Ariel Broshar
(they/them)Born & Raised on Ramaytush & Lisjan-Ohlone Territory, Ariel grew up intergenerationally within a mixed-Japanese family and loves living in the Bay Area. They love it here so much, they became Your Trans Realtor and seek to help folks navigate staying in the area long-term. Their passions include Land Back projects, collective housing, and intergenerational living. They’re also a really big basketball fan, Go Valkyries … Go Warriors!While at QiKi Club, they flex their cheer muscles and enjoy supporting anyway they can. From front desk, to hype guy; Ariel loves what’s being created here and they just want to help keep the ball rollin’. They dabble in finance and love using the laminator!
Danni Tsuboi
(she/they)Danni is a mixed queer person who lives on Ohlone land and practices Traditional East Asian Medicine. Danni enjoys spending time with her plant and dog friends, working on creative projects and learning about how to be a better practitioner and better steward of resources and knowledge. Danni loves the QiKis and loves sharing acupuncture with our community(s).
Elokin Orton-Cheung, L.Ac.
(they/them)I'm a queer mixed gender herbalist & plant nerd of Han Chinese/Irish & unknown European ancestry, with Free Hong Kong always in my heart. I’m passionate about skillsharing to build collective tools & knowledge for community healthcare. I know my gaysian ancestors love seeing QiKi club exist, the dream, I’m so grateful to be doing this work together & getting to offer acupuncture & other Asian healing modalities with this brilliant crew. I live on the Lisjan Ohlone land of Huchiun & support the work of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust phttps://sogoreate-landtrust.org/lisjan-ohlone/
forest Lin
(they/them)forest (Yang Earth Dragon × Yin Wood Goat) is a mycelial connector, intimacy activist, embodiment coach. They love bringing magical containers of connection, healing, art, and play to life—especially for QT azn diasporic kin. You can find them with their friends - rolling on the floor, dancing unabashedly, whittling wood, playing mahjong, and singing karaoke (badly and proudly).Infinitely stoked to usher QiKi dreams out to the world with chosen fam—doing what we love, with who we love, for the wider web of community.Front of desk + biz dev + cheeky social media dude. Also here to offer serpentine intuitive bodywork, Chinese BaZi Astrology readings, or consultations on how to live a life you love!
infinity ku
(they/them)Of Hakka Chinese descent, infinity is a queer and gender-free somatic psychotherapist supporting the unlearning of oppressive inherited ways, and the re-membering of ancestral earth wisdom. They are an ongoing student of Daoist medicine, martial arts, and ancestral skills in harmony with nature.They like to laugh and cry — often at the same time.Currently serving as a Tea Dude within QiKi, they hold communal space while pouring gongfu cha. infinity will be offering group somatic practices including qi gong in the near future. They highly recommend working in community with friends 😎.
Keiko Kubo
(they/them)osaka-born japanese american queer on ohlone land. a somatic therapist who enjoys cultivating ancestral and anti-oppressive practices that make way for healing, liberation and wholeness. they are passionate about intergenerational and historical bridgework within the asian diaspora through story sharing and ritual. in qiki, they provide healing soundscapes and front of house support, and hope to offer reiki and breathwork by late 2025. they love being able to offer good 氣気 (qi-ki) to the wider community together w their friends <3
KT Tao
(they/them)born and raised on bay miwok land to immigrants from hong kong, they are queer & of the chinese diaspora living on ohlone land. they are currently studying chinese / east asian medicine and practicing what it means to embody ancestral ways of being in their body, in relationships, and in community. kt is an ongoing student of earth and sky in various forms of astrology, and they are a dreamer bridging the dreaming and waking worlds. they love to dance, move, and be anywhere near (or in) a body of water and/or trees!With qiki, kt offers communal gongfu tea and a space to land before and after receiving treatment. they love getting the opportunity to offer space for connection and conversation at the tea table, as well as the chance to connect with breath and body. their relationship with tea and other forms of ancestral medicine is rooted in the commitment to coming home and revitalizing the source of life that flows within and connects us with all beings.
