testimonials

“David Ford is a real and raw Taoist full of primordial wild awareness. He instructs on many levels at the same time… calling us to awaken and live out our lives and our clinical practices as a celebration of creation.”
-Charles Rothschild Lev

“Studying with David Ford is a great opportunity to examine how you can infuse more love and presence into whatever you are doing on the planet. I feel like the community created in the ASOM classes is an excellent model for how  people can harmoniously  BE with one another.”
–Molly Green

“David Ford has given me a most demonstrative lesson of love, truth, and the beauty of life. And with that a reconnection to nature that cultivates the importance of healing and harmony through shamanism.”
–Mary Huang

“I have never met a teacher who invited me to bring my heart, my intellect, my intuition, and my compassion into the classroom as David Ford does. His incredibly vast knowledge of this medicine and insistence that we return to nature for our wisdom have completely changed my life.”
–Sage Cohen

"Having had the chance to study with David has given me the tools to observe my clients with new eyes. It also changed my relation with the written word and all the information that is out there on Chinese medicine. In stead of accumulating information as we are so used to in the west, I came to the point where I can combine my intuitive and scholarly knowledge and so be of greater help to my clients. I think it would be of great benefit for the quality of Chinese Medicine in Europe, to have a wider and more profound application of this great system. And I consider David Ford as an important inspiration we can call upon to bring the Medicine back to its original nature based roots."
-Naresh Custers