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Prospectus

Professional training & self development courses Welcome to the International Macrobiotic School From our co-principals Oliver Cowmeadow and Marijke De Coninck

“On graduation it felt like the rest of my life was ready to unfold, I knew who I was and f you are reading this you are almost certainly wanting And now in the West we find ourselves facing crises of where I wanted to go, I am eternally grateful to to find greater health, wellbeing and fulfilment in your increasing health problems like diabetes and dementia, life, and may also be drawn to creating a new career environmental destruction, and global warming, and all who shared and facilitated this for me.” Iguiding others towards greater health and happiness. at the same time an explosion in interest in how we can all help ourselves and the planet through our own Suzy, Macrobiotic Health Consultant We both began our journey into Oriental medicine and actions. Both inner and outer problems are solved by philosophy independently in 1980, Oliver in eating a balanced plant-based diet of local and seasonal and Marijke in Belgium. We were both fascinated by foods, taking regular exercise and creating balance in the Oriental approach to life and health, with its deep our daily lives, transforming our limiting emotions and understanding of the rhythms of nature described by broadening our thinking to a larger world view. pages yin and yang, and its appreciation of the energetic and Contents spiritual nature of life. And along with this, some very Here at the International Macrobiotic School we and practical ways of living healthily by creating balance an excellent team of teachers, cooks and staff are in our food and everyday life, and by an attitude of passionate about bringing this knowledge of health Welcome to the International Macrobiotic School 3 openness to new learning and inner change. and change to our students, and out into society. We have welcomed students from more than 25 different Choosing a new career 4 – 5 We both went on to raise healthy families using countries, and love to support every one of them in macrobiotic principles, between us having 6 children finding their own health and wellbeing, and at the same and 5 grandchildren, and have helped thousands of time developing solid practical skills for helping others How we structure our courses 6 clients and students find greater health and meaning and building the career they desire. in their lives. In 2003 we came together, and created Cooking up a career in macrobiotics. What our graduates are doing 7 the unique 3 year macrobiotic cooking and health If you are intensely curious about the nature of life consulting training described in this prospectus. and health, are looking for a course to guide you in your own personal development, and would love to Who is attracted to studying with us? 8 – 9 help others reach their full potential for health and wellbeing, then please come and join us. Your personal development 10 We welcome you to visit us 11 How to find us 12 What is macrobiotics? Qualifications & professional accreditation 13 Macrobiotics came about as a modern interpretation of the traditional Oriental view of life and health, Course Dates and Enrolment 14 that spread through many western countries in the second half of the 20th century. While offering a large view of the nature of life, it also contains many simple guidelines on how balanced eating, 3 Our teachers and staff 15 activities, and inner healing can bring about lasting health and happiness. Choosing a new career

