A studio that grew out of a question:
what if healing felt like coming home?
Sōra means “sky” in Japanese. We chose it because the sky belongs to everyone — quiet adults, restless kids, exhausted parents, anyone in transition. This studio is our small offering of sky.
“Slow medicine for fast lives.”
A practice built around listening first.
Sōra started in a 200-square-foot room above a flower shop. One practitioner, one curtain, one teapot. A decade later we still believe the most powerful diagnostic tool is unhurried attention.
When parents began bringing in their children — first one, then ten, then a waitlist — we built a wing just for tiny humans. We trained in pediatric techniques abroad, hand-painted the walls, and replaced the magazine pile with picture books.
Today, Sōra is a working studio of three practitioners and a calmer cat named Miso. We see about 40 families a week, and every single one gets the original promise: a slow, listening room.
Five principles, written on the wall.
Listen
before we look. Always.
Soft
is not the same as weak.
Children
are tiny grown-ups, not small problems.
Plain
language, no jargon ever.
Slow
is a clinical decision.
The hands you’ll be in.
Three practitioners. One cat. A shared philosophy: medicine is a relationship, not a transaction.
Yuki Tanaka, L.Ac.
Founder & lead practitionerTrained in Tokyo and New York. Specializes in nervous system & women’s health.
Marcus Bell, L.Ac.
Pediatric specialistPediatric & shoun-ishin certified. Has more sticker pages than chart notes.
Anouk de Vries, MS
Herbalist & nutritionistBridges classical formulas with modern nutrition science. Bakes a wicked granola.
A short history of Sōra.
A 200-sq-ft studio above a flower shop. One curtain, one teapot.
Outgrew the room. Moved into a converted carpentry studio with a real waiting room.
Trained in shoun-ishin. The first pediatric session — and the first sticker chart.
Added an in-house herbal pharmacy. Anouk joined.
Built the “Sprouts wing” — soft floor, story corner, a beanbag-frog named Frank.
Today: ~40 families a week, three practitioners, one Miso the cat.
Come visit. Tea is on us.
Stop by for a 15-minute meet & greet — see the space, meet the practitioners, sniff the herbs. No pressure to book.