10/2/24 Ayurveda: Lifestyle Medicine (3-Month Course)
October 2 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
$650
Overview
Join our 33-hour Ayurveda Course!
Begin your self-care journey with Ayurveda. If you are ready to dive into the rich-wisdom teachings of Yoga and Ayurveda, there is no better way to prepare than to take the next 3-months learning the art and science of Ayurveda as the highest form of Lifestyle Medicine. This is the place to begin if you are ready to improve your health, increase your energy levels and vitality, and become part of a supportive community.
Ayurveda is the sister science of Yoga. While Yoga provides tools to create harmony within our internal world (body, mind, senses, and breath), Ayurveda offers daily self-care practices to support us in living in balance with the external world, understanding the master cycles of nature.
This course is led by James Bailey, Katie Allen, and Allison Prince.
This program is open to all curious students regardless of training and ability.
Ayurveda Course Information
- 33-hour Program
- 10-hours in-person or zoom
- 23-hours asynchronous with James Bailey DASc, AD, LAc
- $650 Tuition
- $125 Registration Fee
- $175/mo autopay for 3 months
- In-Studio Dates
- October 2 – 12:30-2:30PM – led by Katie
- October 18 – 12:30-2:30PM – led by Allison
- November 6 – 12:30-2:30PM – led by Katie
- November 22 – 12:30-2:30PM – led by Allison
- December 11 – 12:30-2:30PM – led by Katie
- In-Studio Space Limited
- Ayurvedic food and tea will be served each in-studio class
Topics Covered
– We Begin with Self Knowledge and Self Care
– Ayurveda History, Definitions, Philosophy, and Classic Texts
– Ayurveda and the Vedas
– Swasthavritta (Enlightened Self Care, Wellness, Non-Clinical) Branch of Ayurveda – Sadvritta: Living True to Ourselves in Yoga and Ayurveda
– Ayurveda: The Wisdom of Life
– Ayurvedic Definition of Health
– Three Pillars of Health
– Tatwas: The Twenty Attributes of Nature
– Pancha Mahabhuta: 5 Element Theory and the Body
– Tridosha Theory: Vata, Pitta, Kapha
– Subdoshas
– Doshas and Personality
– Prakriti: The Seven Constitutions
– Prakriti Body Types
– Prakriti Personality Types
– Agni: Metabolism and Transformation in Health
– Ama: Endogenous and Exogenous Toxicity
– Sapta Dhatus: The Seven Tissues and Signs of Imbalance
– Upadhatu: Secondary Tissues
– Mala: Understanding and Maintaining Healthy Elimination
– Digestion and It’s Care: The Core of our Well Being
– Stages of Digestion
– Ojas: Reservoir of Life
– Rasayana: Longevity, Anti-Aging, Rejuvenation
James Bailey, DASc, AD, LAc
James Bailey, DASc, AD, LAc, MPH, E-RYT500 is a third-generation health care practitioner, Ayurvedic Doctor, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, and Ayurveda and Yoga educator who has been practicing the wellness arts for 30 years. He is the founder of Sevanti Institute, offering Ayurveda wellness education and professional training programs including its signature Ayurveda Wellness Counselor Program. He is available for Ayurveda Wellness Consultations through the Sevanti Wellness Center.
Clinically, and in his teachings, James inspires an awakening to authenticity as the highest expression of faith in oneself on the path of all healing. His teachings are eclectic and entertainingly provocative. He is sought out by yoga schools for his vast knowledge in traditional eastern teachings and modalities and the ability to bridge them to modern-day living. His professional training includes 5 years of clinical studies in Oriental Medicine and training in Ayurveda under such luminary teachers as Dr. Vaijayanti Apte, Dr. Subash Ranade, Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar, Dr. Avinash Lele, Dr. Vasant Lad, and many Ayurvedic doctors and therapists in Kerala, South India where he spends time teaching and studying while on retreat. He is the founder of Sevanti Adventures which offers an annual tour to sacred India each March.
Katie Allen, MPH, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Katie received her Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane University. She wrote her Master’s thesis on Yoga’s ability to prevent and treat chronic disease and that has been her life’s work ever since! She studied yoga therapy in the lineage of Krishnamacharya with her teachers Ruth (Sraddhasagar) Hartung, Larry Payne, Robert Birnberg, Amy Wheeler, and the KYM faculty in Chennai, India.
She opened Be The Change Yoga Studio and Natural Health Center in Irvine, CA in 2013 with her teaching partner Allison Prince. Together they have been leading Yoga Teacher Training Programs since 2010, Katie loves sharing the life-enhancing wisdom of the Yoga Sutras as way to upgrade every single aspect of life. Katie launched OC’s first and only Yoga Therapist Training in 2016 and is the Founding School Director for AlcheMe Yoga Therapy Training.
She is passionate about bringing the empowerment based lifestyle medicine principles out of the yoga studios and into under-served communities, as well as hospitals and health systems. She utilizes her background in Public Health to effectively build community-based yoga therapy and health education programs to improve personal and community health, while training the next generation of integrative health providers.
She has been studying Ayurveda for over 10 years with Eleni Tsikrikas and Mas Vidal. She most recently formalized her Ayurveda education with James Bailey at the Sevanti Institute and is currently conducting her clinical internship hours.
