SWIHA has so much to offer! Tour Our Campus Visit our campus in Tempe on Southern and McClintock to experience our tranquil student massage clinic, state-of-the-art teaching kitchen, entrepreneurial business center, bookstore and more! You can also schedule a Q&A with one of our Admissions Coaches. Email us at info@swiha.edu. 4-hour Guest Pass Be our guest in an on campus class! Complimentary & commitment-free. Call student services at (480) 994-9244 for available opportunities and to request your pass. click to view our digital class calendar click to view our upcoming classes Gifts and Graces Monthly Event You’re invited to enjoy an evening with our conscious commUNITY. Every first Friday, a keynote speaker shares a meaningful presentation, followed by complimentary mini-sessions of Life Coaching, Reiki, Toe Reading and more! Visit our Events Calendar for more information. Connect With Us View and register for our upcoming educational Webinars or Open Houses. Follow … Read More
SWIHA invites people from all walks of life to learn and grow both personally and professionally through our courses. Whether you are a massage therapist, reflexologist, hypnotherapist, life coach, or energy worker who wants to complete CEUs to meet the requirements of your profession OR simply a seeker at heart looking to take the next step in your personal journey, we welcome you! SWIHA offers a wide range of classes to help you meet necessary license requirements. Our Massage Therapy courses range from 4 to 60 credit hours and include Aromatherapy, Cranial Unwinding, Medical Massage, Myofascial, Myotherapy, Polarity, *Reflexology, Reiki, Breast Health, Corporate Chair, Stretching Your Client, and more. Many of these classes are approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). We also offer several online CEU courses for out-of-state students or those who desire the flexibility of online study. *Final approval of Massage CEU … Read More
Posted on May 6, 2016 by Brian -
- Posted by Brian - Tags: Become a Hypnotherapist, Car Yoga, Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Yoga Teacher, Hypnotherapist, Lightworker, Meditation, Mind Body Wellness, Mindful Breathing, Reiki, self love, Sound Healing, yoga, Yoga Teacher Training
When it comes to discovering Southwest Institute for Healing Arts (SWIHA), Antonieta Hensley has Google to thank! “After I saw all the courses, programs, and classes they offered, I was sold. It sounded like a temple or a mystery school available in the states and I knew it was calling for me before I ever stepped foot on the school grounds.” Antonieta graduated from the 600-hour Mind Body Wellness Practitioner program. She also went through the Yoga Teaching Training, Transformational Life Coaching, and Hypnotherapy programs. She went on to share how her time at SWIHA dramatically changed her life for the better: “The laws of attraction, eastern philosophies, energetic body healing, taboo subjects, and spirituality have always fascinated me. But that is only about 10% of what the school has to offer. It surpasses your expectations on both what you can learn and whom you can meet. There is no … Read More
Posted on May 6, 2016 by Brian -
- Posted by Brian - Tags: Body, Cactus Flower, Dr. Edward Bach, Floral Essences, flower essences, Gong, Great Graduate, Mind, Saguaro, Saguaro Flower, Sound Healing, Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Spirit, Therapeutic Effects, Vibrational Energy, yoga
With the saguaro cacti in bloom, I am reminded of the very first floral essence I created. It was a memorable experience that produced a potent brew! I’d love to share my story with you: First of all, I am a Cactus Whisperer. I have had a connection with plants my entire life. It’s a gift that was given to me by my mother. Since I love plants so much, I took the Flower Essence Course at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in July of 2014. I loved the class and bemoaned the fact that I would have to wait almost a year to create a flower essence from my favorite of all cacti, the saguaro, since their blooming season is in the April-May time frame. Before I continue with my story, you might be wondering what a flower essence is. A lot of people mistakenly believe that flower … Read More
‘This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home’ is a rhyme we hear as children, playfully explaining the significance of each toe. While the elementary explanation may be a little nebulous, the concept that each toe represents something is true from the point of view of reflexology. Reflexology is a natural healing art based on the principle that there are reflex points in the feet, hands, and ears which directly correspond to every part and organ of the body. Through application of pressure on these reflex points by a skilled practitioner’s hands, along with the use of tools, lotions and aromatherapy, tension and dis-ease can be relieved or eliminated. Practices resembling reflexology can be traced as far back as 2450 BC to ancient petroglyphs on the walls of an Egyptian tomb. In fact, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, wrote about the curative effects of this modality. … Read More
