Students
Student Body
The Student Body at MMI consists of men and women from age 18 to 80, from recent high school graduates to M.D.’s and PhD’s. Our recent student bodies have contained Naturopaths and Nurses, Massage Practitioners and Yogi’s, High Tech engineers and Medical Researchers, Mothers, Teachers and Retirees. Some students are starting a new career in health care, while others are adding skills to their current business or practice. Some are attending school to learn about themselves and others have come to learn the body/mind/spirit overview of Ayurveda and Yoga, and to become Ayurvedic Practitioners.
Our students come from Florida, Canada, Missouri, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and locally from the SF Bay area, Los Angeles, and throughout California. Many of those coming from a distance fly into San Jose International Airport and meet other students to drive to MMI together.
Students study, live and eat together during the three day weekend programs. Some commute from San Jose or Santa Cruz. They sometimes cook Ayurvedic lunch on Saturdays after learning Ayurvedic Cooking in AY 108.
Students become a family, supporting each other in happy and challenging life experiences, new babies, marriages, divorces, and deaths in the families.
Mount Madonna Center’s Hanuman Temple and beautiful mountaintop campus are filled with peaceful energy from the spiritual dedication of the resident community and its teacher, Baba Hari Dass.
Students learn Ayurveda in the most perfect Ayurvedic setting—a yogic community on a beautiful, peaceful mountaintop overlooking the Pacific Ocean.