14 California Acupuncture Board CEUs pending for Category 1, CEP 0142
14 NCCAOM CEUs pending, Provider 214
Dates: December 7 & 14 (Sundays), 9:00 am - 5:00 pm West Coast PST time, or 12:00 - 8:00 pm EST
Location: Your home office
Tuition: Early-bird $395
• Late registration after November 28: $450
Please note: The tuition fee includes a 35-page course booklet. The booklet will be mailed to you starting about three weeks before the seminar. Be aware that if you register after Dec. 1, you may not receive it in time for the first session, all depending on your location and postal service efficiency – register early!
To register: Register by credit card with the button above.
Cancellation policy: Cancellations received up to November 28 receive a full refund less a $50 cancellation fee. No refunds can be given after November 28, 2025.
Joining the seminar online with Zoom: The Join information on Zoom will be emailed to you on Friday December 5th in the afternoon. This email will contain the link to join the seminar on Sunday Dec. 7th.
Seminar check-in will start on Sunday at 8:30 am PST, 11:30 am EST. If necessary, please change your Zoom ID to match your registration name. You may want to check in early in case of any unforeseen technical difficulties. If requiring CEUs, please be sure to fill out the Seminar intake Form that will be emailed to you just before or after the first day.
An optional video recording of the seminar will be available to participants in due course after the seminar, available for two months. Please note: this is a bonus service to participants: it is NOT an official part of the seminar and does NOT count towards obtaining CEUs; only live attendance is eligible for CEUs. Although our IT associates will make every effort to make the video available and watchable online, in the case of any technical difficulties beyond our control, Snow Lotus is not responsible for any problems with watching the video, including any difficulties that make the video inaccessible for any reason.
Questions? Contact us at info@snowlotus.org or 800-682-8827 or 707-546-3706.
Mood disorders and emotional neuroses are widely seen and on the rise. They powerfully influence physical wellbeing as well as the outcome of actual disease. The ability to identify, diagnose and treat these common conditions at any stage of their development can therefore make a big difference in clinical practice. In the case of patients on medication or pleasure drugs, systemic treatment can also reduce the need for these, counteract their negative effects and help resolve any actual addiction present.
Taking a systemic integrative approach, in this online seminar we will consider mood disorders from three perspectives:
• The dysfunction of brain neurochemistry: patterns of deficient or over-expressed hormones and neurotransmitters
• The mental-emotional disturbance that the client presents
• The energetic imbalances presenting, as accurately described in Chinese medicine
For treatment modalities, we will explore herbal and focused nutrient solutions, as well as olfactory therapy techniques with essential oils. Essential oils can act as especially potent catalysts for managing these disorders as they directly impact the brain's limbic system and modulate peptide functions. In so doing, they help resolve the pathogenic emotions and their energetic imbalances that underpin mood disorders.
• Detailed presentation and systemic treatment of common mood disorders, including anxiety, depression, OCD and PTSD
• The brain neurochemistry, emotional neuroses and patterns of energetic imbalance seen in each mood disorder
• Pathogenic emotions as important causes of mood disorders
• Treating patterns of brain peptide imbalance associated with particular mood disorders
• The typical body-mind energetic imbalances seen in each disorder, with essential oil, herbal medicine and point treatment
• How to evaluate a client's whole body-mind condition using Six-Condition Functional Diagnosis
• The powerful psycho-energetic effects of essential oils with olfactory therapy
"This seminar gave me the tools I needed to work with my more challenging patients, as well as with children. Peter's depth of knowledge really brings this valuable material to life."
– Dia Vickery LAc
"After taking Peter’s course on Mental-Emotional Disorders, I was able to bring my treatments to a much deeper level by adding essential oils to my protocols. My patients have noticed a huge difference in how they feel afterwards as well."
– Stephanie Petix Willard LAc
"I really liked the presentation of essential oils as a major therapeutic modaliy in the context of Chinese medicine. This seminar on Shen disorders adresses an area not easily accessed by the other tools in a Chinese medicine practitioner’s toolkit."
– Brenda Hood LAc
"I love the reminder of the power of approaching essential oils from a place of being connected to spirit. There is such a vast, sweet, connected powerful universe that opens when we approach the oils in this way."
– Aiden Seraphim LAc
"I just wanted to say thank you for the amazing class this past weekend. It was phenomenal. I learned a lot on so many levels. I am grateful and humbled and thankful to you for giving the information with such passion, intelligence and patience . . . Essential oils hold the wisdom and spirit of the whole plant. Using the oils unlocks some area of the brain in a sort of lock and key effect that is otherwise unreachable, dissolving the barrier that exists for healing to occur."
– Elizabeth Fine LAc
"Using the oils in my practice for just one week after the Mental-Emotional Disorders seminar has been amazing. The oils did a lot of the work for me in guiding the treatment to the next stage of healing. They shifted everything very quickly and profoundly to the next appropriate level. Thank-you for your good work. "
– Bree Dellerson LAc
Peter Holmes LAc, MH, is a medical herbalist, essential oil therapist and Chinese medicine practitioner with over 30 years of extensive education, clinical practice and international teaching and speaking experience. His focus is the integration of vitalistic functional medicine with Chinese medicine, a bifocal approach that enables greater diagnostic insight, more targeted treatments and improved treatment outcomes. In his experience, essential oils play a key role in treating a client and patient gently but effectively, assisting him or her in their healing as a whole individual.
Peter is co-founder of Aroma Acupoint TherapyTM and author of several textbooks on herbal and essential oil medicine, including The Energetics of Western Herbs, Jade Remedies, Aromatica and the newly released Channeling Fragrance.
