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Holistic Wellness Education
Online & On-Campus
Located in Tempe, Arizona
Welcome to the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA). Our mission is to inspire individuals to discover their gifts and graces, and support them as they share their talents with the world in a loving and profitable way.
Learn to touch lives, heal bodies and free souls.
Jumpstart your career with one of the following Certificate of Excellence programs!
*interest-free payment plans are available*
End of Life Doula
(100 hr) On-Campus & Online
Start Dates:
May 4, 2026 (online)
October 6, 2026 (on campus)
During this series of courses, you may confront your own feelings about death and dying and determine what dying well means for you personally. You’ll learn to support clients through the grieving process and conduct rituals and ceremonies for honoring the end of life.
Healing Botanicals & Earth Ceremonies
(100 hr) Online
Start Date: May 4, 2026
This online certificate provides the opportunity to design and hold both personal and community earth-based ceremonies. Students will be encouraged to discover their own authentic, sacred connection to the rhythm of life. Emphasis is placed on developing an intimate knowledge of a few select herbs that can enhance ceremonies and be used to create products. Imagine providing both an experience and a useful product for participants to take home and use in their personal rituals.
Life Coaching
(100 hr) On-Campus & Online
Start Dates:
May 15, 2026 (on campus)
June 8, 2026 (online)
Life coaching is a process that helps people advanced and achieve personal, professional, and spiritual goals using a variety of transformational tools and techniques. Originally authored by KC Miller and Linda Bennett, our 100-hour Certificate of Excellence Life Coaching Program is based on twelve Guiding Principles of Transformational Life Coaching, including the belief that deep within each of us is a sense of inherent knowing. We have trained thousands of life coaches over the last fifteen years and witnessed students experience the power of helping others find clarity of purpose and a bold new way of expressing themselves in the world.
Hypnotherapy
(100 hr) Online & On-Campus
Start Dates: February 20, 2026 (on campus)
March 30, 2026 (online)
Hypnotherapy is a powerful way to support people in making needed life changes. Hypnosis induces a deeply relaxed state of inner concentration and focused attention, nurturing decisions from a state of awareness and clarity, in the safety and comfort of a hypnotherapy session.
Intuitive Guide/Intuitive Coach
(100 hr) On-Campus & Online
Start Dates: May 15, 2026 (on campus) & June 8, 2026 (online)
To serve as an “Intuitive Guide” or “Intuitive Messenger” is to be deeply in tune with your higher-self and your innate wisdom so that you may lead others to hear the truth buried within their hearts. This is a perfect certificate to help refine your gifts and help you offer additional services to your already established practice.
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Yoga Teacher Training
(200 hr) On-Campus
Start Dates: April 6, 2026 (AM)
March 2, 2026 (PM)
Students who have successfully completed Yoga Teacher training with SWIHA, a Registered Yoga School (RYS®), receive a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT®) designation based on their level of training and teaching experience.
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts
SWIHA - 1538 E. Southern Ave. Tempe, AZ 85282
Certificates of Excellence are areas of concentration designed to take as CEU’s or to be taken within a diploma or degree program; they will not prepare you for gainful employment if taken independently.
Only vocational programs of 600 hours or more are eligible for Federal Financial Aid.