he school runs a 3 ½ year training and personal First Year Second Year Third Year development course. The Holistic Nutrition for - Holistic Nutrition for – Health Coach and - Macrobiotic Health Body & Soul first year course lays a foundation Body and Soul Wholefoods Cook Consultant and Medicinal Cook Tin a wide range of subjects, with a lot of personal development. Some people join this course primarily for year to immerse yourself in the rich teachings year to deepen your personal journey and eepen your own healing journey and learn to guide their own benefit, others join with the intention of taking Aof the East, transform your physical health, and Adevelop the skills to become a Wholefoods Cook Dothers holistically to greater physical, emotional and the whole 3 ½ years study to gain professional skills and go beyond your limiting emotions and beliefs to find and Health Coach offering in-depth dietary advice spiritual health with a holistic approach using changes start a new career. There are exams at the end of this greater freedom and happiness. and personal cooking tuition, shiatsu treatments and to diet, lifestyle, bodywork, compresses and release of limiting emotional patterns. year, and a First Year completion certificate. • The history and philosophy of macrobiotics emotional support. • Understanding the causes and healing of common • Causes and healing of many different health The Health Coach & Wholefoods Cook second year • The human energetic constitution including chakras problems in the cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, and meridians health problems in the digestive, circulatory, course goes more in depth, and while continuing to respiratory, and muscular systems and women’s health immune and lymphatic, reproductive and skeletal support students in developing their own physical • Four main methods of Oriental health diagnosis systems and special senses. • Cooking for all kinds of clients including baby food, and emotional health, also develops professional • Creating health with a balanced plant-based diet • Guidance on having a healthy pregnancy, birth cooking skills, cooking teaching and health coaching children and families, exclusion diets such as gluten- and lifestyle, exercise, emotional healing and spiritual free, low fibre and for Candidiasis. and breastfeeding, and helping with children’s health skills. Students will be giving cooking lessons and health connection problems • Preparing a range of traditional pickles and coaching sessions to the public throughout this course • The Five Element energies in nature and the human to build their professional skills. You will also learn to condiments • Helping those with depression, bipolar disorder, body, in our food and lifestyle severe anxiety and other mental problems give full body shiatsu treatments for general wellbeing • Balanced cooking to regain internal balance between and helping minor health problems. At the end of • Healing common health problems through changes yin and yang and the Five Elemental energies • Further Oriental methods of diagnosis to make in diet, lifestyle and emotional healing accurate health assessments this year there are practical and theory exams, and • Gourmet cooking for parties, weddings, and students graduate with a wholefoods cooking and health • Do-in exercises for the classical meridians including entertaining • Developing spiritual connection, and guiding others coaching qualification. breath work and meditation to contact their spiritual side • Advice for those wanting to lose or gain weight • How to set up and equip a kitchen for preparing • Using the Five Elements to design and cook specific At the end of this year some students start working macrobiotic food • Further study of traditional Oriental methods of healing diets professionally teaching cooking, catering for groups, health diagnosis • More than 20 cooking classes preparing a wide range • Shiatsu to help specific health problems giving health coaching sessions or shiatsu treatments, • Using the meridian system to give full body shiatsu of whole foods to make delicious, colourful and • Deeper study of western pathology building their new career. healing meals treatments • Deeper study of western anatomy, physiology and • Further study of western nutrition including looking The Health Consulting & Medicinal Cook third year • Cooking with the Five Element energies, including at other approaches to diet seasonal selection and cooking pathology course goes into a lot of depth on how to assist people • The relationship between emotions and with deeper healing, using food, compresses, medicinal • Foundation studies in western anatomy and • Further practice of emotional counselling skills, with a focus on releasing long held core patterns for particular health imbalances and illnesses, and drinks, emotional work, bodywork and life guidance. physiology supporting emotional release for greater health Students practice their Health Consulting and Medicinal deeper physical and emotional healing • Foundation studies in listening and emotional • Business skills on how to set up a successful Health Cooking skills throughout this year seeing clients at counselling skills • Using traditional compresses for a range of common home, under the supervision of school tutors. At the conditions Consultant and Medicinal Cook practice end of the Third Year course students have developed • Western nutrition including sources of all nutrients, very solid health counselling skills, and are able to move acid & alkaline, BMI straight into building a professional practice. • Business studies on how to set up a successful business catering, teaching cooking, health coaching This is a unique course, combining cooking for health, and giving shiatsu treatments physical and energetic exercises, study of human health and physical and emotional healing, all within a spiritual context. It is not a nutrition course, a cookery course, or a meditation or emotional therapy course, it is all of these!

“Offers by far the most in-depth training in macrobiotic counselling.” Michael Rossoff, world renowned macrobi- otics and acupuncture teacher

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Download further details on these courses at: www.macroschool.co.uk/macrobiotics/training-courses/professional-courses-offer-holistic-training/84 4 5 We enjoy supporting every student in their learning and in their personal journey towards greater health Cooking up a career in macrobiotics How we structure our courses Our graduates have created businesses, using their cooking, health coaching, teaching and health counselling skills. Here is what a few of them are up to.

