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Take the most thorough and popular, yet affordable distance learning program n Ayurvedic medicine available today.The course covers Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology, diagnosis, nutrition, herbal therapy, aromas, yoga, Ayurvedic psychology, spiritual methods and much more. It follows the approach of Dr. Frawley's book, Ayurvedic Healing, lauded by noted author Deepak Chopra as a 'modern classic of Ayurveda', one of the most important new Ayurvedic treatment manuals.

This special course - already taken by more than five thousand people worldwide over the last more than twenty years - is part of Ayurvedic programs taught in the United States, South America and Europe, including the advanced Ayurvedic training through the Chopra center (note our Affiliated Schools). Gain certification as an 'Ayurvedic Life-Style Counselor' and options for further training and study in Ayurveda and the Vedic sciences.

For those wanting to go immediately to the course ordering, note the ordering information directly below. For those wanting to know more about the course, scroll on to the course information section further below, which explains the course in detail, including a complete syllabus. Yet even if you want to order the course now, please go through the complete course information section for important details on the format of the course and how it is handled, as well as its syllabus so that you know all the topics that will be covered.

ORDERING THE COURSE
The full course is sent out upon receipt of payment (credit card, check or money order). Note our automatic credit card secure ordering through the internet, as well as phone ordering options.

LENGTH - Four special course booklets totaling over six hundred and fifty 8 1/2 by 11 pages, or over 200,000 words of material
COST - $495.00, without reference books or shipping and handling costs.

5 REFERENCE BOOKS REQUIRED, by Dr. David Frawley, $20.00 each (for convenience of e-commerce):

Ayurvedic Healing: A Comprehensive Guide  
Yoga of Herbs (with Dr. Vasant Lad)
Yoga and Ayurveda: Self-Healing and Self-realization
Ayurveda and the Mind: The Healing of Consciousness
Ayurveda, Nature's Medicine (with Dr. Subhash Ranade)

You can purchase these books at less expense from Lotus Press (800-824-6396) or other sources like Amazon, but note that the above prices do include shipping. We also recommend Nicolai Bachman's CD, the Language of Ayurveda, which will help you with all Sanskrit terms (can be ordered from us by phone).

SHIPPING AND HANDLING FOR COURSE MATERIAL AND REFERENCE BOOKS (same price regardless of number of reference books ordered)
USA - $25.00
Canada and Mexico - $40.00
All other countries - $75.00
Note that automatic ordering prices on paypal will include shipping costs depending upon the payment options that you choose.

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course111Interactive Option (new)
You can take the course now with personal interaction with a qualified instructor specially trained to handle this course (Margo Bachman of the Heart of Wellness). This option allows you to send in all the study questions and study exercises for each of the more than forty-five lessons for grading and comments, as well as whatever additional questions you may have, greatly expanding your personal contact time. It offers you direct help with a tutor that can make your course study easier and more enriching. This option is available at an additional charge of $400.00 and provides 100 hours more of study credit. Email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you need more information about it.

Foreign Editions of Course
For those seeking our course in other languages and countries: Please note our Additional Training section of the website for information on courses in German, Russian and Spanish languages, and also for our course as taught in the Czech Republic.

Programs with Dr. Frawley and Yogini Shambhavi
Course students can take programs with Dr. Frawley and Yogini Shambhavi to aid in their course experience and expand their learning at a personal level. Note the Recent News and Itinerary and Consultations and Retreats sections of our website for more information on what is available, including programs and tours in India. 

Continue to the next page for more information about the course.

MORE INFORMATION ON THE AYURVEDIC HEALING COURSE

Ayurveda is the traditional natural healing system of India going back over five thousand years. It is the medical aspect of the Yoga tradition and contains the secrets of both inner and outer well-being. Ayurveda is now recognized as one of the most important systems of mind-body medicine available and its popularity is spreading throughout the world. 

