Jing Fang Classics Institute ENG

06/01/2026

Would you like to book a Jing Fang discovery call? ☎️✨
A free 15-minute call to explore whether the course is the right fit for you, clarify how Jing Fang study can support your clinical thinking 🧠🌿, and ask any questions about content, structure, or level.

Comment “Call me” ☎️ below, and we’ll DM you with the booking slot ❗️

05/01/2026

As we start the new year, it’s time to get those diaries filling up 🗓️✨

It may feel a long way off, but we know our dedicated students travel from as far as Australia, India, and the Americas to be with us at our annual gatherings, so now is the time to start checking your travel route 🫶✈️🌍

Each year we’re blessed with a wonderfully diverse group, with students also joining us in Lisbon from the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, the UK, Germany and more. We’re deeply grateful to host and welcome you all.

We hope to welcome even more international students in our next cohort, starting January 12 🌱
If you haven’t enrolled yet, get on it! 🔗in bio

Want more details about our practical seminars?
Drop “skills” in the comments and we’ll send you the details 👇

04/01/2026

Nov 2026 🌿

Happy New Year,

As we step into 2026, we arrive at the quiet, powerful threshold where intention meets possibility.

At Dao Collective, we’re grateful to be in community with practitioners who value precision, depth, and clear clinical thinking.

We’re excited to announce our Dao Collective 2026 in-person trainings, bringing together advanced work in acupuncture, neuroanatomy, trigger point acupuncture/dry needling, and classical herbal medicine.

In 2026, we welcome back:
• Dr. Poney Chiang — teaching Neuro-Meridian Acupuncture Modules 1, 2, and 3, including the final offering of Module 3 in its current format and a new nerve-entrapment–focused Module 3

• Josh Lerner — teaching Myopain Trigger Point Acupuncture / DN2, bridging precision needling with palpation-based diagnosis.

And we’re especially excited to announce a special guest instructor from Europe:

🌿 Salustino Wong , teaching Jing Fang Classical Formula Families .eng — his first time teaching in the United States

This is a rare opportunity to study:
• Neuro-anatomy & meridian theory
• Dry Needling & trigger point acupuncture
• Classical herbal medicine in the Jing Fang tradition (Ban Xia & Chai Hu formula families )

This is for clinicians who want to:
— think structurally
— diagnose constitutionally
— needle precisely
— prescribe formulas with confidence
— and understand why something works, not just that it works

All in person, with time for hands-on learning, discussion, and community.

📍 Locations include Irvington, NY · Phoenix, AZ · Toronto, Canada
📅 Dates throughout 2026

We’re deeply grateful to continue building this learning community and to support clinicians who want to think clearly, treat precisely, and stay rooted in lineage.

Save the dates — registration details coming soon.

🌀
Dao Collective

31/12/2025

As we step into a new year, we wanted to take a moment to introduce the small team behind this work and platform, thanking every student who has supported and shared this journey with us so far 🤍

We are Salustino and Tara, pictured here with Prof. Huang Huang 📸

Behind the scenes, I take care of the organisational side of the branch - from communication, website and social media content, course/webinar coordination, event collaborations to student support 🗂️💻✨

At the heart of this work is Salustino. He has walked a long and demanding path of study, bridging cultures, languages, and medical traditions. Through years of immersion and dedication, he has shaped a way of teaching that makes classical Chinese medicine accessible, clear, and directly relevant for Western practitioners. Because of that journey, learning today can be more grounded, practical, and easeful 🌿📚

We’re deeply grateful to learn, meet, and continue this work together. Thank you to everyone who has joined our webinars, courses, and events, and to those who continue to be part of our ever-growing Jing Fang collective community. We are deeply grateful for your support, engagement, and trust in this work. 🫶🙏🌱

Thank you as well to everyone who follows our social media, likes, shares, comments, and helps spread these teachings further. Your presence, curiosity, and participation are what allow this community to grow and stay alive.💕

We truly appreciate each and every one of you ☘️🙏

As we enter 2026, if you’d like to receive a forecast for the year ahead from the perspective of Wu Yun Liu Qi (五运六气), comment “Wu Yun Qi” below and we’ll send it to you 🤍

In January 2026, we’ll be welcoming a new cohort into our new hybrid course ✨
Before then, we have one final free webinar on the 6th of January: “🐞 Insects in Jing Fang”. We’d love for you to join us 🤍

We’re also working behind the scenes on some exciting new projects, which we’re really looking forward to sharing with you soon. 🥰🙏

30/12/2025

In just under 2 weeks, Jing Fang Hybrid 2026 begins 🔥
Spaces are filling fast, so now is the time to secure your place and set your intention for 2026 ; the year of the Fire Horse 🐎

✨ This course is for you if you want to:
🌿 Fill the gaps in your Chinese medicine knowledge
🧠 Prescribe customised formulas with clarity and confidence
⚖️ Clearly understand which herbs you’re using, in what quantities, and why
⚡ Achieve faster, more effective results in clinic
🛡️ Prescribe with greater safety and confidence
🌍 Become part of a supportive, global Jing Fang community

A clinically focused course designed to deepen understanding, sharpen prescribing skills, and support confident practice.

