HOLISTIC NUTRITION BASED ON ORIENTAL MEDICAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

Asian traditional medicine has long understood the link between our daily food, relationships and lifestyle, emotions, and spiritual connection with our health and wellbeing. Our unique approach primarily uses the best of Chinese medicine, the 20th century update of Japanese healing called macrobiotics, other traditional health systems, and modern scientific research to create very effective Holistic Nutritional Therapists.

We offer a 3 year part-time training programme giving qualifications at the end of each year, giving you a range of skills to build a busy career guiding others towards greater health and healing. We offer all three years in person at our school in Devon, England, the first two years can also be taken online (with intensives at the school for learning very practical subjects).

The school is based in a stunningly beautiful and deeply peaceful and healing rural retreat in south Devon, with its own purpose build teaching kitchen with 12 individual work stations, and accommodation in an 18th century house and barn.

The school was founded by Oliver Cowmeadow, a pioneer in the introduction of natural holistic healing in the west. A qualified teacher, he has a wealth of experience of running training courses since 1985, and has used Holistic Nutritional Therapy and shiatsu to help thousands of clients heal over the last four decades.

The school attracts students from all over Europe to its residential courses, and world wide to its online courses, because of its uniquely holistic approach with a solid base in Oriental medicine, and also using western nutrition, physiology and pathology.

You will study in small groups with a maximum of 12 students, so our experienced and caring staff can give you plenty of support both in your own personal development of physical, emotional and spiritual health, and in developing your skills in guiding others.

With a strong emphasis on offering nutritional advice for healing a wide range of different health problems, you will also study a range of other healing modalities. Many students enjoy learning the practical side of nutrition – how to cook food that is both delicious and also healing for the body and mind. Macrobiotics excels in using ‘the alchemy of cooking’ creating recipes and medicinal teas to support certain organs in the body and heal particular health problems.

On all three years students learn Do-in, a system of energetic and meridian exercises, breathwork and meditation to promote health. In the second and third year courses you learn shiatsu bodywork, with the option of full qualification as a Shiatsu Therapist with some extra studies.

There is lots of teaching of sound theory, but overall the whole training is very practical – you will be exercising, cooking, developing your communication and relational skills, and healing your own emotions and bodies, with plenty of practice with real clients both in teaching sessions and at home. In this way you will become a confident, well-rounded practitioner able to guide a wide range of people heal a great variety of health problems.

Some graduates are attracted to working with individual healing with holistic nutritional advice and shiatsu, others love the cooking side and have started cooking schools (both in person and online) and catering on retreats. We encourage each student to find their own expression and path in developing their unique form of healing to the world.

Many of our students have experienced dramatic changes in their physical health, in their emotional and mental wellbeing, and found a much richer life living from their core being. The essence of the Oriental approach to health and happiness is flexibility, adapting to the endless changes that face us in our lives, with gratitude, love and joy.