Please note that inclusion of a school or a training program in the following list does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement; and failure to list a school or training program does not imply a critique of that program.  It may be an oversight.

• Five element acupuncture educational courses:
  • United States
    • Tai Sophia Institute (formerly Traditional Acupuncture Institute).  7750 Montpelier Road.  Laurel, MD  20723.  Tel.: (410) 888-9048 or (800) 735-2968.  Website: www.tai.edu.
    • Academy for Five Element Acupuncture.  1170-A East Hallandale Beach Boulevard.  Hallandale, FL 33009.  Tel.: (954) 456-6336; Fax: (954) 456-3944.  Website: www.acupuncturist.com. 
    • Bastyr University.  14500 Juanita Drive NE.  Kenmore, WA  98028-4966.  Tel.: (425) 823-1300.  Fax: (425) 823-6222.  Website: www.bastyr.edu  (Basic courses).
    • Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture.  608 Main Street.  Louisville, CO  80027.  Tel.: (720) 890-8922.  Website: www.acupunctureschool.ws
    • The Institute of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture, Inc.  2926 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404.  Tel.: (310) 453-2235.  Fax:  (310) 230-8680.  Website: www.5elements.com.
      • The Institute offers a 12 month, part-time program for licensed acupuncturists, physicians, osteopaths, dentists, and senior students of acupuncture, an opportunity to learn Classical Five-Element Acupuncture. The program is taught by Neil Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK) with special training by Professor J.R. Worsley and Dr. Judy Becker Worsley, and a guest faculty personally trained by them.  NOTE:  Next class begins September 19, 2003.
    • Inner Traditions of Chinese Medicine.  A Two Year Course in Clinical Integration, Taught by Lonny Jarrett, M.S., M.Ac., FNAAOM.  P.O. Box 1093.  Stockbridge, MA  01262.
      • For more information, including a list of topics covered, registration form and dates, click here.
    • Wu Hsing Tao School.  Dirk Hein, director.  2915 E. Madison, Suite 304.  Seattle, WA  98112.  Tel.: (206) 324-4097.  Fax: (206) 324-7188.  Website: www.wuhsing.org  Wu Hsing Tao School, the first five element acupuncture school in the Pacific Northwest, was designed after the original Worsley school in England.  Dirk Hein, director of Wu Hsing Tao School, in private five element acupuncture practice for over 20 years, holds a five element acupuncture teaching certificate from the Worsley school.  

     

  • United Kingdom
    • London Institute of Five-Element Acupuncture.  73 New Bond Street.  Mayfair.  London, W1S 1RS.  Tel. 0207 408 0341.  Fax: 0207 499 1502.  Website: www.lifea.co.uk.
      • The London Institute of Five-Element Acupuncture has been established to ensure that classical five-element acupuncture is taught at the highest level to students from all over the world.  Currently we are the only school in Europe offering the education specified in this prospectus.  We wish to maintain the tradition as taught by J. R. Worsley and J. B. Worsley, whilst providing a broad based general education in acupuncture.  We will produce graduates who are confident and well educated to carry this oral tradition forward and provide treatment to patients practised at the highest level.
    • School of Five Element Acupuncture, 13 Mandela Street, London, NW1 0DU, U.K.  Tel. 00 44 (0)20 7383 5553/5567.  Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7383 5503.  Website: www.sofea.co.uk.
    • The College of Traditional Acupuncture.  Tao House, Queensway.  Leamington Spa.  CV31 3LZ.  United Kingdom.  Tel.: +44 (0)1926 422121.  Fax: +44 (0)1926 888282.  Website: www.acupuncture-coll.ac.uk
      • Our programme is a BA (Hons) degree in Traditional Acupuncture, validated by Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, and accredited by the British Acupuncture Accreditation Board.  We have been running the degree programme since September 1998.

• Five element acupuncture continuing education courses:

(See also education, above).