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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.
Center for Acupuncture Education & Research
The research branch of Tri-State College of Acupuncture sponsors symposiums for researchers, practitioners and others interested in the development of research protocols for traditional Chinese medicine.
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.
Focusing Institute
Focusing is a gentle, non-invasive way of bringing your awareness to your body and finding out what is going on beneath the conscious mind. Focusing is very compatible with acupuncture and can help deepen the effects of treatment. This web site is truly a gold mine of articles, practices and workshop listings that will help you learn more about the process of focusing.
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.
New York Open Center
New York City’s main holistic and new age learning center, the Open Center offers classes on everything from meditation to African drumming.
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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Publications
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
The Townsend Letter offers a wide variety of articles on various aspects of alternative medicine.
Finding an Alchemical Acupuncture Practitioner
Lorie recommends the following practitioners, all of whom are specifically
trained to treat using an Alchemical Acupuncture
orientation.
Melissa Meyers, M.S., L.Ac.
588 Broadway
Suite 906
New York, NY 10012
(646) 530-0092
Melissa is a New York State licensed and nationally
board certified acupuncturist who brings to
her acupuncture practice 29 years of professional
healthcare experience from her careers in nursing
and law.
Jill Plevan, L.Ac., LCSW
80 East 11th Street, Suite 210
New York, NY 10003
and
567 Ninth Street, #1
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(347) 432-0302
www.JillPlevan.com
Professional training and over 12 years of experience as a psychotherapist
allow Jill to draw from both Eastern and Western healing traditions
in her work with clients. This leads to deeper, longer lasting relief
from ailments that affect the body/mind/spirit. You are invited to
learn more about Jill and her integrated approach by visiting her website.
Jipala Reicher-Kagan, L.Ac.
Transpersonal Acupuncture
14 Elizabeth Street
Kingston, NY
(845) 340-8625
Jipala@earthlink.net
www.transpersonalacupuncture.com
Jipala is a New York State licensed acupuncturist
and she comes from a small lineage of alternative
healers. She practices three different styles
of acupuncture in addition to having eight
years of experience working with a certified
nutritionist. Jipala has knowledge of Western
herbology, homeopathic medicine, nutritional
supplements and dietary/lifestyle counseling.
Her main focus is now on Transpersonal Acupuncture.
Jessie Shaw, M.S., L.Ac., O.M.
Licensed Acupuncturist (NY & NJ)
Nationally Certified Chinese Herbalist
Olive Branch Healing
242 East 5th Street
New York, NY 10003
(917) 864.3026
Olivebranchhealing.com
Jessie works with patients as a catalyst for transformation using
classical meridian and five element acupuncture
approaches, Chinese herbology and cranial-sacral therapy. Her background
in psychotherapy
stems from eight years of Self-Relations therapy
training with Steve Gilligan, Ph.D. (a California based protégé of
Milton Erickson), as well as three years of in-depth supervision with
Ms.
Dechar.
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.
Katherine Echo Kim, M.S., L.Ac.
Echo is a licensed acupuncturist whose private practice and transformational
lifestyle education programs support adults to prepare for parenthood,
1-3 years before actual conception and pregnancy. During this time,
men and women, individuals and couples, are encouraged to observe and
develop their lives, health, and potential parenting skillset by entering
into an intentional period of deep reflection, learning and processing
related to their own experience of family, childhood, relationships,
home and other issues, before conception. Echo welcomes inquiries and
guides Conscious PreConception programs throughout the year at Conscious
Clinic.
Michael Gelb
Michael is the author of several best-selling books, including How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci and More Balls than Hands, on creativity and the development of human potential. Check out his latest book, DaVinci Decoded: Discovering the Spiritual Secrets of Leonardo’s Seven Principles (published by Random House in October 2004).
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.
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