Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
Your
Californian
College
of
Clinical
Ayurvedic
Therapies
from
the
Buddhist -
Yogic -
Vedic
Tradition
Home Page -
www.Ayurveda-California.com
Visit our future site:
www.Ayurveda-Institute.org
2210 McKinley Avenue, Unit 4 (1 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley BART 1 block west of Martin Luther King, between Allston and Bancroft across from Bank of America Public Parking Lot - Click
here for directions), Berkeley, California, 94703
USA
(1) 510-292-6696
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Please CALL US,
no e-mail available
(Namo AT Shurangama.com).
"Om Namo Aryavalokiteshvaraya Bodhisattvaya Mahasattvaya Maha Karunikaya Om Sarva Abhaya!"
About the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and the Medicine Buddha Healing Center
(Click here to listen to the audio of this page)
The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute offers a coherent professional educational program for Ayurvedic herbalists and Ayurvedic practitioners; an opportunity with which to learn and integrate information and clinical perceptions in less time than if one tried to do it alone; a schooling that gives a base skeleton of knowledge to be expanded and fleshed-out with time and your own clinical experience.
The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute offers a small class size with day, evening or weekend classes in the San Francisco Bay Area (held at both the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery [unaffiliated] and the Medicine Buddha Healing Center) and Las Vegas, Nevada (held at the Las Vegas Institute of Ayurveda) incorporating hands-on, supervised clinical case studies (supervised by Dr. Bill Celentano, Ven. Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur and others) with in-depth academic coursework based on the ancient Ayurvedic classic texts and the clinical work of modern day Ayurvedic Physicians such as Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. P.H. Kulkarni, Dr. Partap Chauhan, Dr. Bhagvan Dash, Dr. T.L. Devaraj, and Dr. V.M. Gogte.
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Our comprehensive interactive and personalized curriculum uses audio-video lectures, PowerPoint slides, excellent in-depth textbooks, supplemental reading and herb sample packets. Distance Learning is available by mail via CD-ROM, or over the Internet via streaming audio-video.
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It is the vision of the founders of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute to offer California and Nevada’s most complete program of in-person classroom-based instructor-led Ayurvedic study while providing the Planet’s most comprehensive multimedia-based audio-video Ayurvedic Herbology distance learning program.
One of the most common questions that the American Herbalist Guild (AmericanHerbalistsGuild.com) receives are "How do I train to be an herbalist?" and "How do I recognize a well-trained and competent herbalist?" In reply to these questions, as well in response to the growing popularity of herbal medicine and the need to maintain and promote the craft of herbalism in the United States, the Guild has established a core 1600 hour curriculum to serve as a common guideline applicable to herbal schools throughout the U.S. The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute fully supports and subscribes to these guidelines of the Guild. The aim of both the Guild and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is to honor, preserve, and encourage the many diverse traditions of herbal medicine, with the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute focusing primarily on the ancient wisdom of the Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic tradition while providing a basic clinical appreciation for both Western and Chinese herbs as well.
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The curriculum of all four of our diploma programs includes Basic Human Sciences – Western and Ayurvedic; Assessment and Management of Health and Disease; Pancha Karma Massage and other Ayurvedic Therapies; Botany and Plant Identification; Indian-Tibetan-Chinese-Western Materia Medica from Ayurvedic perspective, Therapeutic Herbalism; Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy and Dispensing; Clinical Skills; Career Preparation, Practice Development, Ethics; History and Philosophy; Introduction to Research; Supervised Clinical Case Studies. Graduates of the Institute can be ordained by the Medicine Buddha Healing Center as a Pastoral Counselor providing First Amendment Constitutional Protection to practice Ayurveda as their spiritual discipline, sacred duty and avocation.
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Non-Profit Organization of
the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute:
The Medicine Buddha Healing Center® and its Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute® was
founded by several senior students of Dr. Vasant Lad in July 4, 2000 in
Albuquerque, New Mexico and Berkeley, California, as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3)
religious, non- profit association (a Buddhist Church also legally referred to a
the Medicine Buddha Healing Center). Now located in Berkeley, California, the
Articles of Association
and By-Laws are open to inspection by any interested person by visiting our
web site
www.Ayurveda-California.com. The Center and Institute are governed by a
Board of Directors and association officers, whose directives are carried out by
Center and Institute staff, volunteers, faculty, students and members.
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Our Mission:
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Our aim is to immerse the student in the principles and practices of Ayurveda
that, when integrated into one's lifestyle, bring peace and harmony to the body,
mind and spirit. The traditional Buddhist-Vedic-Yogic teaching style utilized is
founded on self-awareness and growth through daily spirituality. The Ayurveda
Healing Arts Institute is dedicated to creating a nurturing fun environment in
which our students can discover the freedom to learn and make choices that
encourage self healing and bring one into balance with the universe in which she
or he lives. The goal being to create grounded compassionate and skillful
healers committed to relieving the suffering of all living beings, from the
individual, to the family, the community, the nation, the Planet, even to the
entire Universe (the Dharma Realm).
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Before us lie uncharted worlds of opportunity for healing individuals, the
community, the nation and the planet. As a premiere learning enterprise, the
Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute must be the bridge between old and new, between
East and West, that provides open access to intellectual challenge,
self-discovery, and fulfillment of dreams. Students pursue their quests for
lifelong learning through high quality, affordable education (by donation only).
Students benefit from a caring approach to teaching and learning that provides
personal attention and encourages individual growth. Through their education at
the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute, students are empowered with leading-edge
knowledge and skills for their healing journeys into tomorrow.
