About 95% of people give up on a diet after just a few weeks. Why? Because majority of diets are based on short-term goals. To reach these goals means restricting foods and calorie causing you to feel hungry, depressed and negative. In addition, changing all habits and diet at once creates an overwhelming pressure. So failure makes you feel terrible about yourself. It should NOT be like this!

Positive Approach – Our approach to diet and lifestyle is building one healthy choice at a time and adding more whether a healthy practice or meal when ready. This is a more effective and sustainable approach. You should be celebrating your accomplishes even if it is cooking one healthy meal a week or making it a habit to walk after lunch. Feel happy and encouraged!

Easy to Follow –  SHI founders and macrobiotic experts, Denny and Susan Waxman, have adapted macrobiotics approach for modern lifestyles making it easier than ever to start a healthy diet and lifestyle today.

Simple Recommendations –  Our courses provide easy guidelines and principles on diet and lifestyle. Such as sit down while enjoying meals and creating meals around grains. These simple but powerful practices create long lasting health. We do not believe in complicated calorie counting, weighing food or keeping a food journal. Food should be enjoyed and satisfying.

Additionally, we frequently work with students who are interested in the following:

• Overcoming personal or family health issues
• Improving overall health and vitality
• Understanding the principles of a macrobiotic diet and lifestyle
• Learning advanced cooking techniques

It is important to us to be a trustworthy macrobiotic school that can get you the newest, most valuable information available for living the best life you can – much of which is created right here! Through courses, lectures, our blog articles, discussions, and live presentations, our goal is to consistently bring you an uninfluenced account of current and past health practices from the healthiest, longest standing civilizations to have lived.

We hope our message gets to you in the easiest possible ways and that we can become the place you turn to when you need facts that are not based on special interests or funding from mega corporations. Our success comes from students who take SHI courses and generous individual donors like you!