Melanie Hubbard – yoga instructor, Anna Freedman – author of Pure Baby cooking teacher and Macrobiotic Health and founder of the cookery school Wholefood Consultant Hertfordshire. Harmony London. “The training offered at the International “I gained a rich experience with macrobiotics from Macrobiotic School provided a deeply held support the training at the International Macrobiotic School. structure for me to develop personally in order I immersed myself in the study of macrobiotics and to take this level of healing out in the world on a developed many skills, and found a great affinity with professional level. I now feel I have the roots to hold pure food and it’s creation, styling, teaching, menu and the wings to fly.” design, art of making balance and full flavours. The school enabled me to realise a path with natural food Melanie’s practice – Nourishing Life – includes teaching cuisine and expand health for many others, which is yoga, as well as working as a lifestyle coach and cooking hugely fulfilling for me.” teacher. She works with groups and individuals to inspire others to cook and enjoy delicious food based Wholefood Harmony offers personal or online training, on a natural diet. She also works at retreats in the as well as offering food and health coaching, public and South of France for people with cancer. private cookery courses and catering.

Gilly Webber – proprietor at bed and Suzy Saunders – runs a holistic wholefood breakfast Hut Therapy South Downs retreat centre which includes wholefood and macrobiotic cookery workshops “The school’s course revolutionised my approach Lake District. to food, which leaves my guests smiling after they “On graduation it felt like the rest of my life was have left the table. At the school, I was helped ready to unfold, I knew who I was and where I to reconnect and live my life in a healthier, more wanted to go. Since then it just keeps unfolding from Length of courses Live practice authentic way. The philosophical teachings, specifically this firm foundation. the 12 macrobiotic principles, have given me a much Our courses are the longest in Europe, with the whole During the second and third year courses, the school broader context with which to live life, to view change “I have created my dream of being able to offer a place three year training consisting of 101 days of teaching runs a clinic with members of the public coming in as a force for good (rather than fear) and have given where people can come and learn how to empower and 110 days of structured home study. The First Year to receive personal Health Coaching, cooking lessons me the tools for living a bigger, more fulfilled life.” themselves by caring and cooking in a holistic way. I am course is over 9 months, the Second Year course over or Health Consultations under the supervision of living my dream.” 12 months, and the Third Year course over 16 months tutors. Volunteers are also asked into specific classes Hut Therapy is an unusual B&B serving macrobiotic to give time for deeper personal development and skills to receive health consultations from course teachers quality wholefood at East Chiltington, a hamlet at Sunny Brow Holistic Retreat is in the heart of the training to a high standard. observed by the student group. Students find these real the foot of the South Downs in the South Downs South Lake District, offering holistic holidays in life sessions extremely interesting, confidence building, National Park. converted barns, a selection of retreats, and a heart and great learning opportunities. opening space for special ceremonies such as weddings, Modular and intensive formats naming ceremonies and other key life events. Since 2005 each year course has consisted of 7 to Romy Franke – runs cooking classes, 10 modules spread 6 to 8 weeks apart. This gives a pop up macrobiotic restaurant, and offers Home practice macrobiotic chef, Health time for students to practice their cooking and other personal Macrobiotic Consultations Penarth. Bini Sharman – skills between modules, and use Do-in exercises, These are an essential part of learning, and mostly Consultant and Shiatsu therapist “My studies and training with the International meditation, food energetics and emotional healing involve developing your practical skills in cooking School of Macrobiotics was life changing, expanding “Coming from a background as a chef, this training themselves. This has worked well in giving time for for yourself and other people, developing your my horizons and consciousness for the world programme helped to expand my repertoire in personal development and in learning professional interviewing and Oriental diagnosis skills with real around me. holistic vegan cooking. I discovered tremendous skills, creating rounded, experienced practitioners, and people, giving Health Coaching and Macrobiotic Health Consultations on the public, and cooking for people variety in cooking with whole foods, learning how to we recommend you join our modular courses if this is “The course training addresses many areas of life, with particular health issues. You receive feedback on all use every bean, grain, and protein that exists. I also possible for you. way beyond eating habits, more about making healthy this homework, to help you in honing your knowledge enjoyed mastering the art of making quality vegan life style choices to live a wholesome, fulfilled life. Since 2018 we have also been offering an intensive and skills. sweets and treats. Be prepared to find out who you truly are. A very format, to make it easier for students from afar to empowering programme that helps you to make “On a more personal level, I was also able to connect reduce travel costs and sometimes to ease visa Time is also needed for students’ own personal your own life choices and trains you to support other more with who I am, and discover my talents.” applications. Each year course will be divided into development, the training courses are not just an people to do the same.” 10 -14 day intensives. intellectual study of how to help other people, but a Bini is currently the school’s kitchen manager and works practical study of health and life. If we are going to truly Romy also offers one to one cooking sessions, as one of the school’s two chefs, as well as running a assist other people with their healing, then we need to demonstrations and themed cooking classes. popular vegan pop-up restaurant nearby. She also offers Small tutorial groups be fully engaged in our own healing journey. holistic health retreats in France and the Netherlands, Many students find themselves totally transformed by and is retreat chef at Puyssentut centre for people In all the year courses, students receive personal dealing with or recovering from cancer. tutorial sessions within a small group. Students find studying with us. We include emotional healing as part these very useful in getting more personal guidance of our holistic approach, so students need to be open for this. It is fine if you are new to emotional work. on their learning and with their personal physical and More than 70% of our graduates are using their emotional health. By applying all that you are learning to your own health studies professionally. and life, you learn to “walk your talk”, and develop the If you are passionate personal experiences that make you a much more “ about health, food, and helping Variety each module or intensive effective practitioner. Each day begins with Do-in, breathing exercises, others, create a career that meditation, shiatsu or other practical work. The rest of the day there are practical classes in cooking, follows your passion” Oriental health diagnosis, theory classes, and personal 6 development classes. 7 Who is attracted to studying with us?

