The Tao of Trauma: Strategies to Integrate the Five Elements and Neuroscience

Sponsored by Pacific College of Health and Science

New York, NY
June 1-2, 2024 

Live and In Person

15 PDA/CEUs including
2 NCCAOM required Ethics category PDAs

$355 ($305 early bird discount if registered by 5/1)

Integrating neurobiology’s 5 Steps of the Self-Protective Response and the framework of Polyvagal Theory in the context of the Five Elements of the Sheng Cycle will illuminate diagnostic information and treatment room skills that will revolutionize your practice, your service to your patients, and your contribution to the healing of our world.

Our practices are filled with people with “strange, rare, and peculiar” symptoms that baffle western providers. Auto-immune illness, chronic pain, metabolic, sleep, and endocrine disturbance, depression and anxiety all have a tendril of connection to autonomic nervous system dysregulation from traumatic stress, known or unknown. 

Using ancient principles of Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturists can facilitate whole-body coherence between yin and yang; balance and regulation in the Kidney/Heart axis and a smooth flow through the cycle of seasons and Elements.

Alaine DuncanThe Tao of Trauma: Strategies to Integrate the Five Elements and Neuroscience