About Evan Rabinowitz
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Dr. Evan M. Rabinowitz is the former Director of Chinese Herbal Medicine at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) where during his 8 year tenure he helped create the University's Masters and Doctorate programs in Oriental Medicine. Currently, he is a professor at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medical Arts, Asheville. He is a lecturer at Georgetown University School of Medicine's Integrative Medicine Program, Washington,DC. He was formerly an instructor and Chinese herbal supervisor at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, Gainesville. Evan has an active private teaching schedule offering continuing education for practitioners across the country and internationally. Evan has been studying extensively with Jeffrey Yuen for the last eighteen years. He is the founder of Yao Shan Center for Chinese Medicine in Washington, DC. where he has maintained his clinical practice for the last 20 years. He is a graduate of the George Washington University (B.A.), Traditional Acupuncture Institute (M.Ac.) and Maryland University of Integrative Health (D.Ac.).
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Video Excerpts of Evan's Teaching
Thoughts on the study of medicine
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Excerpts from the Specialty Rotations Program
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Excerpts from the Yao Shan Herb Program
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Impressions of Colleagues and Past Students
I have had the honor of studying with Evan Rabinowitz for the past 8 years. Not only is he an exceptional practitioner and highly dedicated to the care of his patients, but he is also a profoundly knowledgeable and skilled teacher. The lectures he prepares are well organized, engaging, inspiring, and most importantly, easily digestible. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned practitioner, you will not find better source than Evan to help boost your understanding and knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine. |
Learning Chinese herbal medicine with Evan has been nothing less than profound and ripe with the depth and richness inherent in both the philosophy and practice of Chinese medicine. His transmission of the teachings are steeped in both historical context, relevance and homage to the great scholars and masters from which they originated. If you are looking to deepen or reawaken your knowledge and love of Chinese medicine, I highly recommend you take this program. You will thank me afterwards. |
Evan has a way of making herbs come alive. When I learned from Evan I never felt like it was just about memorizing functions and characteristics. It was about getting to know these plants as friends and family in a way that was relational, embodied, and heart-centered. I’ve found that what I have learned from Evan, I’ve incorporated into my life in a deeper and also more practical way than other herbal classes I’ve done. His teachings are suffused with a clarity and confidence that is contagious. |
Evan is an amazing teacher. I studied with him for two years in an accredited Chinese herb program. Herbs are alchemy and Evan himself is. We were learning so much about these precious plants and little did we know we were going through our own transformation. Evan knew how to guide us on this path and bring us back if things seemed overwhelming. He taught us to know what is really important. And that is, helping our patient to heal. I learned more than I ever knew I was learning. I design custom formulas in my clinic regularly. Things just come to me because of the unique way Evan presented them. I recently took his Luo Vessels class and again it was a deep learning being in his presence. I would not miss an opportunity to study with him. |
Evan Rabinowitz is one of those rare teachers who can bring incredibly dense subject matter to life. His teaching style is extremely organized and richly textured. I appreciated how skillfully he designed a curriculum rooted in the classics, yet applicable to the modern clinic. While I learned practical applications of herbs and formulas, Evan also taught me to cultivate my ability to observe resonance and nuances in prescribing. He taught us to think in terms of the energetics of herbs and formulas rather than just the mechanics of them. I am so grateful for my herbal studies with Evan, it has truly deepened my understanding and love of Chinese Medicine as a whole. |
Evan was my teacher during the beginning of my Chinese herbal journey. I recall being intimidated and overwhelmed with the depth and complexity of study that was before me. It was Evan’s deep wisdom of Chinese medicine and his clarity of teaching the wisdom that motivated and empowered me. His lectures always demonstrated a great respect for the power of herbal medicine while also presenting the knowledge in a lighthearted, personal and approachable manner. There was such direction and purpose to how he explored the herbs in class. I immensely enjoyed learning with Evan and really valued his ability to take complex topics and break them down in bite sized pieces - often explaining things in many different ways until he had the sense his audience understood. Evan’s teachings are the foundation of my Chinese medicine practice and I could not imagine a better guide and mentor on my journey. My studies with Evan affirmed the reason I fell in love with Chinese medicine and gave me so much confidence as a practitioner. |
I went back to study Chinese herbal medicine after years of being in practice. I had originally studied herbs as an adjunct and had enough knowledge to prescribe the basics but I wanted more. |
Evan has an amazing talent to assimilate, organize, and make clinically relevant a vast amount of complex Chinese Medicine material collected through many years of his extensive studying with Jeffrey Yuen. I greatly enjoy Evan’s presentation style as his lectures are not only rich in content but are also engaging and full of useful clinical examples. Evan’s teachings has deepened my understanding of Chinese Medicine as a whole and helped me become a much more confident and successful practitioner of both Chinese herbology and acupuncture. |
“It’s said great leaders and teachers point not to themselves but to the greater source that inspires them, and with humility. I say this is true of Evan’s teaching in Chinese Medicine. I’ve studied herbs, pulse diagnosis and many other aspects of Chinese Medicine with Evan since 2011 through the various programs he has offered at MUIH and Yao Shan Center in Washington, DC. His teaching style truly integrates mind, body, spirit as One and in relationship with our natural world as our greater teacher and source. His keen observational skills also makes him aware of each student in the class as an essential participant within our larger order. No one gets left behind and we live it 3D and multi-dimensionally with Evan! With kindness and good humor he lays the foundations, conveys this essential knowledge, teaching sensory awarenesses and this great tradition for human care, as he has come to know it. His expertise and teaching style gives opportunity for our confidence to grow for the sake of our unique CM practices and all the connected relationships we have beyond the classroom, within the larger realm(s), so we may pass it forward too. I’m truly grateful for the opportunity to listen and learn with Evan through the years.” |