Asian Healing Arts and Whole Foods Nutrition - Heartwood Institute

Asian Healing Arts and Whole Foods Nutrition from Heartwood Institute is a Campus Certificate Alternative medicine degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. The program is a comprehensive blend of East Asian approaches to wellness, sound nutritional practices, and contemporary scientific perspectives. Created by Paul Pitchford, author of the acclaimed Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition, this three-quarter curriculum brings together a synergy of mutually supportive therapies into a dynamic unity. The therapies that are included form the fundamental ?branches? of Far Eastern healing: whole foods nutrition, bodywork, and the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)?sustained by the foundation practices of meditation, tai ji, and qi gong. The principles of health and healing in this training are established through the cultivation of stillness, centered awareness, and respect for the whole human being. As a graduate of the program, you will have the tools to meet your clients' therapeutic needs from an integral, holistic perspective. You will be able to identify the nature of your clients' health issues using Traditional Chinese Medical theory and Zen Shiatsu palpation skills. Your integrative healing arts training will allow you to correct imbalances through contacting the meridian/organ systems with bodywork, qi gong, and meditation. Using the dietary teachings of the program, you will be able to provide client-specific nutritional assessment with recommendations. Having cultivated your own awareness, you will have the knowledge and vision to counsel others in making lifestyle changes that are life affirming, health promoting, and socially/ecologically responsible. The ?integrative healing arts? signature of the program provides a new and unique method of nutritional education as well as counseling skills for using with future clients. Our assessment methods train you in heightened sensory awareness of the TCM meridian system. Such an ultimate method of assessment, utilized by Asia's finest practitioners since ancient times, is experienced by sensing?via touch?the vitality (qi) of the acu-meridians and points, to determine the condition of client's internal organs. This diagnostic method then confirms the various other assessment methods of the program (listed later). Thus the bodywork, qi gong, tai ji, and meditation trainings are substantial and taught at high skill levels in order to provide you with a rare healing experience?authentic qi awareness, leading to professional diagnostic accuracy. Program Objectives To empower students with a proven integrative healing art, including in-depth knowledge of whole foods nutrition along with dietary and lifestyle counseling skills, and the diagnostic, therapeutic support for these skills?Zen Shiatsu acupressure and meridian massage, the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine, tai ji and qi gong exercises; and meditation-awareness practices To provide students with holistic training representing a dynamic merger of ancient East Asian teachings with modern health science To work with students in a supervised clinical setting with direct client contact for assessment, treatment and development of nutritional and lifestyle plans To encourage students to personally experience the remarkable healing value of this integral program To give students a unique, superb training in highly sought-after therapies of integrative medicine; and the tools and information needed to build a successful practice and gain employment in the field To qualify students for these options: entrance to the National Certification Exam (NCE) and membership in the American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA); and to provide ideal skills for those in transition to advanced schools of Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture. View more details on Heartwood Institute . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Alternative medicine courses.