AMMA Therapy® was founded and developed by Tina Sohn, co-founder of The Wholistic Health Center. Tina Sohn was born into one of the "800 Families" which constitute the traditional ruling classes of Korea. The women of her family were masters of the ancient healing arts, while the males were superior masters of the martial arts. Within the family, training in energy development and control began during childhood. Along with the legacy of physical and spiritual training, Tina Sohn inherited a responsibility to the people she served. She began her training at the age of four, studying hatha yoga-like exercises and esoteric energy development exercises. She was trained to become a champion long distance ocean endurance swimmer and by adolescence had attained this status. Her final training, in the mountains of Korea, was completed with her grandmother, an acupuncturist, herbalist and a practitioner of AMMA.

Through a crippling accident when she spent 30 days in a coma and was given up for dead by Western doctors in her native Korea, Tina Sohn evolved a heightened sensitivity to the physical condition of others and developed into a true Diagnostic Sensitive - a woman of unmatched inner strength and power, who knew herself to be more than a material body.

Years later, under guidance of her husband and teacher, Robert Sohn, Tina Sohn pursued her destiny as a diagnostic sensitive and healer. She integrated her knowledge of Oriental Medicine and Western Medicine with her heightened sensitivity - and created a bodywork therapy that is like no other. It is through her efforts that AMMA Therapy® was brought to this country and, in conjunction with Robert Sohn, that this healing art was introduced into the American health care delivery system in the early 1970s.

In 1976 Dr. and Mrs. Sohn co-founded The Wholistic Health Center - to bring to Long Island a fully integrated out-patient facility using natural and preventive approaches to provide quality Wholistic health care services.