Distance Learning Ayurveda

• Off campus
  Our distance education is via online tutorials and also by correspondence – via text books, CDs and video
• Practical experience
  For domestic students, some minimal on-campus attendance is required. Your on-campus practical experience can be concentrated into one visit to our beautiful facilities, reducing your fares and time away from home. See below for details.
• Skype (optional) 
  Tune in and be part of the classroom learning, group discussions, questions and answers.
• Private 1-1 tuition
  You will receive private one-on-one tuition with the Health Institute Australasia’s Ayurvedic lecturer: 30 minutes once a month for 12 months. Please note, over and above this duration will incur private tuition fees @ $75 per hour.
• Same fees and syllabus.
  The syllabus and fees are exactly the same as studies on campus
• Keep your job. Start anytime
  With home study, you can save time, start any time you choose, and retain your current job and lifestyle
• Self-paced
  With distance learning, you can learn at your own pace with no classroom competition, and have ample time for completion.
• Time Effective
  With home study, you save time. You can start when you like, and study where and when you want, fitting your studies around your job and lifestyle, freeing up the time you would normally spend in travelling to and from classes.

Fees:

• Domestic student fees

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Course duration:
The duration of your Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counsellor course by correspondence is a a maximum of 18 months for the Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counsellor course, and another 18 months maximum for the Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner course; the actual duration depends on how quickly you wish to complete your qualification.

In this distance-learning course, there is no fixed starting date, no requirement for class attendance, you can study at your own pace and you have the flexibility to extend your completion after the 1st year for an additional 2 years.

Full tutorial support is offered through the length of your study. You can start straight away if you choose.

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Our Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counsellor course is designed to equip you with a firm understanding of Ayurvedic principles and their practical application in health care. On successful completion, you will be adept at Ayurvedic diagnosis, Ayurvedic relaxation massage, lifestyle and preventative health care guidance, Ayurvedic nutrition, and the use of potent herbs and oils.

This 600-hour course is designed for health seekers and is the foundational study for practitioners. Participants will be able to apply all principles in their daily life and practitioners can incorporate the content into their practice easily.

The Health Institute Australasia has been running the course for over 15 years.

Subjects include:-

• Understanding the true nature of your mind and body
• Proceedings of the cosmos, wisdom of the ages
• Discovering your Ayurvedic body type
• Defining the Ayurvedic body
• Ayurvedic Psychology
• Symptomatology and Disease
• Ayurvedic Nutrition & Eating Right without Dieting
• Ayurvedic Herbology and Materia Medica
• Virilification, Rejuvenation and longevity (rasvaj)
• Creating health through balance (SVRIT)
• Practical Tools for Health, Personal Development and Stress Management
• Revitalisation through Ayurvedic massage

… and includes actual experiential practices.

What is included in this foundational course?

Ayurvedic Course Units

There are 18 units of competency for the Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counsellor. 13 are core to this qualification, of which 5 are specialist Ayurvedic studies, and there are 5 electives we deliver, as outlined below.

Understanding the true nature of your mind and body

(Foundations of Ayurvedic medicine, fundamentals and history, AVAT, AYPHIL)
Overview and introduction to the unchanging nature of Ayurvedic science, with an experiential understanding of its utility as a healing science.

• The science (veda) of life (ayur)
• Origins and history (ithias) of Ayurveda and the philosophies of India
• Evolution of Ayurveda (avataran)
• Philosophy of Ayurveda
• Sanskrit and illustrate its calligraphy (practicum)

Proceedings of the cosmos, wisdom of the ages

(Basic principles of Ayurveda AYUPRIN)
Ayurveda recognises that whatever is present in the universe, is also being presented in the human body:
a. Central principles
– Creation theory: History and background concerning the origin of life and consciousness
– Macrocosm and microcosm
– Five great elements, panchamahabhootas
– Three qualities, gunas
– Three biological principles, doshas
b. Classical principles and practices
c. Relationship of Ayurveda to holistic health, mental health; life mission and success.

