With increased interest in new approaches to healthcare and healing, online classes in alternative medicine and holistic healing provide individuals with online education options that cover a variety of alternative medical practices.  These online Alternative Medicine courses have been created for students at all levels, from beginner to advanced, and offers individuals courses in Acupressure, Color Reflexology, Crystal Healing, and Herbalism.  

Alternative Medicine Courses

• Acupressure

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9000

  Acupressure is often thought of as being a poor substitute for Acupuncture and yet in skilled hands can be just as effective for many of the conditions more traditionally treated by needles.
  
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• Ayurveda - A Foundation

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9027

  Ayurveda is a traditional Indian system of medicine -a combination of science and philosophy which details the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual components necessary for holistic health.
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• Biochemic Tissue Salts

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9028

  This course has been developed to take an in-depth look at the use of Biochemic Tissue Salts as a method of homeopathic therapy.
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• Biochemistry

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9029

  In this course, you will be introduced to biochemistry, which is the study of the chemical processes which take place in living cells.
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• Chi-Kung

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9030

  The term Chi-Kung translates as breathing or energising exercises, from which the benefits are immediately reaped. The exercises are enough to instill within us a kind of fervor which will move us forward along a path of greater understanding, longevity and spiritual understanding.
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• Chinese Medical Theory

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9031

  The course is designed to introduce you to Chinese Medical Theory.
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• Color Reflexology

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9033

  Color Reflexology and reflexology therapy are combined to dramatically increase the healing potential of the body. This course provides advanced knowledge and skills which can be used in the practice. Course work assessment after each assignment with constant tutor support to motivate and encourage you.
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• Color Therapy

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9032

  Color Therapy or Chromotherapy has been successfully used since ancient times and has been a part of medical practice for many centuries past. Color is the soul of nature and by experiencing the life of color, we participate in this soul - this is how Rudolph Steiner described the value of color.
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• Creative Imagery

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9140

  Visualization therapy can be a powerful and beneficial force. It teaches techniques to benefit health, to assist other natural healing processes and to reinforce positive feelings and well-being.
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• Crystal Healing

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9036

  Crystal Healing Therapists are now accepted and recognized worldwide and this course will provide you with sufficient knowledge and expertise to use this therapy.
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• Crystal Healing Practitioner

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9037

  This course provides the student with an in depth understanding of how to interact with crystal healing power and provides a thorough working knowledge of the ancient art and science of crystal healing.
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• Energy-Anatomy

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9040

  This course includes the basics of the human multi-dimensional anatomy and investigates the auric field, vibrations and energy transfer, chakras and meridians.
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• Feng Shui

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9043

  A room that does not conform can create confusion and loss of wealth and more important to many, health. Feng Shui is the Ancient Chinese system of balancing and creating harmony in your immediate environment. Most of us are familiar with the concept of yin and yang and the balance of Chi energy that flows through our bodies.
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• Feng Shui

  ProTrain Online Course Code: PRO1077

  Feng Shui is the Ancient Chinese system of balancing and creating harmony in your immediate environment.
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• Hand Reflexology

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9050

  This in-depth program provides information on the structure of the hands, their related reflex areas and a step-by-step guide, with the help of easy-to-understand diagrams, on how to give a safe and enjoyable treatment.
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• Herbalism

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9277

  This course enables the learner to have the confidence to set up a practice in herbalism or to use it as an additional herbal medicine therapy.
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• Herbalism - Clinical

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9278

  This course furnishes the students with the skills necessary to diagnose symptoms and signs and prescribe curative prescriptions for a wide range of health problems.
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• Holistic Back Practitioner

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED902

  A number of therapies have success with back problems to various degrees. One shortfall with this is our own individual uniqueness. What works for one, may not work for someone else. The basis of this course, is that it offers a bundle of techniques, approaches and ideas from a broad spectrum of therapies that do work.
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• Holistic Healing

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9052

  Learn to animate the vital force within to bring mind, body, emotions and spirit back into balance. This form of therapy is excellent for treating illness, stress or injury. Holistic Healing is a useful tool. It is remarkable for relieving the distress and discomfort of pain.
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• Holistic Healing Professional Practitioner

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9152

  This advanced practitioner training course covers a range of energy healing methods including Crystal Healing, color Therapy and Chakra Healing. It also provides training in Autogenic Healing, Relaxation Therapy, basic NLP use in healing, Inner Child Therapy and Basic Counseling/Interviewing Skills.
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• Holistic Health Therapist

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9053

  All illness is a manifestation of imbalance somewhere in the human makeup, these manifestations or imbalances are the body's attempts to re-create balance. This innovative diploma course is designed to provide opportunities for students to work as Holistic Health Therapists in their own work settings.
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• Homeopathy

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9054

  This basic Homeopathy Training Course gives the student a background to Homeopathy and some of the more common remedies used today.
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• Hypnotherapy - Professional

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9056

  Hypnotherapy serves as a means of communication between the subconscious and conscious mind - between feeling and intellect. A hypnotherapist does not and cannot control another person's mind.
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• Inner Healing

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9156

  This course offers the student an insight to how the application of RET principles, developed by Dr. Albert Ellis, can help a person cope with upsetting feelings without succumbing to self-defeating behaviors and/or using alcohol or other drugs.
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• Intrafocal Healing

