OUR INSPIRING & DYNAMIC
HOLISTIC HEALTH COUNSELING PROGRAM:

The Academy’s Holistic Health Counseling Program is the only program of its kind to feature Hands-On Classes with Top Gourmet Chefs and Alternative Health Practitioners. Dynamic Educational Seminars focus on our well-crafted curriculum, and are taught by our inspiring, dedicated Faculty of Instructors. In addition, we provide our students with AHN’s Signature Workbooks and CD-ROMS. Available only to Academy students, these one-of-a-kind, extensively-researched tools will provide you with hundreds of pages of easy-to-reference diagnoses, remedies and recipes to support you both academically and professionally.

AHN EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS

Deepen your knowledge of healing foods with our enlightening, informative seminars. Learn the principles of Chinese Medicine. Understand the healing wisdom of Food Energetics and Five Element Theory. Discover the ancient intelligence of Ayurveda. Small class size ensures lively discussion and detailed instruction. Our comprehensive workbooks, study guides, and self-guided tests will enable you to master the information at your own pace.

AHN Seminar topics:
Longevity Diet Concepts * Characteristics of Traditional Diets * East/West Comparison: Diet Principles * Yin and Yang Classification * Five Element Theory: Flavor and Related Organs * Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory and Practice * The Doctrine of Signatures * Food Energetics * Temperature, Moisture, Rhythm, and Energetic Direction of Foods * Qi Energy * Jing * Heteropathic Approach to Food Balancing * Behavioral Impacts of Food * Dietary Therapy * Exploring Digestion * Ayurvedic Diet Principals *Conditions of Health * The Four Deficiencies * The Seven Emotions * Organs and Major Pathologies * Patterns of Deficiency and Excess * Acid/Akaline Balance * Healing Foods for Common Ailments * Home Remedies

LONGEVITY DIET COOKING CLASSES

What we put into our bodies has a direct impact on the quality—and longevity—of our lives.

No effective nutritional training program would be complete without practical cooking classes. That’s why we’ve designed our curriculum to include a full 4 weekends of culinary practice with healing foods. Whole-body experience is the only true way to integrate healing dietary change into your life and into the lives of your clients.

Our world-renowned natural foods gourmet chefs will teach you skill and technique for using the Longevity Diet. Discover how to prepare delicious, nourishing foods and experience their healing effects. Learn how to combine Chinese Herbs with Food Energetics to create strong revitalizing medicine for the body. Master the skills you’ll use to nourish yourself and others.

Upon graduation, our students receive a comprehensive CD-Rom, based on decades of cooking classes. You will have at your finger tips hundreds of recipes from dozens of faculty members. Also included are special medicinal preparations for numerous aliments, home remedies and herbal tonics, all ready for you to print out as part of your nutritional coaching program.

Longevity Diet Cooking Class Topics:
Dietary Guidelines and Dangers * Food Selection and Preparation * Proper Preparation of Grains and Seeds * Seasonal Menu Planning * Knife Skills * The Truth about Fats and Oils * The Whole Soy Story * Cooking with Sea Vegetables * Tofu and Tempeh * Strengthening Soups and Stocks * Kitchen Pharmacy * Rejuvenating Tonics and Teas * The Incredible Edible Egg * Cleanse, Detox and Rebuild * Lacto- Fermentation * Fortifying Breakfast Recipes * Cooking with Grains and Legumes* Health Supportive Animal Foods *Probiotic Foods and Recipes * Wholesome Desserts *

TRAINING IN MIND/BODY TECHNIQUES

Health can be defined as a state of balance and harmony in body and mind. Illness, in contrast, arises when mind and body have fallen out of balance.

Expand your knowledge and skills in the holistic methods which bring balance to the whole self. Experience the meditative techniques which will empower you to enrich your overall sense of wellbeing. Learn body-centered practices which will help strengthen the food-body-spirit connection. Discover safe, effective, mind/body techniques to share with your clients.

