Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center

Our most advanced certification program, the Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma, is geared toward medical professionals; medical doctors, Doctors of Oriental Medicine (D.O.M.), acupuncturists, Doctors of Osteopathy (D.O.), chiropractors, psychiatrists, naturopaths, pharmacists, massage therapists, and specialists in homeopathy, Bach remedies, nurses, etc. who are interested in the ancient Buddhist-Yogic-Vedic science of Ayurveda, and who wish to add this time-tested modality to their practice. 

The Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma, has the following educational objectives:

·       Graduates will understand and demonstrate the importance of acting ethically in their personal and professional lives.

·      Graduates will demonstrate an understanding of the etiology of disease from a deeper traditional Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic, a Buddhist perspective, a basic Tibetan Medicine perspective, a basic Chinese Medicine perspective, and also from a very basic biomedical perspective and apply this understanding by recommending appropriate disease prevention and Ayurvedic therapeutic strategies.

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·      Graduates will be able to evaluate clients' exhibiting complaints commonly seen and treated by Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine (TAM) in a manner, which indicates cognizance of all relevant Ayurvedic diagnostic paradigms.

·      Graduates will realize the importance of working in partnership with licensed primary care providers (such as Licensed Acupuncturists and Oriental Medicine and Western Medical Doctors) and will be trained to recognize some basic signs and symptoms and diseases indicating referral to appropriate complementary health care providers.

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·      Graduates will be able to formulate Ayurvedic treatment principles for clients that follow logically from the Ayurvedic doshic diagnosis and in a manner that prioritizes Ayurvedic therapeutic procedures.

·      Graduates will be able to formulate Ayurvedic herbal therapies (choosing from more than 300 commonly available East Indian, Chinese and Western herbs), dietary and nutritional therapies (from an integrated Ayurvedic, Tibetan Medicine, Chinese Medicine, and Western nutritional perspective), lifestyle and daily routine recommendations, exercise therapies (Yoga, Tai Qi or western methods according to the doshic condition), meditation, breath therapy (pranayama), massage, marma point acupressure, Pancha Karma cleansing and rejuvenation therapies, chromotherapy (color healing), aromatherapy (essential oils), sound therapy (mantras and chants) and any supplemental Ayurvedic therapeutic plans and be able to provide a logical Ayurvedic rationale for such plans based on the time-tested principles of Ayurveda.

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·       Graduates will be able to indicate, as part of the Ayurvedic therapeutic plan, the number of consultation sessions required or recommended and the appropriate consultation intervals, while being able to provide a logical Ayurvedic rationale for such plans.

·       Graduates will be able to administer personally, or by the use of appropriate support personnel, the designated Ayurvedic therapeutic plan.

·       Graduates will demonstrate basic knowledge and appreciation of the importance of clinical sciences from a traditional Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic and biomedical perspective.

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·       Graduates will be able to communicate in a professional and knowledgeable manner about Indo-Tibetan Ayurvedic medicine and the basics of biomedicine with relevant health care professionals.

·       Graduates will demonstrate an understanding of the legal environment for the practice of Ayurvedic medicine in California.

·      Graduates will show a comprehension of the English translations of the classic Sanskrit sutra texts and of the original Sanskrit of more than 15 Sanskrit verses (slokas) of Yoga, Buddhism, Ayurveda, and Tibetan Medicine

·      Graduates will demonstrate good knowledge of, memorization of and deep appreciation of the importance of certain healing mantras from the traditional Indo-Tibetan Buddhist-Vedic-Yogic Ayurveda.
 

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Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma Certification is based on the Educational Guidelines for Professional Herbalists of the American Herbalist Guild (AHG).  Hence, the Master Ayurvedic Herbalist (M.A.H.) Diploma Program’s total curriculum of 1,800 hours (108 trimester unit credits) includes 1200 didactic hours (80 trimester unit credits of study of Ayurvedic theory) and 420 practice hours (28 trimester unit credits of clinical hours) spent in observation, hands-on experience, and actual Ayurvedic treatment.

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[Apprenticeship Auditing of Daily Ayurvedic Herbal Health Consultations at the Medicine Buddha Healing Center
Master Herbalist Losang Jinpa,  D.Ayur, M.A.H. offers enrolled students of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute the ability to "audit" as many Ayurvedic consultations at the Medicine Buddha Healing Center as possible in their schedule.  These apprenticeship sessions count for "clinical requirements" of the American Herbalist Guild Mentoring Program and Master Herbalist.  For each apprenticeship consultation audit you attend, it is suggested to make a sliding scale donation offering to the Center of roughly the same price you would pay for a typical Yoga Class (around $8 to $15).  Medicine Buddha Healing Center consultations typically last from 1 to 2 hours per client and are by donation only -- in other words, Medicine Buddha Healing Center and Losang never charge the client money but instead the client voluntarily makes an offering (dana in Sanskrit) to the Medicine Master Buddha or to Ganesh.  Losang's Medicine Buddha Healing Center consultations are during the hours of 10 AM to 6 PM (sometimes from 6 PM to 8 PM) throughout the week and on also Saturdays.  Please R.S.V.P. over the phone (510-292-6696) with Losang BEFORE coming to a client consultation.  If a client decides at the last minute not to have a student apprentice auditor present during the Ayurveda consultation, then the student may not attend and will be required to leave.  The student can however go to study temporarily at the nearby library until the next client arrives.  Unlike the 10 minute free Elephant consultations which are purely for herbal remedies, Losang's Medicine Buddha Healing Center consultations cover the gamut of Ayurvedic assessment methods (8 methods - pulse, tongue, listening, asking, looking, form, eyes, digestion, waste products [urine, B.M., sweat, nails, mucous, hair]) and Ayurvedic therapies (chikitsa).  These classical and modern Ayurvedic healing arts include customized Ayurvedic herbal formulas, to healthy diet and nutritional recommendations, "neutraceuticals" and vitamins, lifestyle, meditation, massage therapy, acupressure (marma chikitsa therapy), foot-hand-ear reflexology pancha karma purification / cleansing massage therapy, Chinese tui na, Tibetan massage, or other massage, moxabustion (herbal incense therapy), cupping, gwa sha (gentle back scraping), skin care and facial treatments, Chinese herbology, Western herbology, energy work, Indian Vedic Jyotish or Chinese astrology, Ayurvedic vastu shastra (feng shui), counseling, aroma therapy, sound therapy (mantra), Ayurvedic color therapy (chromotherapy), etc. Medicine Buddha Healing Center is located at 2427 McKinley, Suite 1 (between Channing and Dwight 1 block west of Martin Luther King - Click here for directions.

[Apprenticeship Auditing of Weekly Sunday Ayurvedic Herbal Consultations at the Elephant Pharmacy
Students should also sit in on all of Losang's free 10 minute Ayurvedic consultations at the Elephant Pharmacy each Sunday from 3 PM to 7 PM.  Elephant is located at 1607 Shattuck Ave (at Cedar), North Berkeley 94709 (click here for directions).  Please CALL US to R.S.V.P., no e-mail available. At Elephant Losang will typically see from 10 to 20 clients in a four hour period for customized herbal remedies only.  Elephant herbal consultations typically last from 10 to 15 minutes per client and are free-of-charge.