About us

East – West School of Classic Chinese Medicine

Founder and Academic Director– Roni Sapir

The East – West School of Classic Chinese Medicine was established and operates under the inspiration of ancient traditional Chinese medicine. Since then, its primary goal has been to train top-flight therapists, clinicians and researchers in the best way possible.

Chinese medicine is based on the perception of health as a dynamic humanist system that comprises a broad spectrum ranging from energy to the material. This complex perception allows clinicians who have graduated from our school to explore patients' spiritual existential fabric and to diagnose the disorder that led them from a healthy to an unhealthy condition.

Chinese medicine is more than a profession – it is a way of life. Accordingly, the school's curriculum grants you tools that are both knowledge-based and that nurture sensory and spiritual awareness. Students at East - West confront an impressive intellectual challenge that entails a profound understanding of theoretical and practical material.

Our curriculum has been meticulously planned and perfected by renowned experts, drawing on years of interdisciplinary academic research and unequalled clinical practice. East – West trains you to work on graduation in frameworks combining Eastern and Western medicine, applying an approach of mutual respect for both schools. It is reflected in the inherent advantages that each therapeutic approach offered, which provides patients with comprehensive solutions.

The school's multi-year curriculum has a unique structure, unlike any other learning track currently offered in Israel and the western world. As a result, East – West has received official recognition from the national administration of Chinese medicine in the Republic of China.

As a student, you will be thoroughly trained in every aspect of Chinese medicine – the philosophical background underlying the development of the concepts of medicine, health and sickness, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, physiotherapy, and the distinctive research methods of Chinese medicine.

As a pioneering institution, the East – West school collaborates with well-known institutions abroad on joint research studies and further studies; at a later stage, student and teacher exchanges also take place. In addition, the school is currently considering joint ventures with Israeli medical centers, to create appropriate training environments for its students. The school maintains direct professional ties with hospitals in China, which train therapists for advanced qualifications in Chinese medicine. As part of the study track, students are trained by experts from China and Israel during a period of intensive study in hospitals, where they undergo theoretical and applied training and experience Chinese culture and medicine in the site where it developed, thrived and has operated for over 4,000 years.

After completing the initial study track, the school expects its graduates to continue their studies in further courses - aimed at providing complete professional qualifications in their chosen specialization. The school teaches and qualifies a cadre of thinkers, top-rank clinicians and researchers who will become part of Chinese medicine world-wide.

Come and join this fascinating and unique program through which you'll acquire a profession that has become an integral part of contemporary life – where supplementary medicine is assuming a more central role alongside conventional medicine.

STUDY-TRACKS:

1. A four-year track for preliminary training in Chinese medicine

2. Advanced courses and workshops for students and graduates

The four-year track for preliminary training in Chinese medicine:

General curriculum

Four days per week, over 32 weeks

Academic hours:

Overall – 4600

Yearly – 1024 (1st and 2nd years)

1280 (3rd and 4th years)

Weekly – 32 - 40

Diploma

"Authorized Therapist of Chinese Medicine".

Subjects studied in the "Authorized Therapist of Chinese Medicine" track:

First year

Chinese Medicine – history, Tao, yin-yang, Heaven - Man - Earth, the Five Elements, Introduction to the I – Ching, Three treasures, Energy, Types of energies, the Body's organs – physiology, causes of illness.

Chinese Diagnosis – Feeling the Pulse, Types of people according to the 5 elements

Chinese Thinking – Introduction to eastern philosophy including Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism

Learning basic themes of Chinese culture and reading texts from Chinese philosophy and medicine.

Chinese Herbal Medicine - Introduction to the theory of herbs - an in-depth study of 190 individual plants.

Energetics and Action of Acupuncture points – the function of all acupuncture points according to their name and energetic quality, Point categories, Direction of flow and symptomatology

The Meridian System – meridians flow and interior connections, Physical location of all Acupuncture points in the body

Tai Chi and Chi Kong - developing the therapist's energy through breathing techniques and exercises.

Manuel Therapy physical Techniques – Holistic body massage and Chinese Tui-Na Physical Therapy and clinical training.

Western Medicine – Introduction, terminology, and general anatomy/physiology.

Second year

Chinese Medicine:

Chinese Pathology – Deep understanding of the 8 principle theory,

Zang – Fu differentiation of syndromes.

Chinese Physiology – The Three Heater:

In-depth study of the production and function of blood, energy and body Fluids.

The Six Division Theory in connection to pathology, physiology, The Five Elements and the Meridian system.

The four radicals.

Physiology and Pathology of the meridian system including: T.m.m, Luo, and Divergent meridians.

In-depth study of the Eight extra meridians.

Pulse Diagnosis - Understanding the Physiology and Pathology of the pulse.

Development of disorders according to various models in Chinese Medicine.

Chinese Diagnosis- The Four Methods of Diagnosis including: Pulse Diagnosis, Tongue Diagnosis, Body Diagnosis, 5 Types of people, Face Diagnosis, Nail Diagnosis, Hara Diagnosis.

Chinese Thinking - Learning basic themes of Chinese culture and reading Medical and Philosophical classic texts from the Nei – Ching, Tao Te Ching, Chuang - Tze and more.

Chinese Herbal Medicine – 120 Chinese herbal formulas and clinical applications.

Chinese Nutrition – Clinical theory and applications.

Acupuncture techniques - Various acupuncture and therapy techniques including: Needling, Cupping, Moxa and Guasha

Tui – Na - Chinese Physical therapy – Pain and soft tissues protocols and clinical training

Tai Chi and Chi - Kong.

Western Medicine - Pathophysiology of the body's systems 1.

Third year

Chinese medicine:

Clinical training at the school clinics: after the first semester all students will be required to pass a thorough practical and theoretical exam, covering what has been taught so far, in order to be able to start their clinical practice in the school clinics.

Case-study analysis.

Therapeutic techniques – Auricular Acupuncture, Electro Acupuncture, Hand Acupuncture, Scalp Acupuncture and more.

Chinese pathophysiology – Analyzing Western disorders according to Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine – supplementary studies and professional seminars.

Chinese nutrition – clinical applications.

Tui – Na - Chinese Physical therapy – Internal Medicine, babies and children protocols and clinical training

Chinese herbology - Case-study analysis and practical training in the school clinics

Tai Chi and Chi - Kong.

Western Medicine - Pathophysiology of the body's systems

Practitioner development

Fourth year

Clinical training at the school clinics.

Case-study analysis.

Chinese medicine – Chinese pathophysiology (2). Further study of western diseases according to Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine – Supplementary studies and professional seminars.

Chinese emergency medicine

Chinese herbology – Professional seminars in the analysis and treatment using herbs

Western medicine seminars and clinical observation

Advanced courses and workshops for students and graduates

. Stems and Branches – yearly course which combine(s) theoretical and clinical study

. I – Ching Acupuncture – Advanced understanding of Fu-Shi and King-Wen triagrams and their practical applications

 continents – Ancient system of diagnosis and treatment by understanding the theory of the 9 palaces

. Pulse Diagnosis – Advanced workshop

. Elements – In depth study of the theory and its practical application according the Nei – Ching

. Acupuncture Points – Understanding the energetic qualities of points according the Nei Ching

Admission to the school

For more details, please contact the information center at the East – West school.

If you would like to attend lectures at the school to get a first-hand impression, please contact the school to coordinate this in advance.

Admission is conditional on a personal interview with the school's director or with representatives of the school's management.

The school is entitled to change the curriculum, or any part of it, at its discretion.

Classes are held in Tel-Aviv. 

e-mail: school@east-west.co.il