EBTA was established in 1998 as a membership organization
To be a member of EBTA one needs to be a practising acupuncturists who has completed a basic training program in Toyohari
The basic training programs taught in Europe (and North America and Australasia) were established in consultation with senior Japanese teachers – they are one year programs taught by approved and specially trained Toyohari practitioners
EBTA has members in 16 countries with branches in:
- The Netherlands
- Spain
- Germany
- Israel Branch
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- Denmark
- Other European Countries (EBTA-O)
- Poland
The principle purposes of EBTA are:
To provide a structure for organising ongoing education for members
This education includes
- Local study groups (e.g. Branch meetings)
- Small regional workshop with selected European EBTA instructors
- Annual European workshop with teachers from Japan and usually with one or more senior European teachers
- Two-year advanced training programs run by the most senior instructors (Stephen Birch & Junko Ida) available to members who have been members for 3 or more years
- Helping organise workshops for non-Japanese international members in Japan at the regular ‘summer school’ workshops in Tokyo, at present every three years
EBTA also produces written and recorded study materials including an international Toyohari newsletter, translations from Japanese sources, recorded lectures and so on – these resources are available to members in the membership area of this website.
EBTA also organises and runs one year training programs for qualified acupuncturists
These programs are 120 hour of in class study with an additional 15 hours of online learning to a total of 160 academic hours
The programs are 20-day programs usually 4X 2-day and 4X 3-day weekends over 8-9 months
At present EBTA has eleven qualified instructors that teach these programs.
Programs have been run annually in Amsterdam, Holland
Since 2018 they have been run in other countries: UK, Germany, Israel, Denmark with an upcoming program in Spain.
- See what programs are currently being offered in Europe and where you can sign up to study them.
- See who teaches Toyohari in Europe.