Shel Di Montagna

Dr. Shel di Montagna is an Integrative Health Expert specialized in creating sustainable strategies that
bring confidence, ease and creativity to support wellness goals from pediatrics to geriatrics. A Doctor of
Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner and licensed in both
pediatric & adult acupuncture, Dr. Shel blends a wealth of experience with skilled and gentle hands to
create custom treatment programs for higher standards in health, fitness, beauty and mind at any age.

At YinFinite Wellness Dr. Shel offers both needle & non-needle modalities:
* acupuncture/ electroacupuncture/ acupressure
* Integrative multiple-modality treatments
* pediatric song/story/play treatments
* rehabilitative therapeutic yoga asana
* cupping structural realignment
* moxa heat therapy
* vagus nerve ear stimulation

A former teacher and family resource specialist, Dr. Shel offers a unique style of family medicine utilizing
college degrees in Sociology, Early Childhood Education and Community Health Science. Her earlier
research contributions in the Social Construction of Early Childhood Commercialism fostered classroom
structures for antibias literature & curriculum program development in early childhood education.
Privately, she fostered unique home learning educational plans as a Kindergarten Bridge Specialist and
served as a nutritional health liaison for families with special health concerns. After six years of training
in Japanese and Chinese Acupuncture, her she was honored to integrate her two careers through
extended mentorship in holistic pediatrics, complex health disorders, integrative neurology and the
H.A.N.D.L.E. neurodiversity approach to academic learning.

Weaving traditional wisdom and skills with modern medical advancements, Dr. Shel’s continued pursuits
have led her into Functional Medicine Advanced Lab Analysis with her most recent studies at The Institute
for Functional Medicine and The Kalish Institute. In accordance with the most current knowledge of
biomedicine in optimizing systems physiology, she is passionate about optimizing community stress
resilience by naturally balancing hormones, the gut- brain axis and detoxification pathways of the brain
and body to improve mood, focus, digestion, immunity, sleep and body composition.
Awarded internationally as a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner for her work, Dr. Shel continues
case study mentorship to offer the highest level of biomedical testing and corrective, data-driven nonpharmaceutical
programs in her mission to reestablish education and empowerment- forward standards
of health and wellness. She leads The “StressCase” Study, an innovative, partially-subsidized functional
medicine program for those struggling to thrive due to overwhelm of the mental and physical stressors of
modern life.

Led by an insatiable awe of the natural sciences and humans within it, Dr. Shel has garnered a rich
alchemy of health resources from decades of collaboration with families, students, patients and mentors.
It is her passion, privilege and purpose to liaise these resources back into the community in their honor.