HHP & NP ELECTIVES

NOTE: Our 1,000 hour Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) program can include any classes in the following Programs: Spa & Massage Therapist, Sports Therapist & Performance Enhancement, Clinical Nutritionist, Clinical Herbalist, Master Herbalist, Massage Therapist, Massage Technician, Aromatherapist, Thai Massage, Lomi-Lomi/Hawaiian Healing Arts and Yoga Instuctor, Somatics and Movement Therapist. Listed below are some of the additional electives you can take for self-growth and as part of your HHP Program for License. Any and all classes you take at NHI count towards your Holistic Health Practitioner Program (HHP) and Naturopathic Practitioner (NP) Program!

Current breakthroughs in Regenerative Medicine, proper preventative & therapeutic doses, how to obtain the highest quality & most beneficial, etc. Includes research on HGH, Huperzine A, Undenatured medical whey, Theanine, T4Revitalase, N-Acetyl Carnitine, Withanolide A, Gymnemic Acid, Activated DMEA, DHEA, Pregnenolone, Homocystrol+TMG, PhosphatidylSerine, and about 20 other breakthrough nutraceuticals.

Foods, Herbs, Supplements documented to regulate beneficial estrogen, progesterone & other aspects of female hormonal health. Emphasis will be effective & safe self-help remedies to replace HRT/ERT, for peri-menopause, menopause, post-menopause, PMS, fibroids, etc.

Understand different subconscious signals like handwriting analysis, body language, NLP and mind-body connections. Learn to recognize the meaning of body cues and respond to them. This will increase your ability to positively influence the outcome of situations. Also, learn how and where different people lodge different emotions in different parts of their body. Experience how to know where you physically lodge different emotions.

“If you change the way you feel, you can change the way you think.” Until recently our psychotherapeutic attention has been just the reverse: focused on changing the way we think to change the way we feel—a top down system. The latest counseling trends involve bottom up strategies or bodymind strategies. Focusing on body energy, body dynamics or body oriented procedures enables practitioners to help clients cooperate with their body’s innate neurobiological healing abilities in order to shift psychological states and cognition. Bodymind Counseling requires new skills as practitioners shift their focus from the mental content of client’s psychological/emotional complaints to working with client’s actual, observable, experienced body well-being or dis-ease in the present moment.

Continuation of principles of Bodymind Couseling Psychology I, providing a practicum to experience and develop new concepts and skills. (Level I is a prerequisite).

Learn basic principles of the pathological processes as well as the processes of maintaining vitality. Relate these principles along with increased functional understanding of the organs and human constitution according to the Traditional Chinese model with cross reference to the Ayurvedic model.

An experiential workshop designed to bring the health practitioner to a deeper feeling of love and compassion in relation to self and others. You will study the science and practice the energy of empathy, the source of understanding and healing. Useful tools for increasing intimacy, resolving conflict, and developing self compassion and heart energy.

Introduction to internal body cleansing, cleansing principals, benefits of cleansing, cleansing reactions & the healing crisis, importance of pH balance, pH balance testing methods, acid vs. alkaline forming foods and more.

The Enneagram is an ancient symbol of the nine basic personality types of human nature and is a map for human awareness, empowerment and transformation. You will learn how the personality types interrelate and how to use the Enneagram as a powerful tool for self-healing and healing others.

Discover how to design and adjust your space to better serve your specific needs and desired outcomes. Feng Shui is the oriental art of placement to create a harmonious environment. Using the bagua, learn how to generate more positive and prosperous energy into your home, office or business.

The sacred, intimate relationship between healer and client challenges the healer to take responsibility for his/her own inner life and healing. Awareness of transference, countertransference, projection, and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries requires honesty, clarity and integrity. This 48 hour course will provide practitioners an opportunity to work on the personal issues most likely to interfere with professional mastery.

Continuation of the principles of HH 310, which is a prerequisite for this class.

This class offers an understanding of animal nutrition. Raw diets, home-prepared foods and commercially-prepared diets will be discussed. When and how to use supplements, how to differentiate between quality and hype. Advanced animal nutrition and related holistic animal health care topics will also be discussed. Learn how to work with an animal and their owners.

