What is our philosophy?

We see healing as the creation of freedom and movement within all levels of the individual. With this in mind we extend our enquiry into everything which influences this freedom.

We see the practitioner's role as that of teacher who wishes to empower patients with the necessary knowledge required to take back control of their own healing process. This is in accord with ancient cultures where the physicians were teachers and mothers passed down ancient knowledge to their children.

Rather than seeing dis-ease as a negative process, we see it as presenting a powerful opportunity to facilitate change and to support growth. We acknowledge that the body does not know how to work against us, it always does the best it can in any given situation. It is from this very positive concept that the healing process can begin.

It is our belief that the healing of dis-ease requires the removal of internally and externally generated stress. Stress impairs the freedom and movement within a person, and ultimately this reduces their response to natural events and cycles.

We are constantly trying to place the health issue within the greater context, hence Rudolph Steiner's quote "If you want to heal yourself, first heal the Earth". The college actively encourages students to participate in a challenging yet rewarding journey of healing.

It's not what we use, it's the way that we use it.

For freedom and healing to take place rather than suppression a practitioner needs to be working to a complete philosophy. We are seeing in the alternative field herbs, remedies and supplements used to treat symptoms, this is the same as an allopathic approach. Healing through nutrition needs to be practised as an art.

A practitioner who has developed this art is able to:

• Empower their patients with the knowledge of how their current health picture has arisen over their lifetime and previous generations. For the first time the patient sees that their body is not disintegrating, that there is a connection between all symptoms and that their body is maintaining integrity at all times. This act of empowerment gives the patient the energy and impetus to own their own healing process.



• To give their patients sufficient information to be able to mechanically change their picture immediately i.e. With a change of diet and naturopathic techniques the body immediately feels less stressed and begins to let go. At the same time the practitioner embarks on changing the biochemistry so that these improvements are permanent.



• To track their patients healing process on an individual basis and to ensure at all times that release from cellular level is expelled from the body comfortably through the natural routes of elimination. The art is to be able to feel and track this movement and to identify any stagnation which may occur. Using ancient naturopathic techniques the practitioner is able to sustain the movement and clearing, they also ensure that a healing crisis does not take place and that the toxins do not settle in a new area within the body.



• Using diet, techniques and supplementation the healer can help the patient to respond to natural influences. These major influences which cannot be ignored are able to produce more cleansing and change than any practitioner or supplementation. The influences referred to are moon phases, seasonal changes, equinoxes and solstices. No healing happened from a pot of pills. During the healing process the suppression is removed from the patient's body and mind enabling them to reach their full potential as a human being on all levels. Disease is simply an arresting of this potential. From one of our textbooks, 'Moon Time':
  
  'We are trying to make available to you a form of knowledge that will accompany you throughout your life and smooth your path to direct, personal experience of the factors that strengthen or weaken you physically, mentally and emotionally without the need for any detours via the advice of experts'.