TAI SOPHIA INSTITUTE STUDENTS CELEBRATE ACUPUNCTURE & ORIENTAL MEDICINE DAY WITH VISITS TO REGION’S LARGEST FARMERS’ MARKETS
 
LAUREL, Md. (October 15, 2008) – In an extended celebration of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Day (October 24), Tai Sophia Institute’s Student Chapter of the AAAOM (American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine) will be running information tables and booths at several of the region’s largest Farmers’ Markets on October 25 & 26 and November 1st.
 
Students will be available to talk with the public about acupuncture, as well as about Tai Sophia Institute, its clinics, and the AAAOM. Come experience an acupuncture pulse reading and learn about this traditional, effective, low-cost healing system.
 
You can meet Tai Sophia student representatives at the following farmers’ markets:
 
Saturday, October 25, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Baltimore’s Harbor East FRESHFARM Market on the 1000 Block of Lancaster Street (between South Exeter Street and Central Avenue, on the Inner Harbor).
 
Saturday, October 25, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, Silver Spring’s FRESHFARM Market on Ellsworth Drive (between Fenton and Cedar).
 
Sunday, October 26, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm, DC’s Dupont Circle FRESHFARM Market on 20th St., NW (between Massachusetts Ave. and Q St., and in the adjacent parking lot of PNC Bank).
 
Saturday, November 1, from 7:00 am – 12:00 pm, Baltimore’s 32nd Street/Waverly Farmers' Market on E. 32nd Street and Barclay Street.
 
With questions about the farmers’ market events, please contact Jim Pastore at 202-669-8945 or jimpastore@gmail.com.  For more information about Tai Sophia Institute’s graduate degree programs and other offerings, please visit www.tai.edu.  Or to set up a visit to the school, email admissions@tai.edu or call 410-888-9048, ext. 6647. 
 
 
ABOUT TAI SOPHIA INSTITUTE
Tai Sophia Institute, a private, nonprofit organization based in Laurel, Maryland, is a center for wellness-based education, client care, and public policy discourse. Founded in 1975 as a small healing arts clinic, the Institute has evolved into a diverse resource providing graduate academic programs, continuing education, community wellness programs, and clinical services in acupuncture and herbal medicine. Its 12-acre main campus also houses a bookstore, library, herb and meditation gardens. Tai Sophia is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and offers three graduate degrees in Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, and Applied Healing Arts. The Master of Acupuncture program was the first in the United States to be accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. The Institute’s faculty, staff, and students donate more than 15,000 community service hours to a variety of projects, and its practitioners provide more than 35,500 treatments and consultations yearly. The Institute empowers wellness leaders, business executives and communities to learn the art of caring for and serving one another.
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