IHN Graduates Making A Difference In Our Community!
Gabby Borgerink is passionate about educating and empowering women with the knowledge to support their bodies through her company, Gabby Borgerink. Focusing on hormonal imbalances, fertility, and intentional living, Gabby is the leader of her community, the GB Collective. As a part of this group, members can access education information, product reviews, recipes, workshops, and more.
Jodi Cureatz is the founder of EcoEating Holistic Nutrition, a line of non-dairy, organic coconut kefir. She is passionate about inspiring other to discover real foods through inspirational recipes along with experiencing the ancient practice of fermentation. After using her own coconut kefir to heal her own gut, she has scaled her product into a business to be able to provide others with the same benefits.
Anna DeCicco is the founder of the Anna DeCicco, created after being inspired to help improve the health for others after having healed herself and her family. Anna offers holistic nutrition and life coaching packages to improve her clients' health and motivation, while making strides in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives, reducing the effects of stress and anxiety, and improving mental health.
See the inspiring work of our graduates in the field of holistic nutrition!
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Eva Cabaca Shares Material From Her New Con Ed Course
Students and graduates—join us Tuesday, March 8 at 4:00 PM PT/7:00 PM ET for a 1 hour webinar, as Eva Cabaca (as charming as ever) shares a taste of what traditional holistic international cooking is about. We know that she would love to see her past students, and peers, just to say "hi!" before her session starts. From sourcing unique ingredients to grinding and blending your own spices, to the seemingly impossible task of cracking open a whole coconut, Eva will share new and tried cooking tips. The world is opening up and culinary inspirations abound. Discover the magic and thrill of creating unique, holistic dishes based on world traditions. For this presentation, Eva will be in her kitchen!
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Culinary Exploration In The Classroom—Vancouver Campus
IHN's first Holistic Food Preparation (HFP) Courses of 2022 have just come to a delectable end. Two years ago, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, the HFP classes went virtual. Both students and faculty accommodated the onerous and necessary changes involved in making the shift that fostered solidarity for our collective success. Now in the Spring 2022 semester, we're delighted to highlight the inaugural culinary frolic that Vancouver campus students are enjoying.
Faculty member Dana Steeves-Adams and students (pictured above) during their February 18 to 20, three day dive into the world of holistic cooking, that included raw foods, soaking, fermenting, dehydrating, and Ayurvedic principles. As a graduate, possibly even from years ago, you likely remember your own HFP class, along with the adventure and connectivity it created for your group. For some of you, it may have even activated your passion to work in culinary nutrition. We are proud that we were able to recreate this warm learning experience in cyberspace as we waited for the transition back to the physical space.
Quotes (below), from students, sharing comments about their weekend in HFP with Dana:
Kristin E (Vancouver): "As a person who thought she was well versed in the kitchen - I learned so many new tricks that I could easily implement. We had so much fun cooking over the weekend. I couldn't wait to remake some of the recipes and look forward to implementing the skills I learned in helping future clients. My personal highlights were learning how to make coconut yogurt, sauerkraut, and use a dehydrator. Dana was nice enough to let me use her chef's knife to walk me through professional knife skills. I left with so much confidence and knowledge."
Stephanie B (Vancouver): "I loved my experience with the food prep course! I wish there were more of those, haha! Dana has amazing knowledge from her work as a personal chef. I enjoyed learning different cutting techniques and how to make healthy and delicious food that I now get to make whenever I want since we were able to keep the recipes! I got to see some students that I had met at orientation, back in September, which was really nice. It felt like a little reunion, haha! Overall, it was a great class!"
Ish O (Vancouver): "I really enjoyed the HFP course! It was a very engaging and educational activity that helped me improve, not only my cooking skills, but also my relationship with food. The course provides you with a great balance between theory and practice. It's reinforced by teamwork cooking, nutrient dense foods, and lots of smiles! I appreciates the fact that it was a vegetarian/vegan focused as I am switching to this diet style, making the experience even more personally meaningful and enjoyable."
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Opportunities For Students & Graduates—Listed By Province and/or Region
Every so often you'll find a few jobs posted here as we transition. IHN's capacity to build Employment Opportunities had reached its bandwidth when we were mandated to close campuses and limit staff, back in March 2020. We are resilient and look forward to bringing back programming one step at a time. Employment Opportunities will be moving to another platform that will be part of the Alumni/Student Membership. For today though, please see the opportunities sent directly to us below.
ONTARIO
Vitality Juice Co. is seeks someone eager to help primarily at the farmers' markets, working in-store and at events. This is a great opportunity for a student of holistic nutrition or anyone with a passion for holistic living.