Ayurveda considers all aspects of healing from diet and herbs to mantra and meditation as a complete holistic system of medicine. It is truly the medicine of the coming planetary age, with almost no limits to its growth and application in the modern health situation, where Ayurvedic like methods of disease prevention and proper life-style are becoming important considerations for everyone.

NATURE OF COURSE

This comprehensive program covers all the main aspects of Ayurvedic theory, diagnosis and practice. The Ayurvedic Healing course is not just an introduction to Ayurveda but a full training program on Ayurveda in all of its branches. There is no comparable course of its depth, extent and amount of material in its price range.  

The course has a special emphasis on herbal medicine, using western as well as Indian herbs, providing an accessible model for treatment in the West. It explains diet and food in great detail as well. The course adds to these physical modalities a higher dimension of Yoga and Ayurvedic psychology, showing an integral mind-body approach that includes spiritual and psychological methods, with colors, aromas, gems, asana, pranayama, mantra and meditation.

There is almost no aspect of life that the course does not address in a practical way for healing and transformation. It contains the main material covered in most two year Ayurveda classroom programs in the West. It is not merely introductory but goes into great depth into its subject and will remain as an excellent reference guide for the student for years to come.

The course is designed for Health Care Professionals as well as serious students of all kinds. It has been taken by Doctors, Chiropractors, Nurses, Acupuncturists, Herbalists, Massage Therapists, Yoga Therapists, and Psychologists. However, there is no required medical background for those wishing to take the course and many non-professionals have completed it successfully. The course qualifies a person to function as an 'Ayurvedic Life-Style Counselor'. The course is a self-study course and allows the student to go at their own pace.

There are no specific prerequistes for taking the course, except that the student should realize that the course can be challenging and is not simply introductory.

GOAL OF COURSE

The goal of the course is to provide students a foundation for becoming Ayurvedic practitioners, starting them off at the level of Ayurvedic Life-Style counselors, assessing Ayurvedic constitutional types and how to treat them and their common diseases through daily health regimens of diet, herbs, yoga, meditation andl life-style recommendations. It is an inexpensive alternative for those who cannot afford or do not have the time for more expensive classroom or clinical instruction. It can also serve as a first step for those who want to continue such more direct study later. It serves to train the student in Ayurvedic life-style counseling that can be used as a basis for more technical Ayurvedic treatment approaches.

Since 1988 over five thousand people worldwide have taken the course, which is the most comprehensive distance learning program on this subject offered in the West. It is the basis of Ayurvedic classes taught in the United States, Europe, Brazil and India.

vamadevarCOURSE AUTHOR

The course is authored by Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri), uses his books on Ayurveda, and represents his approach to Ayurveda, adapting Ayurveda to the modern world without losing its spiritual integrity. Dr. Frawley's books and courses on Ayurveda and Vedic knowledge are the most extensive publications in their fields available in the West today. Dr. Frawley teaches Ayurveda along with modern dietary considerations and the use of both Western and traditional Ayurvedic herbs. He integrates Ayurveda with the practice of Yoga and meditation and with the spiritual approach of the Vedas.

Dr. Frawley has worked and taught with leading Ayurvedic doctors and experts including Deepak Chopra, Vasant Lad, Sunil Joshi, Subhash Ranade, Avinash Lele, David Simon, John Douillard, Dr. Jose Rugue, Michael Tierra, and Edward Tarabilda. He has been specially honored for his contribution to Ayurveda by the National Ayurvedic Medical Association of the United States (NAMA). His work is highly regarded in India and his books are widely translated in European languages as well. Dr. Frawley is considered to be one of the world's foremost experts on Ayurveda and the Vedic sciences.

Yogini Shambhavi also helps Vamadeva with the course material and its development and with Vedic astrology consultations.


