{"id":576,"date":"2020-12-26T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T02:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/195.201.121.54\/~murt\/?page_id=576"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:09:35","slug":"about-murat-tascioglu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beyondacupunctureandherbs.com\/?page_id=576","title":{"rendered":"About Murat Tascioglu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p id=\"block-c5dc23e0-53ec-4cda-b5b5-15c8df9a8f66\">Murat is whom you would address as &#8220;a wounded healer.&#8221; It was once said, &#8220;A good half of every treatment that probes at all deeply consists in the doctor&#8217;s examining himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-c5dc23e0-53ec-4cda-b5b5-15c8df9a8f66\">After years spent in front of the screens in finance and suffering from multiple health issues, some ending in various surgeries, it finally felt like Murat had had enough of it, and it was time to depart on his journey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\" id=\"block-2af838de-dc83-4d35-b174-b6c53d7ddf4c\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondacupunctureandherbs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Murat.jpg\" alt=\"Murat Tascioglu\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.9756838905775076;width:329px;height:auto\" title=\"Murat Tascioglu\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">                 <strong>Murat Tascioglu<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-8e6ae630-d86c-4314-bf12-bcf6c351c477\">That decision led Murat to engage in therapeutic trail guiding accompanied by life coaching and instructing hiking yoga. In the following years, Murat enrolled in a 3-year full-time diploma program at The College of Acupuncture and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traditional_Chinese_medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Traditional Chinese Medicine<\/a> in Halifax, Nova Scotia, finishing it with honours to proceed as a registered acupuncturist and a licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondacupunctureandherbs.com\/?page_id=108\">Tui Na<\/a> practitioner. As a lifelong student, he studied for an additional two years at the Nova Scotia Community College, Bridgewater Campus, graduating as a physiotherapy and occupational therapy assistant. His mission is to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western medicine, combining the wisdom of Oriental Medicine with contemporary developments in modern medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cNo man was ever wise by chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite><strong>Seneca<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left alignfull has-background is-style-solid-color has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"background-color:#c98216\"><blockquote><p>\u201cWhen you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love &#8230;\u201d<\/p><cite><strong>Marcus Aurelius<\/strong>, Meditations<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murat is whom you would address as &#8220;a wounded healer.&#8221; It was once said, &#8220;A good half of every treatment that probes at all deeply consists in the doctor&#8217;s examining himself.&#8221; After years spent in front of the screens in finance and suffering from multiple health issues, some ending in various surgeries, it finally felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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