Holistic Nutrition and Cooking Year – online course
Course Overview
Holistic nutrition means understanding how our food creates physical, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing. Find out how you can use the power of food to heal current health problems, and find a happier way of living!
Holistic cooking means creating food that is delicious and colourful, and also gives us physical health, emotional balance and a stronger sense of self and where we want to go in our life. Using an understanding of food energetics, we can turn around illnesses and emotional difficulties for a brighter, more energetic life.
We start teaching days with some simple Do-in exercises, including stretching and breathing, and working on the acupuncuture/shiatsu meridians of energy to nourish our organs and body.
We use Oriental medicine to understand how to increase health and heal many health problems, using the healing power of food and lifestyle medicine. This includes lots of hands on cooking classes, learning how to prepare a wide range of colourful plant based dishes including breakfast, lunches, suppers, snacks and desserts.
We gently encourage emotional sharing in a safe space, and ways to release old unhelpful emotions, to create more lightness and joy. We also encourage students to connect to their deeper self or ‘soul’, for guidance in becoming more of who they are and finding their deep direction in life.
This course will help you:
- Heal many current physical health problems.
- Enjoy more energy and a stronger immune system.
- Let go of old limiting emotions and find greater joy and love in your life.
- Enjoy creating many easy to cook plant based dishes.
- To use food as medicine to help you and others heal and stay well.
- Learn Oriental medicine health assessment methodes, to keep your body in balance and health
- Connect wtih your ‘inner self’ to get in touch with your authentic being.
This is an exciting year where you can expect to experience changes in your own physical and emotional health. and if you decide you would like to train professionally you can go on to a second year course to qualify as a Holistic Health Coach, Healing Chef and Wellbeing Shiatsu Practitioner. Your studies can deepen in our third year Holistic Health Consultant course, enabling you to give in depth dietary and lifestyle guidance to help clients heal a wide range of health problems.
Course syllabus
Course times, fees & booking
Timings
Next online/intensive will begin in February 2027. This course is taught live online from February to July, and then with an August residential at the school in Devon, UK for learning practical cooking and lifestyle skills.
Next residential course runs from October 2026 to April 2027 (course code 10.26.1)Fees
The course fee for the for the residential course £2,900 and online/intensive is £2600. A deposit of £500 is payable to secure your place. The course fee includes all teaching, course materials, small group tutorials, and three meals each day.
Financial help The school also offers two bursaries per course on a first come basis of £500, to people on a low income who would not be able to join the course without this help. To apply for one of these, please fill out the application form below and email the school with your reasons for asking for a bursary.
Accommodation
We have three accommodation options on site, please email us to request accommodation and prices.
Apply or find out more
To secure your place, complete the Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year Application Form. If you’d like to discuss your possible participation in this course you can book a time to talk with Oliver Cowmeadow here.