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Be part of the Fall 2020 cohort that completes and becomes certified in:<\/p>
I KNEW I had a bigger mission, and I knew deep inside I had something unique and special to give to the world.<\/span><\/p> I knew I needed a fresh approach with a fresh perspective. So, I decided to look for another way.<\/span><\/p> It was from that moment forward that the principles and techniques from FIVE key areas I had studied extensively both BEFORE and AFTER getting my degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine…<\/span><\/p> …began to fuse and meld into a system all its own.<\/span><\/p> The result?<\/b><\/p> <\/p> I come from a long medical tradition (in my immediate family alone there are 5 MDs, a nurse, and a psychotherapist).\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Despite the fact I graduated with a #1 ranking in my high school class and had received recruitment letters from Stanford, Cal Tech, NYU, and a few other \u201cfamous\u201d colleges around the country, I chose a different path.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> After 2 years at The University Of North Texas studying Jazz Performance (Percussion) – where I was first introduced to yoga and meditation by a Dallas area yoga teacher –\u00a0 I left college to play professionally gigging 4-5 nights a week while also working full-time at a local bookstore in Houston.<\/span><\/p> It was at that bookstore that I spent most of my time (and paycheck) in the Natural Medicine, Meditation, and Mysticism sections, immersing myself in books on subjects such as Transformational Psychology, NLP, Qigong, Yoga, Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Western mysticism.<\/span><\/p> When, in 1994, I was offered a job at a friend\u2019s web development company, I jumped at it. In 1999, after I\u2019d worked a couple more IT jobs, I landed a job at a small startup software company here in Houston which gave me the flex hours (and extra funds) needed to begin my formal studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine.<\/span><\/p> In the fall of 1999 I enrolled at The American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine here in Houston, TX with the intention of getting my license and becoming an accomplished herbalist. Needless to say, I had found my home and 4 years later, in the Fall of 2003, I graduated with honors.<\/span><\/p> It was then that I embarked on the most challenging and difficult journey of my life:\u00a0<\/span><\/p> To build a successful, full-time practice in the field of natural medicine.<\/span><\/p> I no longer work the 100+ patient\/week schedule. However, I still work 2 weekly 7 hour clinic shifts seeing around 50 patients weekly plus two short 3 hour telemedicine shifts on other days seeing around 10-15 remote patients.<\/span><\/p> Otherwise, I spend my time mentoring my associates and practitioners across the United States, Canada, and Europe helping them learn my clinical and practice management systems that have enabled myself and dozens of my clients to:<\/span><\/p> That\u2019s the most awesome thing about what I am going to teach you as a member of this certification program. <\/span><\/p> Not only will patient results go through the roof, you\u2019ll have the kind of practice that feeds your soul AND builds your financial future.<\/span><\/p>And, I realized that all the school, training, and advice I\u2019d received was NOT moving me in that direction as I\u2019d hoped.<\/b><\/h3>
Instead, I promised myself that I would listen intently to the wisdom deep within myself and allow my intuition – with reason as my foundation – to guide me in discovering a new way forward.<\/b><\/h3>
Over a period of 4 years or so – from 2012 to 2016 – a framework and system emerged that enabled and empowered me to:<\/b><\/h4>
…<\/b>all based on the fact that I was doing the real work, living the dream of helping people every single day with the awesome power of natural medicine.<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
I’m Chris Axelrad\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>
Because you\u2019re practicing serious medicine that makes a serious impact in the lives\u00a0<\/b>of people with serious problems.<\/b><\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t