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Integral Vedic Counseling Course

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Enrolled: 1391 students
Duration: 3 years
Lectures: 72
Video: 10 hours
Level: Beginner

 

The Integral Vedic Counseling Course with Dr. David Frawley is a unique and comprehensive course in the art and science of life guidance, based on the ancient Vedic tradition. This course integrates the profound disciplines of Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda, Jyotish, and Vastu into a background Vedic counseling model. The course is self-paced, and the student can study at their own pace, with no requirement to purchase any books. Upon completion, students receive a certification in the field of Vedic Counseling, enabling them to become Vedic educators, counselors, mentors, or life-guides. This course is of crucial importance for the planetary age, offering a timeless vision of human unity with all.

 

 

 

  • Join our unique course in Integral Vedic Counseling, the first in depth course in this profound subject of the wisdom of the Rishis. The course is based upon Dr. David Frawley’s extensive work with related Vedic sciences of Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedanta and Vedic astrology. The course teaches us how to integrate these profound Vedic disciplines according to a background Vedic Counseling model that shows us how to communicate their essence with clarity and depth. Gain certification in the new field of Vedic Counseling.
  • Vedic counseling addresses all aspects of human life, with transformational guidance leading us to physical, psychological, social and spiritual well-being. Though rooted in the ancient Vedic tradition, it is of crucial importance for the planetary age, sharing a timeless vision of human unity with all.
  • Vedic counseling is relevant to all forms of healing, creativity, life-enhancement, and experiential spirituality. It provides in-depth guidance on how we can lead our lives in an optimal manner for unfolding higher powers of thought and action, to the supreme Self-realization. We can describe Vedic counseling as a Vedic spiritual or yogic counseling, as it looks to the role of consciousness as the key factor in our existence through our many incarnations. It forms the foundation of Vedic education.
  • This integral approach to Vedic counseling provides the student with key insights into the main Vedic fields of Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda, Tantra, Vedic astrology, and Vastu, providing core insights into Vedic philosophy and psychology, Vedic values, and a Vedic way of life of conscious living for the benefit of all.

 

 

Course Format

 

  • The course comes in five on-line volumes or  sections and more than forty lessons, over eight hundred pages of course material.
  • Course includes illustrations, numerous audios by Dr. Frawley and several videos to enhance the course experience.
  • The course is a self-study course and allows the student to go at his or her own pace.
  • There is a three year time limit for completing the course or a reinstatement fee may be required.
  • The course does not require that the student purchase any books, though additional books are recommended for those interested in the deeper study. The course contains relevant portions of the Art and Science of Vedic Counseling, with an expansion of the topics involved. It includes extensive material on related Vedic disciplines of Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda, Vedic astrology and Vastu based upon Dr. Frawley’s teachings.

 

 

Certification

 

  • The course grants credit in “Integral Vedic Counselor: Foundation Course”, and 300 hours of credit with our organization.  It grants you special study recognition and credentials as students of Dr. Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri).
  • The course helps you become a Vedic teacher, educator, counselor, life-guide and mentor. It provides you a good foundation in the field of Vedic knowledge overall.

 

 

Advanced Studies

 

  • Students can go on to our other Vedic courses, including Ayurvedic Healing, Ayurvedic Astrology, Yoga, Ayurveda, Mantra and Meditation.
  • Graduates can get special tutorial guidance from Dr. Frawley personally for advanced study in Vedic counseling.
  • Integral Vedic Educator Certification, Ayurveda, Raja Yoga, Vedic Astrology, Vedic Counseling. For those who have completed all our four courses.

 

 

Vedic Counseling: Nature, Meaning, Orientation & Goals

 

  • Vedic counseling is the foundational counseling approach of Vedic philosophy and Vedic healing, which pervades all the Vedic arts and sciences. Through it you can learn the principles of Vedic living, dharmic living and yogic living and how these reflect each other to transform our lives.
  • The goal of our course is to provide you with a Vedic view of counseling and life-guidance as part of a way of Self-realization as the universal awareness at the core of our own being. Such a transformative approach to counseling today is unique and boundless in what it can offer us for our inner unfoldment.
  • The course teaches you Vedic counseling according to specific applications, an orientation towards consciousness as the basis of all our potentials, and based upon a deep understanding dharma and karma, helping your understand your life purpose and how your karma reflects it.

