Live Courses
Deep learning, close guidance and meaningful feedback are what distinguish our Live Interactive Courses. These courses are offered periodically and in some cases with an in-person element.
2027 Graduate Mentorship Program
2.5 Year Course with Sharon Weizenbaum
Begins January, 2027
The Graduate Mentorship Program (GMP) is the cornerstone of Sharon Weizenbaum’s teaching—a comprehensive, clinically focused training she has refined and taught for over two decades. The GMP offers licensed practitioners a rare opportunity to deepen their diagnostic skill, herbal understanding, and connection to classical Chinese medicine.
Through rigorous case study, classical text study, and Sharon’s warm, insightful guidance, students emerge with greater clarity, confidence, and clinical effectiveness.
Toronto Teaching Clinic
2 Day Training on Friday September 25 and Saturday September 26 with Sharon Weizenbaum
This intensive two-day teaching clinic offers practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine the opportunity to participate in Sharon Weizenbaum’s complete clinical process. From 9:00 to 5:00 each day, Sharon will work with five patients presenting with real and often complicated clinical conditions. Students will observe and participate in each stage of the encounter, from the initial intake through diagnosis, treatment method, formula selection, dosage, and prescription.
"It is always a great opportunity to observe an experienced clinician at work. But above and beyond this is Sharon's gift - honed over years of teaching diagnosis - of breaking down that process, and illuminating it for students. She has connected many dots for me during my time as GMP student, and these teaching clinics are the 'missing piece'."
- Naomi Frank
Sign Up for Individual Days or the Full Weekend
Women's Great Turning
One Year Course Beginning in September
White Pine Circle is honored to be hosting this unique and important course to benefit women. It is the first comprehensive East Asian herbal medicine program on both obstetrics and gynecology. The focus of it is on classical Chinese herbal principles, based on the Shang Han Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lüe theory and formulas. This program is taught by a dream-team of highly experienced practitioner/teachers with combined clinical experience in this field of more than 80 years: Sharon Weizenbaum, Caroline Radice and Suzanne Connole.
Jingui Gynecology
with Nadine Zäch
2 Online Classes
8/8 and 10/17 from 10am - 5pm EST
This seminar is structured along pathomechanisms that cause gynecological problems and looks at how we see hormones in Classical Chinese Medicine and prescribe treatments for all kinds of menstrual flow and menopausal symptoms. It goes on to train practitioners so that they are able to safely and properly guide women through pregnancy and postpartum with herbal formulas that have been proven to be helpful, safe and proper for the last 2,000 years. Both the mother and child profit from an herbal accompanied pregnancy and during the postpartum period.
Beyond TCM School: Finding Your Path into Japanese Acupuncture
What it really takes to study, understand, and clinically integrate TJM
with Maya Suzuki
Four Hour Course
January 29th and February 26
For many acupuncturists trained in TCM, discovering Japanese acupuncture opens an entirely new way of thinking about diagnosis, palpation, technique and treatment—but figuring out how to actually learn it can be surprisingly difficult. In this two-part series, Maya Suzuki draws from her experience completing acupuncture school and national licensure in Japan, studying within multiple Japanese traditions, and teaching more than 80 practitioners from around the world in to explore what learning Japanese acupuncture actually entails. Participants will learn how acupuncture is taught and licensed in Japan, the realities of studying there as a foreign practitioner, and how several major Japanese acupuncture traditions differ in philosophy and clinical application.
Working with Cancer Patients with Classical East Asian Medicine
with Sharon Weizenbaum
8 Session Course from October 2 - January 8
This course presents a classical East Asian medical approach to working with cancer patients, grounded in physiology rather than disease naming.
Rather than treating “cancer” as a singular entity, we explore how illness arises from the breakdown of the body’s fundamental movements, opening, descending, pivoting, storing, and transforming. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of Yang as the motive force of life, and how its constraint, collapse, or misdirection leads to the formation of masses, accumulation, and systemic decline.
Multiple Lenses: a Clinician's View
Part 1: Immune Disorders
with Elaine Stern
8 Class Series Beginning on January 7th
This course will cover a number of different types of immune system disorders. Each class will focus on 1 or 2 case studies as the backbone to understanding a particular aspect of immunity. Both Chinese and Bio medical immune physiology will be addressed in each case. We'll go through important aspects of intake, evaluation, working diagnosis, and treatment planning. Treatment with Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture as well as nutraceuticals as appropriate will be discussed in detail. We will also look at the standard of care in Western medicine and, in certain cases, how to make decisions about when and how to work with the patient's WM care.
Lemon, Honey, and Salt: Safely Treating the Ehlers Danlos Patient with TCM
3 Class Series Beginning on 10/3/26
with Sharonne O'Shea
In a collaborative environment over three, one-hour sessions we will explore Ehlers Danlos Syndrome with special emphasis on hypermobile EDS, the most common subtype. After exploring a few lenses through which to view the condition, including traditional TCM disease progression, we will discuss the seven most common complaints/comorbidities that practitioners are likely to encounter in treating this population.
Women's Great Turning - Acupuncture Course
20.5 Hour Online Course from 12/9/26 - 6/30/27
15 Hour In Person Training - July 2027
This course will demonstrate how these different, diverse approaches to acupuncture can be incorporated into our diagnosis, to paint a unique “acupuncture mandala”, rooted in the circular diagnosis of the Shang Han Lun. A relevant case study will accompany each module.