex Feng, who is one of the senior practitioners of Chinese Medicine in the Bay Area. Some summers I worked as a helper in Dr. Feng’s clinic and observed treatments. His son and I learned how to do cupping and moxibutstion on each other. When I was 13, Dr. Feng took us with him to Santa Cruz, where he was attending a major conference on Chinese Medicine. We went along to go to the Boardwalk, but he made us attend the opening lecture! That was my first formal introduction to the concepts of yin and yang, the five elements, and the acupuncture meridians. I found it fascinating. Though I went on many other paths of interest and exploration, including living in Spain for three years and Israel for three more, I and never lost interest in either martial arts or Chinese Medicine. I have continued to practice, compete in, and teach judo ever since, and after some years as a Spanish teacher and translator, decided to return to that original interest and studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, both at the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences and Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College. I was licensed by the State of California in 2007 and I’ve been in practice ever since. Because of my love of martial arts and participating in sports (I played rugby for 6 years too), I have developed a focus on orthopedic problems and sports medicine. My training and interest is in Integrative Medicine, which means I practice Traditional Chinese Medicine in a way that integrates with Western Medicine. My approach combines the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture meridian points, trigger points, motor points and body work (tui na massage, gua sha and cupping) and physical therapy modalities, all based on the anatomy and physiology of the muscular and nervous systems, For more information, check out my website at leonkenin.com or send me a message!