Mind/Body Topics:
Tibetan Tai Chi * Tao Philosphy* Ayurvedic Cleansing Techniques * Empty Mind * Waking the Tiger * Energy and Spirals * Chakra Energy * Do-In Exercise Program * Ginger Oil Treatment * Moxa Treatments * Shiatsu Massage* Aromatherapy * Hot & Cold Compresses * Healing Meditations * Bath Therapy * Yogic Breath * Visualization * Affirmations *

COUNSELING AND DIAGNOSTIC SKILLS

"By observing myself— others and their diseases are revealed to me. By observing symptoms, one gathers knowledge about internal disturbances."
—Nei Ching, Ancient Chinese Text of Internal Medicine.

Learn time-tested counseling and interviewing skills to use with your clients. Discover intriguing diagnostic tools which will help you pinpoint the best actions to facilitate healing. Develop the skills to diagnose any state of energy. Understand a person’s state of health by looking at face, hands, and tongue. Detailed discussion, self-guided tests, field practice, and course materials will enable you to master and practice these effective techniques.

AHN Counseling and Diagnostic topics:
Learning to Assess Your Own Condition * Conditions of Health * Signs and Symptoms: The Four Examinations * Oriental Diagnosis and Health Assessment * Dietary Assessment Techniques * Tongue Diagnosis * The Bodily Landscape * Eight Traditional Questions* Eight Patterns * Ayurvedic Assessment * Ayurvedic Counseling Techniques * 9 Star Qi Personality Types * Goal Setting and Action Planning * Spiritual Intelligence Counseling * Establishing Rapport *

AHN CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Life is a transformative process -- a process of cultivation, experience and refinement.

The Academy prioritizes career development for its graduates, and will provide you with the necessary tools to give you a head start in the field. You will develop a realistic, successful business plan which will form the foundation of your practice. Field practice will give you experience in refining the techniques you’ll use with your clients. Our workbooks and CD Roms will supply you with practical tools to start your coaching practice. Our mentorship program will provide you with inspirational guidance and support.

Upon completion of the Academy’s Holistic Health Counseling Program, you will receive certification to practice as a Holistic Health Counselor. In addition, you will qualify to obtain accreditation from the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and from other associations around the world.

AHN Career Development Topics:
Creating Your Mission Statement * Dream Maps * Creating Life Vision * Defining your Business Identity * Right Livelihood* Marketing Strategies * Promotion * Signature Stories * Goal Setting *Elements of a Marketing Package * The 30-second Elevator Speech * Pricing Strategies * How to Turn a Contact into a Client * How to Attract and Retain Clientele *

BUILDING YOUR PRACTICE

There’s never been a better time to practice Healing Nutrition.

As a Holistic Health Counselor, you will build your own distinct practice, grounded in your own unique talents, creativity, and knowledge. You will be qualified to counsel your clients in the powerful practices which will bring them sustained good health and energy. Additionally, you will offer your clients encouraging motivation in their transition to the Longevity Diet, support in dismantling negative habits, and guidance in soul-nurturing life-style techniques. Specific services you might decide to offer include:

• A Complete Dietary Assessment and Personalized Health Plan
• Healing Recipes and Remedies for: Mood, Focus, Energy, Beauty, PMS, Menopause, IBS, Arthritis, Asthma, Diabetes, Weight Loss, Cravings, Candida, Cancer Prevention, Insomnia, Allergies, Skin Ailments, and more.
• Menu Planning Techniques
• Cooking Demonstrations
• Powerpoint Demonstrations
• Group Workshops
• Health Food Store Tours
• Kitchen Detox
• Nutrition Information and Resources

AHN Topics and Tools for Practice Building:
Elements of a 3/6/9-month Coaching Program * How to Build and SustainYour Practice * How to Create an Effective Counseling Relationship * Counselor/Client Relationships * Establishing Rapport * Client Record Forms * Worksheets * Client Questionnaires * Legal Disclaimers * Hundreds of Recipes * Meal Plans * Access to Healing Recipes, Home Remedies and Natural Prescriptions * Online Support* More than 1000 pages of Resource Material

AHN SIGNATURE WORKBOOKS AND CD ROMS

Central and unique to our Holistic Health Counseling Program are our extensively-researched and detailed workbooks and cds – available only to Academy students and graduates. These powerful tools include powerpoint presentations, a detailed medical reference, hundreds of healing recipes, and business and client forms. Students will receive:

AHN Workbooks and CDs
Longevity Diet Concepts * Oriental Diagnosis and Health Assessment * Natural Healing: Chinese Herbs and Home Remedies * Health Conditions Reference Guide CD * Graduates Only Licensed CD: Healthy Recipes & Tonics, Counseling Forms, and Powerpoint Presentations

WHY LEARN THE LONGEVITY DIET?