Discovering your Ayurvedic body type

(Constitutional analysis AYUPRKTI)
Students are introduced to the concept of the three doshas and how Ayurveda conceives the body-mind in health and disease.
a. Nature (prakruti)
b. Ayurvedic Body types

Defining the Ayurvedic body

Sharira: Snatomy and physiology (SHAR)

• Healthy Body – Western A&P TBA
• Ayurvedic Anatomy & Physiology I
  – Knowledge that how the tridosha (vata, pitta, kapha) work in our body
  – the assessments of body types;
  – understanding the physiology related to the sub-doshas.
  – how to correlate qualities, functions and places of dosha in our body.
• Ayurvedic Anatomy & Physiology 2
  – The sub-doshas of Vata, Pitta and Kapha that function within our body.
  – Detailed understanding of prakruti and vikruti (essential and present condition).
  – Assessment of doshic imbalances.
  – Determination of subsequent methods to rectify imbalances.
  – Clinical understanding of seven tissues (dhatus).
  – Metabolic function of dhatus and their affect on well-being.
• Ayurvedic Physiology 3
  – Working knowledge of channels (srotas) and their role in health and disease.
  – The role of agni in clinical physiology and pathology.
  – Knowledge of what is ama and how it takes form in our body
  – Factors responsible for causing physical and mental ama.

Ayurvedic Psychology

Ayurvedic and Yogic approaches in working with the mind.
Co-requisites: Yoga and Meditation

Symptomatology and Disease

Students are more deeply grounded in how Ayurveda conceives the body-mind in health and disease and taken through the process of:

• Understanding the fundamentals and nature of health and disease
• Ayurvedic Clinical Diagnosis
• Ayurvedic Clinical Pathology
• Pulse Diagnosis

Ayurvedic Nutrition & Eating Right without Dieting

Aahar: Ayur Nutrition & Clinical Nutrition (AHR)

• Ayurvedic and Western views on Nutrition. AHR-1
  Introduction to nutrition. Understanding ayurvedic and western food fundamentals and eating for health.
• Diet and Constitution AHR-2
  – Eating for Health.
  – The energetics of different types of food and recipes which then can selected after taking into account an individual’s diet and constitution.
• Ayurvedic Kitchen Herbs. AHR-3
  – The use of medicinal fruits, vegetables and the study of 22 commonly available Ayurvedic kitchen herbs
  – Their application in a clinical setting to bring about balance to the mind-body.
• Ayurvedic Cooking for Nutrition
  Practicum. AHR-4
  The knowledge and skills to prepare Ayurvedic sattvic meals, recipes for different seasons and the significance of Ayurvedic cooking in Ayurvedic psychology, yoga and meditation sciences.
• Food and Mood AHR-5
  – Food and subtle energy.
  – Diet, mind and yoga.
• Ayurvedic Cinical Nutrition.
  Food as medicine.
  Treatment of various diseases and disorders using food articles as medicine. AHR-6

Ayurvedic Herbology and Materia Medica

Herbs are nature’s healing gift to human kind and have been used for their maintenance and curative purposes throughout history by almost all the cultures of our world.
– Ayurvedic Materia Medica I: Introduction to Ayurvedic medicine.
– Ayurvedic Materia Medica II: Anupana, & Herb preparation and usage in different conditions.
– Ayurvedic Materia Medica III: Detailed study of tailam (medicated oil) and ghritam
(medicated ghee) and their preparation and selection for different conditions.
– Ayurvedic Herbology & Pharmacy

Virilification, Rejuvenation and longevity (rasvaj)

• Health, Longevity and the Disease process
• Ayurvedic rejuvenation therapies (rasayana) RASVAJ-1
• Virilification and Aphrodisiacs (vajikaran)  RASVAJ-2
• Introduction to the five physiological detoxification & purification processes, the 5 actions (Panchakarma therapy)

Creating health through balance (SVRIT)

• Ayurvedic Psychology and Spirituality 1 – non-physical aspects of ayus (life) that play a critical role in physical and mental health and enhance our consciousness.
• Ayurvedic Psychology & Spirituality II – Three gunas, antahkarana (mind, ego, intellect and consciousness) and life supporting diet, aahara, lifestyle, vihara and conduct, achara.
• Ayurvedic Psychology & Spirituality III – The psychological development of the Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant. This period will include un-supervised clinical work wherein students will be required to continue with the therapies that they learnt in their practicum and complete a number of case studies for each therapy at their own location.

