Online Diploma Course
Natural Physician
Welcome to a rich, rewarding, and deeply supportive space for mastering the complete system of natural medicine. The Natural Physician path is a comprehensive professional course designed for those who feel a profound inner calling to step into their life’s work as true instruments of healing. This journey beautifully unites the timeless, earth-centered principles of traditional Naturopathy with modern clinical research in epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology, and vibrational medicine. By fully integrating the four primary forms of plant medicine alongside a restorative spectrum of supportive naturopathic therapies, you will build a superb, confident foundation for an effective practice that gently guides the mind, body, and spirit back into vibrant, natural wellness.
diet | herbal medicine | essential oils | flower essences | naturopathy | iridology
A Harmonious Union of Timeless Healing and Natural Science
This pathway offers a profound exploration of the human ecosystem, inviting you to sit with the deep interconnectedness of life. Within this supportive environment, you will explore the four primary forms of plant medicine—delving into diet, herbal medicine, essential oils, and flower essences—to cultivate a complete, living understanding of natural care. Rather than looking at imbalances or symptoms in isolation, you will develop a compassionate approach to constitutional vitality through a comprehensive study of Iridology. By learning to understand the symbolic language of the iris, you will gain deep insight into systemic strengths and weaknesses, mind-body dynamics, and how the nervous system and brain hemispheres process life experiences. This gentle art provides the essential foundation for creating highly effective, personalized self-healing programs that respect each individual's unique blueprint.
Spanning a beautifully comprehensive 62 lessons and 2,470 pages, this journey seamlessly weaves traditional Naturopathy with the quiet validation of modern research. You will immerse yourself in the evolving fields of diet and nutrition, herbal medicine, phytonutrients, psychoneuroimmunology, epigenetics, heart-brain coherence, vibrational medicine, and fractal progression. Alongside these core teachings, you will explore a wide range of supportive naturopathic therapies and lifestyle adaptations, learning to honor the body's innate wisdom while building a superb, grounded foundation for a deeply meaningful practice.
Choose Your Pathway: Two Levels of Study
Whether your heart draws you to explore this living system of natural medicine for deep personal transformation, or you feel a profound inner calling to step forward into the world as a professional practitioner, we offer a dedicated pathway beautifully tailored to your intentions.
Pathway 1: Master Self-Healing & Sovereign Wellness (Self-Study)
For gentle seekers, family caretakers, and independent natural health enthusiasts who wish to weave the complete fabric of natural medicine into their daily lifestyle.
Immerse yourself in our complete, deeply comprehensive knowledge library entirely at your own pace. This independent pathway grants you full digital access to all 62 lessons and 2,470 pages of master-level natural medicine wisdom, allowing you to absorb the rich complexities of traditional nature cure completely free from the pressure of fixed schedules, assignment deadlines, or mandatory submissions.
Scope: Ideal for individuals wishing to achieve deep personal healing, cultivate a restorative, healing home environment, and confidently utilize the gentle spectrum of plant and lifestyle therapeutics to protect their family's lifelong well-being.
- What's Included: Full digital access to the entire 62-lesson curriculum, containing all extensive study modules for Healing Diets, Herbal Medicine, Iridology, Quantum Botanicals, and Naturopathy.
- What's Excluded: One-on-one faculty lesson mentorship, assignment grading, clinical case feedback, and professional graduate diplomas.
- Single Payment: $3,350 (Enjoy a $900 savings compared to individual enrollment)
- Payment Plan: 12 automatic monthly payments of $335
Pathway 2: Mentored Professional Natural Physician Diploma Track
For aspiring practitioners, holistic health consultants, and natural medicine leaders who wish to step into their professional calling with grounded confidence and multi-modality expertise.
Step into a deeply supportive, thorough professional training ground designed to guide you mindfully from dedicated student to confident practitioner. This path beautifully pairs our entire 62-lesson curriculum with dedicated, personal one-on-one mentorship from expert faculty as you work through practical assignments, case-taking, and clinical evaluations. Moving at a sustainable pace across a 36-month course structure (with a generous 48-month window for completion), you can cultivate true clinical wisdom while keeping your current life and family commitments beautifully balanced.
Scope: Tailored specifically for individuals called to establish an independent professional consulting practice, design a welcoming consultation space, create natural wellness formulas, or guide others toward vitality in retreat settings.
