The following seminars/teaching events* are currently scheduled:
updated 3/16/25
2025
Event Schedule (to date)
New Webinar Opportunity!!
An Introduction to Alchemical Facial Acupuncture (with MichelAngelo); live online remote learning event for Healthy Seminars, January 25. This material is derived in part from the Alchemical level of the International GOLD STANDARD FACIAL ACUPUNCTURE Certification Program. Recorded video will be available here in due course.
Other Online Seminars taught by Chi-Akra Center for Ageless Aging
We are pleased to announce the following online events in 2025; note that PDAs are available for all our seminar offerings, live and online:
1. Constitutional Facial Acupuncture: The New Protocols certification series: 3 consecutive weekends (Sundays), beginning February 16; 10 am-3 pm. This seminar is based upon Mary Elizabeth’s 5-star rated book, Constitutional Facial Acupuncture (Elsevier UK, 2014). Contact MichelAngelo directly regarding registration, etc. (postponed)
2. Vibrational Acupuncture: “Integrating Tuning Forks with Needles”, 3 consecutive Sundays, beginning June 8; 10 am-3 pm. This seminar is based upon our 2020 book (Singing Dragon UK) of the same name. Contact MichelAngelo directly regarding registration, etc.
Small Group Mentorships at Chi-Akra Center for Ageless Aging
1. Constitutional Facial Acupuncture: The New Protocols certification series,15-16 March. This seminar is based upon Mary Elizabeth’s 5-star rated book, Constitutional Facial Acupuncture (Elsevier UK, 2014). Contact MichelAngelo directly regarding registration, etc. (postponed)
2. Treating Significant Syndromes with Motor Points and Chinese Medicine, 18-20 July: This live seminar introduces the following facial additional facial syndromes: windstroke, facial neuropathies. Contact MichelAngelo directly regarding registration, etc. Tuition discount available to participants in the April webinar.
Other Live Events (subject to change)
1. Attention Canadian practitioners and advanced students!! Special Certified Teacher offering; Advanced Constitutional Facial Acupuncture certification series, Vancouver, BC with our Certified Teacher for Canada, Julie Shillabeer, R. Ac. (completed)
2. Constitutional Facial Acupuncture: The New Protocols certification series, 3-5 May, 2025, AIMC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. For more information and registration. Regular tuition rate ends April 2. Contact MichelAngelo directly with any pertinent questions. (postponed)
3. “Sparking the Shen”: Alchemical Facial Acupuncture, TBA early 2026 (hybrid live seminar with practicum), venue TBA, sponsored by FSOMA. More details in due course …
4. A Return to the Antipodes!! For the first time in 10 years, we will be presenting multiple certification series offerings in Australia, and returning, as well, to New Zealand for the first time in 7 years:
- September 12-14: Brisbane: Advanced Constitutional Facial Acupuncture
- September 26-28: Sydney: Constitutional Facial Acupuncture: The New Protocols
These Australian seminars are sponsored by our dear friend, Peter Scarselletti, of Qiology; Peter attended our very first Australian seminar back in 2011, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with him on these events.
Also; Gold Coast: Facial Soundscapes: Harmonic Renewal, Planetary Soundscapes: The Cosmic Countenance (date TBA); sponsored by our Certified Teacher for Australia, Marney Murray
And Auckland, NZ: Constitutional Facial Acupuncture: The New Protocols; sponsored by our dear friend, Maria Rowell.
Please note the following regarding the Chi-Akra Center for Ageless Aging certification events:
- Please see the Practitioner Certification page for complete details of the individual certification series courses. Unless otherwise stipulated, Ms. Wakefield and her partner, MichelAngelo, are Co-Instructors.
- Unless otherwise specified, all certification series offerings in the Level 1, Somatic, series, i.e., Advanced Constitutional Facial Acupuncture, Constitutional Facial Acupuncture: The New Protocols and Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Archetypes, consist of a minimum of 3 days live training. All of these certification series offerings are open to acupuncturists and advanced students; please see the diagram of Program Details for specific information as to course flow.
- All Somatic level courses may be taken without pre-requisites. As a general rule, more advanced level seminars are only offered in Ms. Wakefield’s International GOLD STANDARD FACIAL ACUPUNCTURE® Certification Program,.
- The entry-level seminar, Foundations of Constitutional Facial Acupuncture Renewal™, is offered by a select group of Certified Teachers worldwide. See above for the relevant listings. Acupuncturists and students wishing to participate in more advanced seminars, i.e., those of the Alchemical and Vibrational levels, must complete this training module first, or complete a similar training with Ms. Wakefield and MichelAngelo.