Fundamental & Advanced Moxibustion Techniques

Heather “Maya” Suzuki lived and worked in Japan as an acupuncture and moxibustion therapist for over ten years. There she treated patients in both Japanese and English at Acura Acupuncture Clinic. Maya became an apprentice there before entering acupuncture school at Toyo Shinkyu Senmon Gakko and continued working throughout and after her schooling. She learned how to roll moxa, remove needles, do intakes, and clean the clinic on the job. During school Maya also became a member of Iyashi No Michi Kyokai and Tanioka’s Daishiryu shonishin styles. In 2015 she attained dual licensure in Japan and the U.S. via NCCAOM and Colorado and Japan.

Maya has many hats. She owns and runs Bumblebee AcuTherapy, teaches Japanese acupuncture nationally and internationally, and is the leading translator and a mid-level practitioner for Iyashi No Michi. She is also a mid-level practitioner of Daishiryu. Maya is the head coordinator and translator for the Annual In-Touch Japan Seminar in Japan. She also volunteers as a translator for the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine, where she has published several articles about Japanese acupuncture. Maya is passionate about allowing acupuncturists to improve their technical skills and, therefore, their clinical results via Japanese style needling and moxibustion. She teaches at CSTCM in Denver, Colorado, and to students worldwide via ShinKyu University (ShinKyuUni.com).

In her clinic, Maya utilizes Japanese acupuncture and AcuTherapy, or shonishin, as well as moxibustion. She mainly treats perinatal and pediatrics. Each treatment is as individual as each person is individual. Away from work, Maya is the mother of four incredibly active children and an avid whitewater kayaker.

Charles Buck

In practice since 1984, Charles is an experienced TCM clinician, educator and author known for his lucid and engaging style. His diverse interests include classical Chinese medicine, medical sciences, communication and advocacy of our profession.

Conducting brain research in the ‘70’s he encountered the neuro-physiology science behind acupuncture and this prompted a career diversion into classical acupuncture with 3-yrs study at ICOM (UK). In the early ‘80’s he pioneered CHM study, practice and teaching in the UK and as a faculty member at a leading Acupuncture he led the UK’s first formal CHM training. Gaining his TCM MSc in 2000 Charles has acted as a university external examiner, has presented at conferences across the world and published extensively. Notable is his textbook Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine – Roots of Modern Practice. 

A past chairman of the British Acupuncture Council Charles has worked for TCM advocacy, PR and branding focussing especially on the ways that science can help us gain increased legitimacy.

Aaron Rubinstein is a 20 year Acumoxa practitioner who lives and practices in Austin, Texas. He began specializing in Japanese acumoxa therapies in 2001 in Amsterdam with Stephen Birch and Junko Ida. 

Further studies continued with Miki Shima, T. Koei Kuwahara, and Shoji Kobayashi. His teaching experience includes training graduate-level students in advanced acupuncture theory and technique at the Academy of Oriental Medicine in Austin, Texas. 

He is a Shaku Ju Kai certified Shaku Ju instructor. He has taught hands on courses in kyutohinaishin ho in Tokyo and Barcelona. He began developing kyutohinaishin ho in 2007.

Felip Caudet has been in practice as a physiotherapist and acupuncturist since 1999, and specializes in Japanese moxibustion. He studied with Tetsuya Fukushima and Hideo Shinma (son of Master Fukaya). Currently, he is recognized as the fourth in the lineage of Fukaya Style of Moxibustion due to his developments and contributions to the style. He combines his clinical activity in Spain with teaching around the world. He has published several books on moxibustion and articles in international journals as the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine, Acu, or Osaka Shinkyu Journal.

Shay Sharabi has been a practicing acupuncturist and herbalist since the year 2010. He holds a Diploma of Chinese Medicine from East-West-The Israeli School and Center of Classic Chinese Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel. After working in a Chinese herbs pharmacy, he flew to China for short term studies at the ZhongFang Red Cross International Hospital for Chronic and Difficult diseases in Hunan.

After that visit to China, he started deepening his knowledge of Chinese medical and philosophical texts, focusing his practice mainly on internal and external application of Chinese single herbs and prescriptions for treating various diseases. As a big fan of the ancient, experience based, form of Chinese medicine, Shay kept sampling and trying various methods of treatment on himself and in his private clinic, using both well known Chinese prescriptions and folk remedies.

Since 2018 he is researching the medical texts for methods of treatment and preventing diseases – especially those treatments that are time-related. This research has led him to start teaching practical workshops on using “Heavenly Moxibustion” – a truly ancient form of external treatment, hardly known to western practitioners – based on the sole use of well known and commonly used herbs and spices, to stimulate the channels system in order to treat and prevent diseases.