Naturopathic Hydrotherapy Practitioner Training

Enrolment is now open for the November 2025 practical training.

You can enrol in the online course pre-requisite anytime from now until late September 2025.

Online Theory Course

This portion of the course is available either on its own or as a pre-requisite to the hands-on training, and you can enrol in it anytime. All modules must be completed prior to attending the hands-on training to ensure a solid foundation for diving into practical activities.

  • Six modules (one per week for six weeks), each module includes approximately 2 hours of video

  • Workshop format includes handouts for use in practical training and later patient practice, and self-treatment practices for experiential learning (and to benefit your health!)

  • Private Facebook group (may change platforms later) dedicated to naturopathic hydrotherapy in Australia, where you can ask questions and compare experiences with treatments

  • Topics covered:

  • History and connection to modern naturopathic philosophy and clinical theory

  • Pertinent physiology and mechanisms by which hydrotherapy works

  • Effects of nervous system regulation and stimulation of homeostatic mechanisms

  • The healing power of water through the lens of the Chinese Five Elements

  • General guidelines for hydrotherapy treatments

  • Wraps, compresses and constitutional treatment

  • Baths/immersions and rinses

  • Hyperthermia/saunas

  • Steam (internal and external)

  • Dry skin brushing

  • Incorporating hydrotherapy into naturopathic practice

The online course cost is $395, or three fortnightly payments of $135.

Slide presentations and handouts are downloadable for your future reference, and access to video lectures is for 12 weeks or until you have completed the practical training (if you enrol in it).

Hands-On Training

Those who have completed the online training or can show evidence of having attended a university-level naturopathic hydrotherapy course in the last 10 years are eligible to attend the hands-on training. A minimum of eight (8) enrollees will be required for this training to run, and I anticipate that it will run only once a year in March going forward, unless enrolments justify a second annual offer.

The hands-on training cost is $525, or four fortnightly payments of $135.

The practical training schedule for the next group is as follows:

Day 1: Meadows Memorial Hall, Sunday, 23 March, 10am-5pm: focus on office/home-based therapies

  • Wraps, compresses

  • Constitutional hydrotherapy

  • Foot and arm baths

  • Steam inhalation

  • Preparation for spa day

Day 2: Plunge Recovery, Somerton Park, Monday, 24 March, 10am-4pm: focus on therapies requiring specialised equipment (Monday scheduling is necessary due to facility availability)

  • Start the day at the beach

  • Plunge Recovery has pools at 7, 14, 36 and 40C with Dead Sea minerals, traditional and infrared saunas

  • Full body baths/immersions

  • Discussion about attended water therapy

  • Rinses

  • Sauna/hyperthermia

  • Dry skin brushing

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