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Choosing Your Healing Modality: A Guide to SWIHA’s Online Integrative Healing Arts Program

Written by Jasper Marie | 5/16/25 3:00 PM

The Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner (IHAP) program at SWIHA offers an online option for those who are passionate about healing and empowering others through spiritual practices, energy work, and holistic modalities. Within this program, students have the opportunity to choose one of three transformative paths: Advanced Professional Hypnotherapy & Life Coaching, Spiritual Coach & Healing Botanicals & Earth Ceremonies, and Spiritual Coach & End of Life Doula. Each of these paths provides students with valuable tools to build a meaningful business that aligns with their unique passions. Let’s explore these modalities and how they can be applied to a thriving business after graduation.

Option 1: Advanced Professional Hypnotherapy & Life Coaching

This path combines the therapeutic power of hypnotherapy with life coaching to help individuals make lasting changes in their lives. As a graduate, you’ll be equipped to guide clients through personal transformations, resolve deep-rooted challenges, and provide ongoing coaching to help them stay on track.

Ways You Can Use This in Your Business:

  • Facilitate Past Life Regressions: Use hypnotherapy to help clients explore past life experiences and release karmic patterns, offering a unique and deeply transformative service.
  • Life Coaching Sessions: Empower clients with life coaching strategies, offering tools to navigate challenges and set meaningful goals.
  • Custom Hypnotherapy Scripts: Craft tailored hypnotherapy scripts to address specific client needs, ensuring each session is unique and effective.
  • Dream Interpretation & Phobia Management: Help clients interpret dreams and metaphors, guiding them toward deeper self-understanding and resolution of fears or phobias.
  • Addiction Management: Support clients struggling with addictions through hypnotherapy techniques designed to break unhealthy patterns.

 

By combining hypnotherapy and life coaching, you’ll create a versatile business that can support clients on multiple levels—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Option 2: Spiritual Coach & Healing Botanicals & Earth Ceremonies

This option blends spiritual coaching with evidence-based energy healing practices and earth-based ceremonies, allowing graduates to serve clients through grounded, nature-based healing. If you’re passionate about creating space for spiritual growth and deepening connections with the natural world, this path is for you.

 

Ways You Can Use This in Your Business:

  • Spiritual Coaching & Ceremonies: Offer spiritual coaching to help clients explore their belief systems, integrate spiritual practices into their lives, and facilitate healing ceremonies that honor their journeys.
  • Healing Botanicals: Utilize plant-based remedies to support clients' emotional and physical well-being. You’ll learn how to incorporate herbal healing into your practice.
  • Earth-Based Practices: Facilitate earth ceremonies such as rituals, sacred plant offerings, and seasonal ceremonies, helping clients reconnect with nature and their spiritual roots.
  • Yoga Nidra Sessions: Lead one-on-one or group Yoga Nidra sessions to promote deep relaxation, stress relief, and healing.
  • Community Building: Create a sense of belonging by hosting sacred spaces for individuals or groups to explore spirituality, healing, and self-discovery.

 

This path will allow you to create a holistic business that blends spiritual guidance, energy healing, and sacred rituals, attracting clients seeking connection, peace, and personal growth.

Option 3: Spiritual Coach & End of Life Doula

This path focuses on providing spiritual coaching alongside end-of-life doula services, guiding clients through major life transitions, and supporting them with ceremony, care, and compassionate support. This modality provides the opportunity to work with clients in their final chapters, offering peace of mind and comfort to both individuals and their families.

 

Ways You Can Use This in Your Business:

  • Guiding Life Transitions: Help clients navigate significant life changes, such as the loss of a loved one, career changes, or health challenges, with grace and support.
  • Yoga Nidra for Peaceful Transitions: Facilitate Yoga Nidra sessions to promote relaxation, inner peace, and healing, both for individuals and their loved ones during the transition process.
  • End of Life Doula Services: Offer end-of-life doula services to help clients and families navigate the practical and emotional aspects of death with dignity, supporting the spiritual and emotional well-being of all involved.
  • Ceremonies for End of Life: Conduct empowering ceremonies and rituals that honor the transition from life to death, offering comfort, connection, and community.
  • Spiritual Care for Transitions: Provide spiritual care that helps clients understand the deeper meaning of their experiences, fostering a sense of peace and acceptance.
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By choosing this path, you’ll offer compassionate, hands-on support for those navigating the most profound transitions of their lives. It’s a powerful way to make a difference in the lives of your clients and their families.

 

Each of these pathways offers an opportunity to create a unique and impactful business. Whether you’re drawn to hypnotherapy, earth-based rituals, or supporting people through end-of-life transitions, the Integrative Healing Arts Practitioner program equips you with the skills to serve your community while building a sustainable, heart-centered business.