You have a timeless energy within you. Only with a little know-how and a healing touch can you transform yourself and people around you. Come to us in India, the incredible land of holistic healing, and unfold your potential, layer by layer, as that of an Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultant.

Join us for a month-long course on Ayurveda and learn the deeper meanings of this Science of Life and share the Vedic wisdom with your people and communities to pass on health, harmony and mind-body wellness to them.

With 204-hours of theoretical, practical and meditative classes, as you are taken through timeless treasure of Ayurvedic knowledge, you will find yourself nestled in the dream that you have been nurturing for long – dream of being a friend, a guide, a philosopher and a healer.

Course Duration: 28 days

Course Dates: April 25th to May 23 2007

Course Venue: On the mystical banks of Nila, the longest and the widest river in Kerala.

• Practice the skills of physical observation and examination.
• Understand how to evaluate mind-body constitution (prakruti) and imbalance
  (vikruti).
• Learn the science of Ayurvedic history taking.
• Learn how to design individualized Ayurvedic treatment plans consisting of
  customized natural diet plans, healing herbal and nutritional supplements,
  detoxification by the panchakarma cleansing therapy, rasayana rejuvenation
  therapy, Ayurvedic daily and seasonal routines for disease prevention and
  mind-body healing.
• Go through comprehensive theoretical and practical training in panchakarma
  detoxification therapies.
• Understand how to integrate Ayurvedic principles and practices in various
  physical, mental and psychological plans with the help of audio and video aids,
  apart from participation in experiential exercises.

COURSE SYLLABUS

AYURVEDA

PART I: PRINCIPLES OF AYURVEDA - 1

• Introduction to the course and how to use it.
• Ayurvedic Cosmology, the Twenty Four Tattvas, Samkhya, the Five Elements .
• The Three Gunas, Karma, Goals of Life, Basic Principles of Ayurvedic Thought.
• Ayurvedic Anatomy and Physiology .
• The Biological Humors of Vata, Pitta and Kapha - elements, qualities actions,
  sites, and aggravation.
• Five subtypes of Vata, Pitta and Kapha (subdoshas).
• Prana, Tejas and Ojas, the Three Vital Essences.
• Seven Tissues (Dhatus), actions, interrelationship, excess and deficiency states sara condition.
• The Seven Kalas.
• The Three Waste Materials and their conditions.
• Agni (digestive fire) and its four states.
• The Fourteen Channel Systems (srotamsi) of the Body, their functions and
  conditions .

PART II: PRINCIPLES OF AYURVEDA - 2

• Constitutional Analysis (Mind-body types) - examining all factors of bodily
  structure, metabolism, disease tendency and psychology .
• Mental Nature according to Three Gunas and Three Doshas.
• The Disease Process

      1: Disease and the Movement of Time, Climate and Environmental factors.
      2: The Six Stages of Disease in Ayurveda, classification and prognosis of
          disease.
• Examination of Disease

      1: Aggravated states of the Doshas, Sama and Nirama conditions.
      2: Humors and Tissues in the Disease Process, the movement of the
          Doshas through the Dhatus.
• Diagnosis and Patient Examination: Differential Diagnosis of Disease Syndromes .
• Methods of pulse, tongue, abdomen, questioning and observation.

PART III: AYURVEDIC TREATMENT METHODS - DIET AND HERBS

• The Science of the Six Tastes, Rasa-Virya-Vipak-Prabhava.
• Treatment through the Five Elements.
• Dietary Therapy, principles, outline of Ayurvedic Diet, Food Lists per
  Constitution.
• Food List and Food Type Analysis - Fruit and Vegetables.
• Grains, Beans, Seeds and Nuts, Dairy Products, Animal Products .
• Oils, Condiments and Spices .
• Ayurvedic Herbalism.
• Herbs for Digestion and Elimination.
• Ayurvedic Herbs and Herbal Preparations - Study Guide to Yoga of Herbs.
• Ayurvedic Therapeutic Measures: Palliation (Shamana) and Purification
  (Shodhana).
• Pancha Karma, Tonification and Rejuvenation (Rasayana).

DEMONSTRATION (24 hours)

PRACTICALS (24 Hours)

AYURVEDIC DIET & COOKING (12 HOURS)

YOGA AND MEDITATION

THE COURSE INCLUDES

• Pick up and drop at the airport by luxury cars .
• One month stay in exquisite double-room villas on single or twin-sharing basis.
• Extensive written course material to take back home for study.
• Certification at the end of the course.
• 24-hour high-speed Internet access .
• Cultural program by world-famous Kerala Kalamandalam artists.
• All meals.

+ Special 16 Hours with Dr Sanjay Parva. Hear him speak on:

1. Companies step up wellness efforts -- Take your share!
2. Wellness Living - It's more than reading the latest fad diet books
3. Lifestyle -- Your room looks fine, but what about your mind?
4. Wellness Prescription -- It takes just a smile to write it
5. Concluding a Relationship -- Help someone do it positively
6. Control your life, and steer other's -- Differently
7. Celebrating Failure -- Your failure has helped someone succeed?
8. Emotional Wellness - Get it naturally by being 'grounded'

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