This 6-class online course and optional 3 day in-person training is a unique opportunity to enhance your treatment of women with acupuncture.
20.5 Hour Online Course from 12/9/26 - 6/30/27
15 Hour In Person Training - July 2027
About the Online Course
The course follows the syllabus of the “Treatment of Women through Cycles” (WGT). It is the perfect companion course as an add-on to the WGT for past as well as present students in the upcoming course, but is also open to all WPC members who have not taken WGT. A basic understanding of the Great Sweeping Motions is required and can be gained through the introductory material.
Based on the circular diagnosis of the Great Sweeping Motions, Martine and Ineke will teach how to incorporate channel diagnosis and point formulations when treating women in the clinic.
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.
Martine and Ineke have both practiced in the field of women’s health for more than 20 years each. They have studied extensively with numerous masters of acupuncture including Kiiko Matsumoto, Jeffrey Yuan, Dr Yitian Ni, Susan Johnson, Jason Robertson and others, and have been students as well as TA’s in the GMP.
Online Course Meeting Times
- December 9 – Introductory Class
- January 13 – Menstrual Disorders
- February 24 – Fertility
- April 7 – Pregnancy & Postpartum
- May 19 – Menopause
- June 30 – Vaginal Disorders & Cancer Support
5, 45 Minute Live Q+A sessions will also be offered to students between classes. Dates and times TBA
In Person Training
TBA - July 9–11 or July 16–18, 2027
Cost - Retreat and Online Course
| White Pine Circle Members | Inner Circle Members |
$1,325 early bird Price increases to $1,425 on 10/15 | $1,275 early bird Price increases to $1,375 on 10/15 |
33.5 CEUs NCCAOM Provider # 278
This course has been approved by the California Acupuncture Board, Provider Number 679, for 16.5 hours of continuing education.
This course is non-refundable.
Online Course ONLY
| White Pine Circle Members | Inner Circle Members |
$450 early bird | $400 early bird |
20.5 CEUs NCCAOM Provider # 278
This course has been approved by the California Acupuncture Board, Provider Number 679, for 16.5 hours of continuing education.
This course is non-refundable.
Teaching
Martine Cornelissen is a Herbalist and Acupuncturist with a main focus on Women’s disorders and Fertility. She received her Master’s degree in Eastern Languages & Cultures from the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 1989. She graduated with merit and moved to Shanghai where she completed 2 years study at Fudan University.
After that she moved to the Netherlands and graduated Cumlaude in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine at the Academy of Chinese Medicine Qing-Bai, then continued further gynaecology-studies in Jinan (China) where she studied extensively with dr. Li Xiu-zhen and prof. Lian Fang at the Fertility and IVF departments of Shandong University Hospital of TCM. To this day, Martine regularly goes back to China for additional training.
Martine was also trained by Dr Trevor Wing in The Women’s Natural Health Practice in London, where she succesfully completed the TCM Gynaecology course with a first class degree (91%). She also finished prof. Yuning Wu’s Gynaecology course at Witten University in Germany.
Besides being a passionate healthpractitioner, Martine is a faculty member in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs at Qing-Bai TCM Academy in the Netherlands, she also lectures at Congresses and postgraduate Gynaecology and Fertility classes abroad.
An important starting point for her work is to help women become aware of their thought patterns and to assist them in rebalancing their life and health.
Martine is of Belgian nationality, but love brought her to the Netherlands. She is the mother of two children, loves to play the piano and also practises yoga and portrait sculpture.
Ineke van der Ham is an acupuncturist and herbalist. After graduating as a physiotherapist at the age of 21, she specialized in sports physiotherapy and completed her training in manual therapy, as well as various trainer and coaching courses. She then worked for about 15 years in international top-level sports, where she coached the Dutch women's and men's volleyball teams, the KNSB short track select and the factory teams of Daiei and Pioneer in Japan. During that period, the unity of body and mind became clear to her, after which she decided to switch to acupuncture. In 1994, she graduated as an acupuncturist and started her own acupuncture practice. Since then, Ineke has visited China almost every year to stay up to date in her field.
Over the years she specialized in gynecology - for which she attended lectures with Martine under Prof. Yuning Wu at the University of Witten-Herdecke - and in dermatology. The latter under Mazin Al-Khafaji in London. Her herbal thesis was about the treatment of miscarriage in Chinese medicine.
Ineke has also completed the 'Oncology-Acupuncture' certification program and is listed as such in the IKNL Referral Guide.
'I love working with people. In Western medicine, people are subordinate to the therapy: it happens to you. In my treatment, people are central. I give the body stimuli to recover and let it do the work itself. I also give advice: instruments that give people more control over their own health.'
Ineke is a teacher at the Qing bai training, where she teaches both the acupuncture training and the continuing education program. She also supervises intervision groups of recently graduated students. In her free time she dances, runs and enjoys reading. And she enjoys all the cultural and culinary possibilities that Amsterdam has to offer.