Meet Dr. Sinéad Corrigan, L.Ac, DACM
Dr. Sinéad Corrigan is a Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, and certified Yoga + Qigong Instructor with 15 years of teaching experience and nearly 20 years of meditation practice. She is the founder of Inner Body Data™, Self-Empowered Healthcare.
Inner Body Data begins with a simple premise: the body is not the enemy. It is a source of information. Breath, sensation, energy, emotion, and our response to the world all belong in the picture; measurements and appearances are only part of the story.
I created Inner Body Data™ to help you learn how to listen. A fusion of at-home embodiment meditation practices and in person healing services such as acupuncture, cupping, and herbal medicine, Inner Body Data™ is Self-Empowered Healthcare. My name is Dr. Sinéad Corrigan. I am a licensed acupuncturist in Florida, Hawaii, and North Carolina, and I have been teaching yoga, qigong, and somatic movement + meditation for over a decade. Join me via the on-demand membership for access to 150+ practices (including qigong, yin yoga, kundalini, and pranayama) to reconnect to your body's intuitive wisdom, or book an initial consultation with me at one of my three locations.
Sinéad first felt this clearly while studying Traditional Chinese Medicine in Kunming, China. During a long Tai Chi stance, her legs began to shake. Then the effort gave way to a feeling of floating. As she wrote of that day: "I had discovered a new trick. I wanted to learn more." That moment opened a continuing study of Chinese medicine, movement, and meditation.
Clinical training gives her work structure. Qigong, yoga, martial arts, dance, and Buddhist meditation keep it grounded in direct experience. Whether she is teaching or treating, the invitation is the same: learn to read the body from the inside. Perfect-looking movement comes second.
Certifications
- Doctor of Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the California Institute of Integral Studies, 2021
- NCBAHM Certified Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Acupuncturist & Board Certified Herbalist)
- Bachelor of Arts, The Biophysics of Preventative Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2013
- 200hr Bija Hot Yoga Instructor with Monica Shannon, 2009
- KRI 200hr Kundalini Yoga Instructor with Hardarshan Khalsa, 2012
- 50hr Restorative Yoga training with Julee Snyder, 2014
- Universal Healing Tao Qi Gong Instructor, 2016
- 100hr Meridian Yoga Therapy training with Science of Self NYC, 2022
Sinéad's Medical Training
Clinical bio coming soon.
Sinéad's Embodiment + Meditation Training
Sinéad began practicing yoga in 2005, in her teens, as cross-training during her years as a competitive gymnast and later as a college track athlete. Yoga soon became more than physical relaxation; it became a powerful practice of mental transformation. During her undergraduate studies in Hong Kong, she traveled to Mysore, India, to study yoga, yogic philosophy, and pranayama (breathwork). During her graduate studies in San Francisco, she practiced Ashtanga yoga for six years with Magnolia Zuniga of the former MysoreSF. She is certified in four styles of yoga: Hatha, Restorative/Yin, Kundalini, and Meridian Yoga Therapy.
Sinéad began practicing Qigong in China in 2009 while studying abroad, and has practiced the Universal Healing Tao Qigong system of Mantak Chia since 2010. She became a Qigong instructor in 2016 and has continued her studies at annual summer Qigong intensive retreats for nearly 15 years. In 2014, she also began studying Tai Chi and Wushu martial arts with Master Zhang Hong Mei of Pacific Wushu in San Francisco. She has also studied with Qigong Master Robert Peng and Dr. LiPing Zhu. Her Qigong teaching style is also heavily inspired by Gaga, a somatic movement language created by choreographer Ohad Naharin.
Alongside yoga and Qigong, Sinéad has studied meditation and Tibetan Buddhism since 2008. She has attended silent Buddhist meditation retreats each year for nearly 20 years (primarily Vajrayana and Dzogchen) with teachers such as Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Geshe Gelek Chodha, Venerable Robina, Lama Gursam, Brendan Kennedy, Michael Taft, Dr. Christopher Wallis, and more. Her classes are deeply inspired by non-dual meditation philosophy and a wish to create spaces for “embodied spirituality.”
As a dancer and musician, Sinéad is also passionate about helping patients and students connect with their own creativity and the joy of self-expression as a form of self-healing!