ANIMAL ACUPRESSURE CERTIFICATION
Deep Insight Isn’t Just for Bodyworkers. Every Animal Pro Needs It.
The Next Level of Your Work with Animals Starts Here.
Our three-level Elemental Acupressure Certification Program builds your insight and skills with the Elemental Matrix Method™. Get results by working the root, not just the symptom, with customized animal care.
Transforming the lives of animals and their people… body, mind, and qi
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Trusted by animal lovers and professionals on several continents.
Students in 40+ countries. Recommended by veterinarians
Trusted by World Champions
So clear and gentle we teach the basics of the technique to 8-year-olds
THE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
A Three-Level Path to Becoming a Certified Practitioner
The Elemental Acupressure Certification Program is the heart of everything we do. It’s a complete, step-by-step path that carries you from your very first acupoint to confident, professional practice. All of it online, all of it at your own pace – with as much or as little support as you prefer. No matter what your dream – helping your own animals or a full time work – the Certification Program can help you on your way.
Learn our complete Elemental Matrix Method™ made up of Five Element Acupressure, shiatsu, Classical East Asian Medicine (CEAM), EnergyWork™, anatomy, teishin work, and more.
MOVE THROUGH THREE LEVELS, EACH ONE BUILDING GENTLY ON THE LAST
Customize Your Journey to Meet Your Needs, Dreams, and Goals
Join one, two, or all three levels. See all three levels compared HERE or use the cards below to learn about each level.
Elemental Foundations
Certified Elemental Acupressure Practitioner
Advanced Elemental Acupressure Practitioner
You’re supported the whole way with live one-on-one online mentoring and a warm, engaged global community where our teaching makes complex ideas feel simple and accessible.
THE THREE PILLARS
Three Ancient Practices,
One Seamless Modern System
Every Elemental Acupressure practitioner learns three holistic skills that work together.
Use them as a complete system or blend the methods with your existing expertise.
Elemental Matrix Method™
Five Element Acupressure and Shiatsu
EnergyWork™ and Qi Gong
THE COMMUNITY
Who The Certification Program is For
Built for the Work You Already Do (or Dream of Doing)
The Elemental Matrix Method™ is built on Five Element Theory, a way of reading and helping the health and behavior of all living beings. Refined over more than 2,000 years in Classical East Asian Medicine, it is a powerful tool for modern animals (and their humans).
This work isn’t a replacement for what you already do with and for animals. It’s the insight and action approach that makes EVERY animal profession more effective.
Equine Bodyworkers
Finally understand why your sessions didn't bring the change you hoped for and know how to proceed for more success. So gentle it even works well for sensitive horses that don't like massage and handling.
Dog & Cat Bodyworkers
Stop guessing which area or system to prioritize in your sessions. The Elemental Matrix Method™ shows you the hidden pattern that is driving health and behavior issues, not just the symptoms - and what to do about it.
Trainers & Riding Instructors
Understand why a horse or dog resists, shuts down, or can't perform consistently, and how to adapt your work to each animal's nature. Develop performance programs that work WITH the animal's natural strengths.
Vet Techs, Vets, Animal Health Professionals
A complementary framework that seamlessly integrates with your evidence-based veterinary care. The Elemental Matrix Method™ gives you deeper insight and approaches for chronic, complex, or hard-to-pin-down cases.
Intuitives, Reiki Practitioners, & Animal Communicators
Ground your intuitive work in a structured, explainable Five Element framework. Learn intuitive assessment, expand your energetic skills, get more consistent results, and speak to your value with confidence.
Aspiring Animal Professionals & Dedicated Animal Caregivers
You don't need experience to start. You just need the right system from day one, so you build your practice of Five Element Acupressure on a trust-worthy foundation that supports you and your practice.
If you work with animals in any capacity, this is the lens that makes your work clearer, faster, better.
THE TRANSFORMATION
The Certification Pathway opens to your future.
Certification is more than a credential on a piece of paper. It’s a doorway, a portal to a future filled with animals.
Some of our Certified Graduates build thriving professional acupressure practices after graduation. Some bring their Elemental Acupressure skills and insight into other animal services they already love, with horses and small animals, in shelters, or with their own animal families.
All of our students describe the same thing: a new way of understanding, touching, and connecting with the animals.
You join a global community of caregivers and professionals who share your passionate commitment… body, mind, and qi.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Watch the Transformation
Sometimes the best way to understand what this work can do is to hear it from the people living it. Three of our students share how certification changed their practice, their animals, and their lives.
We keep hearing students and graduates say that the Certification Program will Change Your Life!
“Going through the Elemental Acupressure program is invaluable. You can’t put a dollar amount on that. “
“It’s just so transformative. The Five Elements are really, really special and it just makes so much sense to me..“
“I wanted to move my practice away from the recipe approach I had learned to a much more holistic way. Susan had that vision.“
MEET YOUR MENTOR IN YOUR ACU JOURNEY
Hi, I’m Susan Tenney, co-founder of Elemental Acupressure.
I fell in love with the Five Elements on my very first day of study in the early 1990s, and I never looked away. Back then no Five Element animal acupressure certification program existed, so I trained in shiatsu and the Five Element Acupressure and brought it to animals of every kind.
Over three decades I’ve worked alongside World Champions, the United States and Swiss Equestrian Teams, taught on several continents, written and published widely, and watched this work transform the lives of thousands of animals and the people who love them.
I built this Certification Program to give you the path I never had: clear, friendly, accessible, and complete. I’d love to share it with you and the animals in your life.
Susan Tenney, CMT – co-founder of Elemental Acupressure
See Susan's animal acupressure teaching in action
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Not Ready for the Full Certification Program? Start Where You Are.
Wherever you are on your journey, there is a door for you.
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Ready to Begin?
The animals are waiting. Your life’s work is closer than you think.
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