Improving your life using the wisdom of the ages

Practical Tools for Health, Personal Development and Stress Management

• Concept of exercise in Ayurveda.
• Stress management
• Fundamentals of Sanskrit – calligraphy (practicum)
• Purification and cleansing therapies
• Knowledge and skills to assess cases

Revitalisation through Ayurvedic massage

• Principles and fundamental techniques of massage. AYMAS1
• Ayurvedic massage principles. ABH1
• Relaxation Massage practicum AYMAS1

2 non-residential days for Ayurvedic massage

• 2, 3 June 2017  OR
• 17, 18 November 2017

2 non-residential days for shirodhara and kati basti

• 16, 17 June 2017  OR
• 1,2 December 2017

2 non-residential days for training and practicum in Consults

Dates to be provided based upon completion of work.

8-day/7-night residential detox retreat at Nirvana Wellness Retreat:

• 2-9 July 2017  OR
• 1-7 Jan 2018

Homework and assessment

Modules include a list of questions to be submitted by email upon completion of the particular subject.  Upon The Health Institute Australasia receiving your homework our qualified assessors will mark your papers and submit a student report on a competency-based assessment.

You will have Final exams in both the theoretical and practicum components.

Your Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Wellness Counsellor Package Includes:

Inclusive in the fees for this course are the following:

All course materials

All course materials for Modules 1-10, common units, Ayurvedic cooking and Ayurvedic massage modules are included.

+ Online Course Manuals:

+ Contact journal

+ Classes

You will receive clinical practice and training in massage, cooking, ayurvedic analysis/consultancy during your week-long attendance at our Shanti Yoga studio on the Gold Coast.

+ Tutorials via live webinar

+ Private 1-1 tuition via Skype

You will receive private one-on-one tuition with the Health Institute Australasia’s Ayurvedic lecturer: 30 minutes once a month for 12 months.  Please note, over and above this duration will incur private tuition fees @ $75 per hour.

+Books

+ CD’s:

+ Living Yoga:

Included in your fees are:-

1. 1 week of attendance at our Shanti Yoga Gold Coast studio for clinical practice and training in massage, cooking, ayurvedic analysis/consultancy.
2. + 8-day/7 night residential detox retreat (twin-share accommodation, all meals, medicines, lectures and program) in July or January at our Nirvana Wellness retreat, Beechmont, Queensland

Ayurveda is a science that has its roots in ancient Indian culture. It’s simple and extremely practical significance can be adapted to our culture and time. It is the ‘mother of all healing systems’ as it embraces all modalities.

We have re-created the most idyllic Ayurvedic retreat, Nirvana Wellness Retreat on 70 acres, where you can attend tutorials, practicum and immersion programs.

Ayurvedic study tour to India with Shanti Gowans

Students have an annual opportunity to enjoy a cultural experience in India, visit Ayurvedic centres and pharmacies, tour a spice and herb farm and visit Ayurvedic hospitals, yoga retreats, places of pilgrimage and interest.

For tour prices and dates, please enquire at the Health Institute Australasia office or contact us online.

Professional Association Memberships

Graduates from The Health Institute are eligible for membership and encouraged to join professional associations relevant to their modality and location. Annual membership to AAPA is encouraged and necessary for insurance purposes. Australasian Ayurvedic Practitioners Association has various levels of membership:

1. Ayurvedic Practitioner $85
2. Ayurvedic Clinical Consultant $55
3. Ayurvedic Trainee $25
4. Associate/Friend $25

Contact AAPA’s secretary: Hilary Sullivan
Email: aapa@onthenet.com.au
Website: ayurvedaaustralia.com

Senior First Aid

Senior First Aid is compulsory for graduates who wish to join a professional association such as AAPA for insurance purposes. Students are required to pay for their own first aid course.

At the completion of the course, you will be a qualified Ayurvedic Clinical and Lifestyle Consultant, providing optimum wellness, nutritional advice and relaxation massage.

As a worker with this qualification, you may be titled an:-

• Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant
• Ayurvedic assistant

This qualification is suited to Australian Apprenticeships pathways.