Holistic Health Courses
Course prices vary based on length and topic. Individual and group rates available. Please contact us for more info...
Introduction to Holistic Health
This class shows you how the holistic approach can be used as a guide to designing a flexible care plan which may include medicinal plants, allopathic medicine, diet, research, emotions and many other factors. Basic information on identifying and choosing alternative diagnoses and therapies, creating lifestyle changes and monitoring progress. Includes unlimited access to research library.
Fertile Core Yoga Fusion
Learn some basic exercises to strengthen the feminine body, increase fertility, and improve the health of the pelvic organs.
Introduction to Medicinal Foods
Learn the healing properties of the foods in your kitchen, how to create a basic medicinal diet and how to prepare customized medicinal meals.
Creating Body Products at Home
Learn the relationship between the skin and the products we choose. Learn to make some simple products that your body will love.
Introduction to Curanderismo
Curanderismo describes the health care traditions of Latin America, including European, Indigenous, African and Asian roots. This class describes the basic principles which create a common thread amongst diverse healing practices. Topics include diagnosis and treatments, spirituality, relationship to elements of nature and cultural survival. The class will prepare students for the advanced learning experiences below.
Herbalism in Costa Rica
Get to know some of the most important medicinal plants in Central America in the Hidden Garden. Learn how local folk medicine integrates herbology into daily life and which principles determine the correct use of the plants. We will discuss harvesting, preparations, doses and the realities of preserving Latin American herbology.
Tour of the Bri Bri Indigenous Reserve
Visit the family of Don Ricardo, local medicine man in the village of Cachabri, and learn first-hand about tribal relationships between the rainforest and medicine, survival, architecture and artwork. Includes a medicinal plant walk, traditional meal, homestead tour and cultural exchange. This all-day tour is physically challenging – bring your water bottle, rain gear, repellant and snacks. Lots of fun and very beautiful!
Shamanic Voyage
Join author Jane Segleau-Earle in a unique course involving both academic explanation and profound hands-on experience. The course teaches ancient meditation techniques which have been used to diagnosis, to create healing of oneself or others, and more. We recommend maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle the 1 ½ days of the course.
Sweat Lodge
Discover the amazing healing powers of the temascal – a sweat lodge as practiced by the Mexica (Aztec). The ceremony promotes healing of the self, the community and the planet through communing with nature, purifying heat and non-denominational prayer. Participants in the ceremony will work all day in the traditional construction of the lodge and the collection of all the elements – including firewood and large rocks.
