Advanced Diploma Course
Naturopathy
The Naturopathy Advanced Diploma Course offered by the School of Natural Medicine integrates the study of Naturopathy, Healing Diets, Herbal Medicine, and Iridology. Naturopathy is a systemic approach to holistic natural medicine that recognizes that the cause and cure of disease lies within the whole person—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. In this comprehensive course, you will become expertly attuned to the concept of cause and effect as you learn to use diet, herbal medicine, essential oils, flower essences, and supportive naturopathic therapies to restore health and vitality, cultivate balance, and build a thriving clinical practice.
This advanced diploma honors the vitalist roots of traditional nature cure—the foundational understanding that the human body possesses an innate intelligence to heal and restore its own vitality when provided with the correct conditions.
We integrate this timeless wisdom with modern lifestyle medicine and phytochemical research, examining how everyday choices in nutrition, daily habits, and plant therapeutics support the body's internal ecology. Our curriculum blends authentic European Naturopathy with current scientific advancements in whole-food nutrition, phytonutrient chemistry, and holistic anatomy and physiology.
Rather than managing isolated symptoms, you will learn to assess the body's internal environment and guide individuals back into harmony with the natural laws of living and cure. This comprehensive training provides a superb foundation for an exceptionally grounded, authentic, and effective professional practice.
This advanced diploma honors the vitalist roots of traditional nature cure—the foundational understanding that the human body possesses an innate intelligence to heal and restore its own vitality when provided with the correct conditions.
We integrate this timeless wisdom with modern lifestyle medicine and phytochemical research, examining how everyday choices in nutrition, daily habits, and plant therapeutics support the body's internal ecology. Our curriculum blends authentic European Naturopathy with current scientific advancements in whole-food nutrition, phytonutrient chemistry, and holistic anatomy and physiology.
Rather than managing isolated symptoms, you will learn to assess the body's internal environment and guide individuals back into harmony with the natural laws of living and cure. This comprehensive training provides a superb foundation for an exceptionally grounded, authentic, and effective professional practice.
Master Pure Nature Cure, Western Herbal Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine in practice
Part 1
Naturopathy Diploma Course
- Four Core Modalities: Study the fully integrated spectrum of four online diploma courses: Healing Diets, Herbal Medicine, Iridology, and Naturopathy, earning professional qualifications as you progress. Curriculum topics below.
- Comprehensive Study Materials: Fulfill 50 in-depth lessons spanning 2017 pages of rich, interactive natural medicine wisdom, alongside academic, creative and experiential assignments.
- Flexible Learning: Progress comfortably through a standard 36-month track, averaging about 9 hours of study a week, knowing you have a generous 42-month window for completion.
- Study Schedule: Enjoy the freedom to design your own daily rhythm, allowing your education to fit seamlessly alongside your personal and professional commitments.
- Individual Mentorship: Receive personal, one-on-one mentorship throughout your studies. Your work is individually assessed as you progress, providing the dedicated feedback, answers, and support you need to achieve your highest potential.
The Naturopathy Advanced training is structured into two flexible phases designed to take you seamlessly from deep theoretical and experiential knowledge to master hands-on kitchen, healing touch, plant medicine formulation, and consultation and program creation skills.
Part 2
5 in-person Immersion Trainings
- Five Immersive Focuses: Attend all five of our 5-day intensive trainings: Healing Diets, Naturopathy & Iridology, Essential Oils & Healing Touch, Quantum Botanicals & Flower Essences, and Herbal Medicine.
- Flexible Enrollment: Undertake your practical trainings in any order and at any point during and/or after your online studies. Begin with the online foundation and choose to add your immersions later, paying for each practical training only when you are ready to attend.
- Rotational Yearly Calendar: Map out your travel and attendance over an extended window, knowing that each of the five signature immersions is thoughtfully offered on alternate years, or complete all five trainings in a two year period.
- Advanced Milestone Graduation: Complete each in-person training alongside your online studies to graduate with individual course diplomas, culminating in your Natural Physician Advanced Diploma.
- Choose your Destination: Immersions offered in Cheltenham, UK and Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
- Five Immersive Focuses: Attend all five of our 5-day intensive trainings: Healing Diets, Naturopathy & Iridology, Essential Oils & Healing Touch, Quantum Botanicals & Flower Essences, and Herbal Medicine. Immersion details below.
- Flexible Enrollment: Undertake your practical trainings in any order and at any point during and/or after your online studies. Begin with the online foundation and choose to add your immersions later, paying for each practical training only when you are ready to attend.
