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.
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!
