Introduction to Holistic Medicine & Lifestyle Science Certification
Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science
This certification teaches beginning foundations of Holistic Medicine rooted in Chinese Medicine and Lifestyle Science to provide students with practical applications and tools to apply in daily personal and professional settings. The main objective is to provide a curriculum that offers hands on experience in areas of constitutional nutrition, theory of five elements, yin yang theory, 6 level theory, circadian clock, foundations of energy flow, longevity movements, nature therapy, meditation, and basic understanding of Chinese diagnosis through clinical observations, intake, and assessment.
Integration of NHMTR, biological sciences, and clinical studies are integrated to offer effective strategies promoting a more balanced harmonious and sustainable state of well-being. Mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health are all addressed in this course by offering functional tools that help to increase organ functions, healthier circulation of blood, lymph, and energy, mental clarity, regulation of hormones, restorative sleep, strong digestion and elimination.
Program Format
• Dates: February 8th, 15th, 22nd, March 1st, 8th, 29th, April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
• Schedule: 10 sessions, Sundays 3:30–6:30 PM Mountain Time
• Location: In person
• Certification: Holistic Medicine & Lifestyle Sciences Level One
Tuition & Application
• Tuition: $650 ($500 for additional family members/friends)
• Apply: Please fill out the form below
Enrollment is limited. Early application encouraged.
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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
• Learn basic understanding of Chinese diagnosis through clinical observations, intake, and assessment
• Display a basic knowledge of Yin-Yang theory & 6 levels theory through assessment, diagnosis and application
• 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
• Understand how emotions impact different functions of the body, organs, and energy flow—bridging nervous system science with Chinese medicine
• Explore the origins of Qi and how to access innate gifts in order to promote health, harmony and longevity to ourselves and beyond
Professional Development
• Acquire holistic assessment tools that address the nervous system as the master coordinator of health
• Learn how emotions impact different functions of the body, organs, and energy flow in the body. Students will learn how to integrate breathing techniques, essential oils, meditation, ancient longevity movements, & NHMTR to promote releasing
physical, emotional, and spiritual blockages in the body
• 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
• Learn how to bridge biological sciences with ancient holistic practices
Personal Transformation
• Build a strong foundation on how to disrupt negative patterns, reset and form new effective healthier habits
• Learn the foundations of five element theory and be introduced to the generating and controlling cycles. Simple lifestyle strategies to promote healthier communication and relationships with the entire body integrating the circadian clock, and other lifestyle tools
• 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
• Learn constitutional nutrition and how to customize basic meal plans to promote stronger digestion and elimination. Learn how to identify different energetic properties of food and how to eat in harmony with the seasons & cultural influences
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