 

 

Aim and Audience for Course

 

  • The Integral Vedic counseling course can be taken by those new to the Vedic field of knowledge, providing a good foundation in light of counseling and life-guidance approaches that are relevant to all and cover every domain of life outwardly and inwardly.
  • The course specifically addresses existing practitioners and serious students of the Vedic sciences (Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, and Vastu). It is designed to guide them in their study, practice, teaching, and communication. The course provides specific counseling principles and methods for those in the Vedic field. This is important, since many Vedic practitioners lack counseling skills and may not have been taught them as part of their studies.
  • The course can be helpful for counselors in other fields but may require adaptation or additional studies, as well as receptivity to the Vedic view of life.

 

 

Course  Orientation and Information

 

  • Our Integral Vedic Counseling Course is not just a matter of imparting information or helpful techniques. It first aims at teaching and promoting certain values or a way of dharmic living and thinking or what could be called a “Vedic Life” staring with ourselves This implies character development, which is a matter of self-discipline, not simply imbibing information.
  • The course asks us to recognize the unique nature of each individual and does not give out mass formulas to be applied mechanically. It employs a number of Vedic typologies based upon the three gunas, three doshas, five elements and nine planets to aid in this determination of individual nature.

 

 

What Students Can Expect from the Course

 

  • The course provides you with detailed knowledge about Vedic Counseling and its main lines of application. You will receive an introduction to Ayurvedic psychology, Yoga psychology, Vedantic philosophy, Vedic astrology and Vastu.

 

 

New Students to Vedic Knowledge

 

  • Students with a background in the Vedic field will gain an understanding of the basis of Vedic counseling, life-guidance, and the Vedic educational model for personal healing and transformation, to help themselves, friends and family, for understanding their karma and how to live according to their highest potential.

 

 

Students of Ayurveda

 

  • The course will provide special teachings on Vedic Counseling, detail on Ayurvedic Psychology, and helpful information on Yoga, Vedic Astrology and Vastu. You will gain a better understanding of how to communicate with clients and encourage them in Ayurvedic behavioral modifications and Vedic values.

 

 

Students of Vedic Astrology

 

  • The course will provide you with special teachings on Vedic Counseling,  detail on counseling in Vedic Astrology, and helpful information on Yoga, Ayurveda, and Vastu.  This course will teach you how through better communication you can be of greater help to your clients in guiding their lives.

 

 

Students of Yoga and Vedanta

 

  • The course will provide you with special teachings on Vedic Counseling for teaching Yoga and helpful information on Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology and Vastu. It presents Yoga according to its deeper philosophy of Vedanta as a way of Self-knowledge and Self-realization.
  • By combining Yoga with Vedanta and Ayurvedic psychology for understanding the mind, you can take your yoga teaching to a higher level. You will gain insight into Raja Yoga and its attitudinal, perceptual and behavioral modifications.

 

 

Meditation Teachers

 

  • The Integral Vedic counseling approach is very helpful for meditation teachers, particularly those who follow a Vedic or yogic approach. It will help you add a full counseling approach to teaching meditation, aiding in psychological well-being and spiritual growth. The course uses the views of Yoga and Vedanta for the Vedic philosophy and practice of meditation.

 

 

Testing

 

  • The course has five final tests at the end of each of the five-course sections. These the student must return to the institute for grading by email.
  • Once all five tests are completed the student has finished the course and can be certified by us.

 

 

Course Author

 

  • Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) D.Litt is one of the most respected Vedic educators worldwide. He is the only western Vedic teacher to have received the prestigious Padma Bhushan award, the third-highest civilian award from the President of India, for his work as a Vedic teacher. He was one of the first to receive a prestigious doctor of letters, from SVYASA (Swami Vivekananda Yoganusandhana Samsthana), the only deemed Yoga university in India. He has gained a special National Eminence Award from the South Indian Education Society (SIES) under the auspices of the famous Kanchi Shankaracharya Math, one of the main sites of traditional learning in India.
  • Dr. Frawley is the author of fifty books published in twenty languages worldwide over the last thirty years. He has direct experience teaching and guiding individuals, groups and organizations in the different fields of Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda, and Vedic astrology, and has written extensively on all these topics. He has been part of several important Vedic educational institutes and projects worldwide, including at a national level in India. He is considered to be the most accomplished western teacher of an integral approach to Yoga, Vedanta, Ayurveda and Vedic astrology.