A very empowering eople join our first year Holistic Nutrition for take our highly acclaimed Looking After Your Health 5 “ Body and Soul course for a variety of reasons, day course, which will give you everything you need to programme that helps you to some love cooking but want to learn a food start practicing this way of cooking, eating and living. make your own life choices Penergetics approach to cooking healthy food, others want to study nutrition from a holistic point of Please read through the Course Details for our and trains you to support other view that includes lifestyle and emotions, others are courses, and if you want to join then send in an excited by a holistic approach that connects our food application form for the first year Holistic Nutrition people to do the same.” for Body and Soul course. We will then contact you to and how it is cooked with our minds and emotions, Romy, Macrobiotic Health Consultant lifestyle and exercise. arrange a face to face or internet video interview, to check that the course is the right thing for you and that This course gains from the essentially holistic nature you will be able to fully participate in and benefit from of the traditional Oriental view of life and health, that the whole year course. sees everything as connected, and all aspects of human life as affecting all other aspects. It takes time, study and We do not need students to have particular academic practice to gain experience in how to gain physical, qualifications, and if help is needed with the study of emotional, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing, subjects like western nutrition, we will guide you on and this is why our full course is 3 ½ years. This will how to do this. give you enough to keep applying in your own life and We have have many students from the EU, and also in helping others for many years! from the Middle East, north Africa and the Americas, Some people come wanting to make big changes in but you will need to have a way of obtaining a visa their own lives and health, and learn to better look yourself to make trips to the UK to study. If you live after the health of their children and loved ones. outside the EU, the UK government has unfortunately made it very expensive for us to help with getting We have students coming from all over Europe, the student visas. You may find it easier to come for short Middle East & north Africa, as this is a unique course. periods on our Intensive format courses. Please contact We have had over 25 different nationalities, with an age the school for further information on visas. range of 20 to 65 years old. This breadth of age and culture greatly enriches the course environment. We do accept students who have studied at other schools onto our second and third year courses. We ask students to take the previous year’s final exams, and Entrance requirements it may be necessary to complete a short preliminary The main requirement is an enthusiasm for studying course to cover subjects taught in the IMS but not and practicing our holistic approach to eating and living, yet studied by the student. If this applies to you please and a desire to guide others on their healing path. You contact the school to discuss. need to have tried out the macrobiotic approach to All teaching is in English, if this is not your first language healing and living to make sure this is the right path for you need to be able to write and talk to a sufficient you. This could be by studying yourself from books or level to be able to communicate easily with other other materials, at other training centres, or with our students and teachers. short self-help courses. If you are not familiar with an Oriental or macrobiotic approach please come and