Posted on April 20, 2016 by Brian -
- Posted by Brian - Tags: Ayurveda, Certified Massage Therapist, cranial unwinding, energy healing, Great Graduates, holistic, Hypnotherapy, Life Coaching, mind body spirit, myofascial, reflexology, Reiki, Reiki master, Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, spiritual Studies, spirituality, SWIHA, transformational, western herbalism
After retiring from the Air Force and moving back to Arizona, Tom Kreienbrink found the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) through a Facebook friend. Throughout the duration of his Air Force career, Tom was in Graphic Arts and Multimedia, and for the last 10 years he was in leadership and management positions. “I worked in a design position for FEMA in Washington D.C. for a few years after retiring from the Air Force. Bottom line – I was ready to get out of the ‘rat race,’ and when I found SWIHA it was the second career I’d been waiting for.” Tom shared how he’s always had a passion for learning about natural healing methods, nutrition, energy, and spirituality. “When I started studying at SWIHA, I found it was a school that offered practical holistic modalities and techniques that I could take out into the world and help people in … Read More
We have all lived through the following scenario or something similar: You wake up in the morning and are well rested, refreshed, and ready to start your day. You happily get ready and you might even sing along to the songs playing on the radio while driving in your car. You are in a wonderful mood and feel as if you are on top of the world. You get to work and head to your desk. All of a sudden your supervisor comes over and hands you a mountain of work along with a deadline that seems impossible to reach. As you go through the mountain of work and complete the assignments, you feel as though maybe you will make the deadline after all. However, after lunch your supervisor comes to tell you that your work is mediocre and needs to be redone. But you know that you did your … Read More
Growing up as an only child with a single mother, Quintin McCain has seen his fair share of struggle. He candidly shares how he chose to hang out with gangsters in his adolescent years. As a result, Quentin found himself involved in activities ranging from selling drugs to carrying weapons. Although Quentin attended four different high schools, he succeeded in completing his high school diploma. At the age of eighteen, he fell asleep at the wheel of this vehicle and crashed into a light pole, leaving him with a broken femur, fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and a new lease on life. It was this unexpected incident that helped him to realize he was put on this earth for a reason—to change the world for the better. The next event that forever impacted Quentin’s life was the birth of his beautiful daughter, Alyssa. Upon her birth, Quentin vowed to be … Read More
Posted on March 29, 2016 by Brian -
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It took Lindsey Gemme a few years of mulling over what she wanted to do with her life before officially starting in the Holistic Nutrition Specialist program at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA). She discovered SWIHA while on her original search for a school to study herbalism. Once she explored all of the degrees and certificate offered at the college she was in love. “SWIHA had programs for all of the healing disciplines I was interested in: Herbalism, Yoga, Reiki, and even Nutrition.” After choosing to specialize in nutrition, she chose to take the Transformational Life Coach program as well, realizing how hand-in-hand coaching and holistic nutrition go. Like so many people before her, Lindsey declares that SWIHA felt like home. “Whenever you walk into SWIHA, you feel like you’ve come home because you know you are among your ‘tribe’ of like-minded people. There is such a feeling … Read More
As a recent Great Graduate from the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA), I was a bit nervous about getting my first client for a flower essence session. It all started when a client learned about my services online and wanted a spiritual reading. As the reading began to unfold, Spirit shared some spiritual visions and insights that wowed the client. It was very clear that she was a ‘Lightworker’ who had gotten out of touch with her true spiritual self. I asked her if she had ever heard of flower essence and she said “no, however, I’m open and willing to try them.” It was the perfect opportunity to explain what flower essence was and how it worked. Therefore, I mailed her flower essence brochure to share with her all about flower essence, how it worked, and the type of flower essence services we offered at our healing center. … Read More