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9059

  Intrafocal therapy enables the patient to use his/hers powerful reservoir of healing potential within the mind to facilitate a healing process within the body. This holistic approach for exploring medical problems, pain, sleep disorders, psychosomatic disorders and much more.
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• Intuitive Healing

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9060

  This course explores the realms of both spirit and mind and you will learn how to enhance your touch and intuition. Regardless of what life force you believe in the course will resonate within you and allow you to become more understanding of both the universe and your own spiritual capacity and inherent gifts.
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• Iridology

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9061

  Iridology is an extremely powerful naturopathic diagnostic tool. Diagnosis from the iris of the eye is an invaluable and fascinating technique for both immediate self-diagnosis and patient diagnosis in any alternative medicine approach, but especially in holistic nutritional medicine.
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• Japanese Holistic Healing Practitioner

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9062

  In this course we study a wide range of aspects from Shiatsu and Japanese Herbalism, to how Life Coaching, CBT and relaxation therapy can all play a part in Japanese therapy. Other topics like hydrotherapy, Japanese Massage, color therapy, Crystal Healing, Chakra therapy, Martial Arts in therapy, Moxa treatments and many more are also covered.
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• Japanese Holistic Healing Practitioner

  ProTrain Online Course Code: PRO1080

  Japanese Healing Methods date back thousands of years but have developed over the centuries to assimilate many other methods from many other cultures.
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• Master Herbalist (Phytotherapy)

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9280

  The course material includes details of nearly 900 herbs, their habitat, uses and actions, and any contraindications. Herbal medicine draws from international knowledge and includes lessons on the three main traditions of healing: Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic, herbal medicines, along with a full database of uses and actions.
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• Medicinal Herbs

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9281

  This course provides the necessary knowledge and information for making and using herbal remedies at home. However, professional advice should always be sought if symptoms persist.
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• Meditation

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9068

  An experiential journey through the healing powers of meditation - the key to transcending any and all of life's limitations. Complements all healing mechanisms.
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• Memory Enhancement

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9164

  This course sets out in detail for the student a proven method of memory enhancement which can have surprising results.
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• Meridian Healing Psychotherapist

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9070

  The Meridian Therapies Course will introduce the student to techniques which are an essential part of any therapists "toolbox".
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• Meridian Healing Techniques

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9069

  A course in meridian therapy techniques for promoting balanced health and function. Incorporating the Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) an accelerated information processing technique based upon Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is useful in the treatment of traumatic stress, allergic reactions and fixed negative emotional states.
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• Naturopathy

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9071

  This course offers the student a comprehensive introduction to the subjects presented in the syllabus. The course is designed for continuous assessment and tutor feedback will help to keep you motivated throughout the course.
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• Oriental Health Diagnosis

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9072

  This course aims to teach you how to use Oriental diagnosis for assessing the nature of your client's condition. You will be taught to identify disease patterns and then how to look at disease diagnosis.
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• Oriental Remedial Therapist

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9525

  This study program looks at how the Oriental approach aims at treating the cause of the condition thereby alleviating and clearing away the symptoms, thus it can be regarded as a true form of preventative medicine.
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• Primal Therapy

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9171

  Evolved from Cariel's Scream Therapy and Janov's Primal Therapy, this therapeutic approach enables the client through the act of ventilating to asset their right to the open expression of feelings and discover that he or she is constitutionally capable of such expression.
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• Reflexology

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9077

  Reflexology is one of the fastest growing holistic therapies now gaining worldwide acceptance. It is based on the scientific principle that every organ in the body is reflected in certain reflexes in the feet.
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• Reflexology

  ProTrain Online Course Code: PRO1085

  Reflexology is one of the fastest growing holistic therapies now gaining worldwide acceptance. It is based on the scientific principle that every organ in the body is reflected in certain reflexes in the feet.
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• Reflexology - Gentle Touch

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9078

  Reflexology is a complementary therapy involving the treatment of various disorders by applying pressure to certain points on the feet. Precise areas of the feet relate to particular parts of the body. The whole body can be treated via these points, which are called 'reflex areas'. Although hand reflexology is also done, this course concentrates on foot reflexology.
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• Relaxation Therapy

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9079

  Relaxation Therapy techniques are useful skills which can be used to fight the stress demon of our times.
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• Research Methodology in Nursing and Healthcare

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9081

  This course is designed to give a broad introduction to research, which students can also build on through the other research methods texts in this series of open learning materials. In this core unit you will come across some of the basic principles of research, as well as the terminology commonly used in research.
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• Shiatsu

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9082

  The Shiatsu Practitioner exerts firm rhythmic pressure to the body using thumbs or fingers on a sequence of points designed to awaken the meridians. Shiatsu incorporates creative use of the whole body and includes stretching and leverage.
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• Sidereus Healing Techniques

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9083

  In the course of the assignments, we will be studying many different kinds of healing story approaches, from shamanic journeys to hypnotic inductions, from simple inspirational stories to therapeutic metaphor elicitation and metaphor therapy.
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• Vibrational Medicine

  Stonebridge Associated Colleges UK Course Code: DED9003

  With experts believing that working with human energy systems will soon become an integral part of conventional medicine, research into energy medicine has become a state of the art study of physics and mathematics. Human energy is scientifically provable.
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