• Synergy. What we put into our bodies has a direct impact on the quality—and longevity—of our lives. When we change our diet, we change everything. Therein lies the essence of Healing Nutrition.

• Food is a powerful vehicle for transformation. Our food choices affect our ability to maintain a healthy body weight, prevent and recover from illness, and regulate our moods. A balanced diet promotes balance in mind, body and spirit.

• Body/mind therapies are always most effective when diet and lifestyle changes are made.

• Food Energetics recognizes that a great deal of our nourishment comes from the inherent Energy, or Chi, of Food.  With this knowledge, we can make informed choices about the foods we select. When we eat food which is filled with Chi-Energy -- fresh, brightly colored, organically grown food, appropriate for our energetic state -- we achieve real nourishment. By opening our awareness to the gifts of the unified, intelligent consciousness, we open ourselves to true healing.

• Liberate yourself and others from dependence on over-the-counter drugs. Learn how to use foods and natural healing techniques instead of antacids, aspirin, antibiotics, laxatives, and more. Discover low cost ways to deal with headaches, fevers, colds, digestive distress and many other conditions.

• Create an optimum level of health and mental clarity so you can direct your energy towards the realization of our dreams.

• Enhance your intuitive response towards eating and decision making.

• The Academy of Healing Nutrition offers students the potential to revitalize the aspects of modern society afflicted by psychological, physical, and spiritual degeneration. You will be empowered with this knowledge to take leadership positions in your community for the protection and enhancement of our environment.

• Be part of the growing trend towards Natural Traditional Medicine.

Developing a positive Mental Attitude and Open-Hearted Centeredness

"The diseases of our time are often due to a lack of wisdom in crucial areas of our life. Deep healing integrates diet, exercise, rest and relaxation, and a good mental attitude.

Practically, this means open-mindedness, flexibility, focus and follow-through. This means a sense of un-attachment, humor and laughter at the paradox of life. Exercises of mind, meditation, and self-reflection are part of the healthy maintenance of life essence.

Whether we realize it or not, our destiny is in our own hands. Many great thinkers say that man has reached a critical point in our evolution. So let us be grateful to have been born into this age, and accept its great problems with excitement, for it offers great challenges and potentialities for development and fulfillment more than any time in history."
  —Roger Green, Program Director

"The Academy of Healing Nutrition program presents something a little different to that of the "modern world." Instead of complexity, we offer simplicity; instead of the artificial, we stress the natural; instead of just the analytical, we offer the universal.

Our purpose is to unite the scientific knowledge that modern man has acquired with the intuitive knowledge of the universe that humanity once enjoyed. The synthesis of these antagonistic, yet complementary, ways of life can bring about a true Golden Age of humankind.

The essence of this approach has existed for thousands of years. It is based upon restoring the connections we all have deep inside and providing a comprehensive viewpoint to observe the cycles of nature and the changes around us.

Without an awareness of this relationship, it is futile to speak of medicine and healing.

"Deep healing brings us into a world where the unity of nature and the individual is brought into consciousness. The path to the state of graceful being is discovered through the release of our innate creativity and respect of life - it is a path that awakens us to the call of our true potential. Healing is never an isolated event; it doesn't occur in only one dimension of our being or affect only one part of our lives. New patterns of thoughts and actions, which are productive of health, allow old patterns to dissolve."
—William Tara, educator, author and faculty member

This koan is pure insight. The author is asking, what is your relationship to the Universe? Indeed, what is the self? Is the self separate from the Universe? Is your sickness something that is separate from you?

