Dhanwantari
Ayurveda Certification: Mission and Approach
Educational Mission
The School of Ayurveda is committed to offering the most complete and well rounded educational experience through a combination of comprehensive theory, hands-on training, and understanding the universal spiritual foundations of life and health.
Our unique training process aims to inspire students’ thirst for understanding by creating an internally developed education rather than the notion of external acquisition model. Through engendering students to ask more questions rather than be flooded with answers; to favor intuition over memorization; to experience knowledge as more than just as a part of career – but to realize it as a part of their entire present life experience; students are able to assimilate intellectual understanding into experiential world wisdom. We find this model to be a more organic and natural approach to learning and our students graduate with confidence in their, studies and as well, their life path.
Ayurveda is much more than the ‘science of medicine’; it is defined as the ‘science of life’. Our Ayurvedic program prepares students physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, with the insights and ability to harmoniously live their lives and to help others understand and harmonize the wholeness of their lives. This ability is due to understanding and working with the underlying laws of nature.
This school also is dedicated to the integration of authentic, ancient Vedic education with the modern thought – especially incorporating the most enlightened Western ideas of today. We dedicate ourselves to bridging the semantic gap between Eastern and Western schools of thought.
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Registration/Interview $100 non-refundable
We will send you a registration/interview form upon receipt of your payment
Monthly Payments (subscribe for recurring $400/month for 20 months)
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Our Teaching Approach
This program exceeds the educational guidelines of all US Ayurvedic associations.
Just as Ayurveda itself is a holistic, spiritual, natural healing and lifestyle option, we feel that education too, should be offered in a holistic, spiritual, and natural manner.
Where conventional education emphasizes memorization and filling the brain with facts; i.e., facts = knowledge. Alternative education believes that experience, questioning, experimenting, and intuition are the keys to truly knowing something.
“I’m not trying to prove anything, by the way.
I’m a scientist and I know what constitutes proof.
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to
remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child.
If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it,
Whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
Most scientists forget that. …
the other reason I call myself Wonko the Sane
is so that people will think I am a fool.
That allows me to say what I see when I see it.
You can’t possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you’re a fool.”
- Douglas Adams Hitchhikers trilogy:
Too often new graduates who spend years memorizing their discipline, experience mental burnout and are unsure how to even begin to translate their intellectual education into real life. Conversely, alternative education-trained students find that they are learning about life as they learn about Ayurveda; Ayurvedic education becomes a metaphor for their whole life.
Therefore, students who live Ayurvedically during their student years, are already growing and integrating education, service, self-healing, and self-reflection into their lives.
Education is a development from within,
not an accretion from without;
it comes through workings of natural instincts
and not in response to external force;
it is an expansion of natural powers,
not an acquisition of information;
it is life itself,
not a preparation for a future state
remote in interests and characteristics
from the life of childhood.
- Rousseau
Our teacher-friends tell us how the current educational system is so stressed that many teachers, forced to to teach unnatural curriculum, take prozac. Conversely, our Ayurvedic alternative education teachers are required, like their students, to follow their own Ayurvedic lifestyle – teaching by example.
Living, teaching, and studying in the context of an Ayurvedic lifestyle avoids ADD, depression and, quite the opposite, fosters an environment for great personal, natural inspiration and genius to flourish.
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Live Class Training
In-person in New York/Guatemala; &/or Video Web-Classroom
Whether you learn best alone or in a class, the live class experience enhances your learning and you hear other student’s point of views and creative ideas. While students successfully learn how to be top-notch ayurveda practitioners without live class, the option is offered for those who wish to take advantage of the more personal dimension of learning.
Live classes are done online in webinar video classroom, or in person live – in whatever country Swamiji is in (USA, Guatemala, Peru, India etc.).
There are month-long options for 4+ students to study live; summers in NY, USA and winters in San Marcos, Guatemala.
Live Class Options
- 4+ students 300 hours (150 hours/year)
- 3 students 220 hours (110 hours/year)
- 2 students 50 hours (25 hours/year)
- 1 student 70 hours (3.5 hours/year)
Whenever there are 4 or more students enrolled in the live class, students who have had less hours of live classes may join these classes for a nominal fee of $20/hour.
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Registration/Interview $100 non-refundable
We will send you a registration/interview form upon receipt of your payment
Monthly Payments (subscribe for recurring $400/month for 20 months)
