CT Holman's Background
CT Holman, L.Ac., M.S.
CT was drawn to practicing and teaching East Asian Medicine from the philosophy of ancient Asian concepts and the desire to help people. His interest in medicine and health began at a very early age and was guided by his grandmother in developing intuition and learning folk remedies.
He is an international speaker and teacher of East Asian medicine. With over 20 years of experience practicing East Asian medicine, he operates a busy, full-time practice in Salem, Oregon.
CT is a graduate of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco (2000) and has extensive post-graduate education with teachers that include Lillian Bridges (facial diagnosis), Master Zhong Xian Wu (macro cosmic treatment theory/qigong), Dr Wei Chieh-Young (acupuncture and physiology), and Dr Wang Ju-Yi (channel palpation, acupuncture, and physiology). He also had several years of combined study with Brian LaForgia and Brandt Stickley (Shen-Hammer pulse diagnosis).
CT studied in China three times (1999, 2001, and 2003). He completed residency work at the Cheng Du TCM University Hospital training in the Internal Medicine, Pediatric, and Oncology Departments. CT also trained in a private acupuncture and herbal clinic in Cheng Du. He studied channel palpation and channel physiology with Dr. Wang Ju-Yi in Beijing.
He is a General Family Practitioner but has specialties in treating emotional trauma and PTSD. He teaches internationally about protocols he developed along with mentorship from his teachers and wrote a textbook Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese Medicine. CT is the Director of Development for Lotus Institute and mentors teaching assistants for the Master Face Reading Certification Program.
Before founding Redwood Spring, PC in 2001, CT operated a private practice in Flagstaff, Arizona and on the Hopi Native American Indian Reservation for one year.
To see CT’s curriculum vitae, click here.
CT has been playing drums for over 35 years and has been featured on several albums. He teaches shamanic drumming internationally and recently presented at the 2015 TCM Kongress in Rothenburg, Germany. CT treats patients with shamanic drumming while they receive acupuncture; achieving great results. The drumming he teaches is applicable in a clinical setting for patients receiving acupuncture or simply just receiving a five element treatment.
CT contributed to and helped edit the textbook Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine and has been published in several medical journals. To bring shamanic qigong and drum healing to the public, he recorded and produced a CD titled Resonating Vitality-Chinese Medicine Drum Treatments and wrote the textbook Shamanism in Chinese Medicine (available July 2020). CT conducts a mentorship program at his clinic, teaches at the Oregon College of Chinese Medicine for their doctoral program and is an offsite supervisor for the college.
He also volunteers as a DJ hosting a live weekly music program on the Salem community radio station KMUZ (currently on sabbatical).