HOLISTIC HEALTH
CHEF / CONSULTANT

Daily Schedule

 

Holistic Health Chef Daily Schedule:

10:00 AM-1:00 PM Morning Session 
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch*
2:00-5:00 PM Afternoon Session
5:00-6:00 PM Dinner*

 

 

Holistic Health Consultant Daily Schedule:

8:00-9:00 AM Meditation, Pranayama & Therapeutic Yoga Class
9:00-10:00 AM Breakfast
10:00-1:00 PM Morning Session
1:00-2:00 PM Lunch*
2:00-5:00 PM Afternoon Session
5:00 PM Dinner*

 

* Lunch/Dinner is included and provided when there is a cooking class prior; the meal will consist of the dishes prepared in the cooking class. Breakfast and/or additional snacks are not included. All other meals are the responsibility of the student. Meals are not included when classes are theory-based. There is a student’s kitchen on-site for students to prepare their own meals. Food and ingredients used for cooking outside of class time is the students’ responsibility. Additional materials and supplies are each student’s responsibility at extra cost and are not included in the cost of tuition. 

 

 

Curriculums

 

HOLISTIC HEALTH CHEF PROGRAM

 

Topics & Faculty:

• Holistic Health Foundations | Karen Claffey with Sylvia Claffey (6 days)

• Holistic Health Chef Specialization | Karen Claffey with Sylvia Claffey (6 days)

 

Curriculum Includes: 

• Kitchen Logistics: equipment, sanitation, prep, cutting and cooking styles, etc. 

• The identification of quality ingredients based our criteria for natural food selection

• Macrobiotic and Ayurvedic approaches to cooking 

• The use and preparation of whole grains, beans, vegetables, sea vegetables, tofu and tempeh, seitan, fruits, nuts, condiments, soups, entrees, stews, salads, stocks, and desserts.

• Preparation and presentation of the highest quality natural, gourmet, plant-based meals.

• Food Focus: 

  • Vegan with some fish and sea-food dishes

  • Natural Organic Whole Foods

  • Macrobiotic and Ayurvedic Cuisine

  • Gourmet International Cuisine 

Homework assignments will be given to further the learning process.

 

HOLISTIC HEALTH CONSULTANT PROGRAM 

 

Topics & Faculty:

• Holistic Health Foundations | Karen Claffey (6 days)

• Holistic Health Consultant Specialization:

  • Overview of Holistic Health & Medicine | John Kozinski (2 days)

  • Oriental Medicine & Nutrition | Angela Warburton (2 days)

  • Physiology & Functional Anatomy| Nitin Shah (2 days)

  • Fundamentals of Nutrition | Nitin Shah (2 days)

  • Ayurvedic Medicine| Nitin Shah (2 days)

  • Macrobiotic Medicine & Diagnosis | John Kozinski (2 days)

Total: 18 days

Curriculum Includes: 

• The politics of food: the influence of corporate interests on dietary recommendations.

• Holistic approaches to diet and health: the principles and practice of preparing whole foods meals that facilitate digestion; strengthen the immune system and help prevent a variety of diseases. 

• Principles of western nutrition, macrobiotics, Ayurveda and cleansing and detoxification with natural foods.

• How to guide patients using with food, meditation, therapeutic breathing and restorative yoga 

• Food Focus: 

  • Vegan with some fish and sea-food dishes

  • Natural Organic Whole Foods

  • Macrobiotic and Ayurvedic cooking and medicine

  • How to use food as medicine

  • Cooking for recovery and prevention 

Homework assignments will be given to further the learning process.

 

 

For detailed Course Outlines contact us

 

 

Graduates Comments

 

“I’ve been a Corporate Wellness Provider and Wellness Consultant for over 15 years, and I’ve been very blessed to have met and know many wonderful healers, fitness instructors, and wellness-health providers. Not long after my mother and two other family members passed away, also had to move from the place where I Iived for 20 years. I was sad, grieving, very depressed, and needed to find a way to re-gain inner strength to do my wellness work for other people, and more importantly to bring wellness back into my own life. 

 

While I was searching for the "Just right blend” of wellness nurturing that would help me professionally and personally, my long time colleague, Karen Claffey, was offering her Wellness Consultant course for the first time. Ironically Karen’s course was designed to give me the addtional wellness education and nurturing I needed for myself and my work for her course had some teachings of yoga, ayurvedic and macrobiotic cooking and for healing, meditation breathing techniques, chakras, in addition Karen's  knowledge mixed with her sense of humour made her delivery as entertaining as it was insightful. 

 

I acquired a deeper understanding of yoga and a more mindful state. The experience helped me have some peace of mind which brought me closer to my own wellness, and subsequently helped me connect back to my own work providing wellness to others. I recommend Karen’s Wellness Consultant Course to those who want to learn, enhance, or broaden their understanding of yoga, meditation and breathing, cooking /healing foods, or general wellness. 

 

Wishing you well, and to Be-well,

Sharon Davidson, 

Founder and Owner of Be-well Corporate - Employee Wellness Program Provider ”

 

 

"As a graduate of Karen Claffey’s Vegetarian Cooking Institute, I highly recommend her cooking classes and certification program to anyone who is interested in learning more about how to lovingly prepare nutritious, delicious and creative recipes. Karen has much experience and knowledge to offer to her students and is truly passionate about that which she teaches. Karen and Sylvia’s approach place an emphasis on being mindful, and attentive to the nature of the foods that we choose to eat and use in our recipes. This program has certainly prepared me well for this industry, and has encouraged me to put the skills that I have learnt into practise. It has also inspired me to venture out and explore, and continue learning and expanding my expertise in this domain. I just ran my first cooking class in Montreal, and was highly encouraged to do so by Karen. I absolutely loved running the cooking class and will be running more cooking classes, applying the knowledge that I have learnt while studying with Karen and Sylvia.

 

Thank you Karen & Sylvia for being such wonderful teachers! I appreciate it. 

Sincerely, Sabrina Allarie"

Holistic Health Cook & Consultant, Montreal, QC. 



 

Tuition Fees

Prices are including tax, and are quoted in CAD. 

 

HOLISTIC HEALTH CHEF TUITION

 

• $2800.00 plus HST

• Payment Plan available.  

 

 

HOLISTIC HEALTH CONSULTANT TUITION

 

• $4150.00

• Payment Plan available. 

 

 

Tuition includes:

• course manual

• food/groceries used in the cooking classes.  

• lunch and dinner from the dishes made in Chef program cooking classes. 

 

Additional: 

• For Consultant program theory classes meals are not included. Participants may choose to have the optional organic gourmet vegan breakfast $15 and/or lunch $20 prepared by Sylvia. Alternatively, there is a student-kitchen available for students who would like to prepare their own meals on-site, and there are grocercy stores and restaurants nearby. 

 

Further details on curriculum/modules/homework/requirements is available on the Application-Registation Form; to receive this form by email please contact us. 

 

 

Optional - Additional Fees

Prices are including tax, and are quoted in CAD. 

 

Accommodations On-Site per Night

 

• Camping (BYOTent) or Studio-Dorm (BYOBed):  $30

• Semi-Private P/P:  $40

• Compact Private Room:  $55

• Private Room:  $60

• Deluxe Private Room:  $70

 

 

Organic Vegan Meals - optional

 

• Breakfast: $15

• Lunch: $20

 

There is a kitchen on-site for residential students who opt to prepare their own meals. There are grocery stores and restaurants within 5 minutes drive.