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Taya Stanley L.Ac. - Barbara Briner L.Ac.


	Barbara Briner

	Barbara Briner received her MD in 1991 from the University of Basel in Switzerland. After receiving her Swiss physician's license she specialized in Psychiatry, and worked for years in numerous specialty clinics and hospitals before, in 1998, opening a private practice in the capital city Bern. Today, she frequently teaches abroad and maintains a psychiatric practice in Switzerland, while working as an acupuncturist, Medical Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine consultant, and training specialist in the United States. Her clinical and practical experience has given her an incredible compassion, respect, and depth of understanding into the human condition. Barbara holds a pioneering position in the new field of Integrative Medicine. In addition to her western medical training, she has studied a wide array of healing models from different cultures to develop new definitions of illness, health and healing. She pursued a secondary graduate degree in Oriental Medicine in California. After studying at the Japanese school of Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College Berkeley, she graduated from Five Branches Institute in Santa Cruz, with a Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine, specializing in Medical Qigong. She is a Nationally Accredited Diplomat in the field, State Licensed Acupuncturist and Primary Health Care Provider. In 2005 she completed her studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine by interning at hospitals in China associated with Hong Zhao University. She returned to the United States to co-found The Yellow Mountain Institute, with Taya Stanley, as a vehicle to practice and teach a comprehensive integration between Western and Eastern knowledge. Through The Yellow Mountain Institute they offer seminars both in the United States and Europe. In 2006 she and Taya also co-founded The Sierra Acupuncture & Integrative Health Center in Sonora, California with Joy Evans and John Evans. The center offers itself as a resource for the local community and a teaching clinic for graduates of the Yellow Mountain Institute and Sundoor School of Transpersonal Education.