Qian Liya Leng, MD/MPH Meditation & Movement
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My goal is to combine the best of conventional Western medicine and Chinese medicine to provide the most helpful care for my patients. 
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I believe in the power of each person to further his or her own healing through meditation and yoga - which I am passionate to teach to the world.
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Biography

Once when I was six years old, I jumped down from the bars on the playground and sprained my ankle. My parents quickly brought me to my grandma, who performed traditional Chinese massage and applied herbs to the area - as well as grandmother love. My injury healed in no time, but this experience with Chinese medicine has stayed with me.

When I was a teenager, after coming to the US, I found that I had a deep curiosity for biology. I wanted to understand what caused health and illness in individuals and in populations. This led me to earn my MD and Masters in Public Health through Harvard University.

Alongside medical school, residency, and becoming board certified in internal medicine, I've completed two intensive 6-month trainings on acupuncture for physicians. I'm currently studying Chinese herbs through the Academy of Pain Research. I love to learn and will never stop enriching my understanding of the human body.

Through this long journey, meditation and yoga have been the saving grace for my own health. I began training with master yoga teacher Ana Forrest in 2008 and have been teaching ever since. I've completed 600 hours of training on how to teach yoga and meditation. I am experienced in teaching hatha, vinyasa, yin, and restorative yoga. I am drawn to teaching a variety of meditation styles, including vipassana (insight), metta (loving kindness), and yoga nidra (yogic sleep).

I am grateful to be able to share my knowledge of acupuncture and Chinese medicine by treating patients in my home practice. I also teach a weekly yoga class and offer workshops and private instruction on meditation and yoga. I practice conventional medicine as a hospitalist doctor at Legacy Emanuel and Good Samaritan.
Feedback from students:
"​It was an excellent meditation and yoga session last evening - thank you! I felt so good this morning when I woke up and I remember waking up periodically and stretching and noting how my limbs and back felt great!" 
-Suzanne, 49, Family medicine doctor

Education & Experience
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Western Medicine

  • Harvard Medical School, MD, 2010
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MPH, 2010
  • OHSU, Internship in Psychiatry, 2011
  • OHSU, Residency in Internal Medicine, ​2014
  • ABIM Internal Medicine Board Certification, 2014
  • Kaiser Permanente, primary care physician, 2014-2016
  • Legacy Health, hospitalist and residency educator, 2016-present

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Chinese Medicine

  • International Structural Acupuncture for Physicians Course, Japanese style acupuncture using abdominal palpation by Kiiko Matsumoto and David Euler, 2010
  • Helms Medical Acupuncture for Physicians Course, Chinese style acupuncture utilizing electroacupuncture and French energetics, 2015
  • Herbal Medicine Course,  evidence based use of Chinese herbs, Academy of Pain Research, 2016
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Movement
  • Yoga Alliance certified teacher since 2008
  • Two 200 hour foundation trainings with Ana Forrest, 2008 in San Francisco & 2014 in New Haven
  • Two 70 hour advanced teacher trainings: Ana Forrest, Carnation, WA, 2014; Heidi Sormaz & Catherine Allen, Washington DC, 2016
  • 50 hour Thai massage and partner yoga training with Sarah Vosen, LAc & Sarah Yovovich, LMT, Murphys, CA, 2015
  • 30 hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Josh Summers, Boston, 2016​
  • Acroyoga 4 Day Elemental Immersion with Jason Nemer, LA, 2016,
  • Acroyoga 3 Day Lunar Immersion with Deven Sisler and Yuki Tsuji, Bend, 2016
  • Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga training with Catherine Allen, Houston, 2017
  • ​Mamalates (Postnatal Pilates) training with Wendy Foster, Portland, 2017
  • Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist training with Dr. Sarah Duvall, women's health physical therapist, 2017-2018
  • Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Level 1, Herman & Wallace Institute, Medford, OR, 2018

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Meditation
  • Regular meditation practice since 2005 in vipassana and metta
  • Month-long Buddhist immersion program at Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2006
  • Attendance at various silent retreats at Cloud Mountain and Spirit Rock, 2014-present
  • Meditation instructor for Kaiser Permanente, 2014-present
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