Our aim is to provide healthcare practitioners with the tools for success, both in their treatments and in their practice.

Our professional development series brings world-renowned experts to major cities in Canada to impart the very latest ideas in the field and cutting-edge clinical protocols.

Here's what we have scheduled for spring and early fall 2010...
 

• Advanced Constitutional Facial Acupuncture™
  A Four-day Certification Series with Mary Elizabeth Wakefield, L.Ac.
  September 24-27, 2010 in Calgary, Alberta
  Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Renewal is a safe, painless and effective treatment for rejuvenating the face as well as the whole body. This class will teach the acupuncturist how to customize a treatment by ascertaining the 5 Element constitution and meridian terrain involved in the aging process of the patient.
  NCCAOM Approved for 30 CEUs/PDAs
  Click here for more information on Facial Acupuncture with Mary Elizabeth Wakefield
  
  
  

• Classical Five-Element Acupuncture: Beginning the Journey™
  A two-day seminar with Professor Neil Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), C.T.(A), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac.
  October 16-17, 2010 in Vancouver, BC
  Classical Five-Element Acupuncture, in the Worsley tradition, is one of the most complete, comprehensive, and far-reaching systems of medicine in the world. You will not be able to fully practice this system after one weekend, but you will learn to identify and resolve potentially life-threatening energetic blocks, any of which, until removed, will hinder or prevent your patient from getting well. You will learn to develop and use your senses, pulse taking, and rapport skills as powerful diagnostic tools, and you will come to understand and manage your patients in a whole new way.
  NCCAOM Approved for 15 CEUs/PDAs
  Click here for more information on Classical Five-Element Acupuncture with Neil Gumenick
  
  Earlybird deadline extended until September 17th!
  
   

• Ripening the Fruit: Gestational Care and Support of Mother and Child with TCM
  with Dr. David A. Bray, CMD, D.Ac., Dipl. C.H. (NCCAOM)
  October 30-31, 2010 in Calgary, Alberta
  Focusing on gestational care and support, this exciting workshop is the first of its kind! 
  Most fertility lectures focus solely on conception, but ignore the remaining nine months.  Dr. Bray addresses this gap, teaching how to help sustain the healthy progression of a normal pregnancy. Utilizing TCM theories in embryology and fetal development, Dr. Bray will teach the easy and practical use of herbology and acupuncture to enhance maternal health during pregnancy to benefit the mother and developing baby.  Postpartum care and support will also be covered.
  This is the first of a series of workshops, and will be the prerequisite for future workshops on TCM approaches/strategies for pathological or abnormal conditions that can arise during pregnancy.
  Click here for more information on Ripening the Fruit: Gestational Care with David Bray
   

• Vital Principle Institute presents
  Advanced Assessment using Frequencies
  with Beate Strittmatter, MD
  November 6-7, 2010 in Toronto, ON
  Click here for more information