--- title: SWIHA Graduates | SWINA Graduates | SOY Graduates | Urban Farming description: Urban Farming | An online directory of graduates and instructors from Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Southwest Institute of Natural Aesthetics and Spirit of Yoga. --- - [Home](http://greatgraduates.com/) - [Find a Graduate](http://greatgraduates.com/listings/) - [Find a Graduate](http://greatgraduates.com/listings/) - [View All Listings](http://greatgraduates.com/listings) - View by Specialty - [Aromatherapy](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/aromatherapy) - [Cranial Unwinding](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/cranial-unwinding) - [Holistic Nutrition Specialist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/holistic-nutrition-specialist) - [Hypnotherapy](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/hypotherapy) - [Laser Technician](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/laser-technician) - [Life Coach](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/life-coach) - [Massage Therapist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/massage-therapist) - [Polarity](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/polarity) - [Reflexology](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/reflexology) - [Reiki](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/reiki) - [Skincare Specialist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/skincare-specialist) - [Spa Treatments](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/spa-treatments) - [Celebrant/Minister](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/celebrant-or-minister) - [Toe Reader](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/toe-reader) - [Urban Farmer](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/urban-farming) - [Herbalist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/herbalist) - [Yoga Teacher](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/yoga-teacher) - [About](http://greatgraduates.com/about) - [FAQs](http://greatgraduates.com/faqs) - [Become Listed](http://greatgraduates.com/become-listed) - [Become A Great Graduate](https://swiha.edu) - [Blog](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/) Search - [Home](http://greatgraduates.com/) - [Find a Graduate](http://greatgraduates.com/listings/) - [Find a Graduate](http://greatgraduates.com/listings/) - [View All Listings](http://greatgraduates.com/listings) - View by Specialty - [Aromatherapy](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/aromatherapy) - [Cranial Unwinding](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/cranial-unwinding) - [Holistic Nutrition Specialist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/holistic-nutrition-specialist) - [Hypnotherapy](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/hypotherapy) - [Laser Technician](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/laser-technician) - [Life Coach](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/life-coach) - [Massage Therapist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/massage-therapist) - [Polarity](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/polarity) - [Reflexology](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/reflexology) - [Reiki](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/reiki) - [Skincare Specialist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/skincare-specialist) - [Spa Treatments](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/spa-treatments) - [Celebrant/Minister](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/celebrant-or-minister) - [Toe Reader](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/toe-reader) - [Urban Farmer](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/urban-farming) - [Herbalist](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/herbalist) - [Yoga Teacher](http://greatgraduates.com/listings-category/yoga-teacher) - [About](http://greatgraduates.com/about) - [FAQs](http://greatgraduates.com/faqs) - [Become Listed](http://greatgraduates.com/become-listed) - [Become A Great Graduate](https://swiha.edu) - [Blog](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/) Search ![Great Graduates](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/hubfs/Great-Graduates-Images-May-2016/gg-logo.png) An online directory of graduates and instructors from Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Southwest Institute of Natural Aesthetics and Spirit of Yoga. # Great Graduates from SWIHA, SWINA & SOY [![](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Cameo1.jpg)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/cameo-wilson-transforming-herself-and-urban-farming) ## [Cameo Wilson: Transforming Herself and Urban Farming](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/cameo-wilson-transforming-herself-and-urban-farming) Cameo Wilson is one incredible individual who has learned to nurture her own self growth and in doing so found her roots and a deep-seated passion for urban farming and sustainability. What brought her to SWIHA was a self-imposed desire for self-growth, followed by the committed decision to take care of herself. *“By taking care of myself physically and emotionally through eating well and observing my own nutritional intake, I found a love for my own well-being and the ability to share my journey of health with others. I decided to further my education in what I love and pursue Nutritional Coaching as an avenue to serve. Food, eating healthy and wellness all resonated with me so I began searching online for schools that offered programs with these options in coaching. SWIHA was the first one to pop up and instantly I felt like that was the option I wanted to explore.”* Cameo states excitedly with smile in her voice, *“It just felt right to me to check it out and it felt like home right away. I came to a [Gifts and Graces](http://events.swiha.edu/)* event (which are held the First Friday of every month) where I received a complimentary Life Coaching session around my career goals.” Instantly, her gut feelings were confirmed and it was obvious that she was destined to be a student walking the very halls she was visiting that First Friday. ### Share this: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Topics: [Great Graduates](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/great-graduates), [Urban Farming](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/urban-farming), [Blog](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/blog) [![](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Nickole-S-9-10-15.jpg)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/nickole-swensen-healing-lives-inside) ## [Nickole Swensen: Healing Lives from the Inside Out!](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/nickole-swensen-healing-lives-inside) **As a fashion design graduate and stay-at-home mom** of two boys, **Nickole Swensen** thought feeling lackluster and exhausted was normal. She realized she had taken advantage of her health and let herself go for too long. With my poor self-care and health habits she started to not fit into her clothes, she had issues with swelling in her body, was constantly tired and was unable to get help from my family physician. Once he decided to make her health a priority she found her energy again, felt rejuvenated, and became a happier *woman* and *mom*. Nickole became hooked on this new healthier, happier lifestyle and decided to pursue a career in wellness. In her journey to heal herself, she found her true passion and purpose was in helping others heal themselves heal from the inside out, just the way her healed herself. Once Nickole discovered her gifts and knew she wanted to learn more about supporting others in living a more healthy and happy life and do it in a loving and profitable way. That's when she sought training at SWIHA – Southwest Institute of Healing Arts. *"My passion for health developed when I started to change my own health habits. From the moment I consciously began making new choices, I realized how happy I felt. I soon invited my family to join me in feeling happier and healthier. As I changed my diet, my family's diet changed as well, shifting into a healthy vegan/vegetarian way of eating. It has been an amazing transformation to be health-minded. I love being able to share the powerful information I have embodied with my clients so they are able to transform their lives, as well as the lives of their kids and families.”