Waking the Tiger within you

Waking the Tiger is an ancient eastern technique that helps to activate a persons innate healing abilities. Waking the Tiger is a call to attention, in what direction is your life going, and what purpose does it serve? It is a Kundalini spark-awakening, where all the forces of nature, mind, and universal 'charge' merge into a feeling of oneness. The ancient sages of the East call this your original form, your primordial spirit. Anti-aging is the psychology of these moments.  There is a focus on the original you—young at heart, the world as your oyster, the twinkle in your eye when you talk of your ideals and enthusiasm to make effective change in the world. Looking within yourself with love to quickly release limiting habits and addictions.

"We come into the world naked. We are then schooled, fed, and clothed and loved and sometimes mistreated. We contain a memory of all of these experiences. Some make us grow, others can make us blocked. We all have the seed of deep vitality and long life. We all have the seed of enlightenment, clear and precise thinking and open-hearted intuition. Like a plant, this seed can grow if the soil and other conditions are right. Our body needs to be like the roots, and our mind like the leaves. Our mind is infinite, boundless in its imaginative depths. Our mind is also a trap. A trap to illusions, materialism and despair. We get caught up in opinions, likes and dislikes, and all other dualities of life. We can get caught to the point where the sun does not shine any more. That's sad. And that is attachment. The Ancient Taoist Sages of the EAST, had many teachings on the conquest of the mind."
—Roger Green, Program Director

These teachings can be summarized as follows:

• You are the universe
• You are constantly changing whether you like it or not
• In terms of Energy- there is order, rhythm, and proportion that make all energy shareable in the universe.
• Our tendency is towards expansion once we have been born into this body/mind incarnate.
• Life is a transformative process -- a process of cultivation, experience and refinement
• Life a process of unpacking, we naturally progress from a physical form to a vibrating form -- some call this immortality -- successful dying, infinite, God, Awakening.
 

KNOW YOURSELF

Self-knowledge is an awareness of one's motivations, intentions, pursuits, urges, cravings, escapes, avoidances. To avoid such awareness is to be ignorant of the mind's movement. This movement cannot really be ignored because it is disturbance, after all, which motivates the self to seek relief. Relief comes in the guise of security, which strengthens the craving for permanency.

Creativity comes into being the moment you empty your consciousness of the contents of itself!

Relationships. How have your past three intimate relationships progressed or disintegrated? These patterns represent your inner conditioning and your attachments. Loving and forgiving ourselves and others is the key to inner peace.

Learning about mirrors. You are a mirror. If the image in the form of reflection is smudged, a cloudy picture will appear. If there is the daily washing of the soiled clothes, you and your stuff, you can stay clean. The mirror will be clean when it comes time to act as a reflector. Your job is to act as an exemplary mirror! If you cannot look into your own mirror, which must be clean, you will never be effective

Meditation stills, focuses, and calms the mind. When you are balanced and harmonious within yourself, your 'being' is clear, aware, awake in quietude, and accurate in action. In this way you can respond to the endless changes in the world.

Learning about dying. When you inhale, you are taking in new life. When you exhale, you are letting go of that which has died. Breathing in and breathing out are the living and the dying. They go together -- they are not separate. Breath is a unified process -- the moment you understand this deeply within yourself, you have learned that living and dying are not separate.

Aims of Self Awareness

• Understand the Nature of the Mind
• Develop the Powers of the Mind
• Re-vitalie the Mind
• Develop Calm and Focus of the Mind
• Celebrate the Emptiness of the Mind
• Develop the Bliss of the Mind
• Tap into the Pulse of Life
• Discover the Power and Rhythm of the Universe
• Take the Path towards Unity

A famous Taoist Koan that we use in class every year. (Modified)

Learn how to die everyday! Live your life as a dead person!

Dead people are very RELAXED!!

And they have no attachments!!!

Koan
A temple flag was flapping in the wind.
Two monks were arguing about it.
One said that the flag was moving.
The other one said that the wind was moving.
Arguing back and forth they could come to no agreement.

The Sixth Patriarch said:

"It is neither the wind nor the flag.
But it is your minds that are moving."
The two monks were astonished!

The Sky above and the Earth below are the mind and body of the human being linked together by the heart. One is not independent of the other. There is in fact, no separation between them. Healing requires an awareness of this relationship. It is the principle of all native, indigenous and natural healing methods.  This is the path of the shaman, the medicine man, the wise woman, the midwife, the herbalist, the body worker, the truth seeker, the Natural Health practitioner

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