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16/01/2026

🌿 Jing Fang Clinical Internship | Nanjing 🇨🇳✈️

We’ll be hosting an online information meeting on
📅 Monday 2nd February
🕖 19:00 GMT

This meeting is for anyone with questions about the Jing Fang clinical trip to Nanjing. Travelling to a new place can feel daunting, and this session will provide an opportunity to ask questions and clarify any uncertainties 🙏

🌿 Eligibility Criteria
Open to students who are currently in Year 2, or who have completed the full two-year Jing Fang programme.

💬 How to join
Comment 🇨🇳 below and we’ll send you the Zoom link.

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15/01/2026

🌿 Clinical Observation Weekend 🌿
Deepen your clinical insight into Chinese herbal medicine through real patient observation and expert guidance.

📍 Location: Tervise Alkeemia Clinic, Tallinn, Estonia

🗓 Dates & Times
➤ Day 1: April 27th, 2026 | 10am–6pm
➤ Day 2: April 28th, 2026 | 10am–6pm

✨ What you’ll experience
👂 Live patient consultations (6 patients per day)
🩺 Diagnostic reasoning & treatment selection
🌱 Formula composition & modifications
🔍 Symptom–syndrome correlations
🧬 Constitutional analysis in clinical practice

⭐ EXTRA CLASSES ⭐

📚 Jing Fang Theory
🗓 April 25–26th, 2026 | 9:30am–5pm

🧘 Tai Ji
🗓 April 22–24th, 2026
• April 22nd & morning of 23rd: Advanced students
• From 2pm April 23rd & April 24th: Beginners welcome

🌿 Learn by observing. Integrate by witnessing.

💬 Want more details?
Comment ESTONIA 🇪🇪 below and we’ll DM you ✨

14/01/2026

We are always so grateful to receive testimonials from students 🌱
Because they remind us why this work matters, and why Jing Fang is taught the way it is.

This reflection comes from a student who has just completed the first theoretical year of the Jing Fang course, and already feels more confident choosing herbal formulas, with a deeper understanding of Chinese medicine as a whole. Hearing that the teaching, support, and clarity are landing means everything to us 🙏

We have just begun the Jing Fang course 2026 ✨
And yes 🙌 there is still time to join.

You haven’t been left behind.
If you’re on the fence, now is the time to swing the other leg over and take the leap 🐅
You will not regret it.

If this course has been calling you… listen.

Comment “LEAP” and we’ll get you signed up 🚀🌿

11/01/2026

Check out the latest testimonial from our students 💬✨
Real learning. Real clinical confidence. Real change.

Why join the Jing Fang course? 🌿📜
Because this approach gives you a solid classical foundation that actually works in clinic.

🌿 Learn classical formulas as a coherent system, not memorised prescriptions
📜 Study the Shāng Hán Lùn in depth, with clarity and clinical relevance
🧠 Build diagnostic confidence and pattern recognition you can trust
🔥 Strengthen your prescribing and adapt formulas with understanding
🤝 Learn alongside a dedicated, thoughtful community of practitioners

We start the new cohort tomorrow 🌱
There’s still time to join.

DM us or comment “info” to learn more 📩

10/01/2026

✨ Exciting news! Registration is now open ✨

Following the great success of our first clinical internship in China, we are delighted to be offering this opportunity again!

🇨🇳The initial internship brought together a long-established learning community shaped by years of shared study and clinical practice. It included students at a wide range of stages in their learning journey, some studying with Tino since he first began teaching, alongside others who joined the path at different points up to a just a few years ago.

Coming together in China for advanced clinical training marked a meaningful point of connection and deepening for a community that has continued to grow steadily over time.

For this upcoming internship, we’ve made several thoughtful refinements to the 2024 schedule, adapting it to better support students and to make the experience even more immersive, enjoyable, and clinically impactful.

We’re especially excited to welcome not only returning students, but also many new practitioners who have joined us in recent years, as interest in Jing Fang continues to grow and deepen worldwide 🌱

We truly hope you’ll join us on this journey, to learn, to connect, and to experience Jing Fang at its roots in China 🇨🇳

Limited to only 35 participants!

