This immersive course is a deep dive into the first and primary pillar of nutrition, it’s from here with a strong base that we are able to invest in the other 6 Pillars.

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You love cooking and working with food - and now want to learn about the Ayurvedic approach to nutrition so that you can bring these insights into your own kitchen, so that you can promote diets in your home that support better health and wellbeing for all members of your household.

You are a nutritionist, dietician, or chef/cook wanting to augment your knowledge by exploring the Ayurvedic approach to cooking and nutrition - with insights, practices, and recipes that you can bring into your practice for the benefit of your clients and patients.

Are an Ayurvedic practitioner or student of Ayurveda wanting to review the basics of nutrition while obtaining simple tools and recipes to assist your clients with their common digestive concerns and simple suggestions on how to each for Doshas and the seasons.

Ahara - a time tested approach to nutrition and digestion

In Sanskrit, Ahara means nutrition. The ancient Ayurvedic texts state that the right food for an individual is wholesome and digestible, not too much or too little, consumed at the right time with enough time in between meals, in the right season and consumed with awareness.

Eating ourselves well

Ayurveda places a huge emphasis on the connection between diet and wellbeing - for more than 5000 years, people have been using the healing system of Ayurveda to understand that we are not only what we eat, but what we are able to digest. As students and practitioners we can learn and practice certain principles in order to better nourish ourselves and in so doing provide ourselves with what we need to heal and live into the best expression of ourselves.

The foundational Pillar

Ayurveda provides a tried and tested holistic system that can help us to deeply understand ourselves and the world around us. This awareness of the principles of nutrition is vital to all aspects of health and wellness. As the foundational pillar, it supports and sets the tone for the health of the body’s cleansing, movement and sleep functions as well as the higher realms of connectedness, inspiration and bliss.

Personal Eating

One of the most elegant aspects of the ancient healing and wellness system of Ayurveda is the incredible devotion to the individual. This immersive and practical course will offer insights into your particular constitution (prakruti) with simple recipes and ingredient suggestions that support you in eating for your doshas and living into the season of the year - this allows us to use our meals to help us rediscover balance and live into our optimal self.

Small adaptations with big results

Don’t worry, we aren’t going to ask you to empty your pantry and teach you a whole new system of cooking, but rather offer basic insights that can translate into simple additions and adaptations to your meals! Whether you eat a Mediterranean diet, or are going keto, this course will give you beneficial knowledge on how to adapt meals to work better for your body.

Good food is good medicine

Good food and nutrition are integral to our body’s natural healing processes and provide daily opportunities for self-care. This is why we intuitively choose to help our bodies get healthy by changing our diet - and often it’s our cravings that seem to undo us in these endeavors. This course will lend understanding to the craving process within our bodies so that you can, over time, come to eat in a way that allows you to enjoy your food, find nourishment, and present as your best self in the world!

Dean of Education, Ayurvedic Instittue

Sneha Raichada, MPT, CAP, E-RYT-200

Prior to becoming the Dean of Education at the Ayurvedic Institute, Sneha had a remarkable journey as an executive of a thriving hospitality business. Luckily for us, Sneha now focuses all her energy on developing the next generation of Ayurvedic Practitioners and providing thoughtful care for her clients. While practicing as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Sneha combines her early experience as a Physical Therapist with extensive classroom and clinical study under Vasant Lad in the US and India, Yoga Teacher Certification, and Reiki III Certification. When she has a free moment, Sneha is most often found experimenting with fresh ingredients, applying the deep wisdom of Ayurveda to all her delectable creations.