The 2025 Teaching Calendar
COMING UP NEXT
One Day on the Low Back and Hip
Saturday, October 18th
Come gain confidence from supervised practice of location, palpation, and needle techniques. Allow these clinical protocols of sports acupuncture and orthopedics to become effortless and yet still so very effective.
The instructor is Kenji Hirabayahsi, LAc.
Practicum #2: The Low Back and Hip
Saturday, October18th, 2025
See details below!
The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program
The 2025 and 2026 Program
The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program is in a pause mode until the end of the year. Whitfield will continue with much needed rest when we start up, having our diligent teaching staff handle the course instruction for these upcoming offerings.
Study, learn, and review orthopedic assessment, anatomical point location, and our precise
and clinically effective treatment techniques. You’ll be better for it!
This 60-hour live seminar program provides the fundamentals for all those treatment protocols Whitfield Reaves has developed during the last 30 years. For those who specialize in sports acupuncture, this popular program also offers the benefits of a learning community with like-minded colleagues. Our first course on sports medicine acupuncture was in April of 1986. The Apprenticeship Program since then has evolved into our foundational learning experience. And for the last 20 years, it keeps getting better and better. We invite you to join us.
Instructors:
Vincent Koeller, LAc and Jenny Nieters, LAc
Email for a complete course outline.
The Shoulder and Upper Extremity
December 5, 6, & 7, 2025
Weekend #2:
The Low Back and Hip
March 20, 21, & 22, 2026
Weekend #3:
The Lower Extremity
June 12, 13, & 14, 2026
Location: Oakland, CA (The SF Bay Area)
December 2025 will be held at The Executive Inn and Suites, Oakland
CEUs: 20 CEUs/PDAs for each three-day weekend
Cost: $1,400.00 for each three-day course
For questions and how to register for this program:
Email Mary Saunders, LAc – msaundersoffice@gmail.com
Application is required
Whitfield Reaves and the Acupuncture Sports Medicine teaching assistants
Our Instructors and Teaching Community
We are so pleased to have our experienced teaching staff leading these upcoming programs. As for clinical experience with sports acupuncture, these practitioners are exemplary. Kenji Hirabayashi has worked with Dominican University Men’s Basketball, and presently practices in Marin County, CA. Jenny Nieters has years of experience with San Francisco 49ers Football as well as Saint Mary’s College Men’s Rugby. She practices in Alameda, CA. Vincent Koeller presently works for the highly respected athletic department of the University of Southern California (USC). This program routinely produces top athletes, including track and field as well as professional football. Vincent practices in the Los Angeles area.
All three of the instructors in these upcoming live seminars have completed The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program with Whitfield Reaves. Since then they have assisted him over many years in these teaching programs.
Please email for an application, or to request a course outline for this three-day weekend.
Email Mary Saunders, LAc – msaundersoffice@gmail.com
or Whitfield Reaves, LAc – wreavesoffice@gmail.com
The Practicum Series
Instructor: Kenji Hirabayashi, LAc
These hands-on supervision and small group trainings will be held in Berkeley, California. It gives practitioners who have learned the effective clinical protocols from Whitfield Reaves in prior seminars or webinars a chance for review and practice. And maybe even a reset! There are prior course requirements.
Practicum 1: Completed
The Shoulder and Upper Extremity
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Practicum 2:
The Low Back and Hip
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Practicum 3:
The Lower Extremity
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Location: Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley, CA
CEUs: 6 CEUs/PDAs per day
Each day offers six hours of instruction, from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Cost: $375.00 for each one-day course
Email Mary Saunders, LAc – msaundersoffice@gmail.com
Individualized Small-Group Teaching Programs with Whitfield Reaves
Come learn on Maui!
Whitfield offers advanced sports acupuncture teaching programs in Hawaii. This small-group training is designed for cohorts of two, three, or four practitioners. The program is for review and repetition of the point protocols taught in the The Acupuncture Sports Medicine Apprenticeship Program. Teaching groups will be available in Hawaii from June 2025 through May 2026. If you are an individual and want to be put on a list with others forming a cohort group, please let us know.
Email Mary Saunders, LAc – msaundersoffice@gmail.com
As always, you can email Whitfield Reaves directly for more information
WReavesoffice@gmail.com