* ### Share this: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Topics: [Great Graduates](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/great-graduates), [Holistic Nutrition](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-nutrition), [holistic entrepreneur](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-entrepreneur), [Urban Farming](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/urban-farming), [Blog](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/blog) [![](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/pic1.jpg)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/aspects-art-health) ## [All Aspects of the Art of Health](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/aspects-art-health) ### The ‘earth’ without art is just ‘eh’ . . . . . . according to Holistic Wellness Practitioner Heather Krompacky, who works in the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, at the base of North America’s tallest mountain, the magnificent Denali. ### Imagine . . . *. . . entering a room for a holistic session with a new practitioner, someone you have never worked with before. There are colorful candles burning, the light is low due to the salt lamps placed strategically around the room. Soft music is playing and a lovely, aromatic fragrance is wafting through the air. You begin your session with your practitioner; maybe you experience hypnotherapy, nutritional coaching, or aromatherapy, all as an aspect of a holistic life coaching session with a competent and caring practitioner. You feel a sense of comfort due to the open and honest space from which the ‘Change Artist Extraordinaire’, as the practitioner is known, works. At the end of the session, you are offered a soul-coaching card, to provide continued insight and affirmation.* ### Wow! Mind-heart-soul expanding, right! Yes, the above is a small example of what a session would be like with Heather Krompacky, owner of [Sunshine Wellness](http://www.sunshineholisticwellness.com/) , a dual business -- part wellness center, part organic health food store. The wellness center is housed above ***Sunshine Organics***, her organic health food store, located at the confluence of three Alaskan rivers, the Susitna, Chulitna and Talkeetna. ### Share this: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Topics: [Holistic Nutrtion](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-nutrtion), [Urban Farming](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/urban-farming), [Blog](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/blog) [![](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Pam-McCulloch2b-300x300.jpg)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/organically-manifesting-dream-swiha-graduate-launched-business) ## [Organically Manifesting a Dream: How a SWIHA Graduate Launched Her Business](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/blog/organically-manifesting-dream-swiha-graduate-launched-business) #### By Nancy Jackson, Online Exit and Placement Specialist > ### “Believe in yourself – you are capable of great accomplishments.” That’s the message Pam McCulloch, a recent Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) graduate, wants to share with current and future SWIHA graduates. Pam took her own advice, and while still pursuing her online degree in SWIHA’s Associate of Occupational Studies Mind-Body Transformational Psychology Online program, she launched her business, Paradise Organics. ## Tender and organic fruit, herb, and vegetable starter plants is what Paradise Organics is all about, providing home gardeners with organic, non-GMO starters. The Colorado based business teaches new gardeners how to get started in whatever growing space they have, even if it’s an apartment balcony. As a full time gastro-intestinal tech assisting in outpatient surgeries, Pam was thrilled to add the role of self-employed urban farmer and business owner into her busy life. **How did she make her urban farming business happen? She says she manifested it.** ### Share this: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Topics: [Great Graduates](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/great-graduates), [Urban Farming](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/urban-farming), [Nutrition](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/nutrition), [Blog](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/blog) ### About the Author ### Share this: - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ### Subscribe ### Posts by Topic - [Aesthetics (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/aesthetics) - [alchemy (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/alchemy) - [aromatherapy (2)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/aromatherapy) - [balance (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/balance) - [Blog (69)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/blog) - [Facials (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/facials) - [fitness (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/fitness) - [Great Graduates (37)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/great-graduates) - [holistic entrepreneur (5)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-entrepreneur) - [Holistic Healing (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-healing) - [Holistic Nutrition (8)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-nutrition) - [Holistic Nutrtion (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/holistic-nutrtion) - [Hypnotherapy (8)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/hypnotherapy) - [Intuition (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/intuition) - [life coach (2)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/life-coach) - [Life Coaching (24)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/life-coaching) - [massage (9)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/massage) - [Massage Therapy (8)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/massage-therapy) - [Meditation (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/meditation) - [Nutrition (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/nutrition) - [Nutrition Coaching (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/nutrition-coaching) - [Reflexology (2)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/reflexology) - [Reiki (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/reiki) - [Skincare (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/skincare) - [spa (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/spa) - [spiritual studies (2)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/spiritual-studies-2) - [spirituality (3)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/spirituality) - [Toe Reading (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/toe-reading) - [Urban Farming (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/urban-farming) - [yoga (8)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/yoga) - [yoga (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/yoga-2) - [Yoga for Runners (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/yoga-for-runners) - [Yoga Teacher Training (9)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/topic/yoga-teacher-training) see all ### Archives - [March 2015 (11)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/03) - [April 2015 (8)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/04) - [July 2015 (5)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/07) - [January 2016 (5)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2016/01) - [February 2016 (5)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2016/02) - [May 2015 (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/05) - [June 2015 (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/06) - [August 2015 (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/08) - [September 2015 (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/09) - [November 2015 (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/11) - [December 2015 (4)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/12) - [October 2015 (3)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2015/10) - [March 2016 (3)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2016/03) - [April 2016 (3)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2016/04) - [May 2016 (2)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2016/05) - [July 2016 (1)](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/archive/2016/07) see all [![SWIHA Logo](https://blog.greatgraduates.com/hubfs/Great-Graduates-Images-May-2016/swiha-logo.png "Southwest Institute of Healing Arts (SWIHA) Logo")](https://www.swiha.edu/) Southwest Institute of Healing Arts 1538 E. 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