“Tera” Luke Tomogiro Matsuda

 

Luke Matsuda, known as Tera (Tayra) to friends, was born in Price and raised in Helper, Utah as well as Longmont, Colorado. Tera has deeply cared about people for as long as he can remember and has always sought out ways to serve them.

He began studying and practicing yoga seventeen years ago which lead him to an ashram in New Mexico. It was there that his chronic back pain was healed through acupuncture. After that profound experience he felt it was his calling to become a practitioner of Oriental Medicine.

Being deeply connected to his roots, this path was very fitting for him.  After all, his family had been using aspects of oriental medicine at home in Carbon County for four generations!

Tera, decided to first become a certified yoga teacher, where he studied, traveled, and volunteered in India for four months.  Then he continued his education receiving an Associate Degree from USU- Eastern.  After that he moved back to New Mexico for three more years of education and clinical practice to become a licensed acupuncturist.

Along the way he married his wife Malarie Matsuda and together they have one son.  He has had many different positions that have allowed him to help people.  He has a worked as a surgical technician at Castleview Hospital, as a wilderness field guide for an adult drug rehabilitation program, and as a Yoga teacher at USU-Eastern.

Tera, graduated from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he earned a Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine. Tera is happy to be home and is eager to help the people of Carbon and Emery counties feel better by providing them with a local, affordable, quality acupuncture and herbal medicine clinic.