- Rotational Yearly Calendar: Map out your travel and attendance over an extended window, knowing that each of the five signature immersions is thoughtfully offered on alternate years, or complete all five trainings in a two year period.
- Advanced Graduation: Complete each in-person training alongside your online studies to graduate with individual course diplomas, culminating in your Natural Physician Advanced Diploma.
- Choose your Destination: Immersions offered in Cheltenham, UK and Lake Worth Beach, Florida.
- Diploma Graduation: As you complete each online diploma course, you will earn your professional foundation diploma, paving the way toward your advanced practitioner graduation.
- Advanced Diploma Graduation: Please note that each Immersion Training is offered on alternate years in Lake Worth Beach, Florida and Cheltenham, UK, with all five immersions offered in every two year period. Once you have completed both the online studies and the practical immersion, you will graduate with your Natural Physician Advanced Diploma credential.
diet | herbal medicine | iridology | naturopathy
In the Naturopathy course you will discover the value of cause and effect, as you learn to use this natural law, along with diet, herbal medicine, essential oils, flower essences and supportive therapies to increase health and vitality, and to achieve balance, harmony and well being.
The Five primary forms of Plant medicine, iridology & naturopathic supportive therapies are taught in-depth:
- Traditional Naturopathy & Nature Cure: Master the foundational laws of living and laws of cure, exploring elemental energetics, water therapies, bowel cleansing, and vitalist philosophy. You will learn to assess the health-disease continuum, address root causes rather than symptoms, and apply time-tested nature cure therapies to restore the body’s innate vital force.
- Naturopathic Nutrition & Healing Diets: Study nutrition through the lens of nature cure, moving seamlessly from therapeutic cleansing and purification to deep, nutrient-dense health building. You will master the rhythms of a living foods kitchen, gourmet raw preparation, and the corrective use of therapeutic foods to rebalance the body's inner ecology based on individual constitutional, lifestyle, and life phase needs.
- Systemic Western Herbalism: Embark on an in-depth study of botanical medicine, mastering a comprehensive Materia Medica alongside integrated holistic anatomy and physiology. You will learn traditional formulation, phytochemical principles, and practical pharmacy protocols to safely and dynamically support the body's primary organ systems, acute and chronic conditions, and individual constitutions.
- Essential Oils, Flower Essences & Supportive Therapies: Explore essential oils, flower essences, and supportive naturopathic therapies to harmonize elemental energetics, calm the nervous system, and release emotional holding patterns—enhancing the therapeutic resonance of your core clinical practice.
Constitutional Health:
Learning to read the intricate visual language of the iris provides a profound map for individualized lifestyle protocols, allowing you to thoroughly analyze:
- Systemic Strengths and Weaknesses: Observe underlying tissue vitality, inherited constitutional qualities, and the state of primary organ systems.
- Mind-Body Dynamics: Recognize the direct connections between physical health, emotional holding patterns, and psychological processing styles.
- Eliminative Channels & Inner Ecology: Assess the digestive, lymphatic, circulatory, and organ systems to identify areas of stagnation, toxic accumulation, or constitutional stress.
- Personalized Self-Healing Programs: Use these deep insights to create highly effective, individually tailored lifestyle and naturopathic programs that empower your clients to thrive and provide the insight needed for long-term prevention, health, and vitality.
Course Fees
Online Foundation (naturopathy)
Online Foundation
(Healing Diets Coach)
Your Naturopathy Advanced journey begins with the comprehensive, mentored Naturopathy online diploma course. There are two payment options as follows:
Option A: Payment in Full
Investment: $6700 (Single one-time payment)
Option B: Time Payments
Investment: 12 monthly payments of $200
If you wish to commit to both the online studies and your in-person immersion from the start, you are welcome to enroll in both together. To arrange simultaneous enrollment, simply contact the school directly. We will personally coordinate your training dates and issue a dedicated, Stripe invoice tailored directly to your journey.
Naturopathy Immersions fees
HEALING DIETS
NATUROPATHY & IRIDOLOGY
QUANTUM BOTANICALS
ESSENTIAL OILS & HEALING TOUCH
Prerequisite: To ensure a deep, shared academic experience, students must be actively enrolled in or have completed the online diploma studies to attend an immersion training.
Securing Your Place: A non-refundable registration fee of $1,000 is required to reserve your place in an immersion training.
The Balance: The remaining balance of $800 ($2000 for Healing Diets) is due 90 days before the first day of your chosen session.