This class offers an understanding of animal nutrition. Raw diets, home-prepared foods and commercially-prepared diets will be discussed. When and how to use supplements, how to differentiate between quality and hype. Advanced animal nutrition and related holistic animal health care topics will also be discussed. Learn how to work with an animal and their owners.

You will learn how to research a medical topic online or in a library. Learn tips on how to discern between valid, accurate, scholastically respected sources of information versus that which is commercially influenced or taken out of context. Learn how to maximize your efficiency, and avoid wasting valuable research time. Includes a field trip to medical library.

Learn all 38 Bach flower herbal remedies and how they correspond with the emotions. This course will teach how to correctly choose for yourself and clients, how to incorporate them into your own practice, and the history of flower essences. The class consists of both lecture and creative hands-on experiences as well as making your own combination in class.

A basic understanding of the soul/spirit through the chakras system. You will discover what each chakra holds, its archetype, where it is located, its color, emotional and disease aspects, related organs, and some exercises to help open up and work with the chakras.

Explore the wide variety of herbal ingredients useful for medicinal and culinary applications. After completing this material, the student should become proficient at selecting, combining, and formulating several types of herbal products for use in both professional and informal situations. This is a hands-on course, and each student will have the opportunity to take home their healthful and delicious creations.

Learn about therapies you can show your client to use at home for self-help. Includes therapeutic use of hydrotherapy, activated charcoal, different clays, Epsom salts/magnesium sulfite applications, moxabustion, and much more.

Homeopathy is a philosophy of health that treats the whole person, tracing its origin from a mind-body connection. You will learn basic principles and how to use them in everyday emergency situations, including physical and emotional trauma, shock, burns, fractures, heatstroke, and many others in a natural, healthy and secure way.

Learn the significance, relevance and how to understand common laboratory testing. Topics include the complete blood panel (CBC), white blood cell differential (WBC), full urine (UR), thyroid tests, heart enzymes, liver tests, kidney/ adrenal panel, and much more.

The wisdom of our hearts and the instincts of our guts are more than poetic expressions. Emotions bring us to peace and clarity when experienced as self-regulating body cycles rather than as stories of unending misery. Mental confusion fades and frozen blocks of trauma melt away when we learn to let the body lead us to the spontaneous healing images and sensations that lay beneath the surface of dysfunctional patterns. This 48 hour course will provide an experiential opportunity for practitioners to learn to work with emotional release as energetic phenomena rather than as psychodynamic narrative.

Continuation of the principles of HH 308, which is a prerequisite for this class.

A safe and effective technique for the elimination of psychological disturbance. TFT gives immediate relief for trauma, addictions, anxiety, phobias and other imbalances. By eliminating disturbances, using key meridian points in specific sequences, TFT removes disruptions in the body’s energy system.

Fundamentals of Traditional Oriental Medicine. Basics in organ theory and the concepts of Qi, Yin and Yang, the Five Elements and Eight Principles will be explored. You will be introduced to beginning diagnostic skills.

Learn essential aspects of becoming a healer while allowing experienced healers to gain new tools for their healing practice. Iris diagnosis, hand reading, body reading and the basics of Oriental Diagnosis are discussed.

Learn to use these traditional and new scientifically documented therapies as a way to focus therapeutic energies for protection, and for specific and general health. Learn how these therapies are commonly used throughout Europe.

In-depth, advanced training will emphasize therapeutic applications. Includes practicing/conducting aromatherapy consultation, case histories, integration with other therapies and much more.

Learn how to refer to medical doctors for hormonal and other endocrine testing—especially blood and saliva testing—and how to understand the results. Learn about the female and male hormonal systems and other endocrine/ductless glands. Learn what factors internally and externally/environmentally cause imbalances; how to help prevent or decrease imbalancing factors; and the use of foods, supplements and herbs documented by scientific research to help balance endocrine functions—with a special emphasis on female and male hormonal health.

“Nature is the one place where miracles, interconnections, timelessness, transcendence, and mystical experiences not only happen, but happen all the time.” - Steve Schechter, N.D., H.H.P.