Empowering healers to prosper with courage and compassion

You are here to make an impact in healing the world

You deserve to be richly compensated for your work

You know it’s time to be bolder, play bigger and share your gifts

I’m here to help you get there

I'm Johanna Alper, founder of Medicine Buddha Coaching and the creator of The 5 Elements of Prosperity for Holistic Business Success.

For the past 40 years, I've had a successful 5 Element Classical Acupuncture and teaching business. I understand the challenges you face in growing your business. Today, I‘m on a mission to help healers and heart-centered entrepreneurs like you attract more clients, create prosperity and make the impact you’ve come here to make.

Yes, you’re here to heal the world, I’m here to help - But how did it all start?

After teaching acupuncture for many years, my heart ached seeing talented graduates failing to successfully launch their healing practices. Most healers have incredible gifts, but lack the entrepreneurial skills to create a successful practice. Unfortunately, these skills are not taught in our healing schools. My passion for helping other healers succeed grew to the point that I needed to do more. I embarked on a journey to master spiritual business coaching and I never looked back.

With my background in 5 Element Classical Acupuncture, knowledge of Chinese Principles of Success and 50 years of compassion meditation training and teaching, I realized my unique brilliance lies in using the magic of Nature's 5 Elements to help my students and clients thrive and succeed. Your business is a living system too! By applying the success principles of the 5 Elements to the areas of business that bring in revenue, you can have a thriving practice.

My healer friend, want to know the best part?

Once you understand this organic business system, marketing and sales will be more easy and fun. With the grace of the 5 Elements of Prosperity and my mentorship, you’ll learn how to succeed with confidence, integrity and joy.

Ready to combine the magic of your work with financial success? 

When we work together, we’ll explore the best path for you and your business. As a heart centered mentor for holistic businesses, a soul-aligned and compassionate approach always comes first. 

In order to have a thriving business you need all of the 5 Elements of Prosperity:

  • Fire - Your heart’s unique radiant brand 

  • Earth - Your soul aligned niche 

  • Metal - Your prosperous money flow 

  • Water - Your work-life balance

  • Wood- Your big vision implemented

In your initial assessment we'll discuss The 5 Elements of Prosperity to assess your current business model. This assessment will help us learn where your business is at and the steps needed to set you on a path to success and prosperity.

About Johanna

Johanna received a BA in Dance from San Francisco State College (now University) in 1970.

In 1971 Johanna was fortunate to hear the Shambhala/Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master Chögyam Trungpa speak. She was inspired to begin meditating — a practice she has now tended for more than 55 years. In 1973, Trungpa Rinpoche asked her to become a meditation instructor and she led a month-long intensive in 1982.

From an early age Johanna aspired to having a good time and also reduce suffering. Because Taoist 5 Element Acupuncture treats the whole person - body/mind/spirit - she was inspired to study this ancient lineage. She has been delighted and honored to practice for over 45 years in Boulder Colorado. She also taught in acupuncture colleges for over 20 years.

When she observed excellent acupuncture graduates having difficulty creating successful practices she began studying business coaching.

She then realized that the energetics of the 5 Elements — Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood — applied not only to her patients, but all living systems including holistic businesses. This became the foundation for her work as The Healer's Coach — supporting holistic practitioners, therapists, and heart-centered entrepreneurs to build thriving practices.

More recently, she has brought the living-system wisdom of the 5 Elements to help boards and teams of conscious businesses and organizations to become more collaborative and successful. The results have been — as one board chair put it — "magic."

Her book, The Tao of Coming Alive: 10 Timeless Medicine Wisdom Treasures for Vitality, Joy, and Peace will be published in 2026.

Johanna is in her 100th year of gratitude (practicing meditation for 55, and acupuncture for 45) and to be meditating, dancing most days, and enjoying her life at 80.

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