Ongiara College of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Ongiara College offers a Professional Diploma of Acupuncture and Moxibustion program over four academic years (37 calendar months). Canadian, American and International students are welcome. Students attend 6 consecutive days per month for the first 24 months, then 2-3 days a week for 50 weeks. All students in a class study together, following a continuous flow of topics which build on and deepen previous experience. There is no residency requirement for the first two calendar years. In the final calendar year, students must live within commuting distance of the college in the Ontario or New York regions. At Ongiara College, students will learn a system of acupuncture and moxibustion which:
• understands the regulatory movement of the Dao, recognizing that health and disease both follow this movement
• sees the role of the practitioner to be that of aiding the person to engage fully in life
• works with the person's individual destiny
• honors the uniqueness of each human being and reflects this in the creation of specifically tailored treatments
• uses the cycles of Nature to return disordered states to balance and harmony
• roots its clinical practice in theoretical knowledge as discussed in the classical texts
• treats predominantly through the CF and Withins, the Five Elements and Twelve Officials, the Sheng and Ke cycles (homeostatic agents) and the whole classical width of the JingLuo network, within the context of the time of day and the stage of the season
• emphasizes the practitioner's bodymindspirit development of the Four Examination Skills (to see, to hear/smell, to palpate and to inquire) including sophisticated pulse taking, physical palpation and diagnosis of color, sound, odor and emotion
• requires the inner cultivation of the practitioner as an instrument of Virtue
The College Clinic (opening in 2010) will charge a nominal fee to patients, to provide easily affordable health care of the highest standard to the whole community of the Niagara region.