SESSION · HOLISTIC HEALTH
Holistic Health · Body, Lifestyle & Consciousness
Look at the whole person — not only one symptom.
Sometimes there is no single “problem.”
- Sleep has changed.
- Energy is lower.
- Stress is higher.
- Eating has become inconsistent.
- The body feels different.
You more or less know what you should be doing — but turning that knowledge into everyday life is another matter. And sometimes the opposite is true: you have already read everything, taken the supplements, changed diets, watched the videos. What is missing is not more information. It is a map that connects the information.
That is where holistic health enters my work. Rather than beginning with one method, I look at the wider picture — sleep, nutrition, movement, stress, breath, the nervous system, daily habits, environment, herbs and supplements, emotion and meaning, and, where it is relevant to you, intuition, energy and consciousness.
The professional foundation behind it is my Doctor of Holistic Health (DHH) training, together with the holistic-health studies that preceded it, through AllOne Sacred Services Healing Academy. I do not use this credential to present myself as a medical doctor: I do not diagnose disease, prescribe medication or replace medical testing.
The purpose of this session is different: to look at the person as a whole system — and choose steps you can actually live with.
- Doctor of Holistic Health · DHHAllOne · 1,000-hour programme
- One-to-one, remoteA personal session, from wherever you are
- The whole pictureBody · lifestyle · nutrition · nervous system
- Alongside medicineComplementary — never a replacement
Where we begin
So What Happens in a Holistic Health Session?
I don’t begin with a supplement list, a meal plan or a chakra. And I don’t assume that everything happening in the body must be “emotional” or “energetic.” I begin with you.
- What does an ordinary day look like?
- How are you sleeping?
- How are you eating?
- When does your energy rise and fall?
- How much stress is your system carrying?
- How much movement is there?
- What changed recently?
- What helped for two weeks and then disappeared?
Then we start connecting the dots. Sometimes the most important subject is sleep. Sometimes food, or routine, or the nervous system. Sometimes something you are already taking deserves a closer look with the appropriate professional. Sometimes there is room for breath, body awareness, meditation, intuition or energy work.
And sometimes the most holistic thing I can say is: “This is something you should have medically evaluated.”
At a glance
- Focus: holistic health and wellbeing
- Format: one-to-one, remote
- Core credential: Doctor of Holistic Health (DHH)
- Approach: body · lifestyle · nutrition · nervous system · herbs · awareness · intuition · consciousness
- Best for: understanding the wider picture, not another isolated tip
- Goal: clarity, priorities and realistic next steps
- Not included: medical diagnosis, disease treatment, medication changes or replacing licensed care
The credential
What Does the DHH Credential Actually Mean?
My certificate carries the title Doctor of Holistic Health — DHH — awarded by AllOne Sacred Services Healing Academy. The academy’s completion letter describes a 1,000-hour programme, completed with an overall score of 96%.
I am proud of the training — which is exactly why I want to describe it accurately.
The DHH is not an MD. It is not a medical licence, and it does not authorise me to diagnose disease or practise medicine. AllOne presents it as a Doctor of Holistic Health (DHH) Certificate, part of its training for holistic practitioners. The completion letter refers to accreditation by the International Association of Therapists (IAOTH), which accredits training programmes as CPD/CEU providers — not university-level degrees.
I use the title because it is the name of the credential I earned — not to create the impression that I am something I am not. It represents advanced study in holistic health, lifestyle, natural health, body awareness, Medical Intuition, energy work and related complementary fields.
Proud of the training. Precise about what it is.
The training behind this work
The Holistic Health Training Behind This Work
Doctor of Holistic Health · DHH
Physical anatomy, natural health, nutrition, herbal medicine and supplements, body awareness, Medical Intuition, the nervous system and vagus nerve, relaxation and hypnosis foundations, energy work, consciousness — and practice with guest clients.
Holistic Health Practitioner · Master of Holistic Health
Natural health, herbal medicine, nutrition, meditation, epigenetics and the placebo effect, energy anatomy, Medical Intuition, hypnosis and regression, mediumship, shamanic-energy work, ceremony and consciousness. Not a menu of treatments — a body of knowledge to choose from.
Radical Healing Facilitator — Level 2
The four-layer view of the person — and what a facilitator is responsible for.
Radical Healing Leadership Programme
The philosophical grounding: from a life organised around survival to one created from direction.
