Ayurveda has been writing itself down for over two thousand years, so the reading list is not short. The good news is that a handful of modern books, most of them written between the 1980s and today by a small circle of teachers, will take you from complete beginner...
Three job titles circulate in Ayurveda: lifestyle coach, health counselor, practitioner. They get used so loosely that people routinely train for the wrong one. The differences are real, though. They are written into the field’s US training standards, and they...
Ayurvedic practitioner means two things at once, which is why the path to becoming one confuses people. Loosely, it means anyone who works with clients using Ayurveda. Precisely, it is the middle of three professional levels defined by the field’s US standards...
Two questions sit underneath almost every enquiry we get about training: what will certification actually cost me, and what could I realistically earn afterwards? Schools answer the first in detail, sometimes only once you email them, and tend to go quiet on the...
If you have started looking into ayurveda certification, you have probably noticed something odd. One school offers a certificate after a weekend workshop, another asks for three years and the price of a small car, and both call the result “certification”....
A lot of people come to Ayurveda from the same place. Their energy is up and down, their sleep is patchy, their digestion is unpredictable, and every test still comes back normal. Modern medicine is very good in a crisis. It has much less to say about the in-between...