COURSE SYLLABUS

PART 1. PRINCIPLES OF AYURVEDA 1

  • Introduction to the Course and how to use it
  • Historical and Spiritual Background, Vedic and Yogic Science
  • 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 in Detail:
  • The Biological Humors of Vata, Pitta and Kapha - elements, qualities actions, sites, and aggravation
  • The Twenty Attributes - humors, elements, gunas and usage
  • 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
  • Ayurvedic View of the Organs and their relationship to the Doshas
  • Summary of Medical Systems East and West
  • Enumeration of Ayurvedic Principles
  • Glossary of Terms and Bibliography

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
  • Yoga and Ayurvedic Psychology, Spiritual Principles of Ayurveda
  • The Functions of the Mind and our Greater Consciousness
  • The System of Raja Yoga, Ashtanga, the Eight Limbs of Yoga
  • Examination of the Subtle Body, Chakras, and Nadis
  • Yoga Asanas and Ayurveda

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)
  • Ayurvedic Treatment of Disease - Study Guide to Ayurvedic Healing

PART IV. ADVANCED TREATMENT METHODS

  • Subtle Healing Modalities of Ayurveda
  • Aroma Therapy and list of aromatic oils
  • Color Therapy
  • Gem Therapy 
  • Mantras and their therapeutic application
  • Yoga Psychology and Ayurvedic Counseling: healing the mind and emotional nature
  • Patterns of Doshic Accumulation: through the skin, breath, digestion, sensation, emotion and thought
  • Detailed Herbal Treatment through the Tissues and Channel Systems
  • Detailed Herbal Treatment through the Subdoshas
  • The Science of Prana and Pranic Healing, Treatment of Prana, Nasya, Pranayama
  • Marma points and Ayurvedic Massage
  • Integral Treatment of Prana, Tejas and Ojas
  • Meditation and Ayurveda, prescribing meditation by Constitution
  • Summary of Integral Healing System of Ayurveda
     

COURSE FORMAT

  • The course comes in four booklets, which are mailed out to the student all at once. Each booklet is 8 ½ X 11 and spiral bound for easy usage. Total length of course material is over 650 pages.
  • There is a five year time limit for completing the course, or a reinstatement fee may be required.

TESTING AND TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION

  • The course contains study questions and practical exercises at the end of each of the forty-five lessons in order to guide the student in his or her study of Ayurveda. These tests are to be answered by the student and not sent in to us, unless the student takes the additional interactive version of the course.
  • It has four detailed final tests at the end of each of the four course booklets. These the student must return to the institute for grading. Students can send in answers by mail or by email.
  • Note our 'interactive option' for those who want more assistance with the course. This allows students to send in all the forty-five sets of study questions and practical exercises for grading, as well as any other questions that may arise for them. There is an additional fee for this of $400.00.

CERTIFICATION AND ADDITIONAL STUDIES

  • The course takes about 300 hours of study to complete and provides a certification worth 300 hours of distance learning credit in Ayurvedic Studies that is recognized by our affiliated organizations and other groups. It grants the title of Ayurvedic Life-Style Counselor, providing the graduate the information necessary to determine individual constitution and provide daily health care recommendations relative to diet, herbs, life-style, yoga and meditation.
  • Upon course completion options for further professional study are possible in the United States, Brazil and India, including attending our seminars, retreats, trainings and intensives. Note that distance learning of any type may not be sufficient to make you into a full Ayurvedic practioner and is a foundation for, not a substitute for clinical training, so such additional training is advisable.
  • Advanced Yoga and Ayurveda Distance Learning Program. Graduates can qualify to take this more specialized course of studies for those who want to specialize in Ayurvedic Yoga therapy.
  • Vedic Astrology and Ayurveda Course. For those who want to specialize in Ayurvedic (Vedic Medical) Astrology.
  • Note our website Additional Training Programs section for additional study options in India as well as for our affiliated schools throughout the world.

EMAIL OPTIONS

  • The course is usually sent by regular mail, but the course questions and all course communication can be done by email. 
  • We can also email you the test questions for the course in order to save you the time of copying them down. Let us know if you want to receive the test questions by email.
  • In addition, we can send out the first section of the course by email. We often do this for overseas students who want to start their studies immediately. Please let us know specifically if you are interested in this option.