Spring News

A weekend workshop in Rhode Island, a name that reflects our educational model, and two programs opening for registration.

Reimagining Beauty: A Weekend Introduction to Neijing Nature-Based Medicine

with Edward Neal
Rhode Island, April 25-26

If you've been curious about Neijing Nature-Based Medicine but haven't had a chance to study it directly, this weekend is a good place to begin.

Spring workshops are also in Ireland (May 30–31) and Spain (June 6–7).
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A New Name, A New Chapter

You may start noticing some changes to our website, materials, and visual identity over the coming months. We want to take a moment to share what’s behind them.

What began over 20 years ago as a series of workshops has grown into a comprehensive training program rooted in the Huangdi Neijing and an expanding range of ways to engage with the material, from weekend workshops and week-long intensives to semester-long programs and a growing library of resources.

We’re glad to introduce The School of Neijing Nature-Based Medicine, with a refreshed name, a new logo, and updated colors that better reflect where we are today. Everything you know about the programs, the teaching, and the people behind them remains exactly the same.
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Why “school”?

The word comes from the ancient Greek scholē — which didn’t mean classrooms, deadlines, or exam pressure. It meant leisure. Free time. Thoughtful rest.

In ancient Greece, philosophers taught in the gymnasium: among people who were moving, bathing, and simply being together. Study was what you did to relax. Learning was a form of restoration, not endurance.

We think the world could use more of that right now. People are exhausted. The dominant educational model asks you to grind through material and push through fatigue. Our goal is to offer something different.

The Apricot Grove, and the School within it, is meant to be a place of joy, curiosity, and genuine rest — somewhere you come to be nourished, not depleted. We believe learning is most alive when it feels spacious and unhurried, when it rises from real interest rather than obligation.

This isn’t just a philosophy. It’s the kind of education we want to offer, and the kind of community we are trying to build.

The Apricot Grove remains the parent organization and will continue to foster the diverse, global community of engaged people that has always been at the heart of this work.

Thank you for being here for this next chapter!

Registration for NNBM Opens This Month

By the end of April, registration will open for Wisdom of the Cosmos and applications open for the 2-Year Postgraduate Mentorship in Neijing Nature-Based Medicine. The next cohort begins August 8, 2026.

There's also something worth knowing before you register: the Early Start Program.

Once you register or are accepted and pay a $350 deposit, you immediately gain access to the first 10 lectures from the previous cohort. Past students have said it gave them a meaningful head start when the live course began. It's a practical way to begin before August arrives.

We will also be offering several online Open Houses this spring/summer for you to show up and ask questions about the programs and Neijing Nature-Based Medicine.

We'll share registration and application details as soon as they're live. In the meantime, if you have questions, reach out at info@neijingstudies.com.​

Explore and determine which option is best for you.
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