Welcome to vernevarona.com, a site devoted to helping you maintain, recover or revitalize your health. If you are serious about finding practical solutions for better health, you’ve come to the right place. I offer transformative personalized sessions that are designed to support, educate, guide and inspire you to better health.

About the Program

New Career Phase

As I transition into new career phases, I have been repeatedly asked to teach others about my experience in natural health and macrobiotic counseling, diagnosis and marketing. After speaking with others and observing the somewhat stilted and dogmatic ways that counseling and macrobiotic philosophy is being approached, I am now offering–pending available time before a very time-consuming project–a unique, real-world brief course for the advanced student, the counselor of any level, or the working health practitioner who wants a better grasp of making this information more practical, effective, easier to promote and personally practice. I’ve made a gazillion mistakes in self-promotion and in counseling and that has been my training ground. So, look at this as a short, painless course on what not to do, how to self-promote more effectively and how to interpret this powerful and inspiring information in ways that are more marketable, more practical and certainly more mainstream.

Learn from Someone with Vast Experience and Know-How

I have spent over 40 years studying, practicing, counseling, teaching and writing about macrobiotics and natural health. I have questioned, researched, and redefined all that I learned according to my experience as a working counselor since I formally began studying in 1970. In the mid-80s co-founded and co-directed a medical clinic in Beverly Hills for a period of 4 years with a physician partner and small staff. I also had an ongoing practice in Vancouver, BC, Los Angeles, New York and Florida and frequently teach throughout the US, Europe and the Middle-East. I’ve taught at leading Chiropractic colleges, Naturopathy Schools, Universities and Medical Institutions. I’ve been on mainstream national television and am currently in negotiation with a major network to do a specialized program that has the potential to reach many. Presently, I keynote at medical conferences, alternative health events, to the general public and for business symposiums, making this information more universal, multi-cultural and customized for each group I address.

I still research and study and currently have two published health books and another in negotiation. Currently, I have a feature film production brewing that is about disease reversal and utilizes a full medical crew, participants and celebrities. We are now dealing with legal clearances.

My focus has always been about making this valuable information presentable for the general public. If you want to succeed and really expand your practice so that its rewards are not only financial, but unrelentingly influential, this course is for you. In the end, your “success” will be dependent on your substance, your individual practice, your ability to read others and some savvy marketing that is straight-forward and succinct.

One-To-One Sessions on the Following Topics —

I have had extensive experience with the following 21 topics. Understanding these will short-cut your personal learning curve so that you can feel more confident in your practice, expand your appeal and offer, friends, or family members, pertinent support for maximized results. In the end, it’s all about their experience. How you initiate and inspire is their launching pad. We can cover your choice of subjects from below, or others you may be more concerned about. Your choice.

 

Topics

• The Psychology of Counseling — Fear, Urgency and Faith
• Using Macrobiotic Principles to Heal and Inspire
• Practical Dietetics—The Evolving Whole Foods Dietary Approach
• How to Personalize Your Counseling – Using Follow-Up Effectively
• Advanced Diagnosis — Beyond Standard Physiognomy
• Twelve Essential Questions To Ask Clients
• Putting the Body/Mind/Spirit Triad Together
• Dealing with Common Conditions: Food Intolerance, Systemic
• Inflammation, Diabetes, Heart Health, Weight-Loss, Aging and Poor Immunity
• The Construct of A Cancer Consult – What To Do, & What Not To Do
• The Most Overlooked Factor In Counseling Children
• Bottom Line On “Home Remedies” – What To Do & When
• Obtaining Referrals, New Business and Self-Promotion
• Cultivating Intuition In Your Counseling
• Developing A Speaking Platform
• Structuring Client Fees
• Marketing 101 – Experienced Advice That Gets Attention
• Essential Legalities For A Counseling Practice 
• Important PDF’s For Client Support Education
• Personal Consultation Points — Maximizing Your Own Health
• Your Questions & Concerns

Session(s) Details

This is not classroom, generic style. It is highly individualized and focused on how you want to evolve your personal practice, how you talk to people/groups about healing, your specific questions, or as food for your continued study.

To do what is necessary and give you ample inspiration and practical education, I’ve constructed a three-phase session plan of approximately 1-1/2 hours each that we do every other week. A four-week follow-up for additional questions and support is that concluding step.

