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Healing Foods For Health and Vitality

Certification Course

This is an Ideal Program for Health Trainers, Healing Practitioners, Life and Vitality Coaches, Nutritionists, and Every Day Enthusiasts Seeking Next Level Tools to Promote Effective Vibrant and Healthy Lifestyle Change! This course can be taken as a stand-alone certification or taken consecutively with our healing arts certification course.

The Healing Foods For Health and Vitality Certification Course is 7 day immersive destination course taught in a nature-rich setting in the heart of a lush rainforest. We explore how food can not only taste delicious, yet is the key to a vibrant and sustainable lifestyle. You’ll learn both theory and practice in unlocking the healing power of foods while working with the body’s natural ability to balance and regulate in achieving a lively and balanced lifestyle. The course is designed for you to nourish, relax, enjoy while taking your understanding of the plant-based Foods to the next level.

Delicious and Creative Meals Sure To Delight and Satisfy.

Everyone is distinct, and this course allows each student to develop a customizable plan that is attuned to their individual needs and goals while also learning about the diverse variations constitutions and stages of life. We will give you the tools you need to live a vibrant plant-leaning lifestyle while unlocking the healing power of foods. You will also learn how to integrate more plant-based ingredients into your daily routine, both inside and outside of your own kitchen as well as honing in lifestyle practices that enhance the body’s inherent ability to heal and thrive.

We will master the art of crafting life giving comfort foods that will leave our taste buds and microbiome dancing with delight!

Course Highlights:

Healing Herbs and Spices For Flavor and Vitality

The western culinary approach generally recognizes herbs and spices as key elements in flavor enhancements, yet herbs and spices are so much more! You’ll learn not only how to use herbs, spices and other seasoning to develop flavors, yet more importantly, how to work with them in meal prep to enhance their inherent healing qualities and unlock the healing power of the entirety of ingredients in your daily meals. The fact that herbs and spices enhance flavors is a reflection of how the body is innately drawn to certain food and herb combinations to maximize health and vitality. You’ll learn how to work with distinct ingredient profiles that your body is naturally drawn to in creating delicious and healing foods.

Living, Cleansing & Superfoods

Learn how to use cleansing and superfoods such as chia, hemp hearts, Spirulina, chlorella, and cacao to enhance and maximize nutrient absorption while creating meals that provide instant energy, protein and detoxing. Learn about your circadian rhythm and how to start your day off right with superfoods breakfasts. Create detox salads, soups, superfood smoothies and desserts. Learn to maximize the nutrient bio-availability in your foods.

Microbes, Probiotics & Fermentation

This course takes cultured foods to the next level while keeping it simple. With the new frontier in human physiology being the discovery and new understanding of the human microbiome, we will learn how to feed the human microbiome ecosystem with pre & probiotics and gut flora colonizing ferments. We will learn to not only make, yet how to integrate probiotic rich foods into the daily diet o encourage the growth of our healthy gut bacteria.

Substitutions, Sourcing & Planning

Plant based meals and comfort foods provide satisfying healthy alternatives to your favorite foods, and meal planning can really make optimal eating easier. Not all plant-based comfort foods out there are healthy nor nutritious. We provide sourcing tips and guidelines distinct to your geographical region while focusing on biodiverse organic whole foods and superfood ingredients we’ve updated our curriculum to provide optimal healthy, simple, and light alternatives which are easy to digest and maximize metabolism. Choice ingredients are key elements to a thriving plant-based meal approach.

Plant-Based Culinary Arts has taken huge strides in the last five years in integrating grounded scientific principals with seasoned culinary practice while focusing on the body’s inherent wisdom in order to maintain a consistent vibrant and health lifestyle. These recent upgrades are most effective when paired with a common thread of ancient wisdom shared by most cultures.

It all starts in the garden!

Our first lesson starts in the garden where you’ll learn how biodiverse plants exchange nutrients while thriving in rich regenerative soil. You’ll then take key elements of nature’s bounty into the culinary studio to create amazing nutrient-rich meals.

Course Objectives:

• Explain essential nutritional and health benefits of a plant-based diet while reducing toxins and increasing nutrient absorption through healing foods.
  
• Each day includes a fresh menu and samplings with a new repertoire of recipes.
• Cleansing, Fasting, and Detoxing Principals
• Use herbs, spices and other healing seasonings to unlock the body’s healing potential as well as develop flavor profiles.
• Stock your pantry with essential plant-based staples.
• Select, prepare and serve delicious meals which integrate living foods with vegetables, grains and bean dishes while balancing the body’s key systems.
• Learn the importance of mise en place and organization.
• Substitutions and Planning.

Lifestyle Practice and Integration:

We also explore physical activity, movement, and breathwork, home gardening, stress reduction, kinesthetic grounding, relaxation, and mindfulness integration as key components of a healthy and vibrant lifestyle. Theory and practice on developing strong social connections and community engagement which enhance purpose and life meaning.

LOCATION

Awarded one of the 15 Best Plant-Based Resorts In Costa Rica by Epicure and Culture

Perfect Venue:

This course is taught on the grounds of a working Certified Organic, biodynamic permaculture farm in the heart of the Costa Rica Vida Zone. While on the farm, many of the indigenous practices are offered for our retreat guest to participate in including educational herb walks, herbal tea preparations, herbal medicine preparations, cacao tree to bar processes, chocolate making, as well as indigenous recipes are shared from the heart of the community.

The center is designed for reflective, peaceful inner experience of nature, birds and flora and fauna, and is a great place to complete your journey after your course. You can explore the stunning hikes and waterfalls of the nearby La Cangreja National Park.

Our training center boasts a culinary studio, chemical free swimming pool, yoga platform, healing/massage room and much, much more!

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for Enthusiasts, Entrepreneurs, Wellness Professionals, and life seekers wanting to expand their tools in life exploration, wellness, and vitality. This core skills course will provide you key tools while providing you a certification from an internationally recognized culinary school.