
DIPLOMA COURSES
Farida Sharan ND Healing Arts Educator
DIPLOMAS: NATUROPATHY ∙ NATURAL PHYSICIAN ∙ HERBAL MEDICINE ∙ HEALING DIETS ∙ IRIDOLOGY

Iridology reveals strengths and weakness to guide nutritional support.
Iridology displays Constitutional digestive tendencies that require balance.
Iridology guides Healing Diets programs and displays changes in the irises.
Iridology resonates with Reflexology points and mirrors changes.
Flower Essences uplift and release emotional trauma in the physical body.
Iridology educates and inspires a client or student to become Independently Healthy.
PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA COURSES

Founded in Boulder, Colorado 1988 to 2020
Approved Colorado State School 2006
Viscount Lord Ednam now Earl of Dudley
Dame Dr. Shirley Bond MD
Dr. Raymond Christopher
Dr. Bernard Jensen
Dame Shirley Bond MD
Dr. Bond invited Farida to join her Women’ s Clinic in London.
“I never knew such tissue changes were possible. I am impressed by Farida’s sincerity, integrity and knowledge of Natural Medicine.”
Embody Teachings In Experience
“Farida inspires students to embody teachings to transform daily life into a health-filled one! Farida assists you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to become all you can be with never-ending love and encouragement.”
– Vickie Huey, Naturopath Graduate, Florida
Self Healing Embodiment
“I looked 5 years younger after Self Healing Herbal and Healing Diet embodiment that prepared me for higher levels of learning.”
– Betty Sue O’Brien, Naturopath, IIPA President, Mississippi
Graduate Creates Healing Center
“Farida, your guidance inspired me to enroll. I love all I do in my Rejuvenation Springs healing center.”
– Donna Caire, Naturopath Graduate, Louisiana
Heal Yourself Before Others
“Spiritual awakening to heal myself before assisting others, revealed truth that cannot be explained, only experienced.”
– Anna Lloyd, Naturopath Graduate, Maryland
HEALING DIETS NUTRITIONIST DIPLOMA (HDN)

‘Herbs of Grace’ – Becoming Independently Healthy’ and ‘Dance With Cancer’ books by Farida Sharan share the full story of healing adventures in the 1970’s in California. Request free online books.
2. Self Healing Module Embodiment Lightness of Being
Healing Diets Grounded Me
“Clarity from Raw living vegan foods ‘grounded’ me in my body.”
– Sahana Rao, Healing Diets Graduate, Denver, Colorado
Self Healing Hope
“Healing Diets opened my body, heart and mind to hope.”
– Kristen Samz, Colorado. Healed Khron’s Disease
Healing Diets Makes Me Feel At Home
“A coming home warmth to gratitude for self-love soul expression.”
– Jesse Zoller, Naturopath student, Colorado. Healed asthma
Energize Healing With Love
“Farida offers energizes Self Healing with utmost LOVE.”
– Kaianna Kadivnik, Denver, Colorado
Student Heals Anorexia Bulimia
“I leapt into living food simplicity by LOVING the SELF.”
– Ana Mission, Colorado. Self Healed anorexia nervosa
Food As Medicine Inspires Healing
“After three days on raw fermented food, I know food is medicine.”
– April Jones, Naturopathy student, Montana
Healing Diets Empower Me To Share
“I feel better, eat slower, enjoy food and feel satisfied with more energy.”
– Mariel Polifroni, Boulder, Colorado
Nutritive Healing Force Of Live Foods
“Gratitude permeates my cells from foods that give vigor and clarity!”
– Melina Fritzler, Boulder, Naturopath Graduate, Boulder, Colorado
Complete Online Course or Course(s)
Self Healing Lightness of Being Embodiment of the Teachings
Integrated Immersion (In Person or Online) appropriate for each course.
Personally Mentored Clinical Training for Naturopathy | Natural Physician
MASTER HERBALIST (MH)

