The Course Directors & Teachers

This three year training has been designed and is largely taught by Oliver Cowmeadow and Marijke De Coninck with a team of other teachers and in the later stages of the training a variety of the most experienced international macrobiotic counsellors.

The main teachers for this course are Oliver Cowmeadow and Jean Netherway, who will be present every teaching module. Oliver has been studying, practising and teaching about macrobiotics since 1980, and is an experienced macrobiotic counsellor. He has written five books on macrobiotics and shiatsu, and has led work within the Macrobiotic Association of the UK in setting up training standards in macrobiotic healing arts. Jean began studying macrobiotics and shiatsu in 1991, has had a busy shiatsu practice and been teaching Oriental diagnosis and medicine and shiatsu in the Devon School of Shiatsu since 1995.
 
The cooking teaching will primarily be with Debbie Jansen, who has trained at the Holistic Cooking School. The western anatomy, physiology and pathology is taught by Keith Belliss, an experienced sports therapist and shiatsu practitioner who teaches AP&P widely in the south west, well known for his enthusiastic and easily understood approach.

Refer to the main teachers section for biography and photographs.