Daphne Youngson, my face reading teacher and mentor
I'm very blessed to have known Daphne for 25 years now. We met in 1987, a year after I graduated from the Traditional Acupuncture College - I was immediately fascinated by Face Reading, and it remains my passion in life.
Daphne lived for nine years in the Far East, the last three being in Hong Kong. While a member of the Hong Kong Association of Hygiene she studied the Chinese approach to the maintenance of health. She learned Acupuncture and Face Reading from Dr. Frances Wong, Chinese doctor who was President of the Association at that time. The photo above is Daphne, and below a photo of Dr. Wong taken in Hong Kong in 1975 with Jane Hutson, one of her students. (Photo kindly sent to me by her daughter Dr. Susan Lange, also an Acupuncturist in the US).
Dr. Wong had learnt face reading from a nun in Macau who was taught by a Daoist master in China. The lineage that Daphne has taught me has its roots way back to Taoism and even further back to shamanism, long before Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
Dr Wong practised Five Element acupuncture and used diet, healing, counselling, acupressure and herbs. She also studied graphology and body language, so she was what we would call now ‘a holistic practitioner’. Her teaching was in the oral tradition, no poring over books and ancient texts: it was mostly in the clinic, not the classroom. Dr. Wong was way ahead of her time.
I'm very blessed to have known Daphne for 25 years now. We met in 1987, a year after I graduated from the Traditional Acupuncture College - I was immediately fascinated by Face Reading, and it remains my passion in life.
Daphne lived for nine years in the Far East, the last three being in Hong Kong. While a member of the Hong Kong Association of Hygiene she studied the Chinese approach to the maintenance of health. She learned Acupuncture and Face Reading from Dr. Frances Wong, Chinese doctor who was President of the Association at that time. The photo above is Daphne, and below a photo of Dr. Wong taken in Hong Kong in 1975 with Jane Hutson, one of her students. (Photo kindly sent to me by her daughter Dr. Susan Lange, also an Acupuncturist in the US).
Dr. Wong had learnt face reading from a nun in Macau who was taught by a Daoist master in China. The lineage that Daphne has taught me has its roots way back to Taoism and even further back to shamanism, long before Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
Dr Wong practised Five Element acupuncture and used diet, healing, counselling, acupressure and herbs. She also studied graphology and body language, so she was what we would call now ‘a holistic practitioner’. Her teaching was in the oral tradition, no poring over books and ancient texts: it was mostly in the clinic, not the classroom. Dr. Wong was way ahead of her time.
On her return to UK, Daphne took face reading forward with her studies in astrology, Alice Bailey, and palmistry. She linked her experience of energy flows when teaching yoga with the energy flows of the body and the etheric of the face. She worked as a healer for The White Eagle Lodge for 30 years and developed her spiritual and psychic gifts through working with the knowledge brought by White Eagle and Edgar Cayce.
I studied with Daphne for many years – in fact, I am still studying with her! I have, in turn, brought new knowledge to this lineage of face reading through my acupuncture practice, the deeper aspects of yin and yang, and the psychological and emotional aspects shown in the face.
I studied with Daphne for many years – in fact, I am still studying with her! I have, in turn, brought new knowledge to this lineage of face reading through my acupuncture practice, the deeper aspects of yin and yang, and the psychological and emotional aspects shown in the face.