Hand in hand · AllOne and SGLA
Two Schools, One View of the Person
My holistic-health studies did not happen on their own. Alongside AllOne, I trained at SGLA — the Sustainable Global Leadership Academy founded by retired judge Shlomo Shoham — with him and his team of teachers.
The two tracks spoke to each other far more than I expected. AllOne gave me the practical, body-level knowledge: anatomy, nutrition, herbs, the nervous system, body awareness, Medical Intuition. SGLA gave me a way of holding the whole person — thought, emotion, body and consciousness as one system in which every layer affects the others.
From SGLA I also bring a question into almost every holistic session: is this life organised around survival, or is it beginning to be created from direction? And a clear sense of what a facilitator is responsible for — and where that responsibility ends. It is part of why this page is so careful about what holistic health is, and what it is not.
The two schools are also connected in people: Dr. Bonnie Russell and Annie Smith of AllOne are part of SGLA, alongside Shlomo Shoham.
One school taught me what to look at. The other taught me how to hold a person while we look.
What we can work with
What Can a Holistic Health Session Work With?
Three foundations come up in almost every session — and they affect each other more than we tend to admit.
Sleep, fatigue & daily energy · the base layer
Sleep is not just another wellness checkbox: it affects attention, mood, appetite, recovery and stress. We may look at bedtime patterns, screens, caffeine, morning routine, night waking and energy crashes.
And whether your day lets your system move from activity into recovery at all.
Nutrition & eating patterns · how you actually eat
Less interest in a “perfect diet”, more in the real one: skipped meals, eating differently when exhausted or stressed, too little structure, rules that are impossible to live with.
The aim is not to turn every meal into a project — it is foundations that stay.
Stress & the nervous system · “I’m fine”
Shallow breathing, tight shoulders, light sleep, fatigue with an inability to slow down — a system that stays alert when there is no immediate danger. Breath, relaxation, movement, pacing and recovery habits create more moments of rest.
Not a “reset.” Not medical treatment. Better conditions for regulation, built gradually.
Herbal medicine · natural health
Herbal Medicine, Supplements & Natural Health
My training includes Herbal Medicine, nutrition and natural-health practices — so this is a real part of the conversation, not an afterthought.
We can talk about:
- Herbs
- Teas and infusions
- Traditional uses
- Supplements you already take
- Eating patterns
- What is worth exploring further
But “natural” does not automatically mean “safe.” A herb or supplement can interact with medication, be inappropriate for a medical condition, or require dosage decisions that are outside my scope.
When a doctor, pharmacist or qualified specialist is needed, that is exactly what I will tell you.
Not a competition
Holistic Health Is Not “Natural Medicine Instead of Medicine”
That is not how I see it. The more interesting question is: how do the different parts of a person’s life affect one another?
- Sleep affects eating
- Eating affects energy
- Stress affects sleep
- Relationships affect stress
- Environment affects habits
- Habits affect the body
- The body affects everything in return
Sometimes we search for the answer inside one isolated detail,
when the real issue lives in the relationship between the details.
Body awareness
Listening to the Body Itself
One of the things I bring from my training is attention to the body itself — not only “what do you think about your body?”
This is not diagnosis. It is body awareness.
And sometimes the body has been telling the story long before the analytical mind found the words.
Where is the tension?
- How does your breathing change when we talk about a certain subject?
- What happens in the stomach — and where does the body contract?
- When does it feel more alive?
- What happens after a particular kind of day, person or habit?
Medical Intuition
Medical Intuition — What It Is, and What It Isn’t
Medical Intuition is a real and significant part of my training, so I would rather explain it than leave it as a mysterious phrase. For me, it means intuitive attention around the body and the person’s experience: an image, a sensation, a word, a part of the body that draws attention, a possible link between an emotional experience and a physical sensation — or a question the person had not thought to ask.
I can use it to say
- “Let’s pay attention to this.”
- “That is interesting — it may be worth investigating.”
- “What happens here when you think about it?”
I do not use it to say
- “You have disease X.”
- “I can see a tumour.”
- “You do not need that test.”
- “Your medication is wrong.”
Intuition can open a question. Medical diagnosis requires medicine — and that distinction is part of doing the work responsibly.
Physical Anatomy and Energy Anatomy Are Not the Same Thing
My training included both Physical Anatomy and what holistic traditions call Energy Anatomy. I keep a clear line between them.
