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.

The IMS’s professional training is divided into three parts:

• Year 1 – Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year (foundational studies).
• Year 2 – Health Coach Year (qualify in three healing arts – Health Coach, Whole Foods Chef & Wellbeing Shiatsu).
• Year 3 – Macrobiotic Health Consultant Year (qualify as an accredited Macrobiotic Health Consultant & Medicinal Cook)

The dual purpose of this first year is to support our students in creating a solid understanding of their own health and healing needs whilst simultaneously allowing them to step into creating a new career.

This is an exciting year where you can expect to experience changes in your own physical and emotional health. This is the first of two years to qualify as a Health Coach, Whole Foods Chef and a Wellbeing Shiatsu Practitioner. It is also a pre-requisite for those wanting to go on to become a Macrobiotic Health Consultant.

Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

What You’ll Get

At the end of the Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year you will receive a Certificate showing that you have studied macrobiotic approaches to health and healing, macrobiotic cooking, Do-in exercise and the meridian system, listening and basic emotional supportive skills.

Continuing onto the Health Coach Year you will gain professional qualifications in three healing arts – as a Health Coach, Whole Food Chef and Wellbeing Shiatsu Practitioner. We then have a Macrobiotic Health Consultant Year giving a very thorough training in giving individual health consultations to help people recover from a very wide range of illnesses and problems, and give deep life guidance.

After gaining qualifications from the school at the end of the second and third year courses, you can gain accreditation with the Macrobiotic Association and enter its professional register.

In 2018 the International Macrobiotic School had its training and assessments ratified by the Macrobiotic Association. This means that its second and third year graduates are exempted from the Macrobiotic Association theory and cooking exams, and only need to sit an interview.

Why Study Macrobiotics & Oriental Medicine with IMS?

• We use a person-centred approach with an emphasis on embodied nutrition and the health and deep transformation of our students.
• Solid, in-depth training and practice-oriented study leading to confident and successful practitioners.
• We keep our student numbers small to guarantee high quality care, support and mentoring to support students in their personal growth, learning and professional development.
• We offer a transformative, holistic approach which includes the study of life on a physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual level.
• Excellent advanced & post graduate studies for continuous professional development.
• Flexible, lifelong learning with options to study online or in person.

You will be taught by a team of teachers led by Oliver Cowmeadow who has over 40 years experience of teaching as well as guiding thousands of students and clients towards greater health and is one of the country’s leading practitioners of macrobiotics. Find out more about Oliver and the other teachers for this course here.

Other members of the team have all studied the full training at the school, and have gained wide practical experience through their own professional practice.

Prerequisites for IMS’s Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

The main requirement is a basic knowledge of macrobiotics and an enthusiasm for studying and practising this holistic approach to eating and living.

If you are not familiar with macrobiotics, please take a look at our home study course Macrobiotics Made Easy. This will give you a simple idea of what macrobiotics is about. If you purchase this course and decide to go on to join the Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year course, you will get the full £95 deducted from your course fees.

Holistic Nutrition & Cooking Year

Course times, fees & booking

Timings

Next residential course runs from April 2025 to December 2025 (course code 04.25.1)

Next online/intensive will begin in February 2025 (course code 02.25.1).

Fees

We are offering bursaries of £500 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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