Spiritual Rituals for Self-Healing

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc
February 1 – 3, 2013

Explore the subtleties of spiritual living and learn to implement practical rituals into your daily life.

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, Ayurvedic Physician, will guide the students to explore a relationship with their personal deity. He will teach participants the steps of puja, allowing them to experience puja, illuminating the divine through aarti. They will follow the fire sacrifice and begin to see their own journey. This experience can serve as a guide for each student to follow their own journey through devotion and personal rituals.

Pricing
$306 Members, seniors, graduates
$340 Standard enrollment

To register, call our office at (505) 291-9698 then press "0" to talk to our staff. Payment in full is due at time of enrollment.

Continuing Education Units (CEU) are approved for Yoga Alliance (12 YA credits). Certificate of Completion for 12 contact hours is provided.

Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc
March 1 – 3, 2013

Food is Consciousness. Food nourishes not only the body but the mind and your awareness as well. Learn how to choose foods for your constitution, emotional patterns and environmental fluctuations. A standard tri-doshic diet is suitable for everyone and we will learn a practical, simple way of cooking balancing foods.

Healthy food is equal to a healthy body and a happy, healthy human being. Learn about the energetic effects of different foods, the role of taste in Ayurveda, their effects on the doshas, and their actions on the body and mind.

Enjoy a combination of lecture and practical “hands on” cooking as Usha Lad brings her decades of Ayurvedic cooking experience to the classroom. Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, discusses the importance of proper food combining and gives appropriate diets based on the season and geographical location.

Pricing
$315 Members, seniors, graduates
$350 Standard enrollment

To register, call our office at (505) 291-9698 then press "0" to talk to our staff. Payment in full is due at time of enrollment.

Continuing Education Units (CEU) are approved for Yoga Alliance (12 YA credits). Certificate of Completion for 12 contact hours is provided.

Suggest reading: Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing by Usha and Vasant Lad

Unfolding Healing Power through Mantra

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc
April 5 – 7, 2013

Mantra is a sacred sound that can take an individual beyond time and space. Explore the power of sound unfolding through the body’s subtle channels.

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, Ayurvedic Physician, will guide the students to experience their own sound. He will teach the participants the finer points of mantras such as prakruti, gender, time, and meter. Mantra can roast the seeds of past life karma. Students will see how mantra enhances concentration and contemplation. They will see how this concentration will allow them the space to live in this very moment.

Pricing
$306 Members, seniors, graduates
$340 Standard enrollment

To register, call our office at (505) 291-9698 then press "0" to talk to our staff. Payment in full is due at time of enrollment.

Continuing Education Units (CEU) are approved for Yoga Alliance (12 YA credits). Certificate of Completion for 12 contact hours is provided.

Suggested reading: The Language of Ayurveda by Nicolai Bachman (for understanding of Sanskrit)

Women's Lives, Women's Transitions

Dr. Claudia Welch, MSOM
April 26 – 28, 2013

Explore some major physiological changes women encounter in their lives and the factors that go to facilitate smooth transitions at those times. Special attention is given to changes that occur around ages 35 and 50, but others are addressed as well.

Learn the western (allopathic) understanding of hormones and how they relate to women's transitions and lives, alternatives to HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and an Ayurvedic approach to bringing balance to these areas. Approach these transitions with awareness and understanding to set the foundation for realizing your full potential in your life and path at any time.

Pricing
$306 Members, seniors, graduates
$340 Standard enrollment

To register, call our office at (505) 291-9698 then press "0" to talk to our staff. Payment in full is due at time of enrollment.

Continuing Education Units (CEU) are approved for Yoga Alliance (12 YA credits). Certificate of Completion for 12 contact hours is provided.

Suggested reading: Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life by Dr. Claudia Welch, MSOM

Ayurvedic Herbalism for the Srotas, Part 2

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc
May 3 – 5, 2013

The second in a series of advanced study of herbs and herbal preparations targeting specific pathologies and srotas, Vasant Lad will focus exclusively on the pathways (srotas) for theblood channel (rakta vahasrotas), the muscle channel (mamsa vahasrotas) and the fat channel (meda vahasrotas).

Vasant Lad, BAM&S, MASc, Ayurvedic Physician, will present the theoretical principles of Ayurvedic herbalism as they apply to the health and vitality of specific systems in the body. Practitioners will gain greater knowledge in how to specifically target the health and wellness of a client in cases involving the blood channel (rakta vahasrotas), the muscle channel (mamsa vahasrotas), and the fat channel (meda vahasrotas).

Herbs have their own intelligence. They can change the aggravated dosha and then can unfold cellular intelligence. They enhance the span of life and support rejuvenation. The intelligence of the herbs can be used to stimulate specific systems in the body. Vasant Lad will demonstrate augmenting this intelligence through the use of different preparations and carriers (anupanas)

Note: the first installment of this series, Ayurvedic Herbology with Special Reference to Specific Pathology, was taught May 4-6, 2012, covering rasa, prana, anna, and udaka vaha srotas. Recordings of this seminar are available for purchase through our office at 505-291-9698, Ext. 0.

Pricing
$306 Members, seniors, graduates
$340 Standard enrollment

To register, call our office at (505) 291-9698 then press "0" to talk to our staff. Payment in full is due at time of enrollment.

Continuing Education Units (CEU) are approved for Yoga Alliance (12 YA credits). Certificate of Completion for 12 contact hours is provided.

Suggested reading: Textbook of Ayurveda:General Principals of Management and Treatment, Volume 3 by Vasant Lad; Ayurvedic Perspectives on Selected Pathologies, 2nd Ed by Vasant Lad;The Language of Ayurveda by Nicolai Bachman (for understanding of Sanskrit)