Holistic Health

Holistic health is an approach that takes the broadest possible view of illness and disease, identifying both internal and external causes, and then offering multi-dimensional healing as opposed to specific cures. It is as concerned with one’s propensity towards disease as it is with its transmission. Why does one person get colds or infections more easily than another, or at different times? Can we render ourselves more hardy and disease-resistant before medical intervention is necessary, and more resilient when illness does occur?

Taking into account one’s body, mind, emotions, and spiritual life, holistic health combines the best of modern scientific diagnosis and monitoring techniques with both ancient and innovative health promotion methods. These include natural diet and herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, exercise, relaxation, counseling, meditation, breathing exercises, and other self-regulatory practices. It addresses not only symptoms, but the entire person, and his or her current life predicament, including family, job, and spiritual life. It emphasizes prevention, health maintenance, high-level wellness and longevity. It views the client as an active participant in the healing process, rather than simply a passive recipient of “health care.” At once personal, ecological, and transcultural, holism has become the new health paradigm for the 21st century.

The one-year Certificate in Holistic Health is a pre-requisite to the two-year Diploma in Holistic Health.

Certificate in Holistic Health

Diploma in Holistic Health