International Program to study
CHINESE MEDICINES & SPORTS
中医 道医 武当养生文化 功夫 太极学
such as:
- Acupuncture
- Tuina and Anmo Massage
- Taiji Gongfu and Taiji Yangsheng Healthsports
- Revalidation Therapy
- Counseling and Behavioural Therapy
- Food and Herbal Diet Therapy
Our speciallity is Old Style study: learning Chinese medicine and sports the way the ancients did. we show you the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine to help you understand Chinese medicine as Holistic whole person medicine. We do not mix with western medicine as is nowadays common practice. we keep them separated and you still learn what you need for your recognition as practitioner. We also show you how sports and aesthetics are the foundation for Chinese medicine.
In a Bachelor Health practitioner and a Master clinical practice program. Study the whole range of Chinese clinical, preventive health, sports, cultural and creative activities not present at any other school. If you want you can shift Campus between Amsterdam, Shanghai, Mexico city and Wudang mountains, travel with your teachers and combine with home study and preparation.
In our program we offer a transcultural blend of ancient and modern Chinese Medicine; Daoist medicine; Yangsheng Healthsports and Taiji Gongfu; Dietery and Beauty enhancement; esoteric and cultural backgrounds, personal development and so on. Doing so we help you prepare for all the pleasures and turmoils of working as a Chinese medicine and/or Gongfu practitioner in a modern society. Learn to take being Human as a foundation for helping others.
Your program starts with learning about health and basic Chinese cultural theories. Your first task is to help produce health and inner/outer harmony and beauty, both in yourself and your students and clients. Learn Acupuncture, Qigong, Yogic Taiji exercise, Inner and Personal Cultivation, and a variety of Chinese Massage styles as tools to understand and create beauty, health and vitality and you will feel secure in learning therapeutic skills and/or develop yourself as a teacher in our personalized program, suited to your individual needs in a comfortable, safe, stimulating and supportive environment.
Your study choice is between:
- Short fasttrack healthsports courses of maximium 30 hours
- Our full time and parttime and varied Modules Program based on a 2-2 year BA/MA program which allows for a specializing doctorate program. (over 500 contact hours each). Our parttime program identical to the full time program, but at your own speed and leisure.
- Over 2000 hours intensive apprenticeship placement including real practice placement in Beijing, Wuhan, Anhui or other cities.
- Like in Daoist and Buddhist monastic health study programs we also offer a Study-Buddy program to help you get the max out of your learning.
- We support an extensive special interest workshop and retreat program.
- We have a bonus discount and savings program for bringing in clients and students that save us expenses in commerce that can help you to study for free!
- We have an extensive post graduate support program to help you set up clinic, course center, franchise, or to join us in an educational affiliation program which provides high level degree courses in Chinese Medicine and Sports for every country in the world with the aim to qualify Chinese Medicine and sports as a Whole Theory and Practice Science.
Respond direct and email to info@orientalcollege.org
Start today and help the world to be whole, healthy, fit and harmonious!

(Our dean with his Daoist Shifu You Xuande, at Baimashan, the birthplace of Taiji sports in the Wudang mountian area discussing how nature provides health to life)
Study Acupuncture, Tuina massage, Taijiquan, Qigong, Gongfu, Daoyin, Yi Jing, Chinese food & beverage and herb practice and much more within the framework of Chinese culture.
The Oriental College offers culture based studies in Chinese/Daoist Medicines and Wudang internalized sports. For this we cooperate with Western and Chinese universities, traditional Daoist teachers from Wudang mountains, a cradle of Chinese medicines and exiting martial arts based sports, and many more experts dedicated to this fascinating science. You can be one of those.
The Oriental College offers Chinese Medicine and Sports courses with a difference. Not only is the study flexible and you can fit it in to your own time schedule, but also we offer Traditional Self Cultivation for (future) practitioners and teachers based on the works of for example Zang Sanfeng, Tao Hongjing and Hua Tuo. For practitioners that have studied at other schools we offer several MA and PhD postgraduate programs and for those who are not in the opportunity to travel to one of our schools in Amsterdam (main office), Mexico, China (Wudang and Wuhan/Shanghai) or Kenia, we offer distance learning programs.
All our professional courses are at university level and when graduated you will can open your own Healthcenter, clinic and/or school, or do significant research. the program model is BA-MA-PhD, which allows you for a good social and professional postion.