The Curriculum

Class Library — Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine
Curriculum

Every spice in your kitchen is someone's medicine.

Here is an overview of every practice you'll make your own.

All ClassesEvery level, at a glance
Ayurvedic Health Coach100 Hours · Foundation
Ayurvedic Health Counsellor600 Hours
Ayurvedic Practitioner1500 Hours
What's the Difference?

All Classes

Every class from every level, in one place. There are three levels — Ayurvedic Health Coach (100 hours), Ayurvedic Health Counsellor (600 hours), and Ayurvedic Practitioner (1500 hours) — each building toward deeper clinical training. Use the tabs above to see what each level actually includes.

Āyurveda is not a licensed medical profession in most regions. These levels describe what your education prepares you to offer — not a legal scope of practice. Always check your local regulations.

All Classes27 classes · Every level
Sister Science: Beyond AsanaYoga & Lifestyle
Sister Science: Beyond Asana

Explore holistic approaches to balance mind, body, and spirit, developing foundational skills for incorporating Āyurvedic wisdom and yoga into everyday life and professional practice.

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Ayurvedic NutritionNutrition
Ayurvedic Nutrition

An in-depth introduction to Āyurvedic dietary principles, exploring food as a tool for balance and healing. Learn to make individualized recommendations based on body type, seasonal needs, and digestive health.

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Foundations of Ayurvedic Yoga TherapyYoga Therapy
Foundations of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy

Dive deeper into therapeutic yoga techniques and Āyurveda's healing practices. Perfect for those looking to integrate advanced Āyurvedic principles with therapeutic yoga, preparing them for impactful work in holistic health and wellness fields.

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Foundations of PranayamaBreathwork
Foundations of Pranayama

Equips participants with foundational skills to integrate pranayama into personal wellness routines and professional settings.

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Foundations of Yoga NidraYoga Nidra
Foundations of Yoga Nidra

Introduces students to the transformative practice of yogic sleep.

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MeditationMeditation
Meditation

With a focus on practical techniques, this course introduces essential meditation practices for cultivating mindfulness, inner peace, and resilience.

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Yoga PhilosophyPhilosophy
Yoga Philosophy

A deep dive into the principles and wisdom underlying yoga's ancient traditions, providing a foundation for integrating its philosophy into daily life and professional practice.

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Fundamentals of Āyurvedic TreatmentClinical Therapy
Dr. Pratibha Shah
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS
International Specialist
Faculty
Fundamentals of Āyurvedic Treatment

Every tradition has its signature move. Here, you learn Āyurveda's: chase the root, every time. By the end, you're carrying a full therapeutic toolkit built for restoring balance where disease actually starts.

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Āyurvedic HerbalismBotanical Medicine
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Āyurvedic Herbalism

KP Khalsa has spent forty-five years listening to plants before he ever prescribes them. Here, he teaches you that same listening — so every herb you reach for from now on, you'll actually understand what it's doing.

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Vedic AstrologyVedic Science
Dr. Scott Roos
Dr. Scott Roos, Ed.D
Sanskrit & Jyotiṣa Scholar
Faculty
Vedic Astrology

Dr. Scott Roos studied Sanskrit at Berkeley and Jyotiṣa under Dr. Vasant Lad himself. In his hands, the sky becomes a genuine clinical instrument — and by the end of this module, it becomes one in yours too.

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Āyurveda for Mental HealthĀyurvedic Psychology
Gia Lisa Krahne
Gia Lisa Krahne
Āyurvedic Psychology
Faculty
Āyurveda for Mental Health

Long before Western psychology had a name for it, this tradition already carried a complete map of the mind. Walk through this module, and every client sitting across from you afterward will look a little different.

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Foundations of Āyurvedic LifestyleDaily Rhythm & Lifestyle
Dr. Pratibha Shah
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS
International Specialist
Faculty
Foundations of Āyurvedic Lifestyle

Sometimes the most powerful prescription is simply the order of your day. This module hands you that architecture — how to shape a single day so it becomes real medicine, for you and for whoever you're guiding.

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Subtle Body AnatomySubtle Body Anatomy
Marek Sawicki
Marek Sawicki, AP
Student of Dr. Vasant Lad
Faculty
Subtle Body Anatomy

You've always had five bodies, even if only one of them ever earned a name in a textbook. This module maps the other four with real clinical precision, and once you can see them, you carry that sight into every room you enter.

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Postpartum Care with ĀyurvedaBirth & Postpartum
Christine Devlin Eck
Christine Devlin Eck
Sacred Window Center
Faculty
Postpartum Care with Āyurveda

Christine Devlin Eck has spent her career defending one idea: the forty-two days after birth are formation as much as they are healing. This module hands you that same devotion, entirely her own, taught here like nowhere else.

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Āyurveda for Children's HealthPediatric Āyurveda
Dr. Pratibha Shah
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS
International Specialist
Faculty
Āyurveda for Children's Health

A child's digestive fire runs on its own rhythm, nothing like an adult's. This module gives you Āyurveda's complete science for every stage of that difference, so you meet a child exactly where their body actually is.