Living Kitchen is looking for a holistic nutritionist with professional cooking experience, or holistic chef/experienced cook with nutrition knowledge, to prepare food in clients' private homes.
Employment Link Holistic Chef or Culinary Nutritionist, Part-time, Permanent–Toronto, ON
Better Living is looking for someone to maintain day-to-day needs of the store. This includes, but is not limited to, providing excellent customer care for in-person and customers over the phone, pricing merchandise, supporting the various practitioners, and keeping the store clean.
Employment link Health Food Store Sales and Supplement Advisor, Part-time, Permanent–Toronto, ON
Fullscript is looking for a talented individual to join their dynamic marketing team with the goal of elevating the Fullscript brand by building a robust content strategy that delights and inspires their audience.
Employment link Content Marketing Specialist, Full-time, Permanent–Ottawa, ON
Naka Herbs & Vitamins is seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to formulate a variety of nutritional products, with an emphasis on liquid products, and coordinating all development and commercialization activities.
Employment link Product Development Specialist, Full-time, Permanent–North Etobicoke, ON
Nature's Signature a.k.a. Nature's Source is looking for a new team member to assist store management, maximize sales and marketing programs, implement sales procedures, and maintain stands and appearance of store merchandise.
Goodness Me! Natural Food Market is looking for a genuine and trustworthy individual to ensure a highly positive Goodness Me! experience for each customer, recommend appropriate products, provide relevant information, and ensure store conditions are consistently upheld to established standards.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
The Rooted Table is currently hiring for two different positions! They are looking to add two amazing chefs to their small team of chefs and food experts who offer bespoke personal cheffing services and holistic meal prep in Vancouver, Kelowna and surrounding areas.
Employment link Personal Holistic Chef, Part-time, Permanent–Vancouver, Kelowna, Strathcona, BC
Genuine Health is seeking a self-motivated, results-oriented team member who has an entrepreneurial spirit to join their Sales team to build trusting business relationships with customers.
Bodycrafters Supplements & Clinic is searching for someone to develop, administer and supervise nutrition and food preparation and service programs, evaluate nutritional status of other health professionals, community groups, government, and media, and determine the nutritional needs of patients.
Employment link Nutrition Specialist, Full-time, Permanent–North Vancouver, BC
Body Energy Clubs is looking for a customer-focused individual to join their team supporting Body Energy Club's iconic smoothie bar. On a daily basis, team members create a variety of smoothies and bowls while providing exceptional customer service and maintaining an organized food safe environment.
Genesis Nutrition is searching for a new advisor to be responsible for providing hands on customer service such as offering specific product knowledge on a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, sports nutrition, and herbal supplements.
Employment link Wellness Coach, Full-time & Part-time, Permanent– Vancouver, BC
CANADA (NATIONWIDE)
Fullscript’s purpose—helping people get better—is core to everything they do. They’ve created a virtual dispensing solution that supports holistic practitioners as they support millions of clients and patients across North America with the industry’s best supplements. They are looking to fill multiple roles in Canada and the United States.
Employment link Paid Advertising Specialist, Full-time, Permanent–Remote, BC
UNITED STATES
Four Sigmatic is searching for an individual to help shape Four Sigmatic's growth strategy by increasing traffic and new to brand customer acquisition through paid, owned and earned media channels at every point in the conversion funnel.
Employment link Acquisition Marketing Manager, Full-time, Permanent–Los Angeles, CA
Optimal Body Natural Weight Loss Solutions is seeking a rock star nutritionist to do virtual health coaching for their weight loss clients on Zoom. Their weight loss programs are all-natural, with no medication or surgery and are customizes around lifestyle modification and proper nutrition.
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An integral part of holistic health and wellness is mindful meditation. In a February 25, 2022 article (5 minute read) written by Dr. Joe Dispenza, we learn about evolving our meditation practice through introspection and by reserving judgment. “[Anytime] you want to learn – or improve, or master – anything you’ve worked on, some amount of healthy self-examination and self-evaluation is required”. By appraising our practice and considering our intent, we can improve (provided we don’t take shortcuts). Become more open to change and challenge yourself to experiment with different techniques. From inner consciousness, you will find well-suited individual practice.
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Cassava is a versatile, nutty flavoured and starchy root vegetable. In tropical areas, cassava is cultivated and processed into flour and is used in alcoholic beverages. Cassava also goes by the names yuca, manioc, and Brazilian arrowroot. It is high in resistant starch, known for its role in preventing certain metabolic conditions and promoting gut health. Cassava is a good source of fibre, vitamin C, thiamin, folic acid, manganese and potassium. For a different way to use this vegetable, try this Cassava Crust recipe by IHN graduate Kyra Follis.
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