Advanced Holistic Nutritional Therapy Year – residential/online course

Become a very effective healer

Imagine being able to give detailed nutritional advice, describe or show clients how to cook their foods for maximum healing affect, advise on specific exercises to speed up healing, address and help emotional difficulties, recommend healthier lifestyle changes, and help people find their deeper purpose and direction in life. This is what being a holistic healer is about.

Modern society has artificially separated these different aspects of healing into different specialities with different trainings. So when we have problems we may need to go and see a range of therapists, but none can give the whole picture of what is causing our problems and a holistic path to health.

This training uses the traditional medicine of the Far East from countries like China and Japan, which have studied for several thousand years the food, lifestyle, emotional and spiritual causes of disease. The depth and breadth of this understanding is far beyond current modern scientific medicine in understanding the causes of most illnesses in our daily way of eating and living, our emotions and mental beliefs about ourselves and life.

The macrobiotic approach to health and healing was started by the Japanese couple George and Lima Ohsawa, who were some of the first to bring the wisdom of Far Eastern medicine to the West in the first half of the 20th century. The macrobiotic approach gives a very effective approach in maintaining good health, and healing a wide variety of health problems, and has been further developed up to the present time into a very practical and well-tried system of healing.

This Holistic Health Consultant Year course will teach you how to use a variety of healing modalities to offer healing of many of today’s common health problems, enabling you to offer a pathway of healing to many clients that may have been suffering chronic health problems for years. It will give you some amazing skills in helping others heal themselves physically and emotionally, and become more in touch with their true aliveness and purpose in life.

The IMS’s professional training is divided into three parts:

• Year 1 – Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year (Qualify in Holistic Health and Healing Chef Guide).
• Year 2 – Holistic Nutritional Therapy Year (qualify in three healing arts – Health Coach, Healing Chef & Wellbeing Shiatsu practitioner).
• Year 3 – Holistic Health Consultant Year (qualify as an accredited Holistic Health Consultant & Medicinal Cook)

The skills you will be learning

As this is a training in holistic healing, you will be learning a wide range of skills including:

• In-depth Oriental medical understanding of how the body functions, on creating a healthy internal balance, and the causes of disease.
• Refine your practical and intuitive Oriental diagnosis skills, to ascertain people’s true state of health and internal imbalances.
• To give an holistic explanation of the causes of a clients’ health, lifestyle, diet and emotions are all connected and affecting each other.
• To give detailed dietary advice, using the school’s guidance notes for clients.
• To give advice on changes to people’s life style to accelerate healing.
• To advise on specific meridian stretches and stimulation to aid balance and healing.
• To give deeply effective shiatsu bodywork for a range of health problems and to rebalance the body and mind.
• To use food as medicine to bring about specific healing effects on the body.
• To make teas and use a range of compresses and other home remedies to alleviate specific symptoms.
• To give emotional counselling and release long held destructive patterns.
• To help clients get in touch with their deeper self and life purposes.
• How to set up your own business as a complementary health practitioner, healing cook, your own teaching centre etc.

Course structure

The Holistic Health Consultant Year consists of 36 days in nine 4 day modules, with the final assessments being held over two days.

• Each day begins with before breakfast do-in, breathing exercises, meditation, shiatsu or other embodiment practices.
• Morning theory classes in many aspects of holistic healing.
• Afternoon classes, mostly in medicinal cooking, or sometimes other workshops.
• Some evening practice classes or further teaching.

Course times, fees & booking

Timings

 Next course begins February 2027.

Fees

The course fee is £4680, with the option of spreading payments over 16 monthly instalments. There’s a £750 deposit to secure your place.

Accommodation

We have various options for accommodation on site, please email us to request accommodation and prices.