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Welcome to The Yinstitute for Women’s Medicine
A postgraduate academic salon for practitioners who want depth, discernment, and time to think.
If you’re tired of compressed webinars, performative certainty, and fast-turn education that leaves no room to integrate—this is the antidote.
The Yinstitute is a community-based continuing education program for licensed acupuncturists and herbalists practicing in women’s health. Learning here is slow, rigorous, and relational. This is not content to consume quickly. It’s medicine to sit with. It's Yin Learning for Yang Times. Â
Read our ManifestoAn Academic Salon
Not a Webinar Platform
The Yinstitute is structured as a salon rather than a stage. That means long-form classes rather than rapid-fire lectures. Case-based discussion rather than rote protocols. Space for uncertainty, questioning, and clinical judgment. Conversation among peers, not performance for algorithms.
Teaching here unfolds slowly, seasonally, and with respect for the complexity of women’s bodies and lives.
Who This Is For
Licensed practitioners working in women’s health—acupuncturists, East Asian medicine clinicians, integrative and functional medicine practitioners, and anyone bridging classical frameworks with modern biomedicine.
It’s especially for you if:
You want deeper clinical reasoning, not just protocols. You value scholarship, history, and intellectual honesty. You’re skeptical of oversimplified wellness narratives. And you’d rather have thoughtful community than performative visibility.
What This Isn’t
A hustle-based CEU factory. A place for algorithm-friendly soundbites. A platform for certainty theater or influencer medicine. Education designed to be rushed through.
This is a space for clinicians who take their work seriously and want education that does the same.
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Why I Built This
Contemporary CE often prioritizes volume over depth and speed over synthesis. You’re expected to absorb increasingly complex material with no time to integrate, question, or refine your thinking. Then you’re back in clinic Monday morning, still uncertain.
I built The Yinstitute as a corrective. A place where deep learning has time, dialogue, and context. Where clinical excellence grows through reflection, not urgency. Where rigor and curiosity coexist without hustle culture. And where women’s health gets the nuance it deserves—not slogans.
I N T R O D U C I N G
Who This Is For
Licensed practitioners working in women’s health— acupuncturists & East Asian medicine clinicians.
Most CEU programs give you information. The Yinstitute gives you colleagues.
The hardest part of this work isn't the medicine. It's having no one to talk to about it. The Yinstitute changes that. Grand Rounds puts real cases on the table so we can think through them together. Office hours provide an opportunity to bring your own questions. The forum keeps the conversation going between sessions. You'll learn from the teaching — but you'll also learn from watching how your colleagues work through the same problems you're facing.
I've partnered with Yosan University for CEU accreditation and long-term archiving of course materials — this program is built to last. Courses are accredited for NCCAOM, CA, and ABORM.
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Enter Here
Begin in the Yin Commons
The Yin Commons is the free, open-door community of The Yinstitute—a shared intellectual space for women’s health clinicians to gather, reflect, and think together.
Membership is free and open to licensed practitioners. No obligation, no urgency. The Commons exists to restore thoughtful professional dialogue as a norm rather than an exception.
The Yin Commons opens March 1, 2026.Â
The Yinstitute Program
A full year of integrative reproductive medicine — organized by season, grounded in clinical reasoning, and paced to let the learning settle. 12 Core Lectures. 12 Grand Rounds. 4 optional Herbal CEUs. One clear arc from spring to winter.
Doors open March 1 for orientation and greetings.
First class begins March 22, 2026
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Ready now?Registration is open!
Founding members (first 20) receive a complimentary 1:1 mentorship session.
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Meet your Mentor
Dr. Laura Erlich,
DTCM, LAc, FABORM
I’m Dr. Laura Erlich. I’ve been practicing fertility-focused acupuncture and Chinese medicine in Los Angeles for 25 years. I’m a Fellow of the Acupuncture and TCM Board of Reproductive Medicine (FABORM), founder of Mother Nurture Wellness and The Fertility Sanctuary, and co-author of Feed Your Fertility. I’ve been teaching reproductive medicine as an adjunct faculty member in Yosan University’s DAOM program since 2016, leading continuing education since 2011, and mentoring cohorts in integrative reproductive medicine since 2020. In 2025, Yosan honored me with the Integrative Leadership Award for the Advancement of Reproductive Medicine — which mostly just means I’ve been doing this work for a long time and won’t stop talking about it.
The Yinstitute is a departure from that teaching hustle. After years of weekend intensives and information-packed webinars, I wanted to build something different — a place of reflection and integration, where learning has space to root.
See the Curriculum Overview
Two Ways to Join the Year of The Fire Horse program:
Both tracks include monthly lectures, Grand Rounds, office hours, and community. Complete adds quarterly herbal training.
Core — 48 CEU/year
$1,200/year or $350/quarter
Complete — 64 CEU/year
$1,600/year or $475/quarter
Payment plans available. First 20 annual members get a free 1:1 mentorship session.
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More Than Lectures
You can get information anywhere. What you can’t get is a room full of practitioners who will think with you.
The Yinstitute is built around community and case supervision — not just content delivery. Here’s what that looks like:
Grand Rounds (monthly): Real cases, real complexity, real conversation. We work through differential diagnosis, treatment strategy, and the moments where textbook answers fall short.
Office Hours (twice monthly): Drop-in sessions with me and my TAs. Bring a case, ask a question, or just listen. No agenda required.
The Forum (ongoing): Asynchronous conversation between sessions. Case threads, clinical questions, the kind of collegial exchange that’s hard to find in solo practice.
This is how clinical confidence is actually built: not from more information, but from practicing the thinking — with support.
— Yin Learning for Yang Times —