Physical anatomy concerns the biological body. Energy anatomy is a holistic and spiritual model — auras, chakras, energy flow, centres, subtle fields. Both may appear in a conversation, but they are not the same type of knowledge.
You do not need to believe in a single chakra to get value from a session.
Breath, Relaxation & the Vagus Nerve
My advanced studies included work around the vagus nerve — a major part of the autonomic nervous system, involved in rest, digestion and regulation.
I am less interested in internet claims about “activating the vagus nerve” and more in the wider question: how do we give the system more chances for safety, rest and recovery? In practice, that is often very ordinary:
- Slower breathing, movement, sleep
- Pacing — and time outside
- Reducing stimulation
- Enough space between one demand and the next
- No promise to “heal everything through the vagus nerve”
Relaxation · imagery · focused states
Relaxation, Imagery & Focused States
My training also included foundations of hypnosis, guided relaxation and focused attention. I do not present this part of the work as clinical hypnotherapy.
Inside a holistic-health session it appears more simply:
- Guided relaxation
- Imagery
- Breathing
- Body attention
- From constant doing to a quieter state
For deeper hypnotic and consciousness journeys I have separate frameworks, such as BQH and QHHT. Here, relaxation is one tool inside a much wider toolbox.
Energy, Consciousness & the Higher Self
Yes — this part exists in my background too. My studies included the Higher Self, meditation, intuition, energy, awareness, ceremony, and Shamanic Healing Energy™, an energetic framework taught through AllOne.
I use these layers when they are appropriate to the person and the conversation. I do not present them as established medical science.
You can work deeply with spiritual language and still know exactly where it ends and a blood test begins.
Meaning, Direction & Lifestyle
Sometimes health is not only about what we eat. It is also about how we live — what exhausts us, what we keep saying yes to, what we never say no to.
Not because meaning cures every disease, but because the quality of the life we build is part of the wider picture of wellbeing. Is there enough:
- Rest
- Connection — good people
- Creativity
- Nature
- Space to be a human being, not a permanently running task list
Eight lenses
Eight Holistic Health Lenses I May Bring to a Session
Think of the work as eight lenses we use depending on what is actually relevant. Not every session needs all eight — the skill is knowing which ones matter now.
The body
Sleep, physical sensations, energy, movement and signals worth paying attention to.
Lifestyle
Daily rhythm, work, rest, screens, environment and habits.
Nutrition & natural health
Eating patterns, food, herbs and supplements in a holistic, educational context.
The nervous system
Stress, breath, relaxation, overload and recovery.
Body & emotion
Connections you yourself notice between experience, emotion and physical sensation.
Awareness & intuition
What you sense, notice or know beyond ordinary analysis.
Energy & consciousness
Where it fits you: energetic maps, meditation and spiritual frameworks.
Meaning & direction
A life that supports the person, rather than only demanding more.
A session
What Does a Holistic Health Session With Me Look Like?
Not a “total wellness transformation in 21 days.” Not fourteen new habits. A few things with a realistic chance of becoming part of your life.
We map the present
I want to understand your actual day, not only your list of problems.
- What is bothering you?
- What changed?
- What has been medically checked?
- What have you tried?
- What works — and what doesn’t last?
- Medications, supplements or herbs
- What medical care is in place?
- What do you want to improve?
We choose a few priorities
Once there is a map, we pick a small number of focuses.
- One evening habit
- More structure around meals
- Movement
- Breath
- Recovery time
- A question for your doctor
- Simplifying an overloaded supplement routine
- A recurring pattern
You leave with a map, not a lecture
A clearer sense of what may be connected to what, what deserves attention first, a few steps you can actually take — and better questions, including ones worth taking to a doctor or another professional.
- A clearer map
- Priorities
- Realistic steps
- Better questions
- Less noise
Sometimes the problem in modern health culture is not a lack of information. It is not knowing which information actually matters to you.
Who it may suit
Who Is a Holistic Health Session For?
Everything feels connected
Sleep, stress, food, fatigue and habits no longer feel like separate issues.
You want a wider view
Not another isolated tip — a clearer picture of the system around it.
You already know a lot
You have read the books, watched the videos, perhaps bought the supplements. Now: what is actually relevant?
You are rebuilding
After illness, recovery, burnout, a major change — or years in which your own wellbeing fell to the bottom of the list.
You already have medical care
And want complementary support around lifestyle, habits, stress and wellbeing.
You are spiritually oriented too
And want a place to talk about energy and intuition without pretending they are laboratory tests.
