Required Pre-Requisite Coursework
Lotus Touch Health Method & Zoning Course
The Lotus Touch Health Method Course is designed for practitioners of all ages, abilities and knowledge. It is a 6-part course detailing the ancient method of foot zoning. The course will also cover the triangle of health: emotional health, nutritional health, and physical health. Essential oils, body-emotion connection and anatomy are also heavily addressed topics in this course. Dr. Jenn 6-part is the primary course instructor with occasional guest lecturers such as Dr. James Phillips. This course is a pre-requisite for all University Degree Programs.
Course Cost: $3000
For the Lotus Touch Health Method Course, we require students to bring the following materials:
- Writing Utensil
- 2 or 3 Inch Three Ring Binder
- Note Paper for inside the binder, or separate notebook to take down class notes with
- 200+ Sheet Protectors
- Small jar of coconut oil
- Dish Towels or Rags for practical's
You will be provided with all other necessary handbooks, guides and practice sheets by the course instructor.
Tuition is required to be paid in full one week prior to start date.
Onsite Course is taught once a year in person over six months.
Online options are taught once a quarter with classes being taught twice a month over a 3-month period.
Online Class Dates:
Cohort 1
January 5th and 19th, 2024
February 9th and 23th, 2024
March 1st and 16th, 2024
Cohort 2
April 5th and 19th, 2024
May 3rd and 17th, 2024
June 7th and 21st, 2024
Cohort 3
July 5th and 19th, 2024
August 9th and 23rd, 2024
September 6th and 20th, 2024
Cohort 4
October 4th and 18th, 2024
November 1st and 15th, 2024
December 6th and 20th, 2024
2023 On location Class dates:
September 21, 2024
October 19, 2024
November 16, 2024
December- no class dates
January 18, 2025
February 15th, 2025
March 15, 2025
All practical reviews are due for completion no later than 60 days after final class date of each cohort, at which time final Practical Exams will be scheduled.
Location: 672 W 220 S, Pleasant Grove, Utah
Instructor: Dr. Jenn Lotusson-Phillips, CTIP
Guest Instructor: Dr. James Phillips, CTIH
Disclaimer:
All classes and coursework must be completed, reviewed, and tested out with instructor prior to receiving coursework completion documentation. If a class is missed, it will be required to be made-up during next round of coursework. Once coursework has been completed, you are welcome to rejoin this course on the next round for a refresher on any of the classes.
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Degree Programs
Associates Program of Indigenous Medicine Practices
Lotus Touch Health Method- (Pre-requisite credit)
This course includes training in physical, nutritional, emotional aspects, connection training as well as client person's and patient interaction.
Root Cause Identification and Psychosomatic Reactions
Are you or your clients tired of chasing symptoms? This course focuses on Emotional root cause issues in the body and the symptoms that are created as a byproduct of not addressing the issues that the body has created to get your attention. The body is perfect, it knows what to do. It simply has to be given the right circumstances and chemistry to be able to make corrections on its own.
Introduction to Bio-energetic testing and therapeutic methods
This course includes training in Bio-Energetic lab testing, reading results, imaging, and deep dive results for designing preventive care plans with clientele.
Parasitology
Why is it important to understand the parasitology when working with the body? This course will discuss the emotional, physical and nutritional issues that are presented by parasitic infection.
Neuro-parasitology patterns and additional side effects of viral and bacterial exposure will additionally be covered.
Chakra Therapy, Sound & Frequency Therapy
Do all organs have a base frequency that they resonate at? We will examine the benefits of:
- Chakra tuning; sound bowls and symptomatic benefits of tuning forks
- Bio-energetic therapy via frequencies.
- Emotional and physical symptoms when the body is out of tune.
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Are you or your clients tired of chasing symptoms? This course focuses on Emotional root cause issues in the body and the symptoms that are created as a byproduct of not addressing the issues that the body has created to get your attention. The body is perfect, it knows what to do. It simply has to be given the right circumstances and chemistry to be able to make corrections on its own.
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor's Program of Indigenous Medicine
Pre-requisites: Lotus Touch and Associates program. Credits are earned cumulatively toward completing the bachelor's degree.
Emotional & Physical Healing
As Practitioners and Facilitators, it is critical to have a deep understanding of what physical and emotional releasing can look like and how it presents in the body. We will go over Psychosomatic responses, symptoms, disease and non-confront patterns that take place as part of the human experience.
Nutritional Therapy and Master Medicine Introduction
This course will discuss the science in how to reset the body through specific chemistry in our foods.
- Mitochondrial Resets Vs. Regional Dieta's
- Detoxification Periods and Patterns for the organ systems
- Cellular Memory patterns for trauma
- Parasitology review of basics
- How to create a plan that will prepare your client for the optimum experience to heal
Connections and Spiritual Dynamics
Having a base in the workings of connections and spiritual dynamics is critical to this field. We will discuss the following:
- Foreign symptoms, behaviors, addiction, imposed issues as well as identification
- How to recognize and address spiritual attachments.
- Healthy vs. Unhealthy Healers and Shamanic patterns and actions
Therapists Vs. Facilitators
Knowing and understanding the difference of facilitation and therapist parameters is key when working with clients.
