Japanese Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine
(951) 674-6000
About Byron
Byron M. Barth, L.Ac., graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) in San Diego with a Master’s of Science in Traditional Medicine. His training at PCOM included extensive studies in Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Oriental Medical Theory, Clinical Instruction and the Western Sciences. He has over 8,000 hours of training and teaching experience. His Oriental Medicine training started in 1996 at the Shiatsu School of Canada with over 1500 hours of training, continued for one-year at the Toronto School of TCM, and was completed with three and a half years of Master’s level training at PCOM. Byron has also studied with Tetsuro Saito at the Shiatsu Centre and with Leny Carbone at the Living Earth Shiatsu School; both are located in Toronto, Canada.
Japanese Acupuncture is Byron’s specialty, focusing on a more gentle approach to help you relax during your treatment and receive the most benefit. This approach is also effective with needle-sensitive adults as well as children.
Byron is also a practicing Zen Shiatsu therapist. He has been instructing Zen Shiatsu for over a decade and is on faculty at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, CA. He is Nationally Certified in Chinese Herbology, Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Other licenses include Holistic Practitioner and NCBTMB for Massage.
He has taught Shiatsu for the Toronto Board of Education, Living Earth Shiatsu School in Toronto, Poway Academy and at Mueller College of Holistic Studies, in San Diego. He continues to teach Shiatsu levels I & II at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He also offers a series of Shiatsu seminars as an approved continuing provider through the NCBTMB.
He currently maintains a private Japanese Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine and Zen Shiatsu practice in Lake Elsinore, CA., where he lives with his wife and three children. Our clinic has been located in Lake Elsinore since 2003.