mugen
(they/them)Graduating with a Masters in Acupuncture in 2023, their current practices include: tattoo, tattoo acupuncture, illustration, qigong + martial arts, research + writing on tattoo acupuncture, literary world-building + poetry.As time progresses, they are calling in more community + healing work, earth/ancestral skills, cultural medicinal/spiritual cultivation, writing residencies + fellowships, land + animal tending, and indigenous + collective liberation.Feels like a dream to be part of QiKi Club, supporting this collective through offering graphic and flyer design, cupping, gua sha, moxa, reiki. mugen will be offering acupuncture and qigong/martial modalities in the near future!Grateful to the land, the elements, all beings, and community who continue to teach me the way.
Nuffy, L.Ac.
(they/them)Queer NB, neurospicy, chronically-ill, loves funNuffy hails from the Chinese-Jamaican diaspora and they are grateful to call Ohlone land home. They are a Yin Fire Rabbit and have a Leo stellium in the 6th house- (the house of work, health and daily habits)- which has very much led them to feel at home in Chinese Medicine. What began as a community Qi Gong practice and a desire to connect to their Chinese ancestral ways of being and knowing ended up in a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine and becoming a licensed acupuncturist.To Nuffy, QiKi is a dream of world building around community care with other queer asian holders of ancestral medicine/care + purpose. They are excited about offering acupuncture, cupping, ear seeds, qi gong, and good times. They love curating beautiful- warm- life-giving community spaces.Nuffy works at Bitter Melon Acupuncture and is developing their Facial Acupuncture private practice. You can also find them in the redwoods, by the ocean, on the dance floor, with their giant cat, hanging out with plants and baking muffins :)
Pui-Ling Lew
(they/them)Queer, chinese diaspora. Cook, community dream doula, narrative and cultural worker, asker of good questions, creative gatherer, land steward.I cook as a form of resistance, weaving together people, food, land, and culture. I am a cultural worker, using food and story to change the way we live. I doula community dreams as a radical act of world-building and accompaniment. I ask good questions, mostly because I’m curious, but also because change requires asking the right questions. I gather people in creative ways as forms of play to build new worlds. I train in zen for a thriving future for our descendants. I get my hands in the soil because she’s got lots to teach us! My work is sacred because it’s about bearing life of all kinds. Teachers: Norma Wong, trees. Let’s share a meal together?With QiKi, I feed our crew, I hype them up, and I aspire to offer tai-ji.
Sam Lai, L.Ac.
(she/her)Sam is a queer, mixed race Chinese libra earth dragon and acupuncturist practicing on Ohlone land born and raised on the island of Guam. She is stoked to provide community care and acupuncture treatments at QiKi events and good eats at club gatherings.Sam has her own acu practice in Berkeley, Sticky Rice Acupuncture which focuses on pain management and recovery related to sports medicine and orthopedic issues.She also provides weekly community-style treatments at Berkeley Community Acupuncture and Tendervine Health. Her free time is spent with her wife Sarah and their little red dog Benji.
Sarah Joy
(she/her)Queer af, 2nd-gen korean-american writer, storyteller, and digital strategist.QiKi Club flow coordinator & admin daddyalso: backyard beekeeping. drumming with 끼리 끼리 kkiri kkiri samulnori. lifting + moving the bod. hosting dinner parties. playing in the outdoors. loving up on wifey + doggo.
Decolonized approaches to communication and healing + collective liberation for all <3
Sapho Flor
(they/them)Sapho Flor is an East Asian Medicine practitioner who is passionate about building models of community care. Through acupuncture and herbal medicine, they provide a safe space to reconnect to self, body and land, nurturing the collective movement towards freedom.
Sol Rhee
(they/ them)Sol is an immigrant and a guest on the Huichin Ohlone land from the ancestors who lived and walked on the lands of north and south Corea. They find joy, nourishment and strength from exploring the foodways of their roots and being a student of their ancestral medicine and Corean drumming and ritual work. With QiKi, they are excited to practice collective liberation and community care work through offering earseeds, cupping and acupressure/ bodywork. Also an ops nerd, they like to provide back-end support.