- What are your rights as a facilitator?
- Do you have a license to diagnose?
- What resources and tools do you have to present options to inform clients with?
- How to validate findings
Beginner Kambo Training
Please refer to Kambo Training page for in-depth details on this course. This course is done in clinic, with practical application.
Master Medicine Retreat
This is a required retreat that will help you as a facilitator work with an incredible team of facilitators to teach you the ins and outs of retreat style work. It is imperative to do your own work if you want to work with others as a professional. You will have options of which style of Indigenous work will best suit you emotionally, physically, nutritionally and emotionally. You will need to work with your advisor to go through the qualification process of the medicine that you want to work with.
Heart Opener Medicinals
Each Indigenous Master Medicine addresses a field of different ailments. In this course we will be discussing and investigating different types of medicinal medicines that specifically work with the heart. Disqualifiers will be discussed in depth as well as diet and nutritional options to help prepare the individual to receive the right medicine for their specific needs.
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Are you or your clients tired of chasing symptoms? This course focuses on Emotional root cause issues in the body and the symptoms that are created as a byproduct of not addressing the issues that the body has created to get your attention. The body is perfect, it knows what to do. It simply has to be given the right circumstances and chemistry to be able to make corrections on its own.
Master Medicine Practitioner
*Pre-requisite: Bachelor's Program completion
Facilitator Ethics
This course focuses on each of the following:
- Motivations of serving and receiving plant medicine
- Ethical practice standards
- Cultural awareness
- Identifying as a practitioner
Client Preparation, Purging, and Integration
As people approach the world of plant medicine, their journey begins when they choose to participate. When given guidance through a practitioner to help prepare beforehand as well as integrate afterward, we maximize therapeutic gains for the individual receiving medicine. This course examines how to prepare and manage the character arc that occurs as people prepare, purge, and integrate.
Beginner San Pedro Facilitation
This course introduces a practitioner to the following:
- How to facilitate serving the San Pedro cactus
- Purposes and benefits
- Qualifiers and disqualifiers of serving
Body and Medicine Lab Testing
Have you ever wondered if someone is getting the right plant medicine for their body? This course teaches us how to read lab work to inform which medicine is best suited for a client.
Intermediate Kambo Course
Please refer to Kambo Training page for in-depth details on this course. This course is done in clinic, with practical application.
Beginner Psilocybin Facilitation
This course introduces a practitioner to the following:
- How to facilitate a micro dosing series
- Purposes and benefits
- Physical disqualifiers
- Additional ceremonial training
Apprenticeship & Residency
This course focuses on your stated area of concentration with clinical oversight and emphasis on depth of knowledge in the topical area of your choosing. This course requires a set of residency hours to preparation for thesis statement.
Capstone Thesis
While doing apprenticeship and residency, each practitioner must offer an original contribution to the field to complete the Master Medicine Practitioner credential. In coordination with your advisor, applied practice continues with directed readings. A student may elect a written thesis work to be reviewed by our board, or an in-person presentation. This capstone thesis is meant to give each student confidence within their field of practice.
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Bachelor of Indigenous Medicine is pre-requisite to be enrolled in this program
Doctorate Program Medicine Person
Pre-requisite: Master Medicine Practitioner & Thesis
Advanced Kambo Practitioner Course
Please refer to Kambo Training page for in-depth details on this course. This course is done in clinic, with practical application.
Research Medicinal Studies (Optional)
This course is an advanced practicum on how to conduct research on traditional medicine. This includes ethics, research methodology, study design, and literature synthesis.
Applied Education
This course teaches effective communication and integration of traditional medicines with Western society's healthcare. As society becomes acquainted with various traditional medicines, we act as ambassadors to the uninformed. This course helps students to feel confident as they describe traditional medicines. This course requires interviewing and reporting findings with those based in Western medical backgrounds.
Sociology of Traditional Medicine
This course involves directed readings of how social dynamics inform your practice. Topics include how traditional medicine intersects with gender studies, marriage and family, tribal (group) dynamics, othering behaviors, social construction of the facilitator identity, and the role of vivid otherworldliness in upholding social order.
Advanced Effects of Purging and Integration
This course will go through the client process from the initial decision of choosing to work with medicine, the construct of freewill, generational releasing and effects on the family.
Emotional, Spiritual, Energetic Bypassing
Are you frustrated by the very issues that present when a client approaches their healing? Client personas will be studied and the issues around steps that are presented to bypass in their own process of healing.
Metaphysical Science and Energy
This course focuses on the following:
- Contribution of Religious Westernized Constructs versus Eastern Spiritualism and practice.
- Kundalini syndrome and progression
- Physical symptoms of quickening the body during processing with medicine
Master Medicine Dissertation
Dissertation topics must be approved with advisors and bring an original contribution to the students chosen field of Indigenous Medicine practices. This work will need to be submitted for publication to Traditional Journal of Medicine as well as the ONAC Council and Board of Education. Upon Completion, credentials can be submitted for Vetting of Medicine Person Licensure through ONAC and The American University of Indigenous Medicine.
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Bachelor of Indigenous Medicine is pre-requisite to be enrolled in this program