🔗 Sign up now ; link in bio

26/12/2025

What began as a simple post about the course journey took an unexpected existential turn 😉 🌄

Not to overwhelm you.
Not to suggest the journey is too long, or that you are too late ⏳

Many people hesitate because they think:

“I don’t have the time”
“It’s too late to start something new”
“I’m too old.”
“Others started earlier.”
“I’ll never catch up.”

But age is not the barrier we imagine it to be.

One of the most renowned physicians in Chinese medicine history, Zhu Danxi began studying medicine around the age of 40 under Luo Zhidi and went on to develop the Nourishing Yin theory, highlighting yin deficiency and internal heat. His work Danxi Xinfa founded the Danxi school and remains highly influential; formulas from this lineage taught in our course include Er Miao San and Zuo Jin Wan.

This training is not the end of the road.
The second image shows that clearly, peak after peak, path after path 🏔️

What we offer is not a final destination.
We teach you how to walk and read the path 🚶‍♀️

We give you the tools of literacy, foundation, and orientation:
how to read formulas, understand classical thinking, and move with the medicine rather than memorise it 📜

From there, you can travel far and wide.
Clinically, intellectually, and personally 🌏

And when you zoom out far enough, you realise:
we are all moving, through time, through space, through change ✨

So don’t let fear decide for you.
Release the restraint.
Follow the pull that brought you here 🧭

If this speaks to you, comment “journey” 🌄 to learn more about the course we offer.






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24/12/2025

Merry Christmas to everyone in our Jing Fang community 🎄

As the year settles, we find ourselves feeling thankful for the people who make this work what it is. For the conversations, the careful study, the clinical curiosity, and the quiet perseverance that carries you through moments of uncertainty as well as moments of clarity.

It’s a privilege to share this space with people who care deeply about learning the medicine well.

For our part, we remain committed to sharing this tradition in a way that feels open, alive, and clinically grounded. This medicine matters because it is lived, practised, and carried forward with care 🙏

We’re looking forward to the year ahead and to welcoming you into what we’ve been preparing for 2026. There’s more to come, and we hope you’ll be part of it.

With warmth and appreciation,
Tino & Tara 🌿

22/12/2025

This Christmas, we’re offering a gift of learning 🎄🎁

Perimenopause and menopause can bring physical, emotional, and social challenges. In Chinese medicine, these transitions are understood through precise pattern differentiation, using classical Jing Fang formulas rather than a one-size-fits-all approach 🌿🌙

In this free recorded webinar, we explore:
🌿 how perimenopausal and menopausal patterns are diagnosed through Jing Fang constitutions
🌿 key classical formulas commonly used for these presentations
🌿 how to prescribe with greater precision through formula families and their governing herbs

A thoughtful Christmas gift for yourself or your clinical practice ✨📚

Comment “Jing Fang Gift” below to receive free access to the recorded webinar 🎁💐🧧

20/12/2025

Here are some of the key tools we use in Jing Fang practice 🧰🌿

In a consultation, the detective work begins before the patient speaks 👀
We observe constitution, movement, posture, and demeanour.

Then we listen 👂
Not only to the signs and symptoms the patient describes, but also to what is not being said. We listen between the lines, sensing what is clear, what is uncertain, and what may be unconsciously protected or minimised.

At this stage, we are often already oriented toward one or two possible formula directions, sometimes even a single, clear formula or combination. We then use our diagnostic tools to confirm or redirect that choice.

In Jing Fang, each formula has its own priority signs or symptoms within that fang zheng (formula syndrome).

Tongue, pulse, abdominal findings, body observation, and complexion all have their place, depending on the situation.

No single diagnostic method is superior to the others, each becomes primary when it reflects the key signs of a particular formula.

Example 👇
A patient appears cold, withdrawn, and exhausted.
The pulse is deep 🫀
The lower abdomen shows a pencil-like finding 🤲

This points toward a Fu Zi formula.

But ⛔
If the tongue shows a greasy or yellow coating 👅
We pause. Shao Yang damp must be addressed first before Fu Zi can be used safely.

This is how Jing Fang works:
Priority signs guide the formula 🎼
not symptoms in isolation.

Your first tools are always your eyes, your ears, and your capacity for compassion, allowing the patient to feel safe enough to be truly seen and heard 👀👂

✨ Course starts January 2026 ✨

Write “Fang Zheng” in the comments to learn what formulas we cover throughout the course 🌱

19/12/2025

✨ Read how some of our first-year students felt after completing their first year of the course ✨
Their words offer inspiration, reassurance, and a glimpse of what’s possible when you take the leap 🌱

If you’re feeling the call toward a future as a Jing Fang herbalist, know that this path is closer, and more achievable, than you might think 🌿
It’s all within your reach.

🔗 Register via the link in our bio