Unlock the Meaning of the Integrative Health Education Logo

Ever looked at the Integrative Health Education logo and wondered what it means? As you’d expect, the design is significant; Emma Lane, who devised the logo explains what it all symbolises.

The pyramid shape represents the strong foundation that education gives us. As we gain more knowledge, this knowledge helps us grow personally, and as practitioners.

The choice of the gold and blue colours is significant. The blue represents the fifth chakra. The throat chakra reflects our speech, communication, hearing and self-expression. Through this chakra we can create better communication with ourselves and others.

Communication is at the heart of what we do at Integrative Health Education – we strive to share our knowledge, and of course, we study how the body communicates its story to us as practitioners.

The colour gold signifies wisdom and integrity, as well as a higher level of understanding – all qualities that Integrative Health Education strives to offer everyone who studies with us.

The eleven rings represent the major systems in the body. We know that wellbeing cannot just be attained through physical health but that our spiritual, emotional and mental states are equally important. So the blue rings represent the physical being, while the gold represents the emotional, spiritual and mental aspects of ourselves.

I have deliberately placed the mental, emotional and spiritual gold rings on top of the blue rings because the mental and spiritual systems feed down into the physical body.

The interlinking rings reflect that integration of mind, body and spirit. They also reflect Integrative Health Education’s approach which aims to give practitioners, whatever their approach to health, the skills and knowledge to employ a variety of practical methodologies that safely bridge the gap between conventional Western medicine and complementary and holistic healthcare practices.

For many people, the physical symptoms can seem more problematic. However, that is only where the imbalance is showing itself, and we have to learn to read these signs to reveal the root of the problem

The physical and mental work together, the human body is cybernetic, a system of systems and imbalance in one will create a problem and show up as an imbalance in another. We have to learn to read the body’s early warning signals, the messages from within and our facial tells – to understand that the organs are telling us something, often about our emotional or mental states.

I wanted our logo to be a visual explanation of what Integrative Health Education is all about – our approach to human beings.  We are aiming to integrate the allopathic approaches and viewpoint with the complementary methodologies. Modern research is validating some of these ancient practices and more and more we are learning that this old wisdom can be verified scientifically.

I believe that it is only through a truly integrated approach that we can find real wellbeing. Integrative Health Education aims to give practitioners the knowledge they need to help resolve their clients’ challenges and sustain long-lasting health and happiness.