About Me

A professional percussionist since early youth, I founded my first venture, an event production company, at the age of 19 while enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder studying business, politics, and East Asian cultures. This company, which further involved me with music, grew over the years into a full-fledged music production company where I wrote and produced for solo artists and bands and began a professional career as a disc jockey. I also composed and arranged the soundtracks for two feature-length documentary films, “Shorty” and “UnConventional,” both released by Revolution Earth and executive produced by renown actor, Danny Aiello.

For 10 years, I worked in pharmacy (both retail and long-term care) as a board certified pharmacy technician. This experience provided me with a thorough knowledge of vitamins, supplements, and eldercare; as well as exposing me to corporate pharmacy and insurance company “big-business” practices. At 27, I realized that using pure food as medicine was a stronger path to true health and made the decision to become a holistic chef. Now an honored 2006 graduate of the Chef’s Training Program at The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City, one of the most prominent learning institutions for training health-supportive chefs, I am dedicated to showing the world that food is healing medicine, and that attention must be paid to the way, and with what, we feed not only our body, but our mind and spirit.

Almost immediately upon graduation from The Natural Gourmet Institute, I began working as a personal holistic chef for celebrities. In this role, I focus on each client's unique needs and strive to enhance their quality of life using natural techniques. I achieve these goals with carefully combined elements of holistic health care, raw foods, macrobiotics, herbal alchemy, and shamanic healing practices.

Pulling from my musical background, pharmacological knowledge, and my own experiences during a 10-year long journey to healthy foods, I call this whole-life approach Nutritive Harmony. I believe that true healing, health, and longevity is found in the combination of how we feed our bodies and how we nurture our life force and energy. Mineralization, which is achieved through varied and vibrant eating suggestions, is the main goal of my program of total self-rejuvenation, which is further supported by activities such as yoga, Qigong, meditation, running, walking, sun gazing, musicianship, and careful cooperation with eastern and western medical doctors.

While continuing my own education and research in all areas of holistic health and spiritual growth, I enjoy sharing my Nutritive Harmony techniques with other healthcare practitioners, teachers, parents, and children. I strongly believe that promoting a positive interaction between self and food from a young age is the surest way for healthy and life affirming habits to be instilled in future generations—clearing a path to a more positive future for all.

Schurr currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to serving his clients with healthful culinary creations, he's an active and professional DJ, drummer, composer, and entertainment producer. Schurr lectures, is president of Channeled, a music business and production company, and is also as a contributor on www.detoxmoxie.com, a web-log about one woman’s real-time journey as she detoxifies her world. Recently, Mike authored his first book on Nutritive Harmony, inked a record label deal, and co-contributed on a NYT best-selling book with celebrity talk-show host, Montel Williams.