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The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute was established to carry out its non-profit purpose as stated in the notarized founding Articles of Association and Organization of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center. These can be summarized as:
1. To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to the society at large and to educate all people in the techniques of spiritual life and to “be” peace in the world.
2. To provide religious and educational training in Ayurvedic-Buddhist-Yogic-Vedic culture for its members and society at large, and to grant Buddhist Ayurveda religious degrees (with optional ordination ceremonies) for completion of training and merit to qualified Pastoral Counselors (Ministers).
3. To promote religious tolerance -- the right of people to hold religious beliefs that are strange to us, without hindrance, or oppression. To this end, the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute supports the Creed of the United Religions Initiative (www.URI.org):
"The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings."
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See the Bodhisattva Way - click here to listen to a lecture on "Path of the Bodhisattva".
See the Buddhist - Yogic Precepts - click here to listen to a lecture on "Ten Good Deeds of the Bodhisattva".
See the Code of Ethics for the School - click here to listen to a lecture on "Karma".
See the Code of Ethics for Ayurvedic Practitioners - click here to listen to a lecture on the concept of "Outflows".
See the Buddhist Ayurvedic Five Precepts Sacrament - click here to listen to a lecture on "Path of Following Precepts".
See the Seven Guidelines for Recognizing True Teachers - click here to listen to a lecture on "What is a Bodhisattva?"
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The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center offers the following four comprehensive Ayurvedic Diploma Certificate Programs:
| Mastery Level | Diploma Certificate Program | Program Hours | Trimester Unit Credits | Tuition Donation |
| Level I |
Clinical Ayurveda
Therapist (C.A.T.) Distance Learning Diploma Includes 10 CD-ROMs and Michael Dick's 5th Edition of the Ayurvedic Herbology Handbook |
225 audio/video class hours | 15 units |
$3350 Donation for Distance Learning |
| Level I |
Clinical Ayurveda
Therapist (C.A.T.) In-Person Classroom-based Diploma Includes unlimited weekly clinical apprenticeship with Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, M.S. Buddhist Ayurveda and all weekly classes and monthly seminars in Berkeley, California. Also includes 10 CD-ROMs for use as homework study and printed version of Michael Dick's 5th Edition of the Ayurvedic Herbology Handbook |
225
in-person classroom hours |
15 units |
$4100 Donation for Berkeley Classes |
| Level II |
Clinical Ayurvedic
Herbalist (C.A.H.) Distance Learning Diploma |
750
audio/video class hours |
50 units |
$8990 Donation for Distance Learning |
| Level II |
Clinical Ayurvedic
Herbalist (C.A.H.) In-Person Classroom-based Diploma |
750
in-person classroom hours |
50 units |
$11108 Donation for Berkeley Classes |
| Level III |
Clinical Ayurvedic
Herbalist Specialist (C.A.H.S.) Diploma and Associate of Applied Ayurvedic Science Degree (A.A.A.S.) |
1,200
audio/video class hours |
80 units |
$12962 Donation for Distance Learning |
| Level IV |
Master Ayurvedic
Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma and Bachelor of Buddhist Ayurveda: B.S. Buddhist Ayurveda Degree. "Buddhist Healing Ayurveda" |
1,800 audio/video class hours |
120 units |
$16482 Donation for Distance Learning |
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Full Course Details for All Four Ayurvedic Certificate Programs (click here to download detailed Excel spreadsheet)
2006-2007 Class Schedule in Excel format (click here for full schedule)
Remember, no student is EVER turned away due to lack of funds. So, if you cannot afford the initial $3350, please sign up for the course by making the donation that is within your budget. ($108 is the minimum suggested donation unless you have been indigent for some time.)
NOTE: The suggested Tuition Donation above includes a combination of refundable Tuition donation (based on the per trimester unit rate) and the
non-refundable $108 application and registration fee donation ($54 each respectively). For more details on our refund policies, click here. For more info on our Application - Registration Fees and Exam Fees, click here.For our In-Person Class Tuition details and information on the cost per trimester unit (per 15 hours of learning), click here.
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Om Namo Amitabha Vipashina Ratnasambhava Amoghasiddhi Buddha! Om Namo Bhaisajya Guru Buddha! Om Namo Avalokiteshvara Great Compassion Bodhisattva! Om Namo Ganesha! Om Jai Hanuman! We bow to and offer sincere thanks and dedication to our teachers, the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, the Venerable Ayurvedic Sage Doctor Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S. and the Clown Bodhisattva Patch Adams, M.D. and the great Nobel Peace Prize-winning doctor Albert Schweitzer.
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to the public domain (without
copyright)
in service to all living beings by the Medicine Buddha Healing Center who
Dedicates the Merit to
the Dharma Realm.
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All Rights Reserved without Prejudice
Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 educational
project of
the Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry and its Center and Temple
We are a Buddhist Ayurveda church school,
as
proven by our duly and ceremonially notarized founding Articles of
Association and Organization
and are hence not under any government
jurisdiction whatsoever.
"The religious Association (Church), that is to say the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple is in no way under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the California State Medical Board, or the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education, or any other government organization, agency, or agent (federal, state or local). Any attempt by any government or private agent or agency to regulate our above described religious educational practices and spiritual practices is in violation of our now declared First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional rights. Notice is hereby given to any person(s) who, acting under the color of the law, intentionally interferes with the free exercise of the rights retained by our Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple and its Pastoral Counselors, faculty, students, congregation, and members under the First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendments, as enumerated in these Articles of Association and Organization and in our Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.14) and Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.15), that they may be in violation of the Pastoral Counselor’s civil and constitutional rights, Title 42, U.S.C. 1983 et seq. and Title 18, Section 241. We hereby declare, all rights reserved without prejudice."
Last updated: March 16, 2008