Our practitioner course is unique – it truly is a one of a kind in the world. The Academy of Healing Nutrition’s Holistic Health Counseling Practitioner course is the result of many years of accumulated experience on the part of our faculty. Every one of our visionary instructors has emerged as a pioneer of the modern day natural healing and food movement. We are passionately committed to teaching and motivating our students so that they in turn can energize the world as practitioners of Healing Nutrition and the Longevity Diet. This course teaches its students to be an educator, practitioner, and counselor woven into one.

Our dynamic faculty of international leaders in the alternative health field have an average of 25-30 years of experience. Faculty member William Tara established the East-West Community Health Foundation in London in the 1970s, one of the first alternative health centers in the world.

Our faculty has the experience over many decades to train you in the clarity and information you need to take care of yourself and your family and be effective leaders, trainers, and counselors in your community. We will show you how to establish a new career and business dynamics to create a practice in diet coaching that will simultaneously align with your own spiritual, intellectual and emotional beliefs.

Roger Green

A co-founder of one of the first alternative medicine centers in Australia, Roger Green served as director of the Australian School of Healing from 1985 to 1999. After founding and directing several private natural health clinics, Green established The Academy of Healing Nutrition with branches in New York, San Francisco, London, and Sydney.

Bill Tara

For over 35 years, Bill Tara has been an advocate of a Natural approach to health care. He was vice-president of Erewhon Trading Co, one of the first major distributors of organically grown foods in America in the 1960s and was active in the Natural Foods Movement in both America and Europe. He began his educational work in the 1960s and in 1975 founded the Community Health Foundation and the East West Centre in London, England. This centre was the largest and most active alternative health centre in Europe and served as a model for other organizations worldwide.

He has submitted expert testimony to the American Congress on diet and disease and is the author of several books on the Macrobiotic approach to health, including Macrobiotics and Human Behavior. He has given seminars on natural health care in over 20 countries and served on the faculties of the Kushi Institutes, in England and America, the Kiental Institute in Switzerland and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

Melanie Ferreira

Health Educator, Writer and Nutritional Consultant Melanie Ferreira has been a pioneer in the Culinary and Healing Arts for the last 30 years and has devoted her life to the relationship between food and its effects on health.

She started her culinary training in Boston with many prominent Japanese Chefs and went on to become the Head Chef and manager of the Seven Sheaves Restaurant in London, England where she developed her cuisine based on organic, whole, seasonal, and local foods.

Melanie continued her training in the Oriental Healing Arts with Michio Kushi, Jack Garvey, Jeffrey Yuen, Drew Divittorio, and Roger Green, incorporating many of these principles in her teachings. A pioneer in combining gourmet and healthful cuisine she was a personal chef consultant to 2 of the Princesses from the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia as well as the French actress Isabel Adjani.

Nam Singh

Nam Singh, L.Ac., O.M.D., N.C. is a practitioner of all eight limbs of Chinese Medicine: Meditation, Exercise, Diet, Herbology, Astrology, Feng Shui, Massage, Acupuncture and Moxabustion. He is a graduate of the Tai Pei Institute of Traditional Pharmacology and Acupuncture, a graduate of Wei Chuan’s Culinary Institute Tai Pei, R.O.C. Taiwan, as well as a chef specializing in Chinese medicinal cuisine. Mr. Singh, formerly of China Moon and Monsoon Restaurants, has worked extensively throughout the bay area restaurant scene. He presently resides in San Francisco. Chef Singh has collaborated on two well-received books, Between Heaven and Earth—A Guide to Chinese Medicine and The Chinese Immigrant Cooking.

Robert Sachs

In his dedication to seeing people receive information that is both relevant and useful to their daily living, the work of Robert Sachs covers every facet of the human experience.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Robert’s most formative education in oriental philosophies and healing arts began when he moved to England during his late teenage years. It was there that he received his B.A. in comparative religion and sociology at the University of Lancaster, began his studies with Tibetan Buddhist masters, and was introduced to the Asian healing arts with such renowned teachers as Macrobiotics master Michio Kushi and shiatsu master Rex Lassalle and began training in hatha yoga. Before returning to America in 1976, Robert was certified as a hatha yoga instructor with the All India Board and Inner London education Authority. He also completed a conventional training as a mental health counselor with the Richmond Fellowship College. A later stint in London saw Robert completing his shiatsu training with Rex Lassalle and being instrumental with his wife, Melanie, in starting the Community Health Foundation’s “Growing Family Center.”

Marian Buck-Murray

Marian Buck-Murray is a Nutrition Coach, Healing Foods Specialist, Natural Foods Chef, and Children’s Cookbook author. A graduate of the Academy of Healing Nutrition, Marian turned to AHN after decades of autoimmune illness and surgery.   It was then that she learned how to harness the power of Nature’s herbs and foods to heal her adrenal exhaustion and depleted immune system. Marian now runs her own practice, Good Food Solutions, offering one-on-one coaching, workshops and seminars. She specializes helping women transform fatigue and low-immunity into vibrant, energized health.   Marian co-teaches with AHN Founder Roger Green. Her topics include Good Mood Foods, Digestive Solutions, Weight Loss Solutions, Kitchen Pharmacy and Coaching & Business Fundamentals.

