Wellness Health College Successfully Concludes the 2025 High-Life Healing Camp

- Hosted over two days from May 11^th(Sun) to May 12^th(Mon) at the Wando Marine Healing Center

The 2025 High-Life Healing Camp, organized by the Wellness Health College, was successfully held from May 11^th(Sun) to May 12^th(Mon) at the Wando Marine Healing Center.

The High-Life Healing Camp is the signature program of the Wellness Health College, named and designed by Chair Professor Dr. Lee Si-Hyung of the Department of Integrated Health Management. The program is based on the principles of improving four key lifestyle habits - mental habits, dietary habits, exercise habits, and daily rhythm habits - developed by Chair Professor Dr. Lee Si-Hyung at the Healience Seonmaeul healing village in Hongcheon. The camp is a wellness-based educational program designed to help participants learn and experience how to live a long and healthy life.

Chair Professor Dr. Lee Si-Hyung, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, earned his Ph.D. in Neuropsychiatry from Yale University Graduate School. He is a leading authority in the fields of natural medicine, neuroscience, and psychiatry in Korea, and has served as Director of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Director of the Institute for Social Mental Health, and Chief of Healience Seonmaeul. He is currently the Director of the Serotonin Culture Foundation and is widely known as an advocate for the “Serotonin Health Method” and the “High-Life Lifestyle.”

Following the forest therapy experience at Healience Seonmaeul in 2024, this year’s High-Life Healing Camp provided participants with the opportunity to experience marine therapy at Korea’s first marine healing facility, the Wando Marine Healing Center. Led by Professor Lee Min-Young, Dean of the Wellness Health College (Chair of the Department of Integrated Health Management and the Department of Yoga & Meditation Studies), and Professor Oh Joo-Won (Department of Yoga & Meditation Studies), a total of 39 students from the Department of Integrated Health Management and the Department of Yoga & Meditation Studies participated in the camp.

The Department of Integrated Health Management at the university is the only one of its kind in Korea and boasts a distinguished faculty. The department focuses on studying how to maintain and enhance health, as well as prevent and treat illness, by leveraging the body’s natural healing abilities. The program aims to cultivate integrated healing professionals through practical training in natural healing theories and techniques based on the principles of integrative medicine. Graduates can pursue careers as forest healing instructors, natural whole-food diet specialists, yoga and meditation educators, and wellness coaches, often working in healing forests, nature resorts, forest bathing sites, and wellness trails. Notable certifications include the national license for Forest Healing Instructor and the national license for Sanitarian.

In response to rising societal demand for wellness, the Department of Yoga & Meditation Studies was newly established within the Wellness Health College in 2025. The program provides systematic study of the human mind and behavior, offering instruction in key psychological theories, concepts, and research methodologies. The department treats yoga and meditation not merely as exercise or hobbies, but as academically grounded disciplines. It aims to train professionals in healing yoga and therapeutic meditation whose effectiveness has been scientifically validated.