Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

Course Overview

This Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year course provides high quality training in holistic nutrition, physical and emotional healing and whole foods cooking. It includes the study of Oriental philosophy and medicine, body work, emotional healing and personal development and lots of cooking classes with a completion certificate.

This holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year is designed to give you a holistic approach to transforming your health and life for the better.  Holistic means looking at our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, and seeing how they are all connected.

We start teaching days with some simple Do-in excercises, including stretching and breathing, and working on the accupuncutre/shiatsu meridians of energy to nourish our organs and body.

We use Oriental medicine to understand how to increase health and heal many health problems, using the healing power of food and lifestyle medicine.  This includes losts of cooking classes, learinng how to prepare a wide range of delicious and colourful plant based dishes and meal plans.

We gently encourage emotional sharing in a safe space, and ways to release old unhelpful emotions, to create more lightness and joy.  We also encourage students to connect to their deeper self or 'soul', for guidance in becoming more of who we are and finding what we need to be doing in our lives.

This course will give you:

• A thorough understanding of how to improve your physical and emotional health.
• Many new cooking skills in preparing a wide varierty of plant based recipes.
• How to plan meals including breakfast, lunch and supper, plus snacks and party food!
• How to create balance in your food and lifestyle, to create internal balance and increased health.
• A foundation in Oriental medicine and self-health assessment techniques.
• Help you get in touch with your emotions and release old stuck limiting feelings and beliefs.
• Connect more strongly with your 'inner self' to get more in touch with your authentic being.

This is an exciting year where you can expect to experience changes in your own physical and emotional health. and if you decide you would like to train professionally you can go on to a secone year course to qualify as a Holistic Health Coach, Healing Chef and Wellbeing Shiatsu Practitioner.  Your studies can deepen in our third year Holistic Health Consultant course, enabling you to give in depth dietary and lifestyle guidance to help clients heal a wide range of health problems

Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

What You’ll Get

At the end of the Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year you will receive a Certificate in holisitc Healing and level 1 Healing Chef.  If you choose to go onto the second year course you will then qualify as a Holistic Health Coach and complete level 2 Healing Chef training

Why Study with the IMS?

• Courses have a maximum of 10 students so we can give each student plenty of personal guidance in their own personal health and development, and in learning many new skills.
• We are interested in you as people, guiding you in achieving your health goals and encouraging your personal growth.
• You will receive personal tutorials in small groups of 3 or 4 students throughout the course.
• You will learn how to take care of yourself physically and emotionally, healing many health problems, and preventing many more.
• Your teachers have many years experience of guiding clients and students towards greater health.  The school is led by Oliver Cowmeadow who has over 40 years experience of teaching and guiding thousands of students and clients towards greater health.  Found out more about and the other teachers on this course here.
• The school has it's own purpose built teaching kitchen, and accommodation in beautiful countryside of Devon, England.
• Choice of either fully residential, or mostly online learning.

Prerequisites for IMS’s Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

The main requirement is an enthusiasm for studying health and an appetite for making positive changese in your way of eating and living.  This is a very practical course, there's a lot of great theory but participating is very much about learning new ways of living yourself.

To find out more about the approach we use to Holistic Healing you can:

• Join a short course such as our very popular 5-Day Looking After Your Health course.
• Check out our wide video collection on our youtube channel.
• Download a Home Study course such as Macrobiotics Made Easy.
• Contact us for a free 20 minute chase with one of our teachers.

Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

Course times, fees & booking

Timings

Next residential course runs from July 2025 to March 2026 (course code 07.25.1)

Next online/intensive will begin in February 2026 (course code 02.26.1).  This course is mostly taught live online from February to July, and then with a residential at the school in Devon, uk for learning practical cooking and lifestyle skills.

Fees

We are offering bursaries of £750 for two people who would love to take up this course but would need assistance to do so, if you are interested in applying for one of these please contact us directly to discuss with a member of the team.

The course fee for the online/intensive is £2995.00, and for the residential course £3,900. A deposit of £750 is payable to secure your place. The course fee includes all teaching, course materials, small group tutorials, and three meals each day.

We frequently get couples, good friends, and sometimes mothers and daughters or sons joining our Foundation Year Course. To make this easier financially we offer a 25% reduction for the second person. This reduces the residential course fees for the second person from the usual fee of £3,900 to £2925, saving £975, with 10 monthly instalments of £222.50.

The Online/Intensive course fees drop from £2,995 to £2246.25, saving £937.50 with 10 monthly instalments of £154.62 (after paying your £750 deposit and adding a £50 administration fee for paying by instalments).

If you want to use this joint discount, please complete two application forms below for our Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year and contact the school office to ask for this discount.

Accommodation

We have three accommodation options on site, please email us to request accommodation and prices.

Course syllabus

Full Residential Course Details Full Online Course Details

Cancellation Policy

All courses and accommodation are subject to the school cancellation policy, which includes changing dates. Please click here for details before booking.

Apply or find out more

To secure your place, complete the Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year Application Form. If you’d like more information, or to arrange a meeting with a teacher before applying, don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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