$3000
HERBAL MEDICINE
$1800
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HERBAL MEDICINE
$1800
NATUROPATHY & IRIDOLOGY
$1800
ESSENTIAL OILS & HEALING TOUCH
$1800
HEALING DIETS
$3000
QUANTUM BOTANICALS
$1800
Natural Physician
Immersions fees
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Curriculum Breakdown:
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HEALING DIETS
HERBAL MEDICINE
IRIDOLOGY
NATUROPATHY
• Food and consciousness: emotions, cognition, depression, anxiety, gut health, etc.
• Tissue Salts
• Parasite cleansing
• Vegan diet: philosophy, practical application and menu inspiration
• Health consequences of eating animal products
• Environmental consequences of eating animal products
• Social consequences of eating animal products
• Economic consequences of eating animal products
• Meat, dairy and egg replacers in recipes
• Vegan and vegetarian baking
• Food and Ethics
• Factory farming
• Genetically modified foods: health, environmental and economic/societal costs
• The seed industry
• Corporate food
• Litigation and school lunches
• Subsidised GMO farmers vs penalised organic farmers
• Slave labour in the food industry
• Codex Alimentarius
• Food additives
• Public Research - Private Gain: funding for food research/funding policies
• Changing food policies
• Food sovereignty
• Soil and health
• Organic farming: biodynamics and permaculture
• Self healing and independent health
• Creating a practice
• Creating a consultation space
• Practice promotion, websites and marketing
• Practice ethics and codes of conduct
• Consultation skills
• Healing Diets programme creation
• Diet and the immune system
• Lymphatic cleansing
• Diet and the nervous system
• Transition Diets
• Low glycemic diets
• Healing food habits: mealtime stories, food addiction, emotional eating and other eating disorders
• Oils and fats: raw, vegetable, nut and seed, methods of extraction, effects on health
• Creating a healing diets kitchen: tools, cookware
• Conscious eating: awareness, presentation, environment
• Menu inspiration
• Five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether, and their relationship with diet
• Biological humours of Vata, Pita and Kapha
• The three Gunas and diet
• Six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent
• Healing spices: dosha balancing and medicinal benefits of culinary spices
• Living foods: history, benefits and practice
• Fermented food and drinks
• Sprouting
• Dehydrating foods
• Use of nuts and seeds in healing diets
• Raw food diets: transitioning to raw, raw food preparation, nutrient density, raw challenges, raw contraindications
• Assimilation of nutrient
• Diets for babies and children
• Diets for adolescence
• Diet for preparing for pregnancy, pregnancy and nursing
• Diet for health building and recovery
• Supportive diets for those on medication
• Diet for menopause
• Diet for the elderly
• Food and conditions for increasing beauty
• Nutrient density for athletes
• How the body utilises water in cell, organ, gland and systemic function.
• The effects of dehydration
• Water fasting: history, theory and practice
• Water quality, structure and preservation
• Water as a container for intention
• Juice fasting: history, theory and practice. Methods of juicing
• Liquitarian Diets
• Green drinks
• Produce hygiene
• Nutritional and medicinal properties of fruits and vegetables.
• Disease progression: enervation, toxaemia, irritation, inflammation, ulceration, induration, fungation
• Steps to overcoming disease
• The eliminative organs and now to support them with diet, herbs and naturopathic therapies
• Detox symptoms and naturopathic treatments
• Bowel cleansing: theory and practice
• Digestive health and longevity
• In-depth study of the digestive system and enteric nervous system
• Liver and gallbladder cleansing: theory and practice
• Stomach cleansing and healing
• Nutritional support for body organs, systems and glands
• Kidney stone cleansing and urinary system support
• Wheatgrass, chlorophyl and Rejuvelac: benefits and use
• Purification Diet
• Food combining
• Alkaline diet: effects of pH on body cells, organs, glands and systems, and on mental and emotional health
• Minerals, vitamins, proteins, starch, fats, sugars, enzymes, antioxidants, phytonutrients pre and probiotics, life force in food, and their roles in body function
course topics
healing diets
• Botany
• Chemistry of herbs
• Naming and identifying plants
• Collecting herbs and preparing herbarium specimens
• Plant classification appendix
• Pharmacy and dispensary
• How to set up a pharmacy
• Dosage
• Methods of herbal application
• First aid treatment
• Acute conditions
• Fomentations
• Infusions
• Ointments
• Ovules
• Pill making
• Poultices
• Smoking herbs
• Syrups and tinctures
• Materia Medica (116 primary herbs, plus dozens of supportive herbs) - action, active ingredients, activity, applications, aromatherapy, astrology, Ayurveda, cautions, contraindications, chakras, elements, emotions, Chinese medicine, combinations, cultivation, dosage, energetics, flower essences, formulas, habitat, history, homeopathy, meridians, organs, names, nutrients, part used, personality, plant description, research, spiritual properties, substitutions, systems, taste, tissues, wildcrafting and preparation.
