Explore the Living Ayurveda Curriculum

Ayurveda is not linear, and neither is our Curriculum.  Begin where you are called.  Go as deep as you need.  This program was designed to be experienced, not consumed.  This is not an online course, it is a living library of teachings, designed to take you on a journey of discovery.  What awaits inside is not a course.  It is a living, breathing library of Ayurvedic wisdom that you walk in community.  The journey begins the moment you enter, and lasts a lifetime.
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01
Integrative Medicine
Āyurveda & Western Science
Health Coaching & Functional Medicine
What happens when 5,000-year-old wisdom meets modern diagnostic tools? You get a clinical framework that can read a person no other system of medicine can. This module shows you how to use both — and why together they are unstoppable.
Dr. Sheila Patel, MD Chopra Center Faculty
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02
Clinical Therapy
Chikitsā — The Art of Healing
Fundamentals of Āyurvedic Treatment
Every healing tradition has a signature move. Āyurveda's is this: it addresses the root, not the symptom. This module gives you the full therapeutic toolkit — the protocols that restore balance at the source of disease, not its surface.
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS International Specialist
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03
Nutritional Medicine
Āhāra Chikitsā — Food as Medicine
Nutritional Therapy
There is no universal diet. There is only yours. This module dismantles everything you thought you knew about nutrition and rebuilds it from the ground up — with a system so precise it can tell you exactly what to eat in autumn versus spring, in grief versus joy.
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS International Specialist
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04
Botanical Medicine
Dravyaguṇa — The Intelligence of Plants
Āyurvedic Herbalism
KP Khalsa has spent 45 years with these plants. He doesn't teach you a list. He teaches you to listen. After this module, you will never look at a herb on a shelf the same way — because you will understand what it is actually trying to do.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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05
Dermatology & Skin
Āyurvedic Dermatology
Āyurveda for Skin Care
Skin is not a surface — it is a mirror. Every breakout, every patch of dryness, every inflammatory flare is your constitution speaking. This module teaches you to read it, and to respond with the precision of a medicine that has been doing this for five thousand years.
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS Published Researcher
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06
Vedic Science
Jyotiṣa — Light of the Stars
Vedic Astrology
The sky is not separate from the body. Āyurveda has always known that celestial rhythms shape constitutional health. Dr. Scott Roos — who studied Sanskrit at UC Berkeley under Dr. Vasant Lad — makes this ancient clinical tool completely accessible and genuinely extraordinary.
Dr. Scott Roos, Ed.D Sanskrit & Jyotiṣa Scholar
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07
Āyurvedic Psychology
Bhūtavidyā — The Science of the Inner Life
Āyurveda for Mental Health
Long before Western psychology named its concepts, Āyurveda had a complete science of the mind. This module changes how you understand every client you will ever sit with.
Gia Lisa Krahne Āyurvedic Psychology
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08
Daily Rhythm & Lifestyle
Vihāra — The Medicine of How You Live
Foundations of Āyurvedic Lifestyle
The most powerful prescription in Āyurveda is often not an herb. It is a change in daily rhythm. This module shows you how the architecture of a day can be the most precise therapeutic tool you have.
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS International Specialist
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09
Subtle Body Anatomy
Pañcamaya Koṣaḥ — Beyond the Physical
Subtle Body Anatomy
You have five bodies. Western medicine knows one of them. This module maps the rest with the clinical precision of a system that has worked with these layers for millennia. Once you can see them, you cannot unsee them.
Marek Sawicki, AP Student of Dr. Vasant Lad
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10
Birth & Postpartum
Sacred Window — The 42 Days
Postpartum Care with Āyurveda
The 42 days after birth are not recovery. They are formation. Christine Devlin Eck has devoted her career to restoring this tradition — and this module is unlike anything taught anywhere else.
Christine Devlin Eck Sacred Window Center
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11
Women's Health
Strī Svāsthya — A Woman's Nature
Āyurveda for Women's Health
Hormones are not a mystery. They are a conversation between a woman's constitution and the world she lives in. Dr. Resmi gives you the most complete clinical picture of women's health you will find anywhere outside India.
