Pulse Guided Assessment

Discover how palpation of the Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS) supports insight to priorities for healing and precision in treatment — WATCH EXAMPLE FROM PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE

Continuing Education

The Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine (CIAM) offers personalized training to address your specific practice interests — WATCH FOUNDER, MURIEL AGNES, ON DIVERSITY OF INTEREST

Certified Practitioners

Auricular Medicine supports effective practices across numerous healthcare and wellness modalities: acupuncture, allopathy, chiropractic, dentistry, naturopathy, psychology and more. Practitioners around the world are CIAM certified — FIND A PRACTITIONER

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Pulse Guided Assessment

Discover how palpation of the Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS) supports insight to priorities for healing and precision in treatment — WATCH EXAMPLE FROM PRACTICE OF ACUPUNCTURE

Pulse Guided Assessment
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Continuing Education

The Canadian Institute of Auricular Medicine (CIAM) offers personalized training to address your specific practice interests — WATCH FOUNDER, MURIEL AGNES, ON DIVERSITY OF INTEREST

Continuing Education
Background overlay
Certified Practitioners

Auricular Medicine supports effective practices across numerous healthcare and wellness modalities: acupuncture, allopathy, chiropractic, dentistry, naturopathy, psychology and more. Practitioners around the world are CIAM certified — FIND A PRACTITIONER

Certified Practitioners

Integrate Auricular!

A quick introduction to why continuing healthcare education in Auricular Medicine may be relevant to your medical or wellness practice. This 1-minute video features the student testimonial of a licensed acupuncturist, provides examples of other modalities supported (i.e. massage therapy, chiropractic, and others), and summarizes how the Vascular Autonomic Signal is one of the differentiating factors between Auricular Therapy and Auricular Medicine — as based on the development of Auricular Medicine through the work of the physicians Dr. med. Frank Bahr and Dr. Paul Nogier.

an Approved Continuing Education Provider

The German Academy for Acupuncture

CIAM is endorsed as offering the only systematic training in English of the DAA program worldwide

Approved NCCAOM Professional Development Activity

CIAM offers courses approved by NCCAOM for continuing education credit

Approved by Massage Therapy Associations

CIAM offers specific courses approved by CMTNB, MTANS & MTWPAM for continuing education credit

Recognized Course Completion Certificates

CIAM provides course completion certificates accepted for CEUs/PDAs by various professional associations.

Student Testimonials

Hands down the most exciting modality...

- Andrew Macfarlane, Acupuncturist

...results have been nothing short of miraculous! 

- Morris Senior, Physiotherapist

Practicing only auricular since taking the class... 

- Nir Saar, Acupuncturist

I have good results...

- Dan Eyink, Medical Doctor

...the connection between body, mind and spirit brought me to this medicine...

- Helene Pilon, Psychologist

There is no guesswork.

- Lisa Weleschuk, Acupuncturist

My confidence in difficult cases has grown.

- Anita Teigen, Acupuncturist

Complicated cases can be treated with confidence.

- Claudette Theriault, Acupuncturist and Physiotherapist

My clients have noticed reduction of symptoms after only a few visits...

- Louise Therrien, Naturopath

Blog posts

BBC Reports on Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research to Rebalance the Nervous System

August 30, 2019

BBC Reports on Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research to Rebalance the Nervous System

BBC News reports on research out of the University of Leeds that the "ear acts as a gateway to the body's nervous system." The report comes after research into an electrical ear stimulation therapy to rebalance the nervous system. Why focus on treating the body via the ear? Innervation of the ear offers an ideal way to access and stimulate a branch of the vagus nerve, a long and well-connected nerve, that transmits information from the brain to organs around the body, such as the heart and lu...

Constitutional Weaknesses Reflected on the Ear as Homeopathic Points

May 27, 2019

Constitutional Weaknesses Reflected on the Ear as Homeopathic Points

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician living 1755-1843, was best known for creating homeopathy. He believed that the constitution of a patient is of highest importance for well-being into the future. To support the constitution is to support good health and performance physiologically and mentally — with good state of emotions and soul. Homeopathic doctors believe that the frequency of the molecules is responsible for the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies. Modern Auricu...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation: An Integrative Bridge Between Psychology and Auricular Medicine

April 24, 2019

Vagus Nerve Stimulation: An Integrative Bridge Between Psychology and Auricular Medicine

Psychology Today offers an insightful integrative bridge from psychology to the field of Auricular Medicine. With the article, "Non-Invasive Method of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Shows Promise," Christopher Bergland highlights the use of the ear as a gateway for Vagus nerve stimulation. Stimulation of the ear is the basis of Auricular Medicine to address physiological and psychological issues through the treatment of clearly mapped anatomical and emotional points on the ear (see video on compre...