- What's Included: Heart-centered one-on-one faculty mentorship, granular lesson feedback, clinical case history review, and complete access to the 2,470-page text library. Upon successful graduation, you will be awarded six distinct professional qualifications to support a diverse, well-rounded practice:
- Natural Physician Diploma (NPH)
- Naturopathy Diploma (ND)
- Integrative Herbal Medicine Diploma (IHMA)
- Healing Diets Coach Diploma (HDC)
- Integrative Quantum Botanicals Diploma (IQB)
- Integrative Iridology Diploma (IIR)
- Accreditation & Professional Recognition: This elite track is fully accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) and the Complementary Medical Association (CMA). Graduates qualify for professional international board certification, professional member status, and are prequalified for comprehensive practice insurance.
- Discounted Full Payment: $8,350 (Save $1,650 compared to individual single-course enrollments)
- Extended Payment Plan: 12 automatic monthly payments of $835
Your Study Rhythm: Designed for Real Life
Adult learning requires absolute flexibility. At the School of Natural Medicine, you are in complete control of your calendar, allowing you to seamlessly integrate your studies with your personal and professional commitments.
Course Option
Natural Physician
Average study commitment
Average Study Commitment
~10 hours per week
Average Duration
Average duration
36 Months
Generaous Saftety-Net Window
Generous Safety-Net Window
48 Months total to complete
Course Details
Natural Physician
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Curriculum Breakdown:
What You Will Explore
Curriculum Breakdown: What You Will Explore
HEALING DIETS COURSE TOPICS
IRIDOLOGY COURSE TOPICS
HERBAL MEDICINE COURSE TOPICS
QUANTUM BOTANICALS COURSE TOPICS
NATUROPATHY COURSE TOPICS
The Elements of Deep Purification & Rejuvenation
Step into a thoughtful exploration of cellular cleansing and systemic renewal. You will study the history, theory, and practice of water fasting, juice fasting, and liquitarian diets to support the body’s innate eliminative organs. This foundational study maps out the natural progression of health and imbalances, teaching you how to move a client through corrective transition cycles and into radiant, vibrant rejuvenation.
Functional Nutrition, Energetics & Consciousness
Bridge modern nutritional science with ancient wisdom. You will explore the delicate interaction of enzymes, phytonutrients, and prebiotics while balancing these concepts with the Five Elements, Ayurvedic Doshas, and the Three Gunas. This module reveals the deep relationship between food and consciousness, diving into healing food as medicine to gently transform physical, mental and emotional health through nutrient rich diets balanced with cycles of cleansing for lasting rejuvenation and wellness through all life phases.
The Healing Kitchen & Program Creation
Translate nutritional philosophy into everyday living. Learn the practical alchemy of raw food preparation, sprouting, fermenting, and the medicinal use of culinary spices. You will graduate with the confidence to design welcoming client programs, structure conscious mealtime environments, and establish a deeply ethical, health-supportive consultation practice.
Course topics
healing diets
The Symbolic Language of the Iris
Trace the beautiful, long-standing history of iris analysis from ancient origins to modern clinical practice. You will learn to perceive the iris as a living, symbolic map of the human ecosystem. By mastering iris topography, embryology, and iris drawing, you will learn to read the fine markings, structures, and densities that point to a person's unique physical makeup.
Constitutional Mapping & Systemic Health
Differentiate between traditional European and Faridian constitutional types to understand an individual's inherent constitutional strengths and weaknesses. This course is integrated with in-depth holistic anatomy and physiology, teaching you to locate the body's primary systems, glands, and eliminative channels within the iris and understand the relationships between each body system, organ and gland. This analysis lets you identify areas of natural strength or systemic weakness before imbalances manifest physically, and provides insight into the most effective way to reverse health imbalances through cleansing and rejuvenation.
Iridian Psychology & Emotional Healing
Look beyond physical anatomy and step into the emotional and psychological landscape of the client. Utilizing the Rayid model, you will study how iris patterns reflect personality traits, relationship dynamics, and hemispheric dominance. This comprehensive approach allows you to seamlessly integrate flower essences and natural therapies to create profoundly customized, compassionate self-healing plans.
Course topics
iridology
Honor the roots of traditional medicine by studying the historic use of plants in ancient societies. You will bridge this ancestral wisdom with modern phytochemical research, studying how climate, soil, and active plant principles affect the healing process. This foundational understanding teaches you to treat the body as a whole, focusing on system-wide wellness rather than suppressing isolated symptoms.