Dame Shirley Bond MD invited Farida Sharan to join her London Women’s Medicine Clinic weekly over five years. She receiving referrals for female patients with infertility, endometriosis, cervical dysplasia, hormone imbalance, and digestive and nervous system weakness. Dr. Bond also studied Iridology and Natural Medicine with Farida, and taught classes at the school.
Farida Sharan ND offers forty years of clinical experience in a complete system of Natural Medicine integration of Herbal Medicine with Healing Diets in therapeutic Self Healing programs.
2. Chemistry
3. Nutritional Holistic Herbal Medicine
4. Materia Media Individual Herbs and Functions
5. Herbal Formula Creation
6. Materia Medica 100 Herbs Part I
7. Materia Medica 100 Herbs Part II
8. Body Systems, Organs and Glands
9. Botany, Plant Signatures and Gestures
10. Herbal Pharmacy I
11. Herbal Pharmacy II
12. Influence of emotions and thoughts on the physical body.
Herbal Medicine Life-changing!
“Not just an education, herbs are life-changing! With a loving open heart, I learn about myself. and am inspired to be honest and open in my life.”
– Kristen Samz, Herbal Medicine, Healing Diets, Lakewood, Colorado
Herbs Clear Health Problems
“Herbs helped me discover the root of my health problems and learn self-healing habits to heal from within.”
– Carla Calderon Orocu, Naturopathy Costa Rica

Spiritual Connection To Plants
“I enjoyed the spiritual connection of observing, drawing and ‘listening’ with plants”
– Melana Meyer, Herbal Medicine, Denver
Creating Herbal Formulas
“The group experience of creating a formula was honest and supportive.”
– Brandi Davis, Herbal Medicine, Denver
2. Self Healing Lightness of Being program guided by Farida Sharan ND
3. Herbal Medicine integrated Immersion Attendance recommended.

MASTER IRIDOLOGIST (MIR)

2. Self Healing Module Embodiment teachings guided by Farida Sharan ND.
3. Attendance at Iridology Online Advanced Education or Immersion
Each student create a study program that works with the student’s schedule, responsibilities, resources and study preferences and improves your daily life and personal health.
Iridology – A Complete Guide (Revised) Vol 1
Dictionary of Iridology
Iridology Coloring Book,
Herbs of Grace – Becoming Independently Healthy.
Iridology Introduction and Iridology Constitution DVD’s
A page on the Iris Print was included in the Iridology – A Complete Guide manuscript submitted to Harper Collins in 1985. Editors deleted it without informing Farida, saying an Iris Print change was impossible. Today Iris Print machines exist worldwide as ID from individual iris patterns.
Irises Connect Unique Simplicity From Complexity
“Iridology guides Self Healing from complexity into simplicity, and helps us understand ourself and each other without judgement.”
– Miranda Palmer Langelier, Naturopath, Graduate. Tennessee
Online Study Prepares For Integrated Immersions
“I am surrounded by Iridology Study materials with true gratitude.”
– Gabriel Riley, Nurse, Naturopathy, New York
Irises Reflect The Total Person
“I learned the relationship of the iris to the life of the person.”
– Marie Zenack, Fairfield, Iowa
I Now Love Every Part Of Me
“Irises reveal a part of me in everyone, and a little of everyone in me.”
– Louisa, Iridology student, Mexico
Iridology Empowers Strengths
“Irises empower understanding to manifest health from inner strengths.”
– Dakota Angthius, Naturopathy student, Denver, Colorado
Iridology Inspires
“Iridology is so inspiring I want to learn what irises teach me.”
– Gretchen Popp, Boulder, Colorado
Iridology Opens New Ways Of Seeing
“A new way at looking at body, mind, spirit as a whole with an extraordinary teacher.”
– Anicha Cannon, Nederland, Colorado
NATUROPATH | NATURAL PHYSICIAN

