Welcome to the House of Tao, a wellness house devoted to living like a naturalist.
Here, you’ll learn the art of healing yourself.
I'm Cicely - clinical herbalist, functional medicine practitioner, intuitive healer, educator, and architect of healing spaces where eastern practices meet western precision. What began as my own desperate search for answers around my health has become a wellness house where botanical medicine, beauty, ritual, research, education, art and everyday life are allowed to exist together—not as separate disciplines, but as expressions of the same philosophy: that the human body belongs to nature.
I guide you through what letting go asks of the body, and what not letting go does to it.
The House is built around relationship. Relationship to the body. To plants. To place and season. To our histories and patterns. To beauty, pleasure, rest, work, food, movement and one another.
Here, wellness is not an endless project of correction or optimization. We are interested in cultivating the conditions in which the body can remember its own intelligence.
Our world is elemental and lived-in: linen and natural light, herbs and glass, sun-warmed limestone, wood, clay, skin, saltwater and paper. Where Mediterranean ease meets Japanese restraint. Quiet colors live beside unexpected ones. There is grace here, but also rebellion.
The House is home to collections of botanical medicines, skin and body preparations, scent, ritual objects, clinical practice, research, teaching and conversation. Some are made here. Some are studied here. Some are simply ways of living that we believe are worth preserving.
And the doors remain open, for you.
Practitioners, artists, researchers, makers and other interesting humans may enter through the Guest House—bringing their own disciplines into conversation with ours through residencies, collaborations, gatherings, shared tables and limited works.
House of Tao is therefore not simply a wellness brand.
It is a living house of ideas, objects, medicines and practices organized around a quieter proposition:
Live closer to what is natural.
Learn to read the body.
Make beautiful things.
Leave room for pleasure (lots of it).
And allow wellness to become less something you pursue—and more a way you live.
I’ll see you inside,
Cicely
Inside the House
"What began as a deep study of personal healing and spiritual exploration has evolved into specialized sanctuaries - each designed for a different aspect of your wellness journey.”
TAO + SALOMA | Fine Botanical Medicines
Your daily ritual. Professional-grade herbal formulations that bring ancient plant wisdom into modern life. Where healing becomes tangible - adaptable medicines you can integrate into your daily rhythm.
01Iyasu | Advanced Holistic Medicine
Your transformation. Where we do the deep clinical work. This is the temple where we identify root patterns of imbalance and build your personal healing protocol (Click here to download The Burnout Pattern guide). For products we don’t stock in the apothecary, visit our dispensary for wellness & personal care—create a profile (or login) to shop. *If you had an account under Tao Holistics, your account is still there
02Int’l Academy of Mind-body Medicine | Professional Study
Your mastery. For students & practitioners who want to feel regulated, oriented, intellectually stretched, and seen. Where we teach the art of pattern recognition, herbal theory, sophisticated botanical prescribing & more. Free clinical energetics training available for a limited time—you’ll see it on the homepage.
03The Atelier | A Podcast on Repatterning the Body
Your inspiration. Intimate dialogues exploring the philosophy, artistry, and intelligence behind holistic medicine. This is where healing becomes a conversation worth having.
04Origin // Birth of Tao
It started with my own body refusing to cooperate.
Symptoms without answers. Stressful days - mentally, emotionally and physically. A job I had to leave in order to tend to my own wellbeing… until a holistic practitioner helped me see what conventional medicine had missed - severe gluten intolerance, adrenal exhaustion, hormonal chaos, oxidative stress stealing my vitality. Within days, bioidentical hormones relieved my sadness, and within months I was even better than before.
In that moment of clarity, I knew: this would be my life's work. To teach others how to find their highest state of wellbeing.
The skincare line I'd been building temporarily took its rightful place in service of something deeper. Healing from the inside out became the foundation. Everything else would follow.
What has since emerged wasn't one practice, one product line, one approach. It was four specialized sanctuaries - each honoring a different aspect of the healing journey I'd walked myself.
Begin here.
Botanical medicines, scent & skin→ TAO + SALOMA
High-quality herbal formulations you can integrate immediately
Private 1:1 or group work → Iyasu
Clinical partnership to identify patterns and create your protocol
Aspiring and existing practitioners → Iyasu Institute
Clinical herbalism and holistic medicine education.
Podcast: a working philosophy in healing → The Atelier
Explore pattern medicine and the art of healing yourself.
What Cicely loves and actually uses → My Essentials
I reach for these regularly, perhaps you will too.