315 Importance of Structure, and the Freedom That Comes From It • John Myerson

What do you do if you’re interested in learning and practicing acupuncture, but there are no schools, standards or licensure?

You built it yourself; with help of other spirited colleagues.

In this conversation with John Myerson we go back to the days when acupuncture was just coming into the mainstream of American life. It wasn’t there yet— but it was close enough to intuit.

John was there in the early days of the New England School of Acupuncture. And he helped to create the academic structures required to give our profession legitimacy in mainstream culture.

It was a grand experiment, gutsy when you think about it. And those early influential pioneers, they created the foundation we stand on today.

Listen into this discussion of vision, steadfastness and risk taking as we take a trip in the Wayback Machine to a moment when acupuncture and East Asian medicine was just beginning to emerge into mainstream culture.