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Standards & EthicsClinical Ethics
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Standards & Ethics

This medicine has survived five thousand years because the people carrying it held themselves to something real. This module defines exactly what that standard asks of you, and what it means to honor the trust between practitioner and patient.

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Vedic Architecture & Sacred SpaceSacred Architecture
Gia Lisa Krahne
Gia Lisa Krahne
Sacred Space & Design
Faculty
Vedic Architecture & Sacred Space

Where you sleep, how the light falls, which way your desk faces — none of it is incidental. This module gives you Āyurveda's complete science of space, so your environment becomes part of your medicine.

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Case Review & Clinical ImmersionClinical Requirement
Institute Clinical Faculty
Institute Clinical Faculty
Live · Online · Yours
Faculty
Case Review & Clinical Immersion

Everything up to now has been preparation. Here, it becomes formation — live and online, wherever you happen to be in the world, with our registrar and faculty team reading your cases the way people who've given their lives to this medicine read them.

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Health Coaching & Functional MedicineIntegrative Medicine
Dr. Sheila Patel
Dr. Sheila Patel, MD
Chopra Center Faculty
Faculty
Health Coaching & Functional Medicine

Picture yourself holding two lenses at once — one ground by five thousand years of observation, the other built in a modern lab. In this module, you learn to see through both together, and a person comes into focus in a way that changes how you practice for good.

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Nutritional TherapyNutritional Medicine
Dr. Pratibha Shah
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS
International Specialist
Faculty
Nutritional Therapy

Your plate in autumn should look nothing alike your plate in spring, and grief calls for something different than joy does. In this module, you learn to read all of that in a single person, and build nutrition that belongs entirely to them.

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Āyurveda for Skin CareDermatology & Skin
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS
Published Researcher
Faculty
Āyurveda for Skin Care

Skin keeps a diary. In this module, you learn to read it — every breakout, every dry patch, every flare — and respond with the kind of precision a five-thousand-year-old medicine has had time to perfect.

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Āyurveda for Women's HealthWomen's Health
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS
Published Researcher
Faculty
Āyurveda for Women's Health

A hormone is really just a conversation between a woman's constitution and the world around her. This module teaches you to listen in on that conversation, with the most complete clinical picture of women's health you'll find outside India.

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Therapeutic Wisdom of Āyurvedic PlantsAdvanced Herbalism
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Therapeutic Wisdom of Āyurvedic Plants

You learned to listen to plants earlier in the program. Here, that listening turns into precision — formulation, combination, and the instinct for matching the right plant to the right person at exactly the right moment.

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Wound Care & RecoveryClinical Recovery
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Wound Care & Recovery

Five thousand years of watching bodies heal has produced a real protocol for injury and recovery. This module puts that protocol directly in your hands, for the actual bodies you'll be working with.

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Preparatory & Cleansing TherapiesTherapeutic Bodywork
Corinna Maharani
Corinna Maharani, AP
30 Years Āyurvedic Bodywork
Faculty
Preparatory & Cleansing Therapies

Corinna Maharani has spent thirty years learning how a body needs to be readied before it cleanses, and rebuilt afterward. This module passes that hard-won rhythm on to you.

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Science of Āyurvedic DetoxificationDetoxification Science
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS
Published Researcher
Faculty
Science of Āyurvedic Detoxification

Pañcakarma is a complete clinical system, precise down to the cellular level. Dr. Resmi walks you through exactly what's happening in the body during it, so you understand it as deeply as you perform it.

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Structural & Reproductive PathologyClinical Pathology
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Structural & Reproductive Pathology

Two systems bring more clients through your door than almost anything else: the musculoskeletal and the reproductive. This module gives you the clinical precision Āyurveda has built for both.

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Mapping Disease Through ĀyurvedaDisease Mapping
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Mapping Disease Through Āyurveda

Disease moves in six recognizable stages, long before a single symptom shows itself. This module teaches you to see each one coming, handing you one of the most powerful diagnostic tools you'll ever carry.

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Digestive, Respiratory & Cardiovascular PathologySystems Pathology
KP Khalsa
KP Khalsa, AD
45 Years Clinical Practice
Faculty
Digestive, Respiratory & Cardiovascular Pathology

Three systems, thousands of ways they can go wrong, and one elegant framework that holds all of them together. This is the module where your clinical confidence really takes shape.

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Yoga for Spiritual WellbeingSpiritual Health
Burkhard Langemann
Burkhard Langemann, MA
Akasha Yoga Academy
Faculty
Yoga for Spiritual Wellbeing

Some suffering only truly shifts when the soul gets addressed alongside the body. This module hands you the spiritual dimension of healing Āyurveda has always carried, right alongside the physical.

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Nourishment, Strength & VitalityRejuvenation & Tonification
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS
Published Researcher
Faculty
Nourishment, Strength & Vitality

After illness, after depletion, after years of giving more than you received, something has to rebuild you. Rasāyana is that protocol — this module carries you past nutrition and into the actual regeneration of Ojas.

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Meet the Faculty.

The physicians, doctors, and scholars who teach every module you just saw.