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Dive Deep into Ayurveda in Pune, India

The Ayurvedic Institute’s Gurukula Program is an opportunity for you to dive deeply into this ancient science to advance your current understanding of Ayurveda. You’ll have lecture time in class with Vasant Lad and our other experienced faculty to cover theory and develop practical skills. You’ll apply what you learn as you support Vasant Lad in his client consultations, prepare formulas, and otherwise help in running the community clinic.

Gurukula is as an intimate, immersive program hosted at the Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda in Pune, India, in collaboration with The Ayurvedic Institute. With a small cohort of students, you’ll live an Ayurvedic lifestyle in community, practicing together to live into the teachings of Ayurveda in your daily routine, diet, lifestyle, and relationships.

Join us in India for a one-of-a-kind small group, immersion training that will change your life.

This program was created with Western standards in mind. While at the Vasanta Institue of Ayurveda, your needs for living an Ayurvedic lifestyle are provided. Quality drinking water, fresh vegetarian meals, green space, and emotional and academic support are provided so you can focus all of your attention on your learning and transformation.

We will NOT be offering these programs in the Fall season of 2020 for the safety of all: students, staff and clients. We encourage you to stay safe and take care of each other. We will keep you posted as our programs come to fruition.

The Ayurvedic Institute’s Panchakarma Therapist Training is an immersive, in-depth training offered at The Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda in Pune, India. In this training, you’ll learn about panchakarma from a traditional perspective, informed by Vasant Lad’s decades of experience, adapted for the modern context. In these studies, students learn to administer the Ayurvedic therapies that are part of a panchakarma protocol. During the training, you will administer treatments to panchakarma clients, supporting them during their process, while you learn along Vasant Lad and other support faculty.

This program offers the opportunity to experience the profound effect of Ayurvedic body therapies. As students in this program you will not only administer treatments to panchakarma clients, but to one another. It is the therapies that are the true teachers of this program; it is through them that the essence of Ayurveda is able to offer its wisdom and love.

As a therapist, we hold sacred space for transformation and healing to occur.

Being of service in a healing capacity offers an enormous opportunity for self-reflection, personal healing and professional growth. The program is designed to support students in gaining competency to perform Ayurvedic body therapies for the purpose of shodhana (cleansing measures) and shamana (palliative measure), and to support and help deliver panchakarma treatment program.

Susana J-M

Gurukula Alumni

It is an enormous opportunity to dive deep within oneself and learn. It is a tremendous luxury to be taken care of in all levels so we have the time to study, observe, learn, be in class, and practice. All of our teachers have supported us so very much every single day. I am deeply and humbly grateful for this chance.

Zohreh S

Gurukula Alumni

The Gurukula Program was six weeks of pure magic. Being in the presence of a real guru like Dr. Lad teaching you life lessons is priceless. His lectures about meditation, awareness, and philosophy were my favorite topics. He would light up so brightly, filling the room with his amazing presence. I also loved every moment spent in the clinic with him. To watch Dr. Lad work closely with his patients, giving them the care and attention they each need, was educational. I learned much about myself, Ayurveda, India, healing, and humility. I’ll carry these teachings in my heart forever and hope to be able to carry the torch of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is my life’s calling, and Dr. Lad helped me see the light. I am forever grateful.

What to Expect

Live Ayurveda

Learn Ayurveda

Love Ayurveda

Join us in India for a one-of-a-kind small group, immersion training to uncover what the ancient therapies of Panchakarma have to teach you.

This program was created with Western standards in mind. While at the Vasanta Institue of Ayurveda, your needs for living an Ayurvedic lifestyle will be provided. Quality drinking water, fresh vegetarian meals, green space, and emotional and academic support are provided so you can focus all of your attention on your learning and transformation.

The Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda, East of Pune

Participants train at the new Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda. The center is about a one-hour drive from Pune, India near Uruli Kanchan. This program is offered by The Ayurvedic Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA in collaboration with The Vasanta Institute of Ayurveda, Pune, India

Training in India FAQs

I've never been to india before. Will you help me arrive to the centre?

Yes! The staff at VIOA will come pick you up from the Mumbai or Pune airports and drive you to the VIOA campus. Contact the Admissions Team for travel tips and to coordinate your arrival.

Wha is the schedule like ?

You’ll begin the day with time for your morning routine, with an optional shared practice of Ayuryoga®, pranayama (breathing practices), meditation, and/or ritual most mornings. You’ll then have breakfast, a morning class session followed by a break for lunch. In the afternoon you’ll have a class lecture, practicum, or clinic shift, ending in time for dinner. Some evenings you’ll go into the city of Pune to support Vasant Lad in his clinic there. You’ll have the weekends free. The daily schedule at VIOA varies slightly program to program.

Will i have the oppurtunity to see india while i am there?

While there, you’ll have the opportunity to go on excursions together to visit local temples, join in festivities and celebrations, enjoy the markets, etc. Aside from organized activities, you have the weekends free to rest, relax, travel, and explore.