OHI's Holistic Wellness Program

At OHI’s holistic healing center, participants cleanse and nourish the body with diet, fasting, and exercise; quiet and focus the mind with journaling and meditation; and renew and awaken the spirit with study, prayer and celebration.

Learn More About the OHI Program

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

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.
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.
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.

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.

Because you deserve to live a happy and healthy life!

Since 1976, our holistic approach has helped over 150,000 people tap into their own restorative power to lead more balanced, healthy, and spirit-filled lives. At OHI, we stand behind our mission to serve by providing a:

Comprehensive, holistic body-mind-spirit program that promotes natural and holistic healing.
Safe and sacred environment where rest, relaxation, and holistic connection can occur.
Nurturing and supportive community that can help you thrive and facilitate self-healing.

OHI’s Holistic Healing Program helps guests achieve holistic health and healing.

Our unique body-mind-spirit program

The OHI holistic healing program includes:

Over 40 classes, activities, and healing practices based on ancient spiritual disciplines and contemporary teachings that promote optimum health through holistic healing methods.
All classes, course materials, and organic meals are taught over 3 one-week sessions which start every Sunday.
Flexible holistic healing retreat options: attend 3 weeks at once or complete the program 1 week at a time.

Optimum Health Institute’s Program Participants practice self healing for holistic connection.

Our simple, yet elegant holistic healing centers

Our active community of over 20,000 members includes:

Like-minded guests that facilitate discussion, laughter, and love.
Enthusiastic missionaries to mentor you through the program and provide spiritual counseling, when needed.
A knowledgeable staff in Austin and San Diego pledges to provide outstanding service and mind-body-spirit care.

The OHI Community experiences holistic connection and natural healing at our retreats in San Diego and Austin.

Our community of guests and staff

Our center for holistic healing in San Diego, California and Austin, Texas provide:

Calm, peaceful, and safe environments where natural healing, body cleansing, and prayer can occur.
Beautiful grounds, comfortable rooms, and cozy common areas support your optimum health detox and cleanse.
Fresh, certified-organic, plant-based food as the foundational base of the Optimum Health Institute diet and menu that promotes healing - which includes raw, sprouted, and fermented foods, seeds, and wheatgrass juice.
Massage, chiropractic, and colon hydrotherapy services for a “back to balance” cleanse.