Certified Food & Spirit Practitioner Program

SEATTLE - March 20, 2014 - PRLog -- Seattle, WA—Today, Food & Spirit Founder and health expert, Deanna Minich, PhD, announced the new Certified Food & Spirit Practitioner Program, enabling healthcare practitioners to develop a multi-faceted approach to their clinical practice through the application of the combination of cutting-edge findings in science with the centuries-old wisdom of ancient medicine traditions such as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

“Dr Deanna Minich is one of those special people who has both the gifts of a scientific mind coupled with an equal measure of artistic humanism. She is a “blender” of the objective with the less tangible energies that define what allow people to do amazing things. In the ten years I have had the privilege of working with her I have been amazed at seeing her continual growth and contributions as a woman of great substance in pushing forward the evolution of the healthcare movement,” said Jeffrey Bland, PhD, father of Functional Medicine and nutrigenomics pioneer

Several international healthcare professionals, including naturopathic physicians, nurses, nutritionists, dietitians, acupuncturists, yoga practitioners, and health coaches, from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, have already completed the program. They are enthusiastic for a refreshing, creative vision of medicine in the 21^st century that encompasses a broader perspective to healing. Sabine Weber, MS, RD, CDN who recently completed the Certified Food & Spirit Practitioner Program, took a step to evolve and move her practice forward with this program. She states: “I feel that this course will be essential to move and evolve my practice.  I believe it’s important to provide the tools to clients that resonate with oneself.  The teachings of Food & Spirit have helped make me whole and it is important for me to bring it to my practice.”

Another nutrition professional who has completed the certification, commented on her experience, “As a nutrition educator, I am on many email lists and get inundated with offers of special training. I have been very judicious about the trainings I actually take part in, looking for courses that offer solid nutrition science. When I read about this training, I liked the rigor if it — it felt like a substantive course of study. I also knew immediately that it could help many of my clients, who are struggling with their relationship to food. I believe that the Food & Spirit training could help me better address with my clients how they relate to food, how it functions in their lives and how they can change unhealthy patterns and assumptions for the long term. In doing so, I hope to look at my own history with food, to see how it has functioned in my life and to adjust my diet further for best health and well-being.” – Paula Martinac, MA, MS, Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition (cand.)

The time is right for being part of this exciting movement of change to transform disease care into true “health” care. Food & Spirit offers its 12-week online program to equip health professionals with a diverse array of personalized lifestyle medicine tools to shift their clinical practice to be nourishing not just for their patients, but also for themselves.  Register at www.foodandspiritprofessional.com.

About Food & Spirit and Deanna Minich, PhD:  Food & Spirit was developed by personalized lifestyle medicine practitioner, Deanna Minich, PhD, as a way to cultivate eating as a path to personal growth. It addresses a path to the full spectrum nourishment of the seven aspects of the self as recognized in ancient healing traditions.