Hello. My name is Tiana Demetriou and I work as a registered acupuncturist and Chinese medicine herbalist.
I offer one-on-one treatments from my private studio space in Fitzroy North, Naarm/Melbourne as well as herbal and energetic consults online.
My clinical work focuses on supporting people to develop a clearer relationship with their senses, bodies, and internal resources through acupuncture, energetic guidance, and herbal therapy.
In my sessions, I prioritise creating spaciousness for clients to gently untangle the stories held within their bodies, while offering support in noticing and responding to physical and emotional signals with greater care and clarity. I believe this kind of attunement is an essential part of navigating daily life, healing, and self-actualisation.
My study and practice of Chinese medicine informs my work as an artist. Through participatory installations, sensory experience, and facilitated events I extend my forms of inquiry in clinical practice into collective space. These works explore how we sense, perceive, attune, and relate, both in our bodies and in relation to our environment. I approach this work as a form of embodied research, using participation, and direct sensory experience to investigate how different conditions shape perception, connection, and belonging.
Through my studies in Chinese medicine and Eastern philosophy, I have developed a deep appreciation for the forms of insight that emerge through sustained and attentive observation. I understand sensing, feeling, and noticing as practices of resistance within social and cultural conditions often structured by speed, productivity, and certainty. I see these embodied capacities as meaningful tools for collective emancipation and ecological belonging, and I am invested in creating spaces where they can be explored, practiced, and strengthened.