International Macrobiotic School

International Macrobiotic School Macrobiotic Cooking Classes and Workshops

Empowering people to create and maintain health and happiness through the alchemy of macrobiotic cooking.

For all upcoming courses & events 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/macroschool

Holistic Education in the Macrobiotic Healing Arts
Based just 5 miles from Totnes, South Devon.

✨ Introducing The Holistic Healing Kitchen ✨Bringing together many of our onsite and online cookery courses under one na...
22/01/2026

✨ Introducing The Holistic Healing Kitchen ✨
Bringing together many of our onsite and online cookery courses under one name, to reflect our long-standing approach to food as culinary medicine.

We are also launching Feel Good Fridays, relaxed cooking days where we slow down, cook together, and reconnect with simple, nourishing food. Guided by the wonderful Lara Holmes, each small-group workshop focuses on a specific theme and builds practical skills and confidence in the kitchen.

Feel Good Fridays for 2026 include:
• Seitan from Scratch
• Vegan Sushi
• Healthy Sweet and Savoury Snacks
• Dressings and Sauces That Transform Meals

✨ Early Bird Offer: book 3 classes and receive the 4th free. Available for confirmed and future 2026 dates.

Spaces are limited, book now to join 🔗 in bio

❓ Do you suffer from frequent headaches or debilitating migraines?Join this FREE webinar on January 29th (19:00–20:30 UK...
20/01/2026

❓ Do you suffer from frequent headaches or debilitating migraines?

Join this FREE webinar on January 29th (19:00–20:30 UK time) to explore a holistic, Oriental medicine approach that looks beyond painkillers and addresses the true causes of headaches and migraines.

You’ll learn:
✔️ Why migraines develop
✔️ How diet, lifestyle, and emotions affect symptoms
✔️ What to do when you feel a migraine coming on
✔️ Practical steps toward long-term healing

✨ These conditions can be healed. Many people already have.

👉 Sign up for free and start your healing journey | Link in bio

Winter is often the season when people feel cold, tired, and run down, or find themselves catching one illness after ano...
15/01/2026

Winter is often the season when people feel cold, tired, and run down, or find themselves catching one illness after another.

🌱 What if winter could be a time of strength and nourishment?

In his article, Winter Wellbeing: How to Stay Warm, Well and Energised, Oliver shares practical, seasonal ways to support health through the colder months. Drawing on over 45 years of personal experience without flu, he explores…

• Warming foods that support energy and mood
• Everyday habits that strengthen the immune system
• Why eating in harmony with the season matters

Oliver shares practical wellbeing guidance regularly in our newsletter. 👉 Sign up today | Link in bio

👉 Read the article in our Healthy Living Blog | Link in bio

💫Unlock the Healing Power of Food & Holistic Wellness! We believe true health is created when food, lifestyle, and inner...
13/01/2026

💫Unlock the Healing Power of Food & Holistic Wellness!
We believe true health is created when food, lifestyle, and inner awareness work together. This January, we’re inviting you to explore that connection in depth through a live online course led by our principal, Oliver Cowmeadow.

Beginning Tuesday 27th January (7–9pm UK time), this three-part evening course offers a grounded, practical introduction to Holistic Nutritional Therapy, drawing on over four decades of experience in macrobiotics, Oriental medicine, mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing.

Across three sessions, we’ll explore:
✨ How health unfolds across multiple dimensions of life
✨ Using everyday food choices to restore balance and vitality
✨ Gentle Do-In practices to support energy, circulation, and calm
✨ Lifestyle approaches that strengthen resilience and wellbeing
✨ Emotional awareness as a pathway to healing and clarity
✨ Ways to reconnect with inner guidance, purpose, and ease
Whether you’re beginning your holistic health journey or deepening your professional practice, this course offers tools you can apply immediately - both personally and in your work with others.

📍 Online | Can’t attend live? Watch the replay in your own time. 🔗 Link in bio

MindBodyHealth

11/01/2026

Get to know us and what we do. Enjoy an inspiring talk on strengthening your immune system, live plant-based cooking demonstrations with free recipes, and exclusive discounts on upcoming short courses. 🔗Link in bio

25/11/2025

Starting to think about Christmas? 🎄✨
Want to wow friends and family with dishes that are delicious, nourishing and surprisingly easy to make?
This gorgeous Chocolate and Orange Torte is just one of the plant-based festive recipes you can learn with us this December, available in person in Devon and also online.