Victoria Phillips

Join Victoria for insightful and inspiring lectures in her practical cooking classes and gain confidence in the kitchen! Creating harmony in a chaotic world is challenging for us all. Our self awareness needs to be on many levels from food to lifestyle choices, knowing how to create the enthusiasm and vitality for fulfilling lives. Victoria Phillips, an Australian, is a qualified Wholefoods chef and counselor from the East-West Community Health Center, London, UK.

Victoria has worked in and around Wholefoods catering, counseling and teaching for the last 20 years. She was the Co-Director of the Australian School of Macrobiotics and owner of the famous WattleSeed Deli in Chinatown Sydney, which specialized in Australian bushfoods and wholefoods. Victoria has also been involved with many International Conferences on Feng Shui and Vaastu Shastra and, after pursuing her interest in Color and Design, has most recently set up her own small consultancy business called “STYLE GAP.”

Marcea Klein

Marcea Klein has been teaching and writing about natural foods and nutrition since the late ’60s. Currently she has a private practice working as a naturopath, coach, counselor, psychotherapist, and nutritionist, as well as cooking instructor, published author and journalist. Marcea believes that diet and lifestyle choices—and parents and careers—can have an enormous effect on children’s physical, mental, and spiritual well being and thus affect the harmony of the body and mind, predisposing children to disease or wellness.

Marcea is the author of a number of books including The Australian and New Zealand book of Wholemeals, Naturally Sweet and Sugar Free, The Sweet Life, Macrobiotics and Beyond, and Natural Health and Healing for Children. She is a regular contributor to various journals and magazines and has appeared on national television and radio broadcasts. Marcea also lectures, instructs, and supervises in macrobiotics and Chinese Longevity, Japanese, and Wholefood cuisines, and she coaches and counsels in the relationship between the body and the mind, helping to maintain balance and harmony in relationships.

Trish Amber

Trish practices an integrated form of Psychotherapy (multi-disciplinary) combining skills as a therapist and a background in traditional medicine.

Her main areas of work are:
• Relationship issues
• Couples and marriage counselling
• Sexual issues
• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma
• Abuse
• Enhancing self esteem
• Promotion of personal growth
• Group work
• Coaching
• Supervision and Mentoring.

Trish is in private practice at the Paddington Medical Centre, Sydney.

Melanie Sachs

A certified Ayurvedic Lifestyle Counselor, Melanie Sachs’s skill as a teacher and therapist have made her sought after by some of the world’s leading spas and beauty schools. Her book, Ayurvedic Beauty Care (Lotus Light Publications), is considered a must for those interested in the expanding field of natural and conscious body care. 

She is also a consultant for The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in La Jolla, California, the Greenhouse Group in Dallas, Texas, and is the chief instructor in Ayurveda for the International Dermal Institute worldwide. Both she and Robert are also featured instructors at the Mahindra Institute and Primavera Life in Germany. Recent projects include her development of Primavera Life’s Ayurvedic Spa line under the trade names of Unlimited Mind (for Vata), Spontaneous Joy (for Pitta) and Rainbow Body (for Kapha).

Meredith McCarty

J. Meredith McCarty, DC, NE, is a holistic nutritionist (Diet Counselor and Nutrition Educator). Founder of www.healingcuisine.com, she has authored three cookbooks and produced a video. Her most recent book, Sweet and Natural: More than 120 Naturally Sweet and Dairy Free Desserts, won the Versailles World Cookbook Fair Award. Formerly the associate editor of Natural Health magazine, Meredith co-directed a natural health center in northern California for 19 years, during which time she catered weekly vegan (dairy-free vegetarian) and macrobiotic dinner parties and annual residential seminars for up to 150 people. She has consulted, taught, and lectured internationally since 1977. Meredith currently resides in Mill Valley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Letha Hadady

Letha Hadady, D.Ac, a nationally certified acupuncturist, has taught traditional Asian foods and herbs through the New York Open Center, The Renfield Center for Nursing, Beth Israel Medical Center, and the annual conference “Botanical Medicine in Modern Clinical Practice” at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is a natural health and beauty columnist for Heal India magazine published in Delhi. Often featured on national television and radio programs, Letha Hadady is the author of Asian Health Secrets: The Complete Guide to Asian Herbal Medicine, (Three Rivers Press). Her latest book Feed Your Tiger (iUniverse) is a highly successful Asian approach to weightloss, vitality, and lasting health.

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “Letha Hadady, one of the nation’s leading experts on natural Chinese remedies, is leading a quiet lady-like revolution to bring herbal medicines from the Far East into everyday use in American homes.” Newsday , L.A. Times wrote: “Hadady is an ambassador between curious Americans, trying to overcome their ignorance of alternative medicine, and Chinese herbalists, who are uneasy about opening their customs to the scrutiny of outsiders.”

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