Sensei David R. LoPriore, L.Ac., is the ASOMNE Founder and Director, a Headmaster of Kosho Shorei Ryu and the senior American practitioner of Kosho Shorei Ryu Energy Medicine. He has been practicing the Asian healing arts since 1990, and teaching martial arts and many other Asian studies directed at self-development since 1986. His compassionate, supportive and inspirational approach to healing comes through both in his work treating patients with Oriental Medicine, and in his teaching of self-cultivation. Through understanding the principles of Natural Law through the 770-year-old lineage of Kosho Shorei Ryu, of which he is 23rd-generation Headmaster, Sensei LoPriore weaves a unique program of treatment and personal lifestyle advisements and practices which comprehensively help patients to quickly and effectively recapture vibrancy.

Sensei LoPriore's background includes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean styles of holistic energy medicine. Clinically, he integrates approaches from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoist, Five Element (5E), and Eight Principle (8P) styles of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He has graduated with advanced education from an intensive two-year course called “Inner Tradition Chinese Medicine: Clinical Integration of 5E and 8P Chinese Medicine”. This course was taught by Lonny Jarrett, L.Ac., one of the most senior American practitioners of Chinese Medicine, author of two advanced books on Inner Tradition Chinese Medicine, and an internationally-recognized authority on the psychological aspect of Asian medicine. As a senior practitioner of Kosho Shorei Ryu Energy Medicine and Inner Tradition Chinese Medicine, one of Sensei LoPriore's specialty areas is helping patients go far beyond mere symptom-fixing: to help them find a path back to balance through rectifying lifestyle imbalances and cultivating the indomitable spirit to face life's challenges in a way that sets them free from self-imposed suffering.

Sensei LoPriore specializes in treating pain, musculo-skeletal- and injury-related problems. He was an Acupuncture apprentice for three and a half years under Dr. Yu-Chen Jiao, a famous scholar-physician from Beijing, China. During this intensive one-on-one educational opportunity, he learned specialized advanced treatments of acute and chronic pain from Dr. Jiao. Dr. Jiao is a master Acupuncturist and Herbalist who was an orthopedic and neurological surgeon in China. There Dr. Jiao performed the first-ever full knee and full hip-replacements. He also researched and developed acupuncture anesthetic techniques which are now widely used in surgical procedures. Based on this education with Dr. Jiao, Sensei LoPriore is highly successful at treating pain. He often adds shiatsu (Japanese bodywork therapy, which he's been practicing since 1990), qigong exercises, traditional and modern heat therapy, and other complementary modalities to his treatments. One unique form of Oriental Medicine for pain relief Sensei LoPriore uses is called Korean Hand Therapy. Along with the office treatment, patients in physical pain are given a Sooji Roller, a small instrument used for self massage on their hand, that is extremely effective for pain relief and rapid healing.

If you are a parent seeking treatment for your child, know that Sensei LoPriore has worked with many young patients very successfully, both with shiatsu (for those of any age who are afraid of needles) and acupuncture. He has a great way with kids that has developed since 1984, as he has helped many children develop themselves physically, mentally and spiritually at his school, Bushidokai Traditional Martial Arts. He and his wife Cheryl have four children of their own. Treatments for children are often amplified by their parents performing shiatsu for them at bedtime, after Sensei teaches them how to. This offers the opportunity for a wonderful new bonding experience between parents and their children. It gives parents the opportunity to nourish and care for their children in a new and profound way through gentle, nurturing massage. And, this home therapy allows for the development of additional avenues of deep communication between children and their parents. With Sensei's integral, experienced approach, children are able to go far beyond symptom-relief, and blossom into the vibrant, balanced people they were meant to be, supported by a greater sense of feeling loved and deeply cared for by their parents.

Sensei LoPriore also teaches many ancient Chinese and Japanese exercises for Internal Energy Cultivation. He has been studying these arts as well as internal and external martial, healing, and philosophical arts since 1984. Patients are prescribed specific exercises which match their health needs. Broader and deeper studies are available to Kosho Shorei Ryu students, who often train several times per week, but patients are always welcome to continue private lessons, or participate in the inexpensive monthly classes on this topic. In particular, the White Cloud Monastery Neigong is a rare and beautiful form of energy cultivation, and holds the potential for amazing transformational benefits. This and the many other forms of neigong taught by Sensei not only cultivate the Qi (life-force energy), but also balance and nourish the mind and spirit, and replenish the deepest reserves of Jing-essence.

Sensei LoPriore was one of about fifteen senior practitioners in the United States to be the first to be nationally certified in Oriental Bodywork Therapy (shiatsu) by the National Certification Commission on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). He is nationally certified in Acupuncture by the NCCAOM, and a licensed Acupuncturist in Connecticut. He has written several books and manuals on Kosho Shorei Ryu and Inner Tradition Oriental Medicine, produced over 40 videotapes and DVDs on various wellness- and self-developmental topics, and teaches seminars nationally on Oriental Medicine and self-developmental Asian arts. Although he has knowledge of many modalities and stylistic methods of helping a patient heal and reach enduring holistic wellness, he is attached to no specific path. He will offer each patient the combination of specific healing methods appropriate for their individual context at the time. The ability to offer these deep self-cultivation practices in conjunction with wise and encouraging counseling, bodywork, acupuncture, and herbal medicine makes Sensei David LoPriore a uniquely-qualified practitioner.

To contact Sensei LoPriore for more information or to schedule a consultation, please call 860-739-5102, or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Free 15-minute informational consultations are available.