✨ Plant Based Festive Cooking Weekend - with Lara Holmes
📍 Murtwell House, Diptford, Totnes, Devon
📅 6th and 7th December
Spend a relaxing weekend learning simple, flavour-packed festive dishes like Mushroom Wellington, Millet and Cranberry Roast, Orange and Chocolate Torte (as pictured ☝️😍) and more. Includes lunches, dinner, a macrobiotic breakfast and a beautiful countryside setting! Discount available for two people booking together.
📣 PLUS a special offer of half price accommodation at Murtwell House for the Saturday night! Contact the office for more info.

✨ Festive Cooking Online Classes
💻 2nd, 9th and 16th December
Cook along with Lara from your own kitchen and learn easy, nourishing festive dishes All recipes and recordings are included, so if you can’t join live - you won’t miss out!

If you are ready to bring some extra sparkle, flavour and nourishment to your festive table, we would love to cook with you. 🌟

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Mince pie season is upon us! Have you had your first one yet? 🎄 If you’re excited by warming spices, twinkly lights, and...
18/11/2025

Mince pie season is upon us! Have you had your first one yet? 🎄 If you’re excited by warming spices, twinkly lights, and festive treats that disappear fast, you’re not alone.

These plant based cranberry and almond mince pies are easy to make, full of flavour, and guaranteed to impress.

Join us this December and we’ll show you how to make them (and lots more festive favourites) either in beautiful South Devon or from your own cosy kitchen online.

✨ Plant Based Festive Cooking Weekend
📅 6th and 7th December 2025
Two days of Christmas-inspired cooking with Lara Holmes. Simple, delicious, plant based dishes, shared meals, and plenty of festive cheer.

✨ Festive Cooking Online Classes
📅 2nd, 9th and 16th December 2025
Three evenings of live, easy-to-follow festive recipes. All plant based, all nourishing, all recorded for you to watch if you can’t join live or want to re-watch at a later date.

Let’s make this festive season the most delicious one yet. 🌟

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🌊 Discover the Healing Power of Sea Vegetables! 🌿Starts Tomorrow, 11th NovemberRich in minerals and deeply nourishing, s...
10/11/2025

🌊 Discover the Healing Power of Sea Vegetables! 🌿

Starts Tomorrow, 11th November

Rich in minerals and deeply nourishing, sea vegetables are a forgotten superfood ready to transform your meals and your wellbeing.

Join Lara for this three-week live online course and learn how to easily add seaweeds like wakame, dulse, and kelp into delicious everyday dishes, from soups and salads to stir-fries and even desserts.

🍲 Weekly Menus Include:
Week 1: Miso Soup with Wakame, Sushi Rolls, Dulse and Wakame Ginger Salad
Week 2: Hearty Black Bean Soup with Irish Moss, Sea Salad, Butter Bean and Dulse Dip
Week 3: Sea Spaghetti Pasties, Nori and Sesame Snacks, Passion Fruit Cheesecake

💚 You’ll Get:
✨ Live, interactive cooking classes with Lara
📘 Full recipes for every dish
🎥 Class recordings sent out after each session, perfect if you can’t join live

Don’t miss this chance to explore the nourishing, energising world of sea vegetables.

👉 Starts tomorrow. Join now and catch every flavour, live or on replay! 🔗👇🏻

02/11/2025

Discover the magic of sea vegetables 🌊✨ Cook alongside Lara Holmes in three online evening classes and learn how to bring the ocean’s superfoods into your everyday meals.

From soothing soups to crunchy seaweed snacks, explore delicious ways to boost energy, immunity and wellbeing.

Recordings are sent after each class, so if you can’t make it live, you won’t miss a thing!

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31/10/2025

Spiced squash and apple cake with purple sweet potato icing, topped with salty pumpkin seed crunch 🎃

Thanks for the icing inspiration 🫶

26/10/2025

Ready to take better care of your health? 🌿

The Looking After Your Health course is a five-day, hands-on experience where you’ll learn to cook nourishing, wholefood, plant-based dishes and understand how food supports long-term wellbeing.

It’s perfect if you want to feel more balanced and energised, and for those who feel inspired, it can be the first step toward our professional holistic training ✨

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20/10/2025

This is autumn’s story in one bite. Featuring the humble apple🍎

Baked into a golden tart, and stirred through warm porridge. A simple reminder of how deeply nature nourishes us.

Our Autumn Wellbeing Retreat was all about reconnecting with that rhythm of the seasons.

Join us this Autumn either here in South Devon, or online.
🌿 Plant-Based Festive Cooking Weekend
🌿 Looking After Your Health (5 day)
🌿 Online Courses

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Address

Murtwell House, Diptford
Totnes
TQ96NQ

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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