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS Published Researcher
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12
Pediatric Āyurveda
Kaumārabhṛtya — Tending New Life
Āyurveda for Children's Health
Children are not small adults. Their constitutions, digestive fire, and immune responses are entirely different — and Āyurveda has a complete clinical science for each stage of development.
Dr. Pratibha Shah, BAMS International Specialist
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13
Advanced Herbalism
Advanced Dravyaguṇa
Therapeutic Wisdom of Āyurvedic Plants
You learned to listen to plants in Level 1. Now you learn to use them with clinical precision — formulation, combination, contraindication, and the art of matching a plant to a person at the exact right moment.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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14
Clinical Recovery
Śalya Tantra — The Art of Removal
Wound Care & Recovery
Āyurveda has a complete protocol for injury, toxin accumulation, and post-operative recovery — built over 5,000 years of clinical observation. One of the most practically useful modules in the curriculum for the practitioner who works with real bodies.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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15
Therapeutic Bodywork
Pūrva & Pacat Karma
Preparatory & Cleansing Therapies
Before you can deeply cleanse, you prepare. After you cleanse, you rebuild. Corinna Maharani — 30 years of Āyurvedic bodywork — teaches the protocols that ready the body and consolidate its healing.
Corinna Maharani, AP 30 Years Āyurvedic Bodywork
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16
Detoxification Science
Pañcakarma — The Five Actions
Science of Āyurvedic Detoxification
Pañcakarma is not a spa treatment. It is a complete clinical system for eliminating deep-seated toxins that no other modality can reach. Dr. Resmi's framework gives you the complete picture — what is happening at the cellular level, and why it works.
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS Published Researcher
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17
Clinical Pathology
Vikṛti Vijñāna — Reading Imbalance
Structural & Reproductive Pathology
The musculoskeletal system. The reproductive system. Two of the most common areas your clients will bring to you — and two areas where Āyurveda has clinical precision that Western medicine often lacks.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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Disease Mapping
Ṣaḍkriyākāla — Six Stages of Disease
Mapping Disease Through Āyurveda
Disease does not arrive suddenly. It moves through six stages — and Āyurveda can identify each one before symptoms appear. One of the most powerful diagnostic tools in existence.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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Systems Pathology
Vikṛti Vijñāna — Three Systems
Digestive, Respiratory & Cardiovascular Pathology
Three systems. Thousands of disease presentations. One elegant framework for understanding all of them. This is where clinical confidence is built.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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20
Spiritual Health
Adhyātma Svāsthya — The Inner Dimension
Yoga for Spiritual Wellbeing
Health is not only physical. Āyurveda has always understood that the spiritual dimension shapes the body — and that some suffering cannot be addressed without addressing the soul.
Burkhard Langemann, MA Akasha Yoga Academy
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21
Clinical Ethics
Vaidya Dharma — The Sacred Duty
Standards & Ethics
This medicine has been trusted for five thousand years because the people who carried it were held to a standard. This module defines what it means to practice with integrity — as a commitment to the sacred relationship between practitioner and patient.
KP Khalsa, AD 45 Years Clinical Practice
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22
Sacred Architecture
Vāstu Śāstra — Space as Medicine
Vedic Architecture & Sacred Space
Your environment is not neutral. Where you sleep, how the light enters, which direction your desk faces — Āyurveda has a complete science for the relationship between space and health.
Gia Lisa Krahne Sacred Space & Design
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23
Rejuvenation & Tonification
Bṛṁhaṇa & Rasāyana — Rebuilding Life
Nourishment, Strength & Vitality
After illness. After depletion. After years of giving more than you received. Āyurveda has a complete protocol for rebuilding — Rasāyana, the science of rejuvenation, which goes far beyond nutrition into the regeneration of Ojas itself.
Dr. Resmi V. Rajagopal, BAMS Published Researcher
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Clinical Internship
Preceptor Training
Clinical Hours with a Named Preceptor
Everything before this was preparation. This is the formation itself. One practitioner. One student. Your cases — read, questioned, and shaped by someone who has given their life to this medicine.
IAM Preceptors Named · Dedicated · Yours
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