PART I

1
Lesson 1. Course Orientation
2
Lesson 2. Taking Stock of Yourself and Your Practices
3
Lesson3. New Models of Guidance and Counseling: A Vedic Perspective
4
Lesson 4. Ancient and Modern Counseling Approaches
5
Lesson 5. The Vedic Yogic Art of Counseling
6
Lesson 6. Vedic Counseling and Life-Guidance: Primary Questions
7
Lesson 7. The Vedic Art of Higher Investigation
8
Lesson 8. Understanding Self, Nature an Universe: The Secience of Vedanta
9
Part I Final Test

Part II

1
Lesson 9. Sacred Conscious Living: The Way of Yajna
2
Lesson 10. Karmic Reckoning: Taking Control of Your Life
3
Lesson 11. Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha: The Four Great Goals of Life
4
Lesson 12. Dicovering Your Inner Light: Developing Your Agni or Inner Flame
5
Lesson 13. Discovering Lasting Happiness and Soma
6
Lesson 14. Managing your Prana, Spirit, and Vital Energy
7
Lesson 15. Sexuality: the Complementary Powers of Shiva and Shakti
8
Part II. Final Test

Part II: PRACTICE OF VEDIC COUNSELING

1
Lesson 16. Necessary Qualities of a Good Vedic Counselor
2
Lesson 17. The Unique Orientation of Vedic Guidance
3
Lesson 17. The Unique Orientation of Vedic Guidance
4
Lesson 18. Compassion, Devotion and Empathy
5
Lesson 18. Compassion, Devotion and Empathy
6
Lesson 19. Common Causes of Disease, Suffering and Disharmony
7
Lesson 19. Common Causes of Disease, Suffering and Disharmony
8
Lesson 20. Balacing the Five Elements Within and Around Us
9
Lesson 20. Balacing the Five Elements Within and Around Us
10
Lesson 21. Developing the Yogic Quality of Sattva Guna
11
Lesson 21. Developing the Yogic Quality of Sattva Guna
12
Lesson 22. Psychological Nature According to the Three Gunas
13
Lesson 22. Psychological Nature According to the Three Gunas
14
Part III. Final Test

Part IV. Primary Approaches of Vedic Counseling

1
Lesson 23. Vedic Counseling, Ayurveda and the Three Doshas
2
Lesson 24. Vedic Psychology: Gunas and Doshas
3
Lesson 25. Vedic Understanding of the Mind
4
Lesson 26. Ayurvedic Counseling Methods
5
Lesson 27. Vedic Behavioral Medicine
6
Lesson 28. Yogic Counseling and Raja Yoga
7
Lesson 29. Yoga Typologies
8
Lesson 30. Yogic Counseling and the Chakras
9
Lesson 31. Yogic Neuroscience and Psychology
10
Lesson 32. Our Daily Journey into the Consciousness
11
Part IV. Final Test

Part V. Advanced Approaches of Vedic Counseling

1
Lesson 33. Vedic Counseling and Meditation
2
Lesson 34. Vedic Counseling and Mantric Tools
3
Lesson 35. Shakti Bija Mantras
4
Lesson 36. Vedic Astrology and Karmic Counseling
5
Lesson 37. The Nine Planetary Types and Vedic Astrology
6
Lesson 38. Overview of Vedic Astrology Principles
7
Lesson 39. Vastu Based Vedic Counseling
8
Lesson 40. Vedic Laws of Right Living
9
Lesson 41. Vedic and Yogic Laws for Living in Cosmic Consciouness
10
Lesson 42. Tranditional Aspects of Vedic Knowledge, the Tree of Vedic Knowledge
11
Lesson 43. Summary of Principles and Recommendation
12
Part V. Final Test
13
Appendices
14
Glossary of Terms
15
Bibliography

Part V. Advanced Approaches of Vedic Counseling

1
Lesson 33. Vedic Counseling and Meditation
2
Lesson 34. Vedic Counseling and Mantric Tools
3
Lesson 35. Shakti Bija Mantras
4
Lesson 36. Vedic Astrology and Karmic Counseling
5
Lesson 37. The Nine Planetary Types and Vedic Astrology
6
Lesson 38. Overview of Vedic Astrology Principles
7
Lesson 39. Vastu Based Vedic Counseling
8
Lesson 40. Vedic Laws of Right Living
9
Lesson 41. Vedic and Yogic Laws for Living in Cosmic Consciouness
10
Lesson 42. Tranditional Aspects of Vedic Knowledge, the Tree of Vedic Knowledge
11
Lesson 43. Summary of Principles and Recommendation
12
Part V. Final Test
13
Appendices
14
Glossary of Terms
15
Bibliography
Integral Vedic Counseling Course
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