Whole Foods Nutrition & Herbology Certification
ISOHA Programs
Whole Foods Nutrition & Herbology Consultant
Our 350 hour Whole Foods Nutritional & Herbology Consultant/Coaching Program brings together the two perspectives of scientific knowledge and Energetic properties of foods. We instruct students on how to help people nourish their lives by balancing nutrients with the energies that best complement each person’s nutritional needs. For example, an overly pressured individual will be best served by understanding which foods can open and relax his/her body mind spirit while providing the nutrients that complement the functioning of all body systems. The iSOHA Nutritional Counselor will go deeper than addressing the client’s symptoms by assessing which body system is most lacking and which is overworking. The extremes of this balance is the root/source of any and all symptoms. Physiology and Pathology are integrated with Lifestyle and nutritional deficiencies or excesses in order to provide a Holistic approach to diet.
All Sections: 350 Hrs –
This program is divided into 3 sections/TOOLS: 1) PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE 2) E-MOTIONAL TRANSFORMATION & 3) INTUITIVE WISDOM that can be started in any order and a 4th final section consisting of the 50 hr. thesis where students typically make recommendations with actual clients under the supervision of Seymour Koblin and/or one of iSOHA’s Certified Nutritional Counselors/Coaches. Each of the three sections represents a balanced focus of physical, emotional and spiritual applications.
1) Physical Nutrition 2) Emotional Nutrition 3) Spiritual Nutrition. Energetics -the Forces of Nature are integrated into both Health Assessment and Recommendations. Physical nutrients- Carbohydrates, Fats/Oils, Proteins, Vitamins & Minerals are presented in a balanced way that embraces each client’s unique inherent constitution, and developed condition.
Clients will be taught to integrate the seasons/Elements(Chinese Medicine) of the year, the Three Doshas (Ayurveda) the forces of expansion/contraction, hot/cold into clients’ daily lives and every nutritional recommendation. Nutrient quantities are paired with the E-motional and Spiritual Qualities to create vital health on all levels.
Delicious Healthy Foods and Herbs Inspire
E-motional and Spiritual growth
Students who enroll for any or all of the 3 sections below receive discounted tuition from the regular $15/hr or 300 Kc/hr individual class price.
TUITION includes all Books, Audio, Video, PPT presentations as electronic files
Affordable Payment plans can be arranged -add $175 to total. Once enrolled, the student is responsible for payment of the entire course.
[email protected]
Contact Seymour to Get Started
George Ohsawa, Father of Macrobiotics

Certification Outline:
Whole Foods Nutrition & Herbology Consultant / Coaching Certification
All Sections: 350 Hrs –
This class is divided into 3 sections: 1) Physical Knowledge, 2) E-Motional Wisdom 3) Intuitive Spirituality that can be started in any order and a final section consisting of the 50 hr thesis where students typically take private lessons in mentorship format with Seymour Koblin and/or one of iSOHA’s Certified Nutritional Counselors/Coaches.
Students who enroll for any or all of the 3 sections below receive discounted tuition from the regular $15/hr or 300 Kc/hr individual class price.
TUITION includes all Books, Audio, Video, PPT presentations as electronic files
Affordable Payment plans can be arranged -add $350 to total. Once enrolled, the student is responsible for payment of the entire course.
[email protected]
Contact Seymour to Get Started
Partial Classes also Available
Electives 25 hours
Students can choose between Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Zen-Touch™ Shiatsu, Yoga and other classes taught at the school that peak their interest.
Contact Seymour to Get Started
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Emotional
100 Hrs
Anatomy & Physiology 15 hours
Digestive, Immune, Circulatory Lymphatic and other systems are presented with an emotional perspective integrated into their physical functions. Students will also learn food energetics-how different foods affect the flow of energy in the body (expansion/contraction, up/down, hot /cold, inward /outward, regular/irregular etc.)
