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Macrobiotic Health Coaching Residential
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Macrobiotic Health Coach Intensive
Two weeks that will change your life
March 2nd through 16th
The dramatic rise in degenerative disease attributed to diet and lifestyle has created a demand for solutions to disease prevention and personal health maintenance. What is called for is a new generation of men and women who are capable of offering practical advice on how to live a healthy life in modern society.
During this two-week residential intensive you will have the opportunity to learn the techniques of effective Health Coaching and experience the power of two weeks of healthy living in beautiful natural surroundings. You will leave prepared to be a more effective promoter of natural health care for family and friends or to set up practice as a Professional Health Coach.
This is a rare opportunity to study with teachers who are expert consultants and draw on decades of practical experience. Macrobiotic philosophy serves as the foundation of these studies and provides the link between the disciplines and life skills we will explore together.
This course also offers additional tools to enhance professional or Para-professional skills in both the orthodox or complimentary health and healing arts.
The course will be offered at Penninghame House in Newton Stewart, Galloway, Scotland.
You can see the grounds at Penninghame at www.penninghame.org
The cost of the program starts at £2950.00 and includes full room and board with three full meals a day, all classes and course materials.
The Primary instructors on the course are Bill Tara, Marlene Watson-Tara and Paul Lambeth and associates, Dr. Lisa Sun and Ludwig Allpens
Course Contents
The Summer 2011 Macrobiotic Health Coach Intensive is a unique program focused on providing a learning experience for men and women who want to contribute to a healthy world. The course is designed to prepare the participants as Health Coaches. No previous experience or training is required for participation.
The course will be useful to those students who want to deepen their study of natural health care and macrobiotics as well as those who wish to utilize the training as an addition to their professional services such as fitness coaching, yoga teaching, business coaching or any practice of alternative health care. The course will provide ample training in:
Understanding Health and Healing
- Nutritional Science and Human Experience
- A review of Traditional ways of eating
- Epidemiology and what the studies say
- Fundamental problems with the modern diet
- What Oshawa’s levels of Illness and health say
Health and Emotion
- Belief and Behaviour in health and healing
- Relationship of health to habit
- Classical definitions of health
- The Mind Body connection
- Basic character qualities in Five Transformations as archetypes to inform understanding.
- Abraham Maslow and Western ideas of Healthy Behaviour
- Five Behavioural Archetypes
- Visualization
- Visualization practice
- Affirmation
- Building a new narrative
Traditions of Nutrition
- Yin and Yang / Understanding Food Energy
- The macrobiotic system of Health Care
- Understanding the energy of foods by growth patterns, environment and effect on body
- Using Yin and Yang classifications to create health
- The Roots of Modern Macrobiotic Dietary practice
- The Economy and Ecology of diet
- The Five Transformations Introduction
- The cycle of yin and yang through the seasons
- Examples of food qualities and taste in the Five Transformations
- Living with the Seasons
- Making adaptation to the season and environment
- Basic Dietary changes for personal needs
Shiatsu, Body Work and Exercise
- Body Cosmology
- Shiatsu and Intuitive Body Work
- Understanding Energy and Body work
- Meridian work & technique
- Do-In
Natural Foods Cooking & Remedies
Your cooking classes will focus on a hands-on approach to learning. Classes will include the selection and preparation of Grains, Bean dishes (including tempeh and tofu), soups, and a variety of vegetable cooking styles, sea vegetables and simple deserts. We will also introduce the basic home remedies.
- Kitchen Remedies for Digestive Disorders
- Kitchen Remedies for Common illnesses
- Kitchen Remedies for cooling or heating
- Drinks for elimination and detoxifying
- Kitchen Compresses
- Weight Loss
- Common causes of weight gain
- Calories, Cravings and metabolism
- Women’s Problems
- Menstrual problems
- Pre-Menopause and menopause
- Men’s Problems
- Heart and circulatory system
- Prostate problems
Health Assessment
- Health Assessment and Oriental Diagnosis
- The uses and abuses of visual diagnosis
- Understanding the Art of Seeing (Bo-Shin)
- Qualities of excess in skin colour and complexion
- Oriental Diagnosis Workshop
- Practical use face map
- Expression and Body Language
- Posture and Body Armouring
Principles and Practice of Health Coaching
- Orientation to coaching
- The principles of intentional listening
- Bridge building and motivation in healing
- Rules of the game, basic technique and inspiration
- An Ethical approach to Health Coaching
- The ethics of coaching
- Dealing with Medical Issues
- Making referrals
- Common traps and manipulations
- Leading Support Groups and Healing Circles
- Strategies for healing common health problems
- How to make safe adjustments in diet and lifestyle
- Establishing a health related business