WELL Educated
The Christina Pirello School of Natural Cooking and Integrative Health Studies
Learn to cook your way to the life you want with Christina Pirello, the internationally-acclaimed authority on whole foods. Christina's unique educational programs and teaching style will change your relationship with food and make healthy cooking and living second nature.
Contact us for more information at 1-800-939-3909 or christinacooks@comcast.net.
Christina offers three different study programs
- Demonstration classes
- The three-day Intensive Study Program
- The six-month Cooking and Integrative Health Studies Program
Demonstration classes
Offered once monthly at the Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College in Philadelphia (4100 Walnut Street), these self-contained classes cover a variety of topics. Christina's style of teaching is fun, entertaining and informative. She encourages questions throughout the entire class, which engages participants and permits them to take the class in the direction they want to go. Each $30.00 class runs 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and includes handouts and a complete meal. Past classes have covered everything from Heart Health to Breaking the Sugar Addiction Once and For All to Loving Your Lover and Holiday Cooking. The Restaurant School provides free parking to all participants of this program.
The three-day Intensive Study Program
Held at the Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, this one-of-a-kind program is designed to gain the knowledge you need to get started on the path of healthy cooking. Combining lecture, demonstration and hands-on classes over the three-day period, Christina will have you cooking healthfully in no time. You’ll study the energetics of food, knife skills, cutting styles, menu-planning, diagnosis and more. Call us for more information at 1-800-939-3909.
The six-month Cooking and Integrative Health Studies Program
It sounds like a mouthful, but with her Cooking and Integrative Health Studies Program, Christina is taking cooking and health education to a whole new dimension. This unique six-month program, also held at The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, (one weekend a month for six months) is designed to not only educate you on healthy cooking, but to also help you examine and change your entire life into what you want it to be. It’s all about giving you the tools you need to live a healthy, productive and meaningful life.
Designed to truly help you understand and evolve, the program begins and ends with a complete diet and lifestyle assessment. Each month you’ll keep a detailed journal so Christina can see where you require more attention and assistance; and you can actually monitor and see your own progress. Plus, you’ll be able to log on to a unique student area on Christina’s web site where you can get support from other students as well as from Christina.
In addition to studying cooking with Christina each weekend, you’ll study integrative health with Bernardo n to studying cooking with Christina each weekend, you’ll study integrative health with Bernardo Merizalde, MD. Doctor Merizalde has been in private practice in Lafayette Hill, PA, for nearly twenty years with a focus on complementary / alternative medicine. He is also on the staff at Jefferson Hospital’s Integrative Health department in Philadelphia.
Diagnosis classes will be instructed by Patrick Riley. Patrick has been an advocate of natural healthcare since 1978. A graduate of La Salle University in Philadelphia, Patrick pursued studies in macrobiotics, shiatsu and related health subjects at the Kushi Institutes in London, England and Boston, MA. Patrick devotes his professional time to working with individuals assisting them to restore their natural healing ability through the use of diet and common sense living.
Following completion of the six-month program, you can choose to continue your study for two additional months in order to gain the knowledge and experience required to apply to teach the school and community outreach programs curriculum for The Christina Pirello Health Education Initiative.