Ayurvedic Practitioner Program Overview

Length: 14 months
Certificate: 904 hours
Formats: Hybrid- Immersion
In-Class Location: Minneapolis, MN
Fall Start Date: Sept 3rd, 2024

Tuition-One Payment of $9,950

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Flexible Learning Format

Immersion Program Includes

  • Attend 2 Weeklong Immersions in Minneapolis

  • One two-week immersion in India

  • Clinical Internship

  • Herb Practicum

  • Panchakarma Therapies

Immersion Program Includes

  • 56 Tuesday Classes: Virtual Classes

  • Online Pre-Recoded Lectures and Assignments

  • Clinical Internship Component

Completion of the Ayurvedic Health Counselor program is a prerequisite.

Applicants are required to have a high school diploma or the equivalent. Additional higher education is recommended. A passing grade transcript for six credits of post-secondary level Anatomy and Physiology is required. Anatomy & Physiology can be taken simultaneously with this course and can be done entirely online! Click here to learn more.

 

Prerequisites/ Co-requisites

Learning Outcomes

 

Upon completion of the Ayurvedic Health Counselor Program students should be able to:

  • Identify and analyze a client’s unique mind-body constitution (prakruti)

  • Identify and analyze a client’s current dosha state and imbalances (vikruti) 

  • Have a deeper understanding of etiology, (nidāna), pathology (samprāpti), diagnosis, and management of diseases from Ayurvedic perspective.

  • Independently conduct Ayurvedic consultations and offer herbs in addition to diet & lifestyle modifications for wellness as well as management of the diseases 

  • Independently offer Āyurvedic purification (śodhana cikitsā)and rejuvenating therapies (rasāyana) in addition to adjustments to daily and seasonal routines, bodywork, massage therapies, pranayama, and meditation.

  • Contribute to a profession such as writing articles, contributing to research, teaching at professional conferences or presenting case studies.

Professional opportunities and scope of practice varies with level of education. In addition to all opportunities available as a Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Ayurvedic Practitioner in Minneapolis can:

  • Can conduct one-on-one consultations where they can offer, in addition to diet and lifestyle, herbs, purification, and rejuvenative therapies at a private clinic, wellness center, or an integrative medicine facility 

  • Freelance Ayurveda writer

  • Contribute to Ayurvedic research

  • Teach at conferences and present case studies 

 

Professional Opportunities