Become an Ayurvedic Practitioner or Educator
Next classes begin September 2010, meeting one weekend per month for 10 months
Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (CAP) is Kanyakumari’s designation for our 2-year plus Internship (650 hour) Clinical Ayurveda training program, meeting the highest national standards in the U.S. set by the National Ayurveda Medical Association (NAMA) and nation-wide standards among the leading Ayurveda schools and colleges. Certification as a CAP allows graduates to begin a private practice, join an established multi-disciplinary holistic health center, teach, counsel and assist the public in integrating Ayurveda into their health management and lifestyle. Practitioners with this certification have the highest level of training recognized in the U.S. and currently are able to practice entirely in private practice.
Our Year One program consists of 300 credit hours and focuses on the philosophy and fundamental principles of Ayurveda. Successful completion of the Year One program certifies graduates as Certified Ayurveda Educators (CAE), allowing graduates to provide public education regarding the basic tenets of Ayurveda, and assisting individuals in integrating an Ayurvedic lifestyle. CAE’s provide only education, but refer clients to a Certified Practitioner for panchakarma, herbal recommendations, comprehensive examination and healthcare analysis, etc. Students may opt to stop at this level of certification, or may go on to our Year Two plus Internship program to become certified practitioners.
Our Year Two plus Internship follows graduation from the CAE level training and consists of 350 credit hours combined (at least 50 credit hours of actual supervised internship training). This level of training results in the CAP certification discussed above as a full Practitioner. Year Two is designed to teach future practitioners clinical concepts of Ayurveda as it applies to particular bodily systems and particular manifestations usually referred to as “disease”. During Level II training, practitioners are fully trained in taking complete Ayurvedic intake examinations, pulse and tongue diagnosis, making appropriate herbal recommendations according to the person’s condition, the qualities of the herbