About White Pine Circle Courses
White Pine Circle provides a robust, user-friendly, and beautiful platform with support for teachers who want to create in-depth, interactive courses with students. All of our courses are curated to ensure the highest quality of training. All courses are available to members and non-members. White Pine Circle members will always get a discount on our courses. We are proud to host some of the best teachers in the field of East Asian Medicine.
On-Demand Courses are now easier than ever to take.
Join us for this 2 ½ year Graduate Mentorship Program, taught by Sharon Weizenbaum, for those students and practitioners who have completed or are soon to complete foundational Chinese herbal training.
During the program, students become involved in a community of practitioners and receive steady contact and in-depth involvement with the material and resources.
The White Pine Circle is your HOME for learning about Saam Acupuncture.
Toby Daly Phd. L.Ac
Kristin Wisgirda MTOM, L.Ac
Current Courses
OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
Saam Acupuncture: Clinical Observation and Point Location with Toby Daly
Instructor: Toby Daly
8 Hours Shadowing Toby Daly in Clinic at the White Pine Healing Arts Clinic in Amherst, MA
The medical interview is the practicing physician’s essential tool for developing a diagnosis and establishing rapport with the patient. In this class students will observe the Saam acupuncture tradition’s heart centered approach to the medical interview. These explorations will include observation of guiding principles, techniques, and reliable questions to facilitate this approach.
The Magic of Moxibustion
Instructor: Yuki Itaya
Starting September 29, 2023
3 Class / 6 Hour Series beginning September 29. Covering the topics of "Moxa with Long Covid Study," "Dermatology Moxa, Eczema, Psoriasis and Skin disease" and "How to RESET your body using moxa. (Stress/ Sympathetic system")
Saam Channel Comparison and Video Diagnosis
Instructor: Kristin Wisgirda , MTOM, Lic.Ac.
Starting August 17, 2023
This course explores presentations that appear when the elemental physical properties of multiple channel excesses are combined. Familiarizing ourselves with the relationships between the Saam 12 channels will help us tease out the individual channel qualities more clearly.
Tián Hèmíng Yìjīng Pulse System with Dr. Huáng Xuán and Dr. Huáng Miǎo Xīn
The Soul of the Tián Hèmíng Tradition
Dr. Huáng Xuán 黃旋 and his son and disciple, Miǎo Xīn 秒心 teach a 12 Hour Online Course and 2 Week in-person workshop sharing the depth of the Tián Hèmíng tradition.
Pulse Diagnosis Seminar with Claus Sørensen
Pulse Diagnosis Seminar with Claus Sørensen
9 Hour Seminar and Weekend Workshop
In pulse diagnosis we often focus on details. And details are important. But I love to start with the big picture – big things are big.
Japanese Abdominal Diagnosis: Fukushin
Instructor: Kumiko Shirai
10 Classes Online and 16 Hour In - Person Workshop. Begins on August 30, 2023
The purpose of this class is to improve practitioners’ clinical skills to diagnose. They will learn to match abdominal findings with herbal prescriptions.
On Demand Courses
Take these courses anytime you want.
Saam Acupuncture Level One
with Toby Daly Phd, L.Ac
This course provides information on the Saam Korean monastic acupuncture tradition from a theoretical, historical, and practical perspective. Special attention is given to this system’s implementation into a successful TEAM clinical practice.
18 Acupuncture CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $216
Regular Price: $295
Saam Acupuncture Level Two
with Toby Daly Phd, L.Ac
This course will provide the student with advanced concepts in the Saam acupuncture tradition. This six-week workshop will allow the student to begin using the draining and bilateral pair combinations of the Saam tradition immediately after the completion of the course. The course begins with theoretical and clinical considerations for applying these advanced concepts.
18 Acupuncture CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $216
Regular Price: $295
Introduction to the Great Turning
with Sharon Weizenbaum
Join Sharon for the first class of the two-year White Pine Graduate Mentorship Program. This covers our orientation in time and space as practitioners.
3 Acupuncture CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $45
Regular Price: $75
Shang Han Lun in Clinic: Didactic Course
with Nadine Zäch
As one’s training in classical Chinese medicine develops, pulse can become more and more of a Rosetta stone for honing diagnosis into the final formula choice. This process involves gathering information through questions, observation and palpation and then processing that information in such a way that supports the articulation of a clear diagnosis.
36 Herbal CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $500
Regular Price: $600
Applying the Shang Han Lun to Acupuncture and Moxibustion Treatment
with Maya Suzuki
In this four part introduction we will cover how to take your herbal knowledge and begin to transfer it to your acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. We will do this covering some very key formulas in the Shang Han Lun: Gui Zhi Tang, Ge Geng Tang, Ma Huang Tang, and Da Qing Long Tang. We will cover these basic formulas in a visible method and discuss how to take your acupuncture and moxibustion and apply it according to the ancient knowledge contained within this volume.
3 Acupuncture CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $60
Regular Price: $100
The 12 Channels of Saam
with Kristin Wisgirda MTOM, L.Ac
Whether you have been practicing Saam for several years or you have just taken Saam Level 1 with Toby Daly, this course is an opportunity to review and refine your understanding of the 12 channels.
12 Acupuncture CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $220
Regular Price: $280
Introduction to Paediatric Acupuncture 4 Part Series
with Rebecca Avern L.Ac, Dip Paed AC, MBAcC
Paediatrics has been a specialism of Chinese Medicine since the Song dynasty. Yet it is still a small minority of acupuncturists who treat children. We will explore what it is like to treat children. How is it different to adult practice? What stops practitioners from doing it and how can we overcome these barriers? Children need our medicine now more than ever. This series will give you a taste of the day to day reality of being a paediatric acupuncturist, and inspire you to begin welcoming children to your clinic.
4 Acupuncture CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $60
Regular Price: $100
Biomedical Terminology for OB/GYN Patients
with Caroline Radice DACM, L.Ac.
This 3 part course is to familiarize anyone working with OB/GYN patients with the language of biomedicine that patients may bring to clinic. It is for anyone who doesn’t feel articulate with different types of diseases presentations and will review basic symptomology as well as highlight when to refer patients to a western practitioner.
7.5 Herbal CEUs
Inner Circle Members: $187.50
Regular Price: $117.50