Materia Medica & Systemic Botanicals
Immerse yourself in an in-depth study of 116 primary healing plants and dozens of supportive botanical allies. You will explore plant classification, identification, and the unique energetics, cautions, and emotional qualities of each herb. This module integrates anatomy and physiology seamlessly, showing you exactly how specific plants interact with and tonify individual body systems, organs and glands.
The Art of the Apothecary & Formulation
- Step into the practical compounding of natural remedies. You will master the traditional methods of herbal application, including the creation of high-potency infusions, decoctions, ointments, syrups, and tinctures. You will gain complete independence in designing custom, balanced formulas tailored to acute needs, first aid, or long-term constitutional support
- Gain complete independence in creating custom, balanced herbal formulas tailored to handle both acute situations and long-term constitutional needs.
- Cultivate professional consultation skills and holistic program creation, learning the art of compassionate client intake, active listening, and case history gathering to design beautifully integrated, personalized botanical protocols.
Course topics
Herbal medicine
Expand your understanding of reality by exploring the intersection of matter, consciousness, and energy. Moving from classical physics to the breakthroughs of Einstein and Planck, you will study how the laws of sacred geometry and fractal potential express themselves throughout nature. This pillar helps you view all life as an interconnected, holographic field of cooperative intelligence.
Brain Coherence & Direct Plant Perception
Cultivate a grounded, felt sense through practical energy awareness exercises. By learning to balance left and right hemisphere processing and practicing heart entrainment, you will open your awareness to the sensory world of plant consciousness. This module teaches the gentle art of direct perception, allowing you to communicate deeply with the energetic frequencies of the natural world.
Psychoneuroimmunology & Flower Essence Therapy
Explore how emotions, thoughts, and inherited patterns shape our physical well-being. Rooted in Candace Pert’s discoveries regarding the molecules of emotion, you will map out how emotional frequencies register within cells and DNA. You will complete a comprehensive study of the 38 Bach Flower Remedies, learning to create bespoke client blends that unify the subtle frequencies of essences with the energetic and chemical properties of essential oils to clear trauma and restore mental and emotional harmony.
Course topics
Quantum Botanicals
Ground your practice in the timeless philosophy and practice of authentic Naturopathy. You will study the fundamental continuum of health and ease, mastering the universal Laws of Living and the Laws of Cure. This core perspective teaches you to look past surface symptoms to identify the true root causes of an imbalance, learning how to work with the body's natural processes rather than suppressing its restorative responses.
Elemental Energetics & Traditional Therapeutics
Discover how to align the body with the restorative energies of Nature. You will study Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether energetics, learning to use traditional water therapies (hydrotherapy) and Elemental Energetics to stimulate vitality and harmonize the function of body organs, systems and glands. This module guides you through supporting the body during acute conditions and safe cleansing crises to clear chronic congestion and encourage regeneration.
Holistic Lifestyle Architecture & Case-Taking
Learn the art of designing a truly restorative lifestyle. You will examine the psychology of wellness, life habits, personal hygiene, and how to create a peaceful, healing home environment. Finally, you will master the foundational clinical skills of holistic analysis, comprehensive case-taking, and patient consultation, providing a grounded, professional blueprint for a meaningful practice
Course topics
Naturopathy
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The Freedom to Evolve: Your Path to Master Herbalist
At the School of Natural Medicine, your education is a living, flexible journey. You are never locked into a single choice, and your credentials scale seamlessly alongside your growing passion.
- Upgrading Your Online Study: If you begin your journey on the Independent Self-Healing Track today and later decide you want to practice professionally, you can seamlessly upgrade to the Mentored Natural Physician Diploma at any time by simply paying the tuition difference.
- Stepping Into Clinical Immersion: For students on the Natural Physician track, your online studies lay the foundational groundwork. Whenever you are ready, you can transition into hands-on clinical mastery by enrolling in our expert-led, in-person Immersion Trainings to graduate as a Natural Physician Advanced Practitioner. You move forward entirely at your own pace.
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“I really enjoyed every lesson and every experience throughout my studies. It is an amazing journey, well explained in your lessons and you are always there to quickly answer questions. I felt supported and encouraged. It was a pleasure to read your feedback and to get another chance to do better when it was not sufficient the first time. As I discovered all that this course offered, I discovered who I was. Now I feel confident as I continue this journey and begin advising others too.”
Charlene Masquelet NNAP
Natural Physician graduate
