Ayurvedic Health Counselor Level-1 Education

Ayurvedic Health Counselor (AHC) Program

The Ayurvedic Health Counselor (AHC) curriculum is the first step to becoming an Ayurvedic Practitioner, an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist or pursuing your Masters Degree in Ayurveda.

Students are trained to provide diet and lifestyle support by integrating constitutional assessment, nutritional knowledge, basic herbology, lifestyle management, introductory counseling skills, Ayurvedic bodywork therapies and introductory level Sanskrit, yoga theory and practice.

Through our supervised clinical internship students engage in group and one on one consultations in preparation for a professional career as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor.

YOU WILL LEARN:

• Constitutional Assessment
• Yoga and Meditation
• Sanskrit
• Ayurvedic Anatomy, Physiology and Biology
• Ayurvedic Nutrition and Herbology
• Ayurvedic Psychology
  
• Ethics, Counseling, and Western Interface
  
• Ayurvedic Therapies
• Jyotish: Vedic Astrology
  
• ENT and Sense Therapies
• Women's and Children's Health

“Ayurveda is for freeing the mind which is trapped in the body. Yoga is for freeing the soul which is trapped in the mind.” - Baba Hari Dass -

Goals & Aims

The Ayurvedic Health Counselor’s scope of practice encompasses a focus on preventive health care and health promotion utilizing the experience and knowledge of appropriate diet and lifestyle practices and recommendations for the unique individuals in a clinical practice. Graduates may qualify for the National Ayurvedic Medicine Association Certification Board (NAMACB) exam and upon passage, become professional members of the National Ayurvedic Medicine Association (NAMA), start a clinical practice independently, join the staffs of yoga studios or spas, work in health resorts, and join integrative healthcare practices as diet and lifestyle counselors.

Program Highlights

This 637 hour program combines in-person and online learning during 9 months of coursework to prepare students for a professional career as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor. Total program length is 12 months.

AHC Pre-requisite:

• 4 college level credits of Anatomy and Physiology (required to be completed prior to submitting an application)
• Applicants unable to complete A&P before the application deadline may join our Foundations program and complete A&P concurrently with the Foundations modules. Enroll in the program upon successful completion of both by April 1st.

Classes are held in the following format:

• Extended weekend intensive runs Thursday evening through Sunday evening and includes yoga, Sanskrit, and coursework. Classes also meet weekly online on Tuesday nights from 5:00-8:00 pm.
  
• For 2022 we will be hosting in-person classes with a remote option for coursework from January-May. Starting in June, all clinical work must be attended in-person.

Here is the typical daily schedule (subject to change)

Per Month	Course	Time (PST/PDT)	Hrs.
Thursday	Integration	6:00 - 8:00pm	2
Friday	Yoga	7:00 - 8:30am	1.5
	Course 1	9:30 - 12:30pm	3
	Course 1	1:30 - 5:30pm	4
Saturday	Course 1	8:00 - 10:00am	2
	Course 1	11:00am - 1:00pm	2
	Yoga	1:00 - 2:30pm	1.5
	Course 2	3:00 - 5:30pm	2
Sunday	Yoga	7:00 - 8:30am	1.5
	Course 2	9:30am - 12:30pm	3
	Course 2	1:30 - 5:30pm	4
Tuesday evenings (weekly online)	Integration, Courses 1 & 2	5:00 - 8:00pm	11/month
1 Friday morning monthly (online)	Sanskrit	8:30-10:00am	1.5
Total Synchronous Meetings			39.5 hrs
Total Monthly Time Commitment including Asynchronous and course work			approx 109.5 hrs.

*An alternative for those who want to go beyond a weekend Ayurveda course but aren't ready to commit to the full year long AHC, we also offer the FOUNDATIONS OF AYURVEDA.