Ars Medica
Medicine
as a
living art
Michelle Lewis-King PhD, MIICT
Ars Medica inhabits the space where medicine, perception, and transformation meet.
Grounded within Chinese medicine, bodywork, sonic disciplines, and years of artistic research into the relationships between body, environment, and knowledge, this practice approaches health as a dynamic process rather than a fixed condition.
Each person carries their own embodied landscapes of habits, histories, and potentials. Treatment is a process of attunement — carefully listening for patterns, restoring harmonic circulations and processes, and supporting new possibilities for dynamic vitality and transformation.
Consultations and treatments available online and in person in Portugal
聽 The Listening Clinic: Chinese Herbal Medicine
Deep listening to the body and its patterns via Chinese herbal medicine: pulse and tongue diagnosis, dietary and lifestyle guidance, and the development of self-care practices (yangsheng 养生) — online, for EU-based clients.
Therapeutic Bodywork
Massage, cupping, moxibustion, meridian work, dry needling, sonic bodywork — tuning forks, Tai Chi — in person, Lisbon area.
Menopause — Chinese Medicine and Vital Forms
A Chinese medicine and creative arts approach to perimenopause and menopause — combining herbal medicine, Tai Chi movement, sound therapy, dietary guidance, and Vital Forms art prescriptions. Available online and in person in Portugal.
Earth, Body, Cloud
Plant knowledge, herbal walks, embodied practice, and workshops at the intersection of Chinese medicine and the creative arts — open to artists, practitioners, and curious non-specialists. In person in Portugal and internationally by invitation.
Retreats — Portugal
Immersive weekend and residential retreats combining the full range of this practice, in person in Portugal.
Research Workshops and CPD
For practitioners and interdisciplinary researchers — classical texts, Chinese medicine epistemology, plant meridian physiology, and sonic healing. Offered online, in person in Portugal, and internationally by invitation.