Comment “Nanjing” and we’ll send you all the crispy details 🔥✨
(Did someone say Beijing duck? 🤔🦆🥘😋)

09/01/2026

Insects are not commonly used in Jing Fang formulas 🧪
And yet, they have been respected, studied, and understood within the classical tradition 📜

These substances are not everyday medicinals.
They are used sparingly, precisely, and only when clearly indicated, for example in cases of severe blood stasis, chronic obstruction, or convulsions in conditions such as epilepsy or infertility 🩸

It is common to feel resistance when seeing a “bug” listed as a medicinal 🐛
Perhaps we wrinkle our nose 🤔 yet what are the lobster or crab we order 🦞🦀
if not the scorpions of the sea 🦂🌊?

We accept snail as a delicacy in French cuisine🇫🇷, we collect periwinkles on the beaches of the west coast of Ireland ☘️🐌
yet question the leech : a shell-less “snail” : despite its powerful healing properties 🩺

What we are responding to is not pharmacology,
but cultural conditioning 🧠⚖️

❗️Horse flies and beetle grub are no longer used in modern practice ….adorable or not 😉

And, research has shown 🔬
• Tú Biē Chóng (ground beetle) : supports circulation & inhibits thrombosis
• Chán Tuì (cicada shell) : anti-inflammatory, immune-modulating effects
• Shuǐ Zhì (leech) : anticoagulant & anti-inflammatory
• Dì Lóng (earthworm) : antispasmodic, neuroprotective, enhances microcirculation

These medicinals are not strange 🌀
They are specific 🎯

Chinese medicine does not ask us to like a substance,
only to understand when it is necessary, and when it is not 🌿

Respect the medicine 🙏
Respect culture 🌏
And breathe 😮‍💨 we have never slipped insects into your formula without telling you 😉

Our next course starts in just a few days ⏳
There’s still time to enrol 🌿 enrol today and join us 📚✨

If you liked this post about insects in Chinese medicine drop a bug 🪲🐛🦟🐞 in the comments ✨

06/01/2026

Would you like to book a Jing Fang discovery call? ☎️✨
A free 15-minute call to explore whether the course is the right fit for you, clarify how Jing Fang study can support your clinical thinking 🧠🌿, and ask any questions about content, structure, or level.

Comment “Call me” ☎️ below, and we’ll DM you with the booking slot ❗️

05/01/2026

As we start the new year, it’s time to get those diaries filling up 🗓️✨

It may feel a long way off, but we know our dedicated students travel from as far as Australia, India, and the Americas to be with us at our annual gatherings, so now is the time to start checking your travel route 🫶✈️🌍

Each year we’re blessed with a wonderfully diverse group, with students also joining us in Lisbon from the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, the UK, Germany and more. We’re deeply grateful to host and welcome you all.

We hope to welcome even more international students in our next cohort, starting January 12 🌱
If you haven’t enrolled yet, get on it! 🔗in bio

Want more details about our practical seminars?
Drop “skills” in the comments and we’ll send you the details 👇

04/01/2026

Nov 2026 🌿

Happy New Year,

As we step into 2026, we arrive at the quiet, powerful threshold where intention meets possibility.

At Dao Collective, we’re grateful to be in community with practitioners who value precision, depth, and clear clinical thinking.

We’re excited to announce our Dao Collective 2026 in-person trainings, bringing together advanced work in acupuncture, neuroanatomy, trigger point acupuncture/dry needling, and classical herbal medicine.

In 2026, we welcome back:
• Dr. Poney Chiang — teaching Neuro-Meridian Acupuncture Modules 1, 2, and 3, including the final offering of Module 3 in its current format and a new nerve-entrapment–focused Module 3

• Josh Lerner — teaching Myopain Trigger Point Acupuncture / DN2, bridging precision needling with palpation-based diagnosis.

And we’re especially excited to announce a special guest instructor from Europe:

🌿 Salustino Wong , teaching Jing Fang Classical Formula Families .eng — his first time teaching in the United States

This is a rare opportunity to study:
• Neuro-anatomy & meridian theory
• Dry Needling & trigger point acupuncture
• Classical herbal medicine in the Jing Fang tradition (Ban Xia & Chai Hu formula families )

This is for clinicians who want to:
— think structurally
— diagnose constitutionally
— needle precisely
— prescribe formulas with confidence
— and understand why something works, not just that it works

All in person, with time for hands-on learning, discussion, and community.

📍 Locations include Irvington, NY · Phoenix, AZ · Toronto, Canada
📅 Dates throughout 2026

We’re deeply grateful to continue building this learning community and to support clinicians who want to think clearly, treat precisely, and stay rooted in lineage.

Save the dates — registration details coming soon.

🌀
Dao Collective