• Iatrogenic drug induced disease
• Herbs and healing
• Holistic perceptions
• Body, mind, spirit
• Vitamins and minerals for body organs, systems and glands
• History and Philosophy
• Use of herbs in ancient and traditional societies
• Chemistry of herbs
• Climate, soil, active principles
• Collecting, harvesting, storage
• Extraction
• Food as Medicine
• Food addictions
• Effects of diet, coffee, alcohol, drugs, etc., on the healing process
• Creating herbal formulas
• Prescription symbols
• Herbal pharmacy terminology
• Contraindications for a range of situations
• Body systems and herbal medicine (anatomy and physiology is taught by body system and integrated through the course
course topics
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• Reproductive system in the iris
• Respiratory system in the iris
• Urinary system in the iris
• Skeletal and muscular systems in the iris
• Iridian psychology
• Rayid model
• Flower essences, emotional healing and Iridology
• Eliminative channels in the iris
• European constitutional types
• Faridian constitutional types
• Holistic anatomy and physiology
• Nervous system in the iris
• Digestive system in the iris
• Circulatory system in the iris
• Lymphatic system in the iris
• Endocrine system in the iris
• History and Philosophy of Iridology - from 1000 BC to today
• Foundation of Natural Medicine
• Symbolic language of the interior world
• Iris topography
• Embryology
• Iris drawing
• Iris texture
• Basic Iris Signs
course topics
Iridology
• Heredity
• Sexuality and Reproduction
• Life Habits
• A Healing Home
• Personal Hygiene
• Inner and Outer Ecology
• Healing Processes
• Healing Crisis/Achievement
• Exercise
• Psychology of Illness/Wellness
• Relationships
• Cleansing and Purification
• Rebuilding/Regenerating
• Case Taking
• Consultation Skills
• Methods of analysis
• Healing Centres/Sanitariums
• Complete system of nature cure
• Dozens of individual treatments
• Dietary &. Lifestyle Disease and Treatment
• Relieving stress of chronic conditions
• Reversing disease process
• Earth Elemental Energetics
• Water Elemental Energetics
• Fire Elemental Energetics
• Air Elemental Energetics
• Ether Elemental Energetics
• Nutrition
• Climate/Environment
• Polarity Therapy
• Earth therapies
• Water Therapies
• Bowel cleansing
• Constitutional diagnosis and treatment
• Effects of system weakness
• Discrimination
• Vibrational healing
• Emotional Healing
• History and Philosophy of Naturopathy
• What is Health? What is Cure?
• Laws of Living
• Laws of Cure
• Health/Disease Continuum
• Acute disease and treatment
• Suppresion vs Elimination
• The effects of inflammataion
• Holistic Anatomy & Physiology
• 9 Body Systems
• Lymphatic System
• Circulatory System
• Reproductive System
• Endocrine System
• Respiratory System
• Digestive System
• Urinary System
• Musculoskeletal System
• Nervous System
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Curriculum Breakdown: What You Will Explore
Step into a delicious, delightful, hands-on experience that provides the true practical foundation for the inspired, creative preparation of therapeutic, nutrient-dense foods. This immersive training brings magic and inspiration directly into your personal relationship with food, giving you a grounded foundation to confidently share this life-changing knowledge with future clients.
- The Living Foods Kitchen: Participate actively in establishing the daily rhythms of a living foods kitchen.
- Nutritional Progression: Learn to guide individuals fluidly from therapeutic cleansing protocols to vibrant, long-term health building.
- Gourmet Raw Foods: Master the exquisite arts of gourmet raw food preparation to make healing lifestyle adjustments truly beautiful and satisfying.
- Practitioner Consultation Skills: Engage in focused lectures interspersed between kitchen hours, focusing specifically on professional client consultation and personalized program creation skills.
Healing Diets Immersion
Step into a professional training space focused entirely on the practical application, clinical consultation, and customized program creation skills required for an exceptionally effective practitioner career. This immersion allows you to refine your unique personal vision for your future practice while grounding your clinical protocols in pure natural law.
- Doctor as Teacher: Develop advanced client consultation skills in strict alignment with the core natural medicine principle of Docere (Doctor as Teacher).
