As a part of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, the Wellness Center began to offer programs to the community as early as 1979. From the beginning, the Wellness Center's classes focused on helping people improve their lifestyle. The most unique aspect of Lourdes Wellness Program was the emphasis on the spirituality component of wellness. Seven years later, the Wellness Center incorporated classes in massage and other wholistic modalities into their repertoire. Then in 1993, these classes in wholistic modalities developed into certification courses offered by a new extension of the Wellness Center, Lourdes Institute of Wholistic Studies.
Students learn how intention and focus can raise their work to a more powerful and healing level.
Her background is in community health nursing and in wholistic modalities. Her interest in wholistic spirituality prompted her to include the wholistic modalities certification programs at Our Lady of Lourdes. The Institute of Wholistic Studies is located in Collingswood, New Jersey within the Wellness Center of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. All of our teaching areas are fully carpeted and furnished, providing students with a comfortable and intimate learning atmosphere. Overheads, videos, anatomical wall charts, and 3D anatomical models are used to enhance class instruction.