Weimar University – NEWSTART Lifestyle Program

Established in 1978 the NEWSTART Lifestyle Program has hosted over 15,000 graduates of the 18-day program. The purpose of the program is to help guests receive holistic healing – physical, mental, and spiritual. Dramatic results have been documented by the graduates of the lifestyle program, which include: reversing Type 2 Diabetes, achieving weight loss, reversing heart disease, lowering blood pressure, reducing and/or elimination of prescription drugs, boosting their immune systems, and decreasing anxiety and depression. These benefits from the NEWSTART Program are accomplished through a diet of whole, plant-based foods, exercise, proper hydration education, massage and hydrotherapy offered.
For follow-up to the program, NEWSTART Lifestyle Program offers an Online Program offered to those that need continuous connection and motivation from those that have graduated and interaction with the support staff with Zoom cooking meetings, nutritional counseling, and continued updating of medical information and lectures by the doctors that run the lifestyle program.
The NEWSTART Lifestyle Program is held on the 450 acre Weimar University Campus in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Fresh air, 15 miles of hiking trails, and vegan meals are all inclusive in the program, along with group outings to local attractions in the surrounding area.
Proper nutrition is the foundation of good health and recovery. Cooking classes, meals, and cookbooks all demonstrate the variety, appeal, and satisfaction of whole plant food vegetarian cuisine. In addition, physicians explain the issues that link nutrition with health or disease in their lectures.
Action is a law of life. Muscle tone and strength are lost without exertion, but exercise improves the health of body, mind, and spirit multiplying vitality and health. Exercise therapy includes outdoor exercise, treadmill evaluations and Stretchercise. The many trails through beautiful surroundings beckon you to walk, walk, walk, walk, but indoor exercise equipment is available.
Because the body is 70% water, keeping well hydrated and knowing what and when to drink are essential to health. Hydrotherapy (water applied externally to the body), followed by massage, enhances the circulation and immune system in wonderful ways.
The sun is the established energy source ordained by God to sustain the cycle of life for plants and animals. Abundant in California, sunlight is supremely important for the body’s metabolism and hormonal balance.
Using good things moderately and avoiding the bad is obviously wise, yet often hard to practice. Temperance can be neither bought nor earned, but is rather an important gift of God, a “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:22, 23). Moderation in all things is a thread woven throughout the fabric of NEWSTART Lifestyle programs.
The body’s most essential resource is air. More important than food or water, proper breathing and pure air are fundamental to good health. Fresh, clear mountain air surrounds the beautiful natural environment of the Weimar University Campus.
Restoration requires rest because sleep allows the body to renew itself. Many types of rest are important for health, but the sweetest rest follows labor. “Early to bed and early to rise” is a vital NEWSTART principle, and a healthy lifestyle makes this principle easier to maintain.
Trust In Divine Power Directly linked to physical health (Proverbs 3:5-6), trust in God is a gift leading to right choices.
Medical portions of the program are covered by some insurance programs, including Medicare. The program details can be found on our website at newstart.com. Guests interested in learning more about the program are provided the free (800) 525-9192 number to talk with a specialist who helps them in the application and registration process. The NEWSTART Now YouTube channel has many videos, recipes, and testimonials of people who have benefited from the program.