Our Work
For years we practiced — quietly, relationally, rooted in the treatment room. But as we became more involved in institutions shaping the next generation of practitioners, we watched something begin to drift.
The learning that we’d received through years of careful study is becoming harder to transmit in modern educational frameworks. In the name of legitimacy, or in pursuit of integration into broken healthcare models, it feels like the heart of this medicine is being edged out. Not with malice, but with momentum.
The teachings that shaped us as practitioners were being asked to fit inside structures that couldn’t quite hold its full dimension. Less time. More documentation. Shortened timelines. Standardized curricula. The pull toward evidence and outcomes over presence and process. No one was choosing this; everyone was adapting to it.
The teachings that shaped us were being asked to fit inside structures that couldn’t quite hold its full dimension. Less time. More documentation. Shortened timelines. Standardized curricula. The pull toward evidence and outcomes over presence and process. No one was choosing this; everyone was adapting to it.
These shifts made sense in their context — the necessities of accreditation and integration. But in that adaptation, something essential was thinning. The aspects of the medicine that unfold slowly, relationally, mysteriously — these needed new ways to be preserved. This is why we teach
It became clear: if the heart of this lineage was going to survive intact — not just as technique, but as a way of seeing — someone would have to preserve it by living it more fully, and by passing it forward. We teach to preserve a way of embodying the medicine which will vanish from the hands of even well-trained practitioners if divorced from its roots.
We are not offering a curriculum, but a way to see. A way to be in the treatment room. A way to recognize what’s being said — and not said. A way to meet people in a way that allows something deep in them to return.
Our work is grounded in decades of clinical practice and shaped by study with teachers who hold living lineages. We were both trained at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture. We’ve each served as mentors and adjunct faculty there, and we’ve helped shape its strategic direction for much of the last decade. But we’ve also grown beyond its structure, drawing from the classical depth of Jeffrey Yuen’s teachings and the clarity offered by thinkers like Lonny Jarrett. What we hold now is not a fixed method. It’s a practice that continues to evolve — rooted in tradition, alive in relationship, and oriented always toward what is real.
Our clinic is a two-generation expression of this lineage. Together, we are JING SHEN — a father and daughter who walk this path as peers, each shaped by the same foundation, each bringing our own years of practice. One of us carries the gravity of long time in the work. One of us brings the vitality of a second-generation practitioner already a decade deep. Our teaching lives in that tension — in that completeness.
We now carry this medicine forward through a two-year mentorship for practitioners. Not a product. Not a certification. A transmission. A place to study what can’t be easily taught. For those ready to step more fully into the work — and into themselves — the 5E Mentorship is where that happens.
But whether we are teaching or treating, the center holds: this is a medicine of attention, of relationship, of presence. It unfolds slowly, in rhythm with nature, and in alignment with something unbroken inside each person — even when they’ve forgotten it’s there.
This is the work. It’s not static. It keeps teaching us.
We’re still students of it, even as we teach.
For practitioners ready to deepen their work:
