Oxrider Academy Educational Curriculum Enrolled at International Lectures
We are pleased to announce that Yan Schroën has entrusted his unique Oxrider Academy educational curriculum to International Lectures.
Yan’s vision on systems biology and the laws of nature aligns seamlessly with our quest to understand what health truly is and the power of Chinese medicine within it.
It simply depends on the words you use. A Daoist speaks of Dao, a TCM practitioner of Wuji, Qi, meridians, and a quantum physicist of wave-particle duality, photons, and entanglement. Yan is uniquely capable of connecting this knowledge and providing insight into the interplay of harmony between frequencies and systems shared by all these schools of thought. This yields unique insights that bring us closer to understanding the core of health.
By joining forces once again, we can offer you education that is not only clinically relevant but also integrates the very latest scientific and philosophical insights.
What can you expect?
• Trusted quality: The unprecedented depth of Yan Schroën, now supported by the trusted organization of International Lectures. • New horizons: In the near future, we will launch innovative video projects to make this knowledge even more accessible and visual. • Continuity: The schedule for 2026 and 2027 is known (see below).
We look forward to this new collaboration and warmly welcome the students of Oxrider Academy.
With warm regards,
Roger Hendriks CEO, International Lectures
PS: For those who want to go deep: take advantage of the bundle discounts on Yan's Herbs and Dynamics courses. With that, you choose to truly grasp the way systemic thinking turns separate pieces of knowledge into one living whole.
What Chinese medicine has described for millennia in terms of Yin-Yang, Wu-Wei, and self-organization, Western science is now rediscovering through systems biology, quantum physics, and non-linear dynamics. Is it still justified, then, to speak of "alternative healthcare"?
Yan Schroën shows just how intertwined these two worlds are. And how, as a result, you learn a new language. You would not have expected what you can explain with it.
Yan Schroën
Bi-syndromes belong to classical Chinese medicine — and yet many experienced herbalists struggle with them as soon as the pathology becomes more complex.
Yan Schroën has over 35 years of clinical experience and reveals the complete differential diagnosis in this two-day program: from acute Wind-Bi to the deeply chronic forms that reach the organs.
The core? Juxtaposing what remains separate in most courses — dozens of classical formulas, with the question: what exactly makes the difference?
Most of your patients with chronic complaints also use conventional medication. When you are unsure how that medication interacts with a formula you wish to prescribe, you can now request an interaction check at the pharmacy. That is good, but it is even better when you understand the logic behind it yourself.
Yan Schroën (biochemist, naturopath, herbalist) and Edwin Lipperts (pharmacist, herbalist) will teach you a basic method in one day that allows you to understand how pharmacological groups translate into TCM energetics and where they interfere with your Materia Medica.
This is indispensable, reassuring knowledge for both you and your patients.
Edwin Lipperts
You ask the 10+2 questions, you arrive at a diagnosis and initiate treatment — and at the next appointment, it turns out that your patient has changed. That is not a mistake, but information. In this two-day course, Yan Schroën teaches you why. In fact, he will teach you how to predict the change and treat it adequately before the system overflows.
This provides you with a diagnostic layer that does not replace your existing TCM knowledge but sharpens it.
The Yi Jing contains 64 hexagrams. DNA contains 64 codons. Coincidence? Well, no. It is a structural correspondence that tells us a great deal about the architecture of life.
Yan Schroën explains it to you. He takes you through the molecular logic of DNA and the ordering principles of the Yi Jing, and then places them side by side. So that anyone who wants to understand what Qi truly is will never forget it.
How deeply do you really want to understand what Qi is?
What if the connections between things are not secondary, but reality itself? Yan Schroën shows how everything is interconnected — like threads in a web that weaves itself. Quantum mechanics, Daoism, systems biology, classical Chinese medicine: these are not competing explanations. They are different languages speaking about the same reality. And as quantum mechanics has shown: the observer never stands outside the system — he determines the reality of that system.
You learn to feel that your way of looking is just as systemic as that of the quantum physicist or the Daoist scholar. You recognize which observer you are within your own system. And you discover how you can move between realities as an observer — and what profound insights that yields.
The Shang Han Lun is two thousand years old and still clinically relevant — provided you understand it. The Six Divisions do not offer a simple list of symptoms, but a dynamic system that shows how pathology moves through the body, how divisions transition into one another, and which formula is the right one at any given moment.
This course is for herbalists who know the basics of the Six Divisions and want to go further: this is where true depth begins.
What more is there to understand about Yin and Yang than what you already know? Well, quite a lot. Have you ever considered them as fractals, as time mechanisms, or as an entry point to Wuji? Probably not, because that is never how it was taught to you. Yet, these are properties that make a world of difference to the way you can work with Yin and Yang in your practice.
This is the weekend where you will be explained why.