Viscount Lord Ednam now Earl of Dudley
Dr. Raymond Christopher and Dr. Bernard Jensen
Students Evolve Life Work Visions
“After healing Anorexia Nervosa, I am strong, powerful and kick ass with grace and fierce commitment dedication through self-love to use my wings, I feel magnetized with a business name, Anahata Wings, to demonstrates an open heart evolving the movement of life with equanimity, adaptability, following the sound of one’s true heart.”
– Ana Mission, Naturopathy student, Colorado
Let Go Of Fears And Express Confidence
“I am determined in let go of my fears and scheduling my first talk/workshop as the next step to fully express confidence.”
– Cheri Rosser, Naturopathy student, California
ACCREDITATION
Graduates Accreditations, Approvals, Memberships
* Legality depends upon where students live and their creative professional choices.
* Graduates are living examples and educators guiding seekers of health, wellness, healing and rejuvenation.
* Graduates practice respectfully within the law wherever they live.
* Graduates use Naturopath, Natural Physician, HealthMaster, Longevity Lifestyle Counsellors or terms legal and familiar wherever they live.
* School of Natural Medicine teaches truth teachings honoring the laws of nature, and cause and effect.
* Graduates respect practitioners from other paths of study and practice for the benefit of human beings blessed by the gift of life.
Accreditation is a question every inquirer wants to understand. Our Diploma graduates qualify for membership to numerous accrediting, approval and regulatory bodies with the understanding that experiencing the healing power of nature is a human right, not one bestowed by individual institutions.
Topics covered in our Diploma courses are ones that can be freely and taught practiced within ‘common law’. Some herbs are regulated in the UK and EU, and laws sometimes change. All students, from any country, can become a member of the American Herbalist Guild or other world herbal organizations. See below for further details.
Accrediting bodies and associations listed below offer the benefits of sharing community, support each others work, protect the role of graduates as a group, reduce insurance rates, offer conferences for continuing education, share pertinent changes to the profession and provide access to current clinical studies and research.
In addition to the personal benefits of membership, strength of numbers is vital for the continuing protection of Natural Medicine.
School of Natural Medicine flourished worldwide from 1977 in Cambridge, England, and 28 years in Boulder, Colorado, and again in England since 2007. Our consistent standard of excellence draws students from all over the world. Graduate success in England, Malaysia, India, Lebanon, USA, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, South Africa, Holland, Iceland and other countries proves the quality and integrity of our school and the truth of the teachings.
International Association of Natural Health Practitioners
http://www.ianhpinternational.org/
Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM)
Institute of Complimentary and Natural Medicine (ICNM)
is now the Official Naturopathy Accreditation in the UK.
ICAM (now ICNM) approved Farida Sharan and the School of Natural Medicine in 1986. Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM) confirms SNM Status
“Dear Farida Sharan, We confirm your School is affiliated to this Institute which means we share a commitment to develop national standards of education for Complementary Medicine. Since you have always been recognised as one of the leaders in your chosen discipline, you would be one to advise this Institute and other Awarding Bodies of the standards of education, philosophical understanding and clinical experience required for practitioner status. Further, your published material is widely used for reference both in teaching and practise. Practitioners who successfully complete your courses which have their syllabuses lodged with us and whose examinations have been subjected to external verification, would be likely to be at the standard of entry to the British Register of Complementary Practitioners.”
– Michael Endacott, Director
that have approved and accredited School of Natural Medicine:
World Health Organization SNM’s approach to Naturopathy is in alignment with international standards of practice based on over 2000 years of history of Naturopath and Natural Medicine cultures.
Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Division of Professions and Occupations:
School of Natural Medicine approved for Naturopathy, Herbal, Iridology and other therapeutic modalities by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies Division of Professions and Occupations.
Farida Sharan honored as a Colorado Certified Teacher of the Healing Arts.
Both traditional and non-traditional schools and colleges recognize the AAMA as an independent accrediting board for alternative health educational institutions:
“Our organization can assist your Naturopathy graduates with many professional benefits.” www.joinaama.com
American Association of Drugless Practitioners AADP
“The AADP granted the School of Natural Medicine full board professional accreditation and certification.
Your school’s curriculum fully meets our accreditation board’s educational requirements, and should give your students a thorough knowledge of courses set-forth by the Institute.
Graduates of your school will be eligible to apply to be board certified holistic health practitioners through the AADP. This Organization Recommends School of Natural Medicine as “…the best Naturopathy School.” http://www.aadp.net/
American Herbalist Guild
http://www.americanherbalistsguild.com/
Colorado Society of Holistic & Naturopathic Physicians Inc.
P O Box 431, Englewood, CO 80151 Fax: 303-798-5499
International Society of Naturopaths
CSHNP aligns with ISN 1434 Fremont Ave., Los Altos, CA 94024 Tel: 650-967-1232
Department of Health Board of Naturopathy
717 14th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20005
International Academy of Naturopathic Physicians
3857 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43213
International Association of Natural Health Practitioners
http://www.ianhpinternational.org/
International Iridology Practitioners Association
IIPA welcomes SNM Master Iridologists to apply for membership.