Introduction in Holistic Medicine & Lifestyle Science Certification
Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science
This immersive 10-week program brings together neuroscience and Chinese medicine to illuminate what both fields recognize as the roots of chronic disease. Nervous system dysregulation manifests as a co-occurring cascade—emotional volatility, anxiety, sleep disruption, and digestive issues often arise alongside systemic inflammation, metabolic shifts, immune suppression, chronic pain, and cardiac strain. What appear as separate conditions are, in fact, interconnected expressions of systemic imbalance shaped by your nervous system state.While Western medicine often addresses these as disorders requiring different specialists, you'll trace how your neurophysiological state creates cascading effects across every aspect of health.
This integrative lens clarifies why the foundations of Chinese medicine—long attuned to patterns and relationships—offer insights that contemporary science is now validating. Through experiential learning, embodied practices, and cross-disciplinary insights, you’ll gain tools to understand and shift your physiological state, supporting healing that reaches every system.You’ll also examine how health depends on the body’s capacity to absorb nourishment and eliminate waste—physically, emotionally, and energetically.
Program Format
• Dates: October 5 – December 14, 2025
• Schedule: 10 sessions, Sundays 3–6 PM Mountain Time
• Location: In person (Boulder, CO) or live online
• Certification: Holistic Medicine & Lifestyle Sciences Level One
Tuition & Application
• Tuition: $2,600
• Apply: Please fill out the form below
Enrollment is limited. Early application encouraged.
Your Nervous System as a Gateway
Guided by practitioners specializing in nervous system regulation and Chinese medicine, this program teaches you to better discern, then refine communication across your body’s microecosystems. This program introduces principles of Holistic Medicine & Lifestyle Sciences through nutrition, five-element theory, breathing practices, and other practical behavioral approaches that address symptoms by targeting their shared roots.
Rather than managing problems separately, you'll develop skills to support biological adaptability, cultivating your nervous system’s resilience and coherence, and reframing your relationship with health—from symptom management toward understanding the body as an integrated whole: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. You’ll engage with emerging research on mitochondria, the interstitium, and other developing areas of interest.
Curriculum Overview
This is a comprehensive, practice-based program designed to deepen both personal insight and professional skill.
The nervous system orchestrates holistic health—coordinating responses across multiple body systems while shaping how we perceive reality and form relationships.
When functioning optimally, it creates physiological alignment. When dysregulated, it can undermine physical health, distort perception, strain relationships, and limit what feels possible.
This course introduces the nervous system as a primary site of healing. You'll learn essential tools to recognize when anxiety has become normalized in your daily life and when you've learned to override or ignore your body's signals.
Through this work, you’ll investigate how your responses to pressure, ambiguity, and vulnerability can be shifted over time. From this awareness, you'll build capacity for adaptive modulation—supporting more fluid energy flow and more strategic responses.
Our approach focuses on the slow restoration of dynamic equilibrium—within the body, across relationships, and in your broader life. As you develop the skills to attune your neurobiological state with understanding and precision, this work naturally invites deep, lasting healing. Physical health, emotional clarity, and relational depth naturally align, clearing the way to sustained transformation and growth in personal and professional contexts.
Complementary Pathways to Healing
In addition to conceptual frameworks, this certification emphasizes experiential learning through clinical observation and diagnostic practice. Students engage with diverse tools that support core physiological functions and emotional steadiness. You’ll investigate how the body’s energy flows—from circadian rhythms and constitutional nutrition to seasonal meal planning, breathwork, longevity movements, and nature-based therapies. In addition to these frameworks, clinical practices drawn from NHMTR (Neuro Hydro Muscular Tissue Repair) support activation of the body’s innate healing intelligence.
The Holistic Medicine and Lifestyle Sciences program invites students to reshape internal patterns and external conditions in service of lasting change. The curriculum bridges biological sciences with ancient systems, equipping students to apply holistic strategies within intimate, clinical, and organizational settings. We introduce each modality with care and precision, fostering durable insight into integrative practice.
Our guiding philosophy: healing ourselves creates the conditions to more skillfully support healing in others.
Core Learning Outcomes
Clinical Competencies
• Integrate foundational Chinese medicine diagnostic skills in constitutional assessment through yin/yang, five-element, and 6 levels theories
• Identify principles to support interstitium and mitochondrial health
• Begin recognizing nervous system patterns, enabling more comprehensive interventions than only treating separate diagnoses
• Navigate activated states and handle them more skillfully, leading to increased effectiveness in challenging clinical and personal situations
• Discern how nervous system dysregulation can ripple throughout the body's interconnected systems—enabling more comprehensive interventions than treating separate diagnoses
• Understand how emotions impact different functions of the body, organs, and energy flow—bridging nervous system science with Chinese medicine
Professional Development
• Acquire holistic assessment tools that address the nervous system as the master coordinator of health
• Develop core methods for nervous system regulation using breath work, movement, and lifestyle interventions—creating measurable improvements in stress resilience and recovery
• Obtain a toolkit of practices to maintain a calm, alert presence during high-intensity personal and professional encounters, enhancing your effectiveness in challenging clinical and personal situations
• Bridge ancient wisdom with modern science in understanding how central nervous system health drives total wellness
Personal Transformation
• Cultivate self-compassion, the evidence-based cornerstone for optimal health outcomes
• Discover your biological systems' capacity for resilience and regulation, to open pathways to sustained wellbeing across all biological systems
• Identify patterns in your responses to pressure, ambiguity, and vulnerability, creating an awareness that enables choice
• Transform your relationship with negative patterns to foster healthier habit formation
Embodied Integration
• Experience initial shifts as nervous system coherence influences balance across all aspects of the human experience
• Build somatic awareness techniques to recognize how regulatory system states influence health and function
• Apply constitutional nutrition principles—including eating in harmony with seasons, energetic properties of food, and cultural influences—to support sustained energy and digestive health
• Establish fundamental strategies for nurturing nervous system vitality
Faculty
Michelle Thomson
A specialist in nervous system regulation, Michelle synthesizes neuroscience, somatic practice, and
interdisciplinary frameworks to show how physiological patterns shape perception, emotion, and behavior—and how they can be consciously shifted. Through this foundational study, students strengthen regulatory capacity, clinical discernment, and relational depth, engaging interoceptive awareness as one of several pathways. Her frameworks lay the groundwork for coherence across physical, emotional, and interpersonal systems, supporting adaptability in both personal and professional contexts.
Michelle is the founder of
Clear Ripple LLC.
Soha Kushitama
A practitioner of classical Chinese medicine, Soha integrates 15 years of clinical experience, NHMTR- Neuro Hydro Molecular Tissue Repair, and seasonal attunement to restore coherence across body systems. In this program, she guides students in applying foundational frameworks—including five-element theory, yin/yang dynamics, and six-level systems—to support physiological balance and whole-body healing. She equips students to engage these classical principles through experiential learning, cultivating grounded clinical insight and diagnostic clarity.
