Meet Aspen’s Top Eastern Medicine Specialist
Satori Healthcare Clinic owner Seth Van De Riet dispels the myths on ancient Chinese medicine and its modern applications.
In the western world, Chinese medicine is often referred to as “new age” or “alternative.” Satori Healthcare Clinic owner Seth Van De Riet has a different perspective: “Ask the billion and a half people on the other side of the planet; to them this is not alternative medicine, it’s the medicine,” said Van De Riet. “It’s what they know works and they’ve been utilizing [it] for well over 5,000 years, as opposed to the mere 200 years of established and progressive western medicine,” he adds.
With clinics Glenwood Springs and, just recently, Aspen, Van De Riet apprenticed under tai chi master Bing Lee for 20 years and describes his specialty as focusing on “rare aspects of Oriental medicine.”
Through the study of acupuncture, tai chi, and qui gong (internal kung fu), Van De Riet affirms that we can master our lives and invite abundant health and infinite joy. He teaches patients the secrets to becoming the person that they most want to be and helps them accept that they can create and attract all that they need. With those tools, he believes that patients can live beyond simple crisis management of health issues and emotional distress.
Among Van De Riet’s patients are head and spinal injury cases, Denver Broncos players, government officials, those struggling with substance abuse or transitioning back into society after a jail sentence, and the needy and suffering in parts of eastern Europe and Beijing. He has treated patients everywhere from his office to hotel rooms to castles to backstage at London’s National Theatre.
A consultation at Satori Healthcare Clinic includes energy reading, nutritional assessment, acupuncture, advanced medical qi gong, tui na, and massage, as well as the necessary herbs and supplements. The clinic boasts a full Chinese herb pharmacy, rare alchemical substances, elixirs, and 24-carat gold needles. “We will get you healed as quickly as humanly possible and get you back to your life. Send me the toughest cases,” said Van De Riet.
Also trained in cosmetic acupuncture and fertility protocols, Van De Riet professes to be able to give facelift and tummy-tuck results without the use of toxic injections or a scalpel. Procedures such as these are the perfect example of the clinic’s motto: “ancient medicine, modern miracles.”