Our Featured Program:

Holistic Health & Wellness Coach    View More Information  
This program offers a unique balance of Holistic Nutrition, Health and Wellness Coaching, Mindfulness courses, and Entrepreneurial courses to support you with taking your learning out into the world. You will get to choose either a focus of Mindful Meditation Facilitator or Whole Food Culinary Specialist to compliment your personal vision. Our NBHWC accredited and approved program will also help prepare you to take the certification exam to become a certified Health & Wellness Coach through NBHWC.

Our next start dates:
Online - August 21, 2023
Deadline to Enroll by August 11, 2023

Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner   View More Information  
Learn to help others through major life transitions utilizing various mind-body-spirit healing modalities. Our online and on-campus diploma options offer foundational courses in business development, entrepreneurship, and transpersonal psychology with customizable elective specialties that let YOU choose your own path of service.

780-hour Online Diploma Program specialty options: Advanced Professional Hypnotherapy, Spiritual Coach & Healing Botanicals & Earth Ceremonies, and Spiritual Coach & End of Life Doula

750-hour On-Campus Diploma Program specialty Options: Health and Wellness Coach with Nutrition and Urban Farming Focus, Yoga Focus, Spiritual Transformation Focus, Advanced Hypnotherapy Focus

Our next start dates:
Online – July 17, 2023
On Campus – September 6, 2023

Massage Training Programs   View More Information  
Choose a Track: Ayurvedic Bodywork or Therapeutic
For nearly three decades, Southwest Institute of Healing Arts has trained massage therapists for a variety of successful career paths. While SWIHA teaches all of the core competencies required of classically educated massage therapists, we also offer you the flexibility to choose what works best for you. Options include two comprehensive tracks — the Therapeutic track and our Ayurvedic Bodywork track. Whether you feel called to study massage on a full-time or a part-time basis, you’ll find a program at SWIHA that fits your needs and schedule.

Our next start dates:
Morning - June 5, 2023
Evening - July 17, 2023

Western Herbalism Program   View More Information  
This career-oriented curriculum gives you the opportunity to experience every aspect of plant medicine from seed to sale. Our programs will enhance your connection to nature from an intuitive, spiritual and energetic interpretation, as well as, from the Phytochemical science-focused view. You’ll learn to make herbal medicinal remedies in class, while studying the theories supporting the curative formulations.

Our next start dates:
On Campus - October 4,2023
We offer a 745 hour Diploma and a 100 hour Certificate of Excellence

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts has been training holistic practitioners for thirty years. From our humble beginnings as a massage school, we have blossomed into an award-winning, nationally accredited, conscious college community with online and on-campus programs at our beautiful Tempe, Arizona, campus. Our unique, tailored offerings include training in Holistic Nutrition, Health and Wellness Coaching, Hypnotherapy, Mind-Body Wellness, Western Herbalism, Yoga Teacher Training, and much more. Our diploma and degree programs offer you the opportunity to choose concentrations and electives that fit your unique vision for serving as a holistic practitioner.

We are committed to giving our students the skills and confidence to pursue holistic entrepreneurship and build a myriad of opportunities in the wellness industry. Our Success Center, offers lifetime entrepreneurial support, business mentoring, and access to our on-campus business lab. We are also one of the largest approved providers of Massage Therapy Continuing Education (CEUs) in the country. We offer Aromatherapy, Breast Health, Canine Massage, Cranial Unwinding, Deep Tissue Massage, Fibromyalgia Therapy, Medical Massage, Myotherapy, Polarity, Reflexology, Reiki, and much more. Click to explore our various programs.