About the OHI Program
OHI's holistic healing program is based on ancient spiritual disciplines.
OHI's Body-Mind-Spirit Program
Based on ancient spiritual disciplines, the OHI holistic healing program is designed to:
- Inspire and motivate you to make healthy choices in life.
- Explore physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Integrate helpful tools and teachings in your daily life.
- Enable transformation so that you can achieve optimum health.
Our 21-day program consists of classes and activities taught over 3 one-week segments
Many of our guests attend all 3 weeks in a row; others come for 1 or 2 weeks at a time and complete the 21-day program over multiple visits to OHI. Our flexible program allows you to start the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd week of the program on any Sunday at one of our healing centers at OHI Austin or OHI San Diego.
When you complete all the OHI Program classes and activities, you will receive a personalized OHI Certificate of Completion at OHI’s Friday Graduate Ceremony. As an OHI program graduate, you become a part of a growing community of people dedicated to living healthy, joyful, and spirit-filled lives. OHI graduates are also eligible to apply for OHI’s Missionary Program.
Our Holistic Approach
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Cleanse Your Body
Your body is self-healing. When given the proper tools to work with, it can restore itself to its natural balance.
Cleansing
Practiced for many centuries around the world, detoxification is the process of cleansing the body to promote healing and longevity. To help your body cleanse and restore itself, OHI provides:
- Wheatgrass juice to cleanse cells and purify blood
- Enemas and wheatgrass implants to cleanse the colon
- Gentle exercise to cleanse the lymphatic system
OHI contracts with qualified professionals to make optional services available to you. These services supplement the core OHI holistic healing program:
- Massages and spa treatments to remove congestion and release tension
- Colon hydrotherapy to eliminate toxins
- Chiropractic care to reduce structural or nerve pain
Nourishment
Many centuries ago, Hippocrates, known as the "father of medicine" taught that wholesome, natural food could help restore physical health. Because foods begin to lose essential nutrients and enzymes when heated above 105 degrees F, our staff creates healthy meals using food in its purest form – fresh, certified-organic, and raw. OHI meals do not contain nuts or oils to support the detoxification process.
To help you maintain a healthy diet after you leave one of our healing centers, our program includes classes that teach you how to:
- Combine foods to optimize digestion
- Soak and sprout nuts, seeds, and grains
- Ferment foods to improve digestion
- Dehydrate foods to create crackers, pizza crusts, and snacks
OHI offers sprouting packs and cooking tools such as juicers and dehydrators to help you prepare raw food at home. Shop at the Optimum Health Store to learn more about these products.
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Quieting Your Mind
At OHI, you can learn how to relax, develop a positive attitude, and focus on what matters most to achieve a happy, fulfilling, and healthy life.
Relaxation
To counter stress, OHI helps you learn how to relax your body using alpha state meditation techniques to:
- Release tension and pain
- Tap into your sub-consciousness
- Practice mindfulness
- Visualize what you want to achieve
- Stimulate creativity and inspiration
- Increase your awareness of God
Daily relaxation can help transform your life. At OHI, we help you learn how to slow down and reconnect with your deepest self.
Attitude
At OHI, you will learn how to cultivate healing using the 5 P's:
- Purpose to achieve a natural balance and reconnection to the Divine
- Positive mental attitude that supports the healing process
- Persistence in following the holistic disciplines of the OHI program
- Patience with yourself as you allow your body, mind, and spirit to heal
- Prayer to a higher source who will share the load with you.
By learning to accept and love yourself, you will gain a sense of freedom to live your life fully and achieve optimum health.
Focus
Good health requires paying attention to your needs and translating your awareness into action.
At OHI, you will receive an OHI Planner designed by the highly-respected Franklin Covey Company to help you stay focused on your highest priorities and experience greater success in achieving what you desire.
Our focus class will also help you identify your core values and goals.
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Renew Your Spirit
Reflection
At OHI, you have personal time every day to reflect on your life. In the comfort of your room, under a shady tree, or in a peaceful garden, you can awaken the spirit by asking yourself:
- What inspires me?
- What gives me hope?
- What gives me joy?
- What touches my heart?
- What heals my heart?
Taking time to identify what resonates and writing down what is important to you is a powerful way to influence change with faith, hope, and love.
What Makes Our Program Unique
Community
Our staff, missionaries, and guests help create a safe and sacred community where physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing can and does occur. In the spirit of love, people of all faiths experience fellowship and healing that can transform lives.
OHI Missionary Program
Graduates of the OHI holistic healing program who have a desire to immerse themselves in the healing process and to provide service to others in a God-centered environment may be eligible for the OHI Missionary Program.
Confidentiality
We vow to honor and protect your privacy. Our policy is simple; we do not sell mailing lists or provide personal information about our guests to any third-party, except when required for legal or medical reasons.