We love when our faculty bring their brilliance beyond the classroom! Dr. Reagan Taylor, DAOM and Clinical Education Director at AIMC, was recently a featured guest on the Killah Priest Podcraft for a special Gemini Edition of Royal Priesthood Wednesdays. Joined by host Killah Priest and Knowledge Born Allah, Reagan explored the rich intersections of Chinese Medicine, astrology, ancestral wisdom, and Hip Hop consciousness AND how these ancient and contemporary healing traditions can help us...

You've spent years learning the medicine. You understand qi, zang-fu, point location, needle technique, herbal formulas. What nobody fully prepares you for is the moment you have a practice, and this is truly because no one can. Everyone is different and their visions are just as unique. Perhaps the only shared sensation is that moment you realize that on some level learning the medicine was the easy part. Running a practice requires a completely different skill set: marketing, financial...

The sudden closure of Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine & Acupuncture (PIHMA) left students, faculty, and patients in an abrupt and deeply disruptive position. For many students, years of training were interrupted overnight—without a clear path to completion. Abrupt school closures expose a hard truth about integrative healthcare education: when a school fails, students absorb the consequences, and they are left to figure out if and how to continue their path to becoming acupuncturists....