Holistic Health & Life Coaching

Our Holistic Health and Life Coaching Certification is a multi-dimensional course covering multiple aspects of the mind body and psyche. The Natural Wellness Academy offers a fully integrative approach to coaching – one that helps your clients align and integrate on many levels. Healing is a process, not an event. Our philosophy recognizes that healing must take place on all levels – body, mind and spirit.

This course not only gives you the practical applications and teaches you how to motivate others to improve their health and vitality, control their weight naturally, and reverse the aging process. The Holistic Health and Life Certificate will change your life even as you change lives.

Module 1: Body

Read Raw Fusion Living chapters, complete four intensive learning experience assignments, and participate in and respond to at least one relevant webinar. 50 hours.

Objectives:

• Learn a “food as medicine” approach to natural wellness.
• Define the major alimentary functions of macro- and micro-nutrients and identify their major food sources.
• Comprehend the assimilation of glucose in the cells and how sugar impacts the body.
• Analyze pH factor in foods and how acidity and alkalinity affect digestion and overall health.
• Identify sources of inflammation in the body, including food allergies and sensitivities.
• Examine the effects of food choices on physical fitness and health.
• Explore the pitfalls of nations’ food supply and how to distinguish sound nutritional data from unreliable nutritional information.
• Construct a foundation for wellness nutrition based on current scientific research.
• Analyze the role of diet in causing and preventing various diseases, particularly chronic and obesity- diseases.
• Recognize healthy diet and food choices, and explain why such choices will help prevent health problems.
• Employ techniques for improving metabolism and healthy mobility.
• Navigating mainstream supermarkets and health food stores and reading labels.

Module 2: Mind

Read Raw Fusion Living, A Year of Positive Habits and WIN! chapters, complete two intensive learning experience assignments, and participate in and respond to at least one relevant webinar. 25 hours.

Objectives:

• Explore the Laws of the Mind and structure of the brain.
• Design strategies and subconscious dynamics for stress management.
• Analyze the dynamics of a “neural hijacking” and how to prevent recurrences.
• Recognize appropriate behavioral change modifications and lifestyle approaches for different ages and populations.
• Examine the source of cravings and strategies for mindfully dealing with them.
• Identify how to reinforce positive lifestyle habits and behaviors via suggestion.
• Define your personal learning channel and learn how to identify and mirror your clients’ modalities.

Module 3: Spirit

Read Seat of the Soul and WIN! chapters, complete three intensive learning experience assignments, and participate in and respond to at least one relevant webinar. 30 hours.

Objectives:

• Discuss the principles and application of energy balance.
• Explore a variety of modalities for accessing Intuition and inner guidance.
• Practice techniques for setting intentions, meditation and visualization.
• Learn how to develop an Abundance Mentality and Life Makeover Strategy.

Module 4: Coaching Dynamics

Read Seat of the Soul and WIN! chapters and complete three intensive learning experience assignments. Participate in and respond to at least one relevant webinar 10 hours.

Objectives:

• Learn how to guide your client to his/her goals and how to define the coaching relationship
• Explore a variety of coaching strategies for improving yourself and helping others
• Discover the practical aspects of the coaching profession such as contracts, marketing and practice-building

Module 5: Workshop Webinar

Develop practical hands-on skills in food demonstrations, workshop development and presentation, and coaching applications. Includes 3 videos/webinars. 20 hours.

Objectives:

• Learn the essentials of the Raw Fusion Lifestyle, with preparation and sampling of a wide variety of nutritious delicious smoothies, snacks, salads, main meals and desserts.
• Explore “Raw Fusion Solution” alternatives for your favorite comfort foods.
• Blending, processing and dehydrating tips, techniques and tools.
• Practice strategies to increase nutritional viability in meals.
• Practice coaching dynamics and the coaching interview.
• Training on subconscious structure and suggestion-building.
• Experience a Wellness Workshop, an event that can be targeted to corporations, medical offices and facilities, associations and groups interested in healthy living and preventative care strategies.
• Practice the various elements of the Wellness Workshop with supervision.

Module 6: Final Project

Students demonstrate mastery of general holistic health and life coaching concepts as well as specialization in an area of interest. 15 hours.

Students will be provided with a list of possible directions they can take with their final project, but examples of projects include:

• Facilitate a Wellness Workshop for a non-profit organization or school, and write a report on the experience.
• Create a mini cookbook with original recipes and photos for a day’s worth of meals: smoothie, snack, salad, main meal and dessert.
• Develop a Healthy Living pilot program for your local gym or another organization.
• Author a book on addressing a need in the natural wellness community, such as compiling information specific to your local community or focusing on an under-covered topic.