Our Featured Program:

Discover Massage Therapy with Advanced Polarity Specialist   View More Information  
Polarity supports Massage Therapists in understanding their clients’ underlying patterns and allows the Massage Therapist to access deeper states of release and rejuvenation by treating both the energy body and physical body. These modalities give language and skills to support emotional processes and long term healing and physical transformation. Polarity + Massage is a complete system of healing modern stress and dysregulated living.

Our next start dates:
Evening - January 19, 2021
Morning - March 1, 2021

Western Herbalism Program   View More Information  
We offer a special 745 hour career-oriented curriculum that gives you the opportunity to experience every aspect of plant medicine from seed to sale. This program will enhance your connection with nature and plants 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 - January 6, 2021

Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner   View More Information  
Learn to help others optimize their well-being and become empowered to make healthier choices with cutting edge insights from the intersection of allopathic and integrative approaches to healing. 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.

Our next start dates:
On Campus – January 15, 2021
Online – January 18, 2021

Hypnotherapy   View More Information  
Hypnotherapy is a powerful way to help others make major life changes! Consider training to be a Professional Hypnotherapist. Study and mentor with Linda Bennett, an awarding winning instructor and the Hypnotherapy Program Director. Our nationally accredited program will prepare to serve others in a loving and profitable way.

Our next start dates:
On Campus - January 22, 2021
Online - February 22, 2021

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts has been training holistic practitioners for over twenty-five years. From our humble beginnings as a massage school, we have blossomed into an award-winning, nationally accredited, conscious college community with online and in-person programs at our beautiful Tempe, Arizona, campus. Our unique, tailored offerings include training in Holistic Nutrition, Life 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 also one of the largest approved providers of Massage Therapy Continuing Education (CEUs) in the country. Our classes refine our students’ existing massage therapy skills and aid them in expanding the services available to their clients. We offer Aromatherapy, Baby Touch, 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.

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts is honored to be affiliated with respected organizations such as the American Herbalists Guild, the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists (NATH), Yoga Alliance (YA) and the American Board of Hypnotherapy (ABH). We are accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET) and approved by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE). Click to view our Awards and Accreditations.

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. We pledge to be there every step of the way, supporting you on your journey to building a fruitful, sustainable, and profitable holistic wellness business with our Success Center, offering lifetime entrepreneurial support, business mentoring and access to our on campus business lab. Our Great Graduates use their gifts and new skills to serve the healing arts community in so many different ways – you could be next!

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