As a Master Herbalist, Naturopathic Nutritionist, and Master Iridologist, Dawn’s deep knowledge, wisdom and consultation skills are a true testament to her passion for natural medicine. She has embodied her learning at every step of her journey – from dedicated student to accomplished practitioner.

Graduate Spotlight: Meet Clare, Quantum Botanicals Diploma graduate and Healing Diets student at the School of Natural Medicine, as she shares the story of her forest farm and retreat sanctuary in Portugal. Welcome to Monte da Vida My name is Clare. For the past 13 years, I have lived and worked in the breathtaking South-west […]

Throughout our modern world, we have largely been conditioned to treat beauty as a luxury. We often view it as an afterthought, a superficial decoration, or something we only indulge in once the “important” work of life is done. However, when we look back at the deep roots of human history, our ancestors understood a […]

Discover how a few gentle shifts at dinner can soothe your nervous system, support digestion naturally, and bring peace back to your body through the art of the holistic table.

Fungi have the capacity to change our lives in an immediate, powerful and exponentially beneficial manner by enhancing the intelligence of the human immune system.

For this Hado experiment​, I decided to use plants from seeds and grow them in separate pots, using the same conditions for each and administering the same amount of water. I thought that by growing plants I would get a clear visual of how the experiment was going and could track the progress easily. As it turned out the results were not as straightforward as I had thought. I realised also that in order for the experiment to be truly conclusive I would need to continue the experiment until the plants were fully grown. Despite this, the 4 weeks that I did gave interesting and unexpected results.

The link between thoughts, emotions, behaviours and physical health has been studied in the scientific world for the last thirty years and there has been overwhelming evidence that the mind and the body are inextricably linked. Not just the mind governing the body but the physical body also affects the mind.

The Healing Diets Coaching seemed to be the final ‘missing piece’ to my wellbeing skillset. Using foods, cleanses, living foods, life stage awareness, Ayurveda, superfoods and herbs I could feel my whole self benefit from deep healing, rest, recovery, cellular cleansing, energetic healing and it gave me great vitality to continue my healing work. It’s an exciting time to be offering such an entire package of services for natural wellbeing!

Known as Darwin’s “abominable mystery” and distinguished by their unique, usually obvious, rather beautiful and intriguing reproductive organs their flower angiosperms dominate the kingdom plantae.