Ellen’s biographic timeline
My Ph.D. dissertation, "Apprenticeship—"Learned it by myself," became my model for my lifelong education. First, I learned homeopathy in Pittsburgh by sponsoring a clinic. Then, I moved to Tokyo, so most of my homeopathy education was Internet-based. Clinical practice and teaching continue to educate me. In my timeline, you can see that I value learning through participation, cross-cultural learning, and mind-body paradigms.
Timeline
Born in 1949 after WW II.
Nationality: American (3rd Generation Japanese-American).
The family moved from the University of Minnesota student barracks to a white neighborhood outside Minneapolis in 1954.
Junior year (1973) at Oberlin College studied in Tokyo for one year at the Waseda Kokusaibu.
Post B.A. studied Chinese for a year at the International Division of Taiwan National University in 1975.
I began practicing Tai Chi in Taipei.
I married a Japanese national, 1976.
A visiting student at Kyoto University for 3 years studying Chinese.
Three children were born in Japan and then moved to Pittsburgh, PA, in 1983.
Raised children in a Jewish neighborhood as a member of the Japanese community.
Began practicing yoga in 1996.
Finished Ph.D. in 1999. Thesis on cultural Anthropology of apprenticeship.
Begin practicing Zen Shiatsu and Zen meditation. 2000
Certified to teach Kundalini yoga, 2001.
Hosting homeopathy clinic for Tom Heard, 2002-2004.
In 2004, the Internet study of homeopathy began and continues to the present.
2012-2015 Practice Yuushiki breathing technique.
Observed in a homeopathy clinic in India and began practicing Tibetan Buddhism. 2017
2018 Third Degree Black Belt in Aikido and entered Seishinkan dojyo. Begin private practice with Watanabe-sensei.
2018 Homeopathic treatment methodology shifted to Polarity Analysis.
2020 Began practicing Aikido under Yoshinobu Takeda Shihan.
2023 Began teaching homeopathy online