My journey into traditional medicine has been a lifelong attempt to build bridges between ways of knowing. It began with an anthropology degree at UCL and culminated in a PhD in mitochondrial biology at the Quantum Biology and Bioenergetics Laboratory within the Research Centre for Optimal Health, University of Westminster. Between these, I trained extensively in acupuncture, Chinese manual therapy (Tui Na), Tai Chi, and herbal medicine, alongside classical philosophy and the art of Nourishing Health (Yang Sheng 養生).
I believe traditional medicine is best understood through three complementary lenses: culture, clinical practice and modern biology. Anthropology taught me to understand Chinese medicine within its own historical and cultural context. Clinical practice showed me how those ideas translate into patient care, while doctoral research in mitochondrial biology provided the tools to investigate traditional therapies using contemporary laboratory science.
Woodley Bioenergetics brings these perspectives together in clinical practice. Rather than treating traditional and modern medicine as competing worldviews, I explore where they illuminate one another. Concepts such as qi and modern bioenergetics arise from different intellectual traditions, yet both seek to understand how living systems generate, regulate and sustain vitality.
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Woodley Bioenergetics
90 Deane Croft Road,
Eascote, Pinner, Greater London. HA5 1SP
Tel/WhatsApp: +44 (0) 7946 174 829
Email: steve@steve-woodley.co.uk
