Mindi K. Counts, MA, LAc.
Founder, Executive Director & Lead Guide
Mindi is a rites of passage guide, five-element acupuncturist, somatic practitioner, and East-West folk herbalist. Founder of the Inner Ocean Center for Healing, Mindi is a keynote speaker, retreat leader and teacher. She is the author of the books: Everyday Chinese Medicine, Tending Your Roots, and a contributing author to The Trauma Toolkit and Singing Our Heart’s Song.
She is the founder of the international nonprofits Medicine People and Inner Ocean Empowerment Project, providing holistic healthcare and education to women and children through volunteer service missions to underserved populations around the world and in the U.S. She was featured in Dr. Oz’s The Good Life magazine for her work in Indian slum communities, Burmese refugee birth clinics and earthquake-ravaged areas of Nepal.
While working on her undergraduate degree studying Buddhist psychology and ecopsychology, regenerative leadership, trauma recovery, and similar subjects, Mindi also worked as a caregiver and advocate for people with special needs, as a mentor for at-risk youth, and as an animal rights activist.
Mindi believes it was partly this multi-faceted exposure that led to her activist spirit. In her heart, “service isn’t something you do – it’s a state of mind. And if you let it, it penetrates everything you do.”
Inner Ocean Empowerment Project has been Mindi’s step toward impacting the world. Through this project she is able to build partnerships with international communities and to take her determined and justice-driven heart into ever-expanding, collaborative projects.
Mindi is a graduate of Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychology program and holds a Masters degree in Classical Five Element Acupuncture. She lives with her family and rescued pit bulls in the foothills of Colorado.
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