Master of Acupuncture in Classical Five-Element Acupuncture

The Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture (ITEA) Program teaches the oral tradition of Classical Five-Element Acupuncture (CF-EA) in limited class sizes to ensure the highest learning quality. The ITEA educational experience is unique and transformational. It is based on the spiral approach of traditional Eastern learning, where an idea is visited again and again from different viewpoints and in increasingly greater depth. As in Eastern education, our faculty are not merely dispensers of intellectual knowledge but are guides who help each student uncover the wisdom inherent within nature and themselves.

In our school of acupuncture, students are trained to diagnose clients' state by discerning energetic harmony and disharmony. This is done through the subtle and highly refined observational cues of color, sound, odor, and emotional content, as was done by the ancient Chinese. Refinement comes from spiral learning, which imbues students with ever-deepening skills in using these forms of diagnosis.

The Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture (ITEA) is a world leader in teaching pure Classical Five-Element Acupuncture (CF-EA). Our mission starts with promoting the health of individuals and grows to encompass the health of the world we live in and all of nature that makes it up. Our college program produces transformational and passionate leaders in the healthcare field.

The program returns us to Eastern observance and reverence of the place of nature in maintaining health. It gives us renewed respect for a learning method that is not only academic and intellectual but also based on energy, receptivity, and the senses, and the number of colleges teaching it in the world remains quite small. CF-EA not only treats physical symptoms. It also brings clarity of mind, inner strength, and a twinkle back into a person’s eye. It can transform the whole person — body, mind, and spirit!