The Inspiration

I’ve been avoiding the idea of a school, as other and more creative projects have stronger appeal for me. However, in speaking to a recent group of experienced health professionals and offering some of this information, the feedback I got was overwhelmingly positive. It all resonated with their experience, made good sense, could save them lots of work and expense, and seemed a stronger way to attract more interest to their work. I realized that if any group needed this information, it was those individuals who have pursued macrobiotics or whole health alternatives and want to expand and challenge their own boundaries, as well as how they practice. You might say that this course is for:

• Anyone wanting a more modern, practical and real world version of macrobiotics
• Anyone having difficulty in their personal recovery
• Anyone who cares about furthering the health of their family, friends and others
• Anyone who is wanting a more multi-cultural and body/mind/spirit expression of this information
• Anyone who has a health counseling practice
• Anyone who wants to establish a health counseling practice
• Anyone desiring to expand their clientele to reach more mainstream audiences
• Anyone wanting to begin their new year with a different and more focused approach.

Limited Attendance

I have room for 12 additional individuals. For February, the most comfortable number I can accommodate. I am unsure about repeating this again in March . If this course has appeal for you, don’t hesitate. My December-January students are still on course, but so far, so good. The health professionals are inspired and recommendations for individuals are all varied and personalized.

Make your reservation as soon as possible via email. Teaching times are flexible and will be discuss with each participant.

What You Get 

• Three sessions, typically lasting about 1-1/2 hours and 4 weeks of follow-up (when you are ready for follow-up).
• PDF’s of client hand-outs, questionnaire format, relevant articles and a template for a client session booklet. You can use these for personal or professional use.
• Any of the topics I’ve listed, or according to your interest.
• Your personal and client diagnosis questions.
• Personal health consult for maximizing your own health.
• A Format for putting the body, mind and spirit approach together.

Fee Structure

Total Fee: $425.

I usually handle payments through Pay Pal.  There is a  $10. additional fee for Pay Pal.  When this is inconvenient, we can use Western Union. 

Contact 

You can email me at:  vv@vernevarona.com  for additional details, your questions, concerns, and to register. I look forward to hearing about your future results.

If you stand on any metro street corner and look around at passing humanity, you can see that there is a definite need for this work. Transforming the health of people is just a matter of knowing how to reach them and how to keep them inspired. And this, has been my personal passion for many years.

 

“Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has been hardened into obstruction; healing is learning to trust life.”

—Dr. Jeanne Achterberg

 

Verne Varona

Verne Varona has become known as one of the most captivating and dynamic health educators in the country.  For over forty years, his lectures, workshops and media appearances have motivated thousands of people to take better and more conscious care of their health. His appeal transcends barriers of age, culture and occupation.

A highly sought after speaker on health, fitness and motivation, he has become a renowned keynote speaker throughout the US, Europe and the Middle-East. His captivating style uses humor, insight and common sense to improve and enrich the lives of many. He studied Oriental Medicine and Macrobiotic principles at the East West Foundation of Boston, Massachusetts (1970-1974) and with numerous teachers and physicians of Chinese Medicine.

Verne is a frequent guest on a variety of television and radio media where his research expertise and entertaining teaching style make him a welcome and often repeat visitor. For five years, he was the nutritional consultant and co-founder of a popular Beverly Hills medical group with a clientele that featured well-known entertainment and sports professionals. With his physician associate, Verne co-created, The ODDS Program (Off Dangerous Drugs Safely); a dietary program designed to reverse pharmaceutical drug dependency such as hypertension and over-the-counter drug dependency with dietary and lifestyle guidelines featured in his published books.

Verne’s first book, Nature’s Cancer-Fighting Foods (2001—Penguin Books), is currently in its sixteenth printing and used as a textbook in a number of academic health and wellness institutions. His second book, Macrobiotics for Dummies (May, 2009—Wiley Publications), is part of the internationally popular Dummies series.

Currently involved in film production, Verne is in pre-production stages for a feature length documentary film that chronicles disease reversal.

Book endorsements can be seen on my website: http://www.vernevarona.com

 

“If you have the inspiration, this book is an excellent, unbiased source of information that can help you on your healing journey.”

Bernie Siegel, MD  - Author, Love, Medicine & Miracles

 

 “… caring for one’s health, is the most significant spiritual thing one can do …”