COURSE CONTENT

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YEAR ONE

Philosophy

• Covering the central theories of George Ohsawa and Michio Kushi which provide the basis of macrobiotic studies.
• The human energetic constitution, including central channel, chakras, meridians and subtle bodies.

Health Studies

• The causes of illness within a person’s diet, lifestyle, emotions, self-beliefs and life path.
• Using yin and yang and Five Transformation theories to understand common health imbalances and remedies.
• Basic practice in interviewing clients.

Diagnosis

• Study of 4 methods of oriental diagnosis, visual, listening, questioning and touch, including facial and sclera diagnosis, the hands, feet and hair.

Cooking

• Using Five Transformation theory to cook seasonally for specific imbalances and health conditions.
• Cooking for men, women, children, older people and families.

Bodywork

• Use of meridian system for diagnosis and treatment of health imbalances.

Western Medicine

• Basic anatomy and physiology of the main bodily systems and organs.
• Basic Western nutrition.

Emotional Healing

• Relation between food and emotions.
• Fundamental skills of listening well and emotional counselling.
• Developing awareness of own emotional patterns, their causes and how to transform them.

Physical & Energetic Exercises