Deborah Woolf is a member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) and has been practicing and teaching acupuncture for 25 years. She trained for 4 years full time at the International College of Oriental Medicine (ICOM), then was invited back to teach Chinese Medicine, pulse diagnosis and clinic skills and has taught since she qualified. She has taught Stems and Branches (wuyun liuqi 五運六氣) or Five Circuits and Six Energies, theory and practical applications.

Deborah is passionate about Classical Chinese medicine, and combines her teaching with a very busy clinic, applying her understanding of the Classics in the practical realm. Her studies strengthen her clinical practice, and the clinical experience is a valuable tool and focus for her studies.

Deborah studies and translates Classical Chinese medical texts, with a particular interest in the background of Stems and Branches, divination and calendars, astronomy and astrology. Her undergraduate dissertation was on spirals and their applications in acupuncture, drawing on her earlier studies in pure mathematics and nature. She has extended her Stems and Branches understanding with further study under Dr. Edward Neal (Neijing Nature-Based Medicine), Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée (sinology) and Bazi (Four Pillars). She has recently completed an MA at University College London, with a dissertation on numbers and divination in Chinese Medicine. She is now studying for a PhD at UCL, focused on the guest-host relationship in the wuyun liuqichapters of the Huangdi Neijing Suwen.

Website: acupuncturecpd.co.uk