The 2025 Teaching Calendar
The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program
Three weekends of orthopedic assessment, anatomical point location, and our precise and effective treatment techniques. This 60 hour live seminar program from Whitfield Reaves provides the basis and fundamentals for all those who want to specialize in sports acupuncture. Each weekend course features lectures as well as supervised practice with Whitfield and his practitioner assistants. In addition to precise sports acupuncture skills, this popular program offers the benefits of a learning community with like-minded colleagues. We have been teaching The Apprenticeship Program for 20 years, and our first course on sports medicine acupuncture was in April of 1986. It keeps getter better and better. We invite you to join us!
Instructors:
Whitfield Reaves
With Jenny Nieters and our Assistants
Whitfield Reaves and the Acupuncture Sports Medicine teaching assistants
Acupuncture Sports Medicine
Apprenticeship Program
Weekend #1:
The Shoulder and Upper Extremity
COMPLETED
Weekend #2:
The Low Back and Hip
COMPLETED
Weekend #3:
Acupuncture Sports Medicine:
The Lower Extremity
May 16, 17, & 18, 2025
The Apprenticeship Program is taught in Oakland, California
Site: Overlooking the Bay and Alameda at the Executive Inn and Suites
CEUs/PDAs: 20 hours for each three-day weekend (From California and the NCCAOM)
Cost: $1,400 for each three-day weekend
Please email for an application, or to request a course outline for this three-day weekend.
Email: MSaundersoffice@gmail.com
Application required.
WE WILL TAKE A VACATION FOR THE SUMMER AND FALL OF THIS YEAR 2025. FUTURE WEEKENDS OF THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM WILL BE SCHEDULED LATER THIS SUMMER FOR 2026.
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Individualized Small-Group Teaching Programs with Whitfield Reaves
Come learn on Maui!
Whitfield is now offering advanced sports acupuncture teaching programs in Hawaii. This small-group training is designed for cohorts of two, three, or four practitioners. Each six-hour program covers one of the three body zones as outlined in the content of the Practicum Series. Along with direct supervision of acupuncture techniques, palpation, and point location, there will be time for clinical questions and case studies. We consider this a master class in needle technique.
This is the time for review and repetition of the remarkable point protocols taught by Whitfield Reaves in his Apprenticeship Program.
All this takes place on Maui, so you get to come to Hawaii! And the content of the three Practicum courses will provide amazingly useful and clinically effective points to master. You get to locate, palpate, and needle, while we supervise and critique your work.
Practicum 1 – The Shoulder and Upper Extremity (6 hours)
Practicum 2 – The Low Back and Hip (6 hours)
Practicum 3 – The Lower Extremity (6 hours)
We will offer our small-group teaching programs from June, 2025 through May of 2026. Times are available on both weekends and week days, which makes scheduling the program flexible. You may form your own cohort group, and make plans to travel, lodge, and study together. Some individuals may be able to be integrated into existing groups, so please feel free to inquire.
For anyone wanting to work one-on-one with Whitfield, rather than in a small group, contact us and we will present the possibilities.
Email for more information, and other details you might need to know.
Continuing education: 6 CEUs/PDAs for each six-hour program
Cost: Varies depending upon the size of the group.
Email Mary Saunders, LAc: msaundersoffice@gmail.com
We offer this program of supervised clinical practice for practitioners who have completed all 60 hours of The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program.
The Practicum Series
One Day at a Time!
The Practicum Series offers supervised practice of location and needle technique for the sports acupuncture practitioner. However, the complete three-day course is presently not scheduled. In the interim, here are the three modules, one day at a time. This hands-on supervision and small group training will be held in Berkeley, California. It gives practitioners who have learned clinical protocols from Whitfield Reaves in prior seminars or webinars a chance for review and practice.
Practicum 1: The Shoulder and Upper Extremity
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Instructor: Kenji Hirabayashi, LAc
Practicum 2: The Low Back and Hip
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Instructor: Kenji Hirabayashi, LAc
Practicum 3: The Lower Extremity
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Instructor: Vincent Koeller, LAc
Instructors Kenji Hirabayashi and Vincent Koeller both have years of experience with sports acupuncture as well as assisting Whitfield Reaves in teaching The Apprenticeship Program.
Location: AIMC, Berkeley, California
CEUs: 6 CEUs/PDAs per day
Each day offers six hours of instruction, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: $375.00 for each one-day course
Required: Completion of The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program (60 hours) or the webinar series Mastering the Treatment of Injury and Pain (9 Courses, with CEUs).
For questions and how to register for this program:
Email Mary Saunders, LAc: msaundersoffice@gmail.com
And what to do after you complete The Apprenticeship Program?
We focus our energy on the Apprenticeship Program, and all of its amazingly useful treatment protocols in the clinic. That is our flagship teaching program, and we are all very product of the content and these beneficial treatments of injury and pain. There are some ways to proceed with your advanced learning after earning your Certificate of Achievement:
1. We recommend that the practitioner consider clinical practice as their most important "teacher". Integrate these points and protocols, and most importantly, practice so that precision of your point location and needle insertion results in excellent clinical results.
2. Consider the Individualized Small Group Teaching Programs with Whitfield on Maui.
3. Many practitioners take The Apprenticeship Program for a second time. Most find that they get new material and some of needed precision is supported by this process. We consider review and repetition to be the most effective path to mastery. Each of you can do this, with focus and diligence, indeed, can be done!
4. Use Whitfield's videos on Net of Knowledge for additional learning material.
5. The Practicum Series, while somewhat infrequent on our schedule, is a class specifically designed for location and needle practice for those who have completed the program.
Online Webinars with Net of Knowledge
Live three-hour focused instruction on sports acupuncture topics
Start time is 5:00 pm Pacific Time
Event:
Low Back Pain: The Secondary Pain Generators
Live Event
May 6, 2025
LINK TO NET OF KNOWLEDGE
As always, you can email Whitfield Reaves directly for more information
WReavesoffice@gmail.com