INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL 2
Course Highlights
This comprehensive course contains elements of evidence-based preventive and lifestyle medicine that promotes a whole food plant-based diet and lifestyle as a way to prevent and treat chronic conditions. It also integrates holistic oriental notions for regaining balance and restoring energy flow through the use of foods, cooking and simple lifestyle practices to facilitate healing and foster health. This unique macrobiotic approach to health and wellbeing deals with the root cause of disease to prevent and help relieve many chronic conditions and physical, emotional and mental disorders naturally. The course also comprises practical information for enabling to take better care of the whole family. Main features of the course include:
Macrobiotic DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Approach to Health
- Uncover the dietary, lifestyle and environmental root causes of common diseases
- Prevent chronic disease by implementing food and lifestyle changes
- Get to know your body better and acquire useful tools for taking good care of it
- Learn how to adjust the macrobiotic plant-based diet to facilitate healing and foster health
- Discover the medicinal uses of common foods
- Become skilled at cooking for regaining balance, restoring energy flow and for healing purposes
Macrobiotic Holistic Oriental Path to Health
- Find out how balancing Yin Yang leads to better health
- Get to know about the five energy transformations (also known as the five elements theory) and its practical uses for developing the health of body, emotions and mind
- Familiarize with oriental energetic (Ki/Qi) notions and how they relate with your health
See your health condition with oriental diagnosis
Family Wellbeing
- Get tips for a healthy pregnancy, smooth delivery and care for the mother after birth and during breastfeeding
- Find out how to ween babies and children’s first food
- Adjust your way of cooking for the whole family
- Take care of your children’s health with simple dietary modifications and lifestyle practices
Introduction of the Teachers
Patricio Garcia de Paredes
日本Global Macrobiotics /Macrobiotic School Japan 创办人教導老師
DOREEN LAI
马来西亚 Macrobiotic School Malaysia 创办人主辦方老師
COURSE COOKING
Cooking in the Intermediate-Level 2 Course is less general and more focused on a purpose. It involves the application of food energetics in the kitchen and helping you become more proficient at creating Yin Yang balance in your cooking. We also take an in-depth look at the five energy transformations (also known as the five elements theory) and its practical applications in the kitchen for strengthening health and facilitating healing. Including gaining the ability to identify foods for medicinal purposes and the therapeutic use of cooking. Cooking for the whole family is another aim of the course and includes cooking for helping mothers maintain their health during pregnancy, recover after giving birth, weening and baby food, and for encouraging youngsters adopt healthy dietary habits. Some highlights follow:
• Become skillful at using Yin Yang in your cooking to help restore balance and promote wellbeing • Discover new ways of using food as medicine and for healing • Learn how to use cooking to strengthen organs, improving conditions and boosting your health • Adapt your way of cooking during pregnancy and after giving birth • Get tips and ideas for introducing wholesome foods and providing healthy fare to your family
Course Format
- There are 10 lessons in total, students will receive PDF textbooks beforehand. Classes will be conducted in English live via Zoom, with Chinese translations happening simultaneously.
- Each class covers theory, cooking, questions and answers. Duration of around 8 hours (inclusive of 1 hour lunch time).
- International recipes including Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Southeast Asia and others. (Also with 10 dessert recipes),
- Unlimited viewing of video recordings for 1 year.
- Students can join a platform to share information, encourage each other, consult the teacher, and practise together.
- There are Chinese tutorial classes after each lesson, for reviewing, tutoring and discussion.
- A signed certificate of completion will be given upon finishing the course.
Course Chapter Outline
LESSON 1
- Macrobiotic Dietary and Lifestyle Recommendations for Regaining Health
- Enhance Your Health Through Yin Yang Balance
- Introduction to the Five Energy Transformations (also known as the five elements theory)
LESSON2
- TREE ENERGY: Associated with the Liver and Gall Bladder
- Organ Function, Health Conditions and Ways to Strengthen Through Food, Cooking and Lifestyle
LESSON 3
- FIRE ENERGY: Associated with the Heart and Small Intestine
- Organ Function, Health Conditions and Ways to Strengthen Through Food, Cooking and Lifestyle
LESSON 4
- SOIL ENERGY: Associated with the Spleen, Pancreas and Stomach
- Organ Function, Health Conditions and Ways to Strengthen Through Food, Cooking and Lifestyle
LESSON 5
- METAL ENERGY: Associated with the Lungs and Large Intestine
- Organ Function, Health Conditions and Ways to Strengthen Through Food, Cooking and Lifestyle
LESSON 6
- WATER ENERGY: Associated with the Kidneys, Bladder and Reproductive Organs
- Organ Function, Health Conditions and Ways to Strengthen Through Food, Cooking and Lifestyle
- Infertility and Reproductive Problem
LESSON 7
- Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy, Smooth Delivery and Care for the Mother
- Raising Healthy Children and Family Care
LESSON 8
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Mental Health
LESSON 9
- A Holistic Oriental Approach to Wellness Based on an Energetic View of Life and the Link Between Ki/Qi Flow, Chakras, and Meridians with Health
- Simple Meridian Diagnosis Based on the Five Stages of Energy Transformations
LESSON 10
- Oriental Diagnosis
- Visual Face and Body Diagnosis
Class Schedule
LEVEL 2 Beginner Course 第二阶课程
ONLINE 国际线上课 : RM9000
OFFLINE 线下实体课 : RM10500
Frequently Asked Questions
Courses start in 2023. One lesson per month. The starting date of Level 1 is February 2023. But you can sign up anytime and we will send you the past recordings.
Don't worry, every class is recorded and students can watch it unlimited times within a certain period of time.
We have simultaneous Chinese translation throughout the process. The handouts are also translated into Chinese.
Register before 30/11/2022 to enjoy early bird discount.
- A second member of your family signs up for the course. You can create a common food culture with your family and journey on the path to good health together.
- Young people under the age of 25 are encouraged during the golden period of unlimited creativity and potential. With your participation, we can continue to grow this healthy eating community, ensuring its vitality and completeness
It is based on your preferred learning style. Some students prepare in advance and then cook in sync with the teacher. Some students try to cook according to the recipe before the class, and then observe the teacher during the class. There are also students who observe first and then cook later.