MacroLife – Marijke de Coninck – Macrobiotic Counsellor and Healer

ONE YEAR MACROBIOTIC LIFE COUNSELLING TRAINING

The three year training in Macrobiotic & Life Counselling is an exciting opportunity to study in depth healing on physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual levels. The first year course lays both a solid foundation for the further two years of study, and also can be taken as a course in its own right for your own interest and personal healing. Some students will be clear from the outset that they want to complete all three years of training, others may intened to only study for one year, and others may want to commit to the first year course and decide later if they want to continue onto the second and third years.

The course uses a mixutre of activities helping your health on all levels. There are physical and energetic forms of exercise in the mornings and in some workshops, lots of practical learning of how to cook well, study of many aspects of macrobiotic and Oriental diagnosis and medicine, emotional work and the learning of basic counselling skills, and spiritual development exercises. It is designed to give you a holsitc picture of your life, health and healing, with lots of practical methods for you to use.

The first year syllabus includes:

PHILOSOPHY

- George Ohsawa’s philosophy which underpins macrobiotics including the Seven Theorems and Twelve Principles, the creation and purpose of life, the use of yin and yang, the Seven Levels of Judgement (or Consciousness) and the stages of development of illness.

- Michio Kushi’s broad contribution to macrobiotics, including past and future worlds, creation of world peace, 9 star ki, Oriental Diagnosis, Standard Macrobiotic Diet and yin yang approach to healing illness.

- The human energetic constitution, including central channel, chakras, organs and meridians, and the subtle bodies – etheric, emotional, mental and spiritual.

HEALTH STUDIES

- Understanding the causes of illness within a person’s diet, lifestyle, emotions and beliefs

- Yin and yang used to balance diet, life style, exercise, emotions and beliefs

- The theory of the Five Transformations of Energy, the five energies in nature, our bodies, and psychology, foods, cooking styles and activities

- Using Five Transformation theory to understand how to choose a balanced diet that nourishes all our bodily organs and functions, and our emotions, mind and spirit

- Using Five Transformation theory to design specific healing diets and give lifestyle recommendations

- In depth study of a range of common non-serious health problems, their underlying energetic and physical imbalances, deeper causes, healing, and specific rememdies, with a particular look at skin problems

- Basic practice of giving dietary consultations – developing counselling skills in conducting interview sessions, with practice seeing a number of clients in class and at home

DIAGNOSIS

- Overview of the four main methods of Oriental Diagnosis, visual, listening questioning and touch

- Diagnosis of a person’s constitution by yin and yang, and looking at individual strengths, weaknesses and unique characteristics

- Visiual diagnosis of a person’s condition using yin and yang, facial colour and areas, sclera diagnosis, the hair, hands and feet

- Listening diagnosis of the quality of the voice and by smell

- Touch diagnosis of the abdomen, the physical organs and their energetic quality

- Questioning diagnosis using yin and yang, the Five Transformations, the energetic and physical functions of organs, and prevalent moods and emotions

COOKING

- Setting up a macrobiotic kitchen, using and sharpening kinves, cutting styles etc

- learning to cook a wide variety of grain dishes

- cooking beans, tofu, seita, tempeh and other vegetarian high protein foods

- cooking the full range of vegetable cooking styles

- using the ingredients and cooking styles of the Five Transformations to create meals with five different energies, for seasonal eating and for healing specific imbalances and health problems

- cooking fish and seafood

- cooking sea vegetables

- making a range of delicious and healthy desserts

- making seasonings, sauces and dressings

- cooking quick meals

- cooking for parties, buffets and picnics

BODYWORK

- Abdominal palpation to feel the physical and energetic quality of internal organs

- The 12 meridians of the Classical Meridian systems, using the meridians in diagnosis, and use of common points for diagnosis and treatment of minor ailments

WESTERN STUDIES

- Basic human anatomy and physiology of the main systems of the body

- Basic princples of Western nutrition – the nutrients we need, and how to get the, dangers of over-nutrition, the physiology of digestion etc

EMOTIONAL HEALING

- The relationship between food and emotions – how emotions can determine our eating, as well as how our food effects our moods and emotions

- Basic skills of listening well and emotional counselling

- Ethics and responsibilities when seeing clients. Creating a safe environment for clients with clear boundaries, confidentiality, clear communication etc

- Developing an awareness of your own emotional patterns, their causes and how to transform them

PHYSICAL AND ENERGETIC EXERCISES

- Do-in self shiatsu including abdominal massage, Makko Ho meridian stretches and use of meridian pathways

- Abdominal and chakra breathing exercises

- Spiritual development – what this means, its stages and initiations, and what we can do to progress more quickly

- Internal energy exercies for opening the spiritual channcel and chakras

For further information please visit www.macroschool.co.uk or e-mail: info@macroschool.co.uk or call 01803 762598