What you do you if you’re interested in learning and practicing acupuncture, but there are no schools, standards or licensure?
You built it yourself; with help of other spirited colleagues.
In this conversation with John Myerson we go back to the days when acupuncture was just coming into the mainstream of American life. It wasn’t there yet— but it was close enough to intuit.
John was there in the early days of the New England School of Acupuncture. And he helped to create the academic structures required to give our profession legitimacy in mainstream culture.
It was a grand experiment, gutsy when you think about. And those early pioneering influences, they created the foundation we stand on today.
Listen into this discussion of vision, steadfastness and risk taking as we take a trip in the Wayback Machine to a moment when acupuncture and East Asian medicine was just beginning to emerge into mainstream culture.
“Where’s the power?” By that I mean what is the energy of any given situation you may find yourself in.
John Myerson, P.hD, L.Ac
I graduated from Harvard College, 1974, the first class of the New England School of Acupuncture, 1977 and received my Doctorate in Psychology from the Union Institute and University, 1991.
I served as the Chairman of the Committee on Acupuncture, Board of Registration in Medicine, Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1987 to 2004. I was a founding member of the National Council of Schools and Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, was a founding member of the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, was a founding member and first President of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine and was a founding member and past President of the Federation of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Regulatory Agencies.
I am a Zen Master, internal Taoist martial arts master, yoga practitioner, shaman, psychologist and I practice Oriental Medicine. I combine all of these modalities into a healing practice in Massachusetts.
In addition I am the co-author of three books on healing and expect my fourth book to be available in 2024.
You can get John’s books over at the big river.
