Workshops & Events

Workshop Information The 5 Element Map elegantly describes the human experience in health and disharmony. Each element is associated with mental, emotional, spiritual and physical qualities. The 5 Element map shows where disharmony may lie as well as what is needed to get back in balance. In this workshop, we focus on Earth and Metal …

Workshop Information The aim of this workshop is to enable students and practitioners to acquire a manual treatment routine, with the patient fully clothed. This routine allows for a combined assessment and treatment, treating the patient as we discover issues on their body. The techniques are derived from Asian manual therapy modalities, including Thai massage, …

Workshop Information Healing happens in relationship. Whether you’re an herbalist, nutritionist, acupuncturist, or other health practitioner, your ability to recognize and respond to a client’s nervous system can profoundly influence how receptive and engaged they are throughout the healing process. A client’s experience of being seen, heard, understood, and supported is shaped not only by …

Workshop Information This two-part workshop will look at the traditional and up to date research on functional fungi and lichens. The ten most popular medicinal mushrooms will be explored and will cover common myths, the fruiting body vs. mycelium controversy, home preparations, and contraindications in herbal clinical practice. The second day will be an exploration …

Workshop Information Gender-diverse patients are navigating one of the most profound journeys a person can take — and too often, they do it without adequate support from their healthcare providers. This workshop invites TCM practitioners, acupuncturists, DTCMs, and students to step into that gap with knowledge, skill, and compassion. In this two-day course, we explore …

Workshop Information Synergists are herbs that enhance the effects of other herbs in formulation–but they are not one-size-fits-all!  Learn how to choose a synergist to best increase the effectiveness of formulas, in order to improve formulations and get better outcomes in clinical practice.  We will discuss the physiology behind synergy, Materia Medica of commonly used …

Workshop Information Explore how acupuncture supports recovery, and mental health with Ted van Hemert, R.Ac. This 2-day workshop is designed for students of Acupuncture, Registered Acupuncturists, Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners, and Doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Addiction affects us all. The complexity and pervasiveness of addiction and mental health can be a confounding problem for …

Workshop Information The objective of this course is to build on the manual therapy fundamentals learned in OM/PD156 Asian Manual Therapy. Review of sequences in the prone, sitting, and supine positions. The course also covers work on the shoulders and arms, as well as techniques for treating patients on their sides. By the end of …