- The Holistic Relationship: Learn the professional skills needed to establish a genuinely holistic, compassionate, and therapeutic patient-practitioner relationship.
- Apothecary & Pharmacy Administration: Master the essential business, logistical, and legal administrative protocols required to safely build and manage a professional herbal pharmacy.
- Practice Development: Cultivate the clinical confidence and structural skills needed to take your botanical medicine training and seamlessly launch it as a thriving vocational practice.
Herbal Medicine Immersion
The Visual Language of the Iris & Traditional Nature Cure
Unlock the profound visual language of the iris and discover the fundamental principles of Iridology and traditional Naturopathy as they directly apply to intuitive self-care, independent self-healing, and successful clinical practice. This 5-day immersion beautifully integrates the core philosophy and practical applications of classic nature cure with an advanced somatic understanding of the human blueprint.
Constitutional Mapping: Embark on an in-depth exploration of iris markings, structure and unique constitutional types to map out an individual's structural patterns.
Systemic Analysis: Master the study of iris structure, specific markings, body systems, and primary eliminative channels.
Naturopathic Therapeutics: Discover how to introduce tailored naturopathic therapies to actively support systemic elimination, safely relieve detox symptoms, and increase overall physical strength and vitality.
Energetic Vitality: Learn practical methods to support intrinsic constitutional strengths and weaknesses while balancing elemental energetics within the body.
Naturopathy & Iridology Immersion
Immerse yourself in a transformative 5-day training focused entirely on plant-based vibrational medicine. Grounded within our current scientific understanding of energy, space, matter, and organized energy fields, you will discover how the profound interconnectedness of mind and body can be actively harnessed to support self-healing and the evolution of consciousness.
- Fractal Landscape: Explore the intricate, fractal nature of human thoughts, emotions, and physical health.
- The 38 Bach Flower Remedies: Dive into a structured, in-depth study of the complete Dr. Bach range of flower essences to master plant-based vibrational medicine prescribing.
- The 12 Healers: Learn to accurately identify and apply the 12 primary remedies that correspond directly to core human personality types.
- The 7 Helpers: Master the selection of the 12 helper remedies, utilized when an individual's core personality becomes obscured by long-term dissociation or stressful/traumatic environmental influences.
- The 19 Situational Remedies: Understand how to utilize the 19 situational remedies to bring immediate harmony to acute internal or external stresses and negative life influences.
Quantum Botanicals &
Flower Essences Immersion
Explore the profound world of plant medicines that possess a unique, unmistakable resonance with the emotional body. This experiential training focuses on sacred healing processes that combine high-frequency botanicals with physical touch to bring deep coherence, systemic balance, and ultimate beauty into day-to-day life.
- Cellular & DNA Memory: Study how the complex chemistry and high vibrational frequency of pure essential oils act directly on cellular and DNA memory to permanently release accumulated trauma.
- Glandular Oxygenation: Discover how aromatic molecules increase vital oxygenation directly to the pineal and pituitary glands.
- Systemic Physiological Support: Learn how essential oils naturally support the healthy functioning of the endocrine, immune, nervous, respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems.
- Nervous System Coherence: Master techniques designed to beautifully balance sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system function while encouraging deep heart-brain coherence.
- Neurological Processing & Mood Elevation: Harness potently anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral plant properties to increase right-hemisphere processing of life experiences, improve focus, boost memory, and serve as effective mood elevators.
Essential Oils
& HealingTouch Immersion
Board Accreditation & Professional Credentials
- Recognition: The Naturopathy Advanced Professional Diploma is fully accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP), the American Alternative Medical Association (AAMA), and the Complementary Medical Association (CMA).
- Mid-Way Qualification: Upon completing each of your online courses, you will receive the associated Diploma, accredited by the AADP.
- Advanced Graduation: Upon the successful completion of both your online modules and the in-person immersion, you will receive your Naturopathy Advanced Diploma.
- Professional Board Status: As an advanced graduate, you qualify as a board-accredited Alternative Medical Practitioner with the AAMA.
- Membership & Insurance: Graduates are fully eligible to become professional members of the prestigious Complementary Medical Association and are prequalified for comprehensive, discounted practice liability insurance through Westminster Insurance.
Hayley Porter NNAP, MH, MIr, ND
Naturopathy Advanced Diploma graduate
“Thank you, thank you, thank you Bonny for sharing your potent wisdom with me. The studies are so easily digested and applied to the lives of each student. It is a truly life changing, life benefiting school and my practice is soaring to heights that I never could have imagined. I am so grateful.”
