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Below are some links, arranged in categories by Education, Publications, Alchemical Acupuncture Practitioners, and Other Resources, that I think you may find useful. This list will grow, so check back frequently for additional resources.

Education

Acupuncture Society of New York (ASNY)
ASNY sponsors conferences and classes and also offers a listing of certified acupuncturists in New York State.

Esalen Institute
Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California is considered the home of the human potential movement. They offer an amazing array of workshops and trainings in massage, body-work, consciousness studies and more. Get here if you can! It is one of the most beautiful and exciting learning communities in the world.

National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
The NCCAOM certifies acupuncturists and herbalists. The national boards, which they administer, are recognized as the decisive credential of competence in most states in America.

Traditional Acupuncture Institute (TAI Sophia)
The TAI Sophia Institute in Columbia, Maryland offers acupuncture training based on the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine and the teachings of English osteopath and acupuncturist, Dr. J. R. Worsley. In addition, the institute offers many different classes on wellness including herbology, qi gong and the development of human potential.

Tri-State College of Acupuncture
The Tri-State College of Acupuncture in New York City offers a three-year acupuncture Masters Degree program. Although the curriculum at Tri-State is based on Dr. Mark Seem’s Acupuncture: Physical Medicine, classes cover a wide range of styles, and students are encouraged to gradually develop their own style of practicing.

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Finding an Alchemical Healing Practitioner

Lorie recommends the following practitioners, all of whom are specifically trained to treat using an Alchemical Acupuncture orientation.

You can also find a practitioner trained to work from a body/mind/spirit perspective at the TAI Sophia Web site.

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Other Recommended Resources

Claude AnShin Thomas
AnShin is a Zen teacher and dedicated world healer. His book, The Heart of a Soldier, describes his experiences as a helicopter crew chief pilot in Vietnam and his subsequent decision to become a Zen Buddhist priest and peacemaker. He teaches and speaks worldwide on the effects of violence and ignorance and the practice of meditation as a path to healing.

Franka Fiala
Franka Fiala is an advanced certified clinical hypnotist and a certified professional speaker-trainer. She was born in Puerto Rico, raised in Vienna, Austria and calls NYC her home since 1998. Franka is fluent in English, Spanish and German. Sessions can be done in any of these languages! Franka has been practicing self-hypnosis all her life and keeps practicing daily. A life-changing incident in 2005 confronted Franka with her true life-path mission. She soon after decided to devote the rest of her life to guide and help others help and heal themselves with the powerful modality of hypnosis.

Harvest Moon Farms
Harvest Moon Farms has been growing and distilling Lavender essential oil since 2000. A small, boutique operation that focuses primarily on a couple of varieties of Lavandins (Grosso, Provence) and English (Royal Velvet, De Lavande, Seal 7 Oaks) Lavenders, K.C. Chamberlain and Martha Betz produce an exceptional line of products with the goal of making essential oil available to aromatherapists and other healers to use in their healing practices.

Dr. Randine Lewis - specialist in women's fertility issues

Because of her own personal experience with infertility and her success with natural treatments, Dr. Lewis developed an extremely effective natural program to help women become and stay pregnant. With this all natural infertility treatment via the Fertility Enhancing Retreats process, women from all over the world can now benefit from evaluation and treatment with Dr. Lewis in addition to the thousands she has helped in a clinical setting, where her success rate was 75%. This program has also been shown to increase success rates with ART procedures such as in-vitro fertilization and IUI.

Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese
Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese is a great resource if you are interested in learning about the Chinese language and delving into the etymology of Chinese characters.

Willmountain Press
Willmountain Press features books and workshops by Dennis Willmont on essential oils, acupuncture, Daoism, natural foods, Natural Healing, and Chinese Medicine emphasizing Body/Mind/Spirit integration. Dennis also sells a line of high quality essential oils.

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JIN
The character for gold is jin. It is made up of the radical for Earth combined with two specks which are meant to represent two nuggets of gold hidden away beneath the Earth. The character reminds us that the true gold or alchemical treasure is not found out in the open. Rather, the treasure is hidden and must be searched for in places people often do not look.

The alchemical quest has been misunderstood by modern science and trivialized into an attempt to turn base metal into gold, but if we look more carefully, we discover that the authentic alchemical quest was for the spiritual power at the heart of the material universe, the source of life itself. The gold the alchemists were searching for was not only material. Their true gold was the golden light of the divine; their true work was the fixing or crystallizing of the golden light of the soul. The true alchemical quest was the transformation of the lead of ordinary life suffering into the gold of wisdom and spiritual insight.

The people, organizations and publications listed on this page are golden treasures I have experienced that might assist you in transforming the lead of your ordinary existence into the gold of an extraordinary life.

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