Mindful Meditation Facilitator Online Program Certificate of Excellence – 100 Hours Online Program Courses – What’s this? This 100-hour online Certificate of Excellence will allow students to explore various meditation techniques, reframe their understanding of meditation, practice mindful meditation, and cultivate the skills necessary to guide clients through mindful meditation. Start Dates Online October 30, 2023 February 26, 2024 Serving as a mindful meditation facilitator offers a unique opportunity to support others in discovering their personal doorway into meditation and ultimately, into presence. You will learn about deepening your personal meditation practice holding space through conscious connecting, developing language that invites permission and safety, incorporating guided meditation scripts into client sessions, and following your intuitive intelligence to guide clients through meditation. Our certificate of excellence programs are avocational, and these courses/programs are designed exclusively for personal or professional development and enhancement. Establish a formal mindfulness practice Develop ability to recognize … Read More
Become A Holistic Health and Wellness Coach Onlinewith a Concentration in Holistic Nutrition Diploma – 755 hours – Tuition Program Courses – What’s this? The Holistic Health and Wellness Coaching diploma program is for individuals who are motivated to lead healthier lives, be centered in their wellness, and inspire others to do the same through a career in Health and Wellness Coaching with a concentration in Nutrition. There are many routes that a career in Health and Wellness coaching can take you. We have got your back and will help provide the tools to create a realistic and complete business plan that is unique to your vision. Whether it is your passion for nutrition, helping others, or starting your own business, the Holistic Health & Wellness Coach Diploma program offers it all! Start Dates Online June 17, 2024 Deadline to Enroll by June 7, 2024 What is a Health & … Read More
Spiritual Coach & Celebrant Specialty Certificate of Excellence – 200 hour Online – Tuition Program Courses – What’s this? Choosing to serve as a Spiritual Coach or Celebrant gives you the opportunity to serve people in a powerful way during the important milestones of their lives and the lives of their families, such as births, weddings, sicknesses, and transitions. Our curriculum is not based on dogma or any prescribed doctrine; rather, it’s designed to help you explore your own Oneness with life, and prepare you to help others embrace their divinity. Through this certificate, you will: Explore a variety of spiritual traditions Consider the concepts of mysticism Learn to practice mindfulness and how to teach others to do the same Create ceremony and sacred space Understand the duties of a minister Explore how to coach clients through death, dying, and hospice Graduates of this program may choose to become ordained … Read More
Program Courses – 100 Hour – What’s this? To be mindful means to be aware, moment-to-moment, of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment. By earning a Certificate of Excellence in this program, you will learn the importance of acceptance without judgement, while staying engaged in the present moment and not rehashing the past or fearing the future. As a facilitator, you will have the competency to lead another person through a series of specific meditation and mindfulness practices proven to help reduce “brain chatter” through breath and skilled, guided imagery. Become a ‘Breath Coach and Mindfulness Facilitator (MF). Start Dates Online March 7, 2022 Mindful Meditation Facilitator Certificate of Excellence – 100 hour Online Program Courses (Online) – What’s this? What is being “mindful”? In this certificate program you will learn what it means to be aware, moment-to-moment of every day, watching your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, … Read More
Welcome to Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA). Our mission is to inspire individuals to discover their gifts and graces, and support them as they share their talents with the world in a loving and profitable way. Learn to touch lives, heal bodies and free souls. Thank you for choosing our college as a path to following your dream of a fulfilling and lucrative career in holistic health and wellness. For more than twenty years, SWIHA has been providing the highest quality education in a vast variety of healing arts. We know that more than half of our new students enroll based on recommendations from our former students. We invite you to schedule a tour and discover why our students and alumni can’t wait to spread the word! Connect with an Admissions Coach Core Values – Essence of SWIHA OUR MISSION Our Mission is to inspire individuals to discover their … Read More
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Being a holistic entrepreneur means there is no separation between your love, life, work and spirituality. It’s a way of life that lends to serving in whatever capacity you’re living in that very moment. It’s diving into that path that makes your heart sing; your Divine calling. The realization that you want more than to be a human doing, but to live in your truth as a human Being. Holistic Living is Trending The holistic way of living seems to be hitting mainstream more than ever. Have you noticed how many of the big brand names have started incorporating motivational saying and quotes into their branding? More people are seeing that the typical 9-5 and living for the weekend is no longer status quo. We’re stepping into living lives that are more aware and more present than ever before. It as if we’re replacing T.G.I.F. with T.G.I.Today! I see more … Read More
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By Dee McCaffrey Nutrition is a big buzz word these days. Nearly every week we hear about the newly discovered health benefits of whole foods or the harmful effects of denatured processed foods. From the heart-protective antioxidants in grapes and dark chocolate, to the cancer-causing downside of refined sugar, our national awareness of the role food plays in our health is on the rise. Healthy food has gone mainstream, yet personal health is still a mystery to many people. It’s no secret that the Standard American Diet, appropriately acronymed SAD, is the worst diet humans can engage in; it has created a health crisis unlike anything seen in human history. Within the last 100 years, we have gone from growing, harvesting, and preparing our own food with our own hands, to mass producing concoctions that are made in laboratories. In the name of progress, we have blindly and tragically denounced … Read More
By Jenna Zizzo After a shocking and heart-wrenching break up, Tory Dube knew she needed to find methods for self-soothing. She felt that the only way to heal her wounded heart was to try meditation. However, instead of reading a meditation book or downloading the latest meditation app on her smart phone, Tory decided to embark on a nine day meditation retreat in the Bahamas. While on her retreat, she heard a doctor by the name of Joe Dispenza share about the science behind quantam physics and positive psychology. Once she heard about positive psychology, Tory was immediately enamored and knew it was something she wanted to pursue. The moment she returned to her home in New York City she rushed to the computer and searched for psychology programs. She found Southwest Institute of Healing Arts’ (SWIHA) Online Associates of Mind Body Transformational Psychology program, and within a month’s time … Read More
By Guest Blogger Laura Barnes Life Coaching is a dynamic process of purposeful empowerment that sparks transformational change. Life Coaching develops trust through the journey inward. A masterful Life Coach helps you to listen and receive information from deep within and to trust and then act on that information. Life Coaching requires a journey inward. This encourages a sense of rigorously honest confidence and authenticity that is rooted in trusting and believing in you. For this journey inward, a masterful Life Coach will use a portfolio of artful coaching tools and techniques such as meditation, visualization, mantras, affirmations, the development of mindfulness, music, sounds and frequencies, colors, prayer, breathing techniques, empathy development, storytelling, signs and symbols, body awareness, dreams, archetypes, developing creativity and much more to awaken the mind. These tools and techniques essentially help to de-clutter, calm and quiet the mind so that you can tune out all the … Read More
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Every year, about 45 percent of Americans make a New Year’s resolution. It’s safe to assume that of that number, many people make resolutions concerning dieting and eating healthy. However, there’s a more holistic, intuitive method for maintaining weight and eating healthy. This year we invite you to reach your nutrition, food, and even weight loss goals by eating and cooking intuitively. Make 2015 the year to get away from dieting and discover intuitive eating! To begin, let’s examine a few definitions related to intuitive eating: Intuitive: Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive. Conscious: Aware of and responding to one’s surroundings; awake. Mindful: Conscious or aware of something. Cooking: The practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients. Intuitive Cooking: With these definitions, we define Intuitive Cooking as: Being aware and conscious in the practice of preparing … Read More