Kam Yuen’s method of healing

The man who taught David Carridine his Kung Fu moves is coming to Spokane and wants to heal you.

Kam Yuen became a chiropractor after his work on TV’s “Kung Fu.” He has since developed the “Yuen Method Full Spectrum Healing” technique, which he says works by restoring the body’s balance so it can heal itself.

“What I do is I just feel peoples’ energy,” Yuen said in a recent phone interview from his Southern California office. “I look at a person’s body and find a weakness there.”

Yuen works by trying to find the root cause of pain or illness, be it physical, emotional or spiritual.

“Your mind gets in the way of healing,” he says.

Spokane psychotherapist Kari Wagler has taken Yuen’s training and now uses it in her practice. She wanted to bring Yuen to Spokane to show others his technique.

“I got really interested in how the mind and body are related,” Wagler says. “I noticed in therapy, sometimes peoples’ aches and pains would go away when we worked on emotional issues.”

Under Yuen’s method, pain is treated not by itself but as a symptom of a deeper issue. His technique teaches people how to identify those root causes of pain, he says.

“Pain comes up because life to humans is pain,” says Yuen, who says he’s been using his technique for 20 years.

He hopes his method of treating illness will keep people from unnecessary medications or other interventions. But that doesn’t mean he shuns Western medicine, he says.

“I never tell them not to go to their doctors,” he says. “I have doctors come and see me.”