Luiza Ormonde

Luiza began her journey into the world of natural healing in the 1970’s when she adopted a vegetarian diet and began her exploration of philosophy, shamanism, and mysticism. This search included the study of many natural healing modalities including herbal medicine, aromatherapy, homeopathy, energy medicine and psychology, hypnotherapy, Zen shiatsu therapy, energy medicine and energy psychology, Gestalt therapy for practitioners, and Ayurvedic medicine with its many modalities. She is well-versed in eastern philosophies and western esoteric thought, and has a background in design, graphic arts production, administrative studies and economics.
Luiza has been in private practice for thirty years. In her private practice she combines personal practice with an extensive teaching repertoire, she melds the philosophy, theory, and principles of ancient medicine, including Ayurveda, Zen Shiatsu, Herbal medicine, nutrition, energy medicine and psychology, and counseling, with practical, contemporary methods and approaches to healing with each client. She has taught several courses including Introductory and Intermediate Ayurveda courses at the Royal Ontario Museum as part of their ROMLife programs; Principles of Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Self-Care, Self-Care for the Psyche, Chakras and the Psychology of Disease at the Institute of Traditional Medicine; Ayurveda, and The Psychology of Disease at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition. She offers workshops on meridian stretching and breathwork, shiatsu therapy, ayurvedic bodywork and marma theory, yoga therapy, herbal medicine, chakra psychology, and introductory, intermediate medical astrology. She has also led groups to India on wellness journeys. She utilizes the principles of Jyotish (vedic astrology) and western medical astrology in her practice and has found it an invaluable tool in healing. Through understanding the larger cycles and how they affect health and wellness, the duration of illness and the therapeutics required, she has empowered clients with the knowledge and tools to better navigate the cycles of their lives. Luiza teaches The Psychology of Disease at The Institute of Holistic Nutrition Online.

POD 012 The Psychology of Disease

The Psychology of Disease offers an introduction to the field of Energy Medicine. This well investigated branch of integrative and alternative medicine studies how biological, social and psychological factors influence health and illness. This course introduces students to the fundamental premise that our physical body demonstrably corresponds to our psychology. The energy of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs can express themselves as matter in the form of a condition or disease.
Students explore the energy centres of the body; the chakra system to understand how the body speaks through its own vocabulary. Its language is physical signs and symptoms that are tied to memories, environment or experiences, energetically creating an imbalance. The course looks at how chakras conduct the ten major systems of the body, particularly the endocrine system, and how increasing awareness of one’s thought patterns can inhibit or assist our health and our ability to achieve balance.
The Psychology of Disease is a unique course of personal self-development from self-knowledge and self-awareness that will inform future practitioners how to guide their clients to look for clues surrounding their health and work to unpack energetic blockages for deep healing.
Students will be taught and evaluated on introductory principles of energy medicine such as the biology of belief, therapeutic applications of subtle energies, the chakra system, as well as assignments to learn strategies that manifest wellness including the profound impact of food.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the physical, mental, and spiritual connections to health and illness
• How to identify thought patterns and belief systems that contribute to disease/health imbalances
• Be able to confidently provide recommendations for reframing stressors to shift perspectives, that can positively shift health outcomes
• Awareness of traditional and contemporary energy medicine modalities and techniques to build into one’s practice
• Getting out of the way of, and trusting your intuition
• Discernment around how and when to discuss the purpose of disease and the language of illness with clients

The Psychology of Disease is a personal development course that combines well-established mainstream science in chemistry and biology with quantum physics evidence that shows us there is no difference between energy and matter. Whether students look at chakras as literal places in the body, or metaphoric ones, this course will increase self-awareness to activate mind/body connections that optimize healing. Energy Medicine is at the forefront of driving curiosity to acknowledge and provide practitioners with the opportunity to learn how nature organizes itself, at all levels, for the greatest impact to healing.