“The course was my haven and inspiration. Such an important part of the course was shifting emotional blocks and letting the teachings sink deeper. ” Melanie, Macrobiotic Health Consultant

8 9 Your personal development We welcome you to visit us

ur training courses have a dual purpose, to Many students go through deep and healing changes train excellent cooks, teachers and health during the training in their physical health, emotional practitioners, and to support every student in wellbeing, and spiritual connection. Some heal long Otheir personal development of health and happiness. standing health problems, others have emotional These two aims are in fact different sides of the same breakthroughs, and all experience an increase in their coin – to fully appreciate the ways of healing we are health and wellbeing. teaching a person needs to experiment with using them his or herself. And on the other hand to become If you have not engaged in ‘personal development’ or a mature practitioner you need to have walked further looked into your emotions much before, please do on the healing path than your clients. not worry, we will guide you on your personal journey from the beginning. We accept the place that each Therefore time is allocated on all our courses to person starts, in and with gentle encouragement offer support students in making healthy choices in their diet ways of discovering more of who you are and how to and lifestyle, in breaking limiting emotional patterns, break old limiting emotions or thoughts to experience and in connecting to the greater world of energy (Ki or more energy and aliveness. Chi) and spirit. We are therefore looking for students who are committed to their own personal development, and to becoming more alive, finding greater happiness, connection and purpose in their lives. “Macrobiotics offers a grounded and commonsense way for anyone to become the creator of a full and healthy life…”

efore committing to study on our training courses, some students like to come and visit the school Love Health Love Cooking and talk to staff and students. We are very 2 day course Bhappy to welcome you in this way, and it is possible An introduction to the benefits of balanced plant- to do the interview with the school principal Oliver based eating, and lots of hands-on cooking learning Cowmeadow at the same time. There are several ways new colourful, delicious and nourishing dishes. of visiting:

Volunteer to come and assist one of our cooks Looking After Your Health catering on courses. For more details email 5 day course [email protected] An in-depth intensive course giving everything you need to make big changes in your diet, health, and Or come for lunch and meet the staff and students approach to life. As well as 10 mostly hands on cooking during a course – contact the office to arrange. classes, you will learn traditional Oriental diagnosis to understand your health in more depth, and will leave Or come on one of our short 1 to 5 day courses with a personal healthy eating and living plan. to find out more about our approach to healthy living: Please check our website for latest dates and a full description of these courses. One Day Courses On a wide variety of subjects – check our website for latest courses.

“Holistic in the true sense of the word, a wonderful overall approach to counselling, health, healing and the meaning of life.” Dekyi, Health Coach 10 11 How to find us Qualifications & professional accreditation

he school is located in beautiful Devonshire Travelling by air countryside, offering a peaceful retreat and study The closest airports with national and international space, with its own on site accommodation and flights are Bristol and Exeter. There is a train service Tpurpose built teaching kitchen. It is 5 miles from the from these cities to . town of Totnes, which has a good train service, and 5 miles from the A38 dual carriageway running from Travelling by car Exeter to . The school is 10 minutes from the A38 dual Travelling by train carriageway running between Exeter and Plymouth. Detailed directions can be found on our website. Totnes railway station is on a main line with direct trains from London (3 hours), Bristol (1 ½ hours) Birmingham (3 hours) and the north of England, and Exeter (½ hour).

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“There are few courses that offer such a thorough, holistic approach to nutrition t the end of the first year Holistic Nutrition for Body and Soul course, students are awarded Funding your studies and lifestyle.” a Completion Certificate on completing all After paying a deposit, the course fees can be paid all Acourse work. At the end of the second year Health in one, or in monthly instalments. Students travelling Celia, Macrobiotic Health Consultant and Coach and Wholefoods Cook course students gain by train can obtain a student rail card to reduce Cooking Teacher a diploma as a Macrobiotic Cook & Health Coach. travel costs. On completing the third year Health Consultant Some students fund the course from their existing and Medicinal Cook course students are awarded work (our courses are part-time), some from savings a diploma as a Macrobiotic Health Consultant and or support from their family. Other students have Medicinal Cook. gained some funds from charities. After graduating from the Second Year course you can There are also government backed Career apply to the Macrobiotic Association UK to become Development Loans, which can cover one or two years accredited as a Macrobiotic Cook & Health Coach of work-related study before you need to start paying and join their professional register. On graduating from the loan back. Students have used these to help pay the the Third Year you can apply for accreditation as a First and Second Year course fees, or Second and Third Macrobiotic Health Consultant and Medicinal Cook. Year fees. You need to be resident in the UK, and can The Macrobiotic Association UK can accredit get full details from www.gov.uk/career-development- practitioners living overseas. There are also steps being loans/overview. taken to create a European wide accreditation system. Some students have also starting using their First and Second Year studies to help finance their Third Postgraduate courses Year course. The school runs Advanced and Postgraduate level courses with world class teachers, to help you further your learning and practice of macrobiotics and macrobiotic cooking, health counselling and shiatsu. International Macrobiotic School Please look at our website for latest courses. “Since qualifying I Murtwell House regularly return to the school for Diptford further support and advanced Totnes TQ9 7NQ training from some of the UK most experienced international +44 (0)1803 762598 teachers.” 12 Sarah, Macrobiotic Health Consultant and 13 Cooking Teacher Course Dates and Enrolment Our teachers and staff

CO-PRINCIPALS Oliver Cowmeadow Marijke De Coninck B.Sc., PGCE, MRSS, MC Marijke began her studies of macrobiotics, Oki yoga and natural healing in 1980, and ran her own Oliver began his study of Oriental medicine, educational centre in Belgium for several decades. macrobiotics and shiatsu in 1980 at the dawn of She gained a strong reputation as an insightful and complementary approaches to health in Europe, inspirational teacher and health counsellor, and has his teachers including Michio and Aveline Kushi and helped thousands of people transform their health Shizuko Yamamoto. In the 1990’s he studied emotional and lives. counselling, which he often uses alongside Oriental medicine, and now brings 35 years of experience to She is a mother to four grown up children and his teaching and health counselling. grandmother to five, and has a tremendous knowledge on having a healthy pregnancy and birth, and on baby In 1985 Oliver founded one of the first shiatsu schools and child care. She has guided many mothers during in the UK, training hundreds of practitioners over the their pregnancies and baby care on creating better next 3 decades. In 2003 he and Marijke founded the health and wellbeing for themselves and their children. International Macrobiotic School, to offer the same high standards of education and in-depth training for Famous for her macrobiotic cooking classes in Belgium, macrobiotic practitioners. Marijke also specialises in medicinal cooking, helping people’s deep healing and recovery from illness, and Oliver initiated the setting up of professional has written two cookbooks with her daughter. Tine, accreditation within the Macrobiotic Association UK, together they run they run Avalonhouve macrobiotic has written five books on macrobiotics and shiatsu, education center in Belgium. and continues his passion of empowering many people in taking greater care of their own health and lives. Modular Courses How to enrol Each year course has seven to nine 4–6 day modules o enrol on our first year Holistic Nutrition for Body REGULAR TEACHERS spread over the year. Tand Soul course, download the Course Details from our website. These contain a lot of detailed information. Emma Cunis Bini Sharman We start a First Year course every year in either If after reading them this feels like the right course for October or March. Students can then go onto join a you, fill in the application form at the back and either BA Hons, M.Sc, MCC Bini is a macrobiotic chef, counsellor, and shiatsu following Second Year course, and then a following Third scan and email to us together with a photo of yourself, Emma is an inspiring teacher, Health Consultant and therapist. Running her own business, she supports Year course. Please look on our website for the latest or post to the school. The school principal Oliver practitioner of macrobiotics. Having transformed individuals and groups that want to make healthy dates and fees of these courses. Cowmeadow will then contact you to arrange a time her own health and life, Emma feels passionately changes in their lives, by offering a combination of for a face to face interview. If you live at a great distance about offering the same opportunity to others. She wholesome cooking, coaching and shiatsu treatments. the interview can be on internet video using Skype. previously worked in corporate businesses in London, Intensive Courses New York and Hong Kong for 20 years. . The interview is to ensure that joining our course is These courses have longer periods of study from 9 to Suzanne Uren the right thing for you at this time, that you can fully 14 days, with supported study between intensives, so Dip. Counsel participate in the whole course, and the way is clear for fewer trips are needed to the school. you to complete the course successfully. This is also a Nicky Clinch Suzanne teaches on womens’ emotional and spiritual A First Year starts each year in either April or good time for you to ask any questions you have about Nicky is a dynamic and inspiring teacher, Health health. She has been working as a counsellor and September/October. Students can then go onto join the school and your participation in its courses. Consultant and chef, and a passionate advocate shamanic healer and energy therapist for 25 years, an Intensive Second Year course, followed an Intensive for the importance of holistic self-healthcare and having completed a four-year diploma in counselling If you have studied in other places and want to join our Third Year course. Further details of current dates and personal development. As well as teaching, Nicky runs and three years of shamanic training. She believes that Second or Third Year courses, please contact the school fees can be found on our website. her own thriving business in London and teaches her the self discovery of this inter- connectedness within to discuss how this can happen. own six-week course. us to what is outside is a deeply empowering healing.

Lara Holmes Keith Belliss BA Hons B.Sc (Hons) Sports Science, Dip Shi Lara is a macrobiotic Health Consultant, cook and Keith teaches the western anatomy, physiology The empowerment and enthusiastic teacher, with a caring and nurturing and pathology on our courses. He first trained in “ approach to her cooking and teaching. Sport Science, and has been working at a physical self awareness I gained during She has worked with holistic healthcare for many rehabilitation centre since 1990. Keith studied Shiatsu these years have made me a years at Neal’s Yard Remedies in Exeter where she at the Devon School of Shiatsu, and now has a also gives health consultations. private practice. His teaching is renowned for being new, happier person. It is a life lively and easily understood. changing programme!” Kirsty Hurd-Thomas Silvia, Macrobiotic Health Consultant, Chef and Food Styler Dip Shi, MRSS Kirsty teaches Do-in and shiatsu, and has a background in drama and movement work and has been practising VISITING TEACHERS INCLUDE body-based work all of her adult life. These practices continue to include contact dance, five rhythms, Anna Mackenzie, Download more details movement of being and Qi-gong. As well as her private Viviane Van Dyck and practice and teaching, Kirsty works for a detox retreat 14 where she offers Shiatsu and abdominal treatments. Michael Rossoff. 15 www.macroschool.co.uk/macrobiotics/training-courses/professional-courses-offer-holistic-training/84 International Macrobiotic School Murtwell House Diptford Totnes TQ9 7NQ, UK www. macroschool.co.uk www.facebook.com/Macroschool international_macro_school

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