When to start elsewhere
When Medical Care Comes First
If there is anything that requires diagnosis, medical evaluation comes first. After that, we can work on the rest of the picture.
There is no competition here. Holistic-health support can exist alongside medical care — it should not replace it. Used in the right place, medicine and holistic health don’t need to compete at all. See the health disclaimer.
See a doctor first if there is
- Significant or unusual pain
- A new or significant symptom
- A sudden physical change
- Unexplained weight loss or gain
- A suspected hormonal issue
- A reaction to medication
- Persistent fever
- A neurological symptom or shortness of breath
- Acute psychiatric symptoms
Common Questions About Holistic Health & DHH
What is a holistic health session?
A session that looks at wellbeing through several interconnected layers: body, sleep, nutrition, stress, movement, habits, the nervous system, environment and — where appropriate — intuition and energy.
What is a Doctor of Holistic Health?
It is the title of the advanced holistic-health credential I earned through AllOne Sacred Services Healing Academy.
Are you a medical doctor?
No. I hold a Doctor of Holistic Health (DHH) credential, but I am not an MD and I do not hold a medical licence.
What is the difference between holistic health and medicine?
Licensed medicine diagnoses and treats disease. My work focuses on complementary areas such as lifestyle, habits, general nutrition, stress, breath, awareness and — where appropriate — energetic frameworks.
Do you provide meal plans?
Not as a clinical dietitian. We can work with eating patterns, daily structure and general nutrition, but this is not clinical nutritional treatment.
Do you recommend supplements or herbs?
They can be discussed in an educational and holistic context. When medication, a medical condition or therapeutic dosing is involved, an appropriately qualified professional should be included.
What is Medical Intuition?
A form of intuitive attention around bodily sensations, imagery and subjective information. It is not medical diagnosis.
What is Energy Anatomy?
A spiritual and holistic model using concepts such as chakras and the aura. It is not medical anatomy.
What does the vagus nerve have to do with the session?
My training included work around the nervous system and the vagus nerve. Breath, relaxation, movement and recovery habits may be used as supportive regulation tools — without exaggerated medical claims.
Do I have to believe in energy work?
No. A whole session can focus on sleep, nutrition, stress, movement and habits without a single chakra.
Can I work with you while also seeing a doctor?
Yes. When medical care is needed, that is exactly how I prefer it: medicine handles what belongs to medicine, and we look at the wider life around it.
Are sessions online?
Yes. Sessions are held remotely, in English or Hebrew.
This is complementary holistic-health and wellbeing support. It is not medical, psychiatric or psychological diagnosis or treatment, and it does not replace care from an appropriately licensed professional. Health disclaimer.
The teachers · an open door
The Teachers Behind the DHH — and the Quantum Hour
The DHH and the programme before it were taught at AllOne Sacred Services Healing Academy in Castro Valley, California — by Rev. Dr. Bonnie M. Russell, the academy’s president, and Rev. BobbeAnne Smith, its instructor. Theirs are the two signatures on my certificate.
Dr. Bonnie Russell also leads the Quantum Hour, together with Annie Smith: a free online hour, every other Thursday — an explanation, a conversation and a guided session you take part in yourself. If you want a first taste of AllOne’s heart-centred approach to energy healing, before or alongside a session with me, it is an open door.
AllOne Sacred Services Healing Academy
- Rev. Dr. Bonnie M. Russell — President
- Rev. BobbeAnne Smith — Instructor
- Doctor of Holistic Health (DHH) · Holistic Health Practitioner
- The Quantum Hour — Dr. Bonnie Russell and Annie Smith · free, online, in English
Every other Thursday · Free
The Quantum Hour
One hour online: an explanation, a conversation, and a guided session you take part in yourself. Free, open to anyone, and no experience needed.
- Thursday, 5 November 10:00
- Thursday, 19 November 10:00
Registration is on the hosts' own site. Add it to the cart, check out, and the Zoom link is emailed to you. No cost and no commission.
HOLISTIC HEALTH
Health is more than a symptom. But intuition is not a substitute for a blood test.
The territory I work in sits between those two: the body, sleep, food, breath, stress, movement, habits, environment, emotion, meaning — and sometimes energy and consciousness too. Not to promise healing, and not to find a spiritual explanation for everything, but to see more of the person and of the life that body lives in. And then to ask a much more useful question: what actually makes sense to do next?