Communication & Counseling 15 hours
Learn to communicate with clients in a way that combines empathy with conflict win /win resolution techniques. Create rapport with a wide variety of people with varying personality styles. Does your client want statistics and facts, philosophical perspectives or a combination of both? Relate to people’s desires, goals, healing and lifestyle using combinations the 7 levels of consciousness:.Physical, Sensorial, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Philosophical and Intuitive
Art of Speaking 15 hours
Learn to speak effectively to both clients and groups. The successful counselor will require both confidence and experience when appealing to a wide variety of people. Note: Internship/mentorship includes coaching with public speaking.
Herbology Introduction & Traditional Home Remedies 30 hours
Learn the Basics of an East/West orientation to Herbal Studies.
Whole foods nutritional counselor Integration Courses 25 hours
(Nutrition, Herbs or other Holistic Electives)
Students can choose between Tai Chi Kung, Zen-Touch™ Shiatsu, Yoga , Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and other classes taught at the school that peak their interest.
Contact Seymour to Get Started
Intuitive
Spiritual/Intuitive
100 Hrs
Anatomy & Physiology 15 hours
In contrast to the old models of science, modern science looks at the quantum physics perspective of how the Brain/ Body works. Perception and belief are included in the study of the nervous, endocrine and other body systems. Genetic malleability and the most modern understandings of anatomy and physiology are presented.
Energy Anatomy and Physiology 6 hours
Chakras, Yin/Yang 5 movements /transformations are focussed on in this segment to fine tune students’ intuition.
Intuitive Body Reading 20 hours
Body Reading for Health, Love & Life Path: Learn how the source of your life purpose and challenges are described on your face, hands, body language, back, birth date and more. Discover life lessons, health Constitution and Condition. Help self, friends, family, and clients to fulfill their life purpose. Intuition is our single most important guide when making important decisions. Learn to recognize when it’s calling you and how to call on it whenever necessary.
Intuition: The Body maps and theory of Body reading: Chakras, Yin/Yang, 5 elements are used to identify one’s own intuitive style and to improve all intuitive senses – Visual: Aura Reading & Seeing intuitive messages, Audio=Hearing Messages and Kinesthetic feeling Intuitive Messages. INTENTION exercises will teach people how to set intentions that manifest as reality- for HEALTH- RELATIONSHIP and PROSPERITY. Participants will learn a technique that Seymour created that will allow participants to feel an event at a specific age in the past where a person is still working through. Also, learn to how to use this energy into resolution in the present.
Holistic Business Practices 15 hours
The holistic approach to marketing your business includes a web page, social marketing, articles /post writing and public speaking skills.
Opportunity! Become a team member of iSOHA’s promotion of Holistic Nutrition as well as being a Certified coach for others going through their program in distance learning or directly with students in your geographical area.
Whole foods nutritional coach Integration Courses 44 hours
Students can choose between Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Zen-Touch™ Shiatsu, Yoga and other classes taught at the school that peak their interest.
Contact Seymour to Get Started +1 858 926 5845 [email protected]
Knowledge
Physical
100 Hrs
Anatomy & Physiology 33 hours
Includes physical mechanics of the body and various bodily tissue systems. Skeletal, Muscular, Integumentary and other systems are looked at structurally as well as integrated with the meridian system of Chinese medicine. We will study the emotional and intuitive anatomy perspective in the two other WFNC segments. Chi and Nei Kung alignment exercises are included which teach students and future clients how to alleviate any body pain while simultaneously establishing strength and flexibility.
Whole Foods Nutrition 30 hours
Basics of Nutrition and how Digestion and Elimination work with different nutrients derived from all sources. Energetic approaches like Ayurveda, Macrobiotics and Chinese Medicine are compared mechanically and metaphysically.
Food Preparation 30 hours
Various methods of food preparation are taught mostly with vegetable-based ingredients. Techniques for balancing animal foods are also integrated.
~Energetics of Food
~Food Preparation for Regeneration and Immunity and
~Food Preparation for Cleansing and Detoxification
are the 3 areas of focus in the hands-on food prep classes.
Electives 7 hours
Students can choose between Tai Chi Kung, Zen-Touch™ Shiatsu, Yoga and other classes taught at the school that peak their interest.
Contact Seymour to Get Started
Wisdom
Wisdom/Emotional
100 Hrs
Anatomy & Physiology 33 hours
Digestive, Immune, Circulatory Lymphatic and other systems are presented with an emotional perspective integrated into their physical functions. Students will also learn food energetics-how different foods affect the flow of energy in the body (expansion/contraction, up/down, hot /cold, inward /outward, regular/irregular etc.)
Client Communication & Counseling Healing w. Feelings 20 hours
Learn to communicate with clients in a way that combines empathy with conflict win /win resolution techniques. Create rapport with a wide variety of people with varying personality styles. Does your client want statistics and facts, philosophical perspectives or a combination of both? Relate to people’s desires, goals, healing and lifestyle using combinations the 7 levels of consciousness:.Physical, Sensorial, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Philosophical and Intuitive
Art of Speaking 15 hours
Learn to speak effectively to both clients and groups. The successful counselor will require both confidence and experience when appealing to a wide variety of people. Note: Internship/mentorship includes coaching with public speaking.
Herbology Introduction & Traditional Home Remedies 30 hours
Learn the Basics of an East/West orientation to Herbal Studies.
Whole foods nutritional counselor Integration Courses 2 hours
(Nutrition, Herbs or other Holistic Electives)
Students can choose between Tai Chi Kung, Zen-Touch™ Shiatsu, Yoga , Meditation, Hypnotherapy, and other classes taught at the school that peak their interest.
Contact Seymour to Get [email protected] +1 858 926 5845
Intuitive
Spiritual/Intuitive
100 Hrs
Anatomy & Physiology 15 hours
In contrast to the old models of science, modern science looks at the quantum physics perspective of how the Brain/ Body works. Perception and belief are included in the study of the nervous, endocrine and other body systems. Genetic malleability and the most modern understandings of anatomy and physiology are presented.
Energy Anatomy and Physiology 6 hours
Chakras, Yin/Yang 5 movements /transformations are focussed on in this segment to fine tune students’ intuition.
Intuitive Body Reading 20 hours
Body Reading for Health, Love & Life Path: Learn how the source of your life purpose and challenges are described on your face, hands, body language, back, birth date and more. Discover life lessons, health Constitution and Condition. Help self, friends, family, and clients to fulfill their life purpose. Intuition is our single most important guide when making important decisions. Learn to recognize when it’s calling you and how to call on it whenever necessary.
Intuition: 6 hours The Body maps and theory of Body reading: Chakras, Yin/Yang, 5 elements are used to identify one’s own intuitive style and to improve all intuitive senses – Visual: Aura Reading & Seeing intuitive messages, Audio=Hearing Messages and Kinesthetic feeling Intuitive Messages. INTENTION exercises will teach people how to set intentions that manifest as reality- for HEALTH- RELATIONSHIP and PROSPERITY. Participants will learn a technique that Seymour created that will allow participants to feel an event at a specific age in the past where a person is still working through. Also, learn to how to use this energy into resolution in the present.
Holistic Business Practices 15 hours
The holistic approach to marketing your business includes a web page, social marketing, articles /post writing and public speaking skills.
Opportunity! Become a team member of iSOHA’s promotion of Holistic Nutrition as well as being a Certified coach for others going through their program in distance learning or directly with students in your geographical area.
Whole foods nutritional coach Integration Courses 48 hours
Students can choose between Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Zen-Touc™ Shiatsu, Yoga and other classes taught at the school that peak their interest.
Contact Seymour to Get Started
Course work is designed to be completed within six to twelve months, however, students can finish in any time frame that is comfortable and participation can be extended to accommodate varying work schedules. Individual classes are offered on weeknights and weekend days. Distance learning is also available with direct coaching by Seymour Koblin and other Certified Teachers.
Foods and Emotions are connected
iSOHA students’ recommendations consist primarily of whole foods and herbs as the main ingredients of a nutritional counseling session. Supplements are a secondary recommendation in cases of severe deficiencies. All life forms require three primal nutrients in order to survive. The first, is air, next is food and the third is nourishing relationships. E- Motions may, in fact, be more energizing than O2 or Food. Feelings/ E-Motions are the only sources of fuel that live and grow within us. While O2 and Food come from outside us, it is the inner fuel of sadness, happiness, anger, and inspiration, that has the ability to nourish or deplete depending on our response when these states of being are stimulated.
It is common for people to say thoughts and beliefs are important in healing. Are they as powerful as our feelings? Spiritual Development? Almost anyone can feel spiritual at a retreat in nature. People use intellectual concepts learned in ideal environments as a foundation for spiritual consciousness only to be shown the reality of their true development when challenged by the emotional conflict of a close relationship.
All of these-Physical Emotional Mental and Spiritual/Intuitive influences are addressed in a Holistic nutritional counseling session. iSOHA communication classes teach students to create rapport with clients within several states of Consciousness- 1) Physical, 2)Sensorial, 3)Intellectual, 4) Emotional, 5) Social, 6) Philosophical and 7) Intuitive.
Energetic studies include Ayurvedic, Macrobiotics, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Western diet perspectives studied include Raw, Cooked, Alkaline, high protein, and Vegan approaches. ISOHA counselors are taught to assess which of the above influences match the constitution and condition of each client. We treat people’s individual needs without ascribing to any one or right/wrong approach- BALANCE
Macrobiotic Counselor Certification
For those interested in Macrobiotic Counselor Certification or any other specialty (Herbs, Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, Chi Kung), the Internship will be CUSTOMIZED to satisfy any chosen specialty. More time will be spent comparing traditional specialty theories and practices. We study how specialties like Macrobiotic, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Herbs, Aromatherapy or Chi Kung fit into a wide application that includes cancer prevention and therapy, immunological dis-ease and any other symptomatic approach. All studies are integrated into the personal issues of each person we work with, The roots and history as described by the founders of Macrobiotics or any specialty will be studied in a way that integrates traditional practices with the many varying modern day nutritional applications.
Students can choose from the different electives and internship directions to create their own style of Nutritional Counseling. Some may like to emphasize, herbs, some aromatherapy, vegan approach etc.
iSOHA’s Macrobiotic Counseling and Cooking Certification will impart these principles and practices to all participants.
Whole Foods and Comparative Nutrition, and Food Preparation classes are best taken in the beginning of the course and the Clinical Internship will culminate the program with actual case studies.
In order to verify comprehension and hourly progress, reports, questionnaires, and tests are returned to the School for grading. Although flexibility is provided for individual situations, it is recommended that the student complete a minimum of 5 to 20 hours of coursework per week. Students write a monthly progress report to ensure continuing commitment in the course.
Completion of the remaining 50 hours of clinical internship is accomplished through detailed client history forms and nutritional recommendation guidelines, which the student writes for each client they are working with. These on-going monitored case studies provide a valuable experiential practicum and serve as the student’s thesis.
After all coursework, questionnaires, and reports have been completed, a final exam is sent to the student. The essay style exam is a measure of the student’s ability to apply their learned skills in a creative problem-solving format as the questions do not have answers that could be memorized or be found in reference material.
Affordable Payment plans can be arranged (add $175 to total Tuition of 3500 = $3675.) Once enrolled, the student is responsible for payment of the entire course.
Some students may apply previous experience and education as transfer hours which reduces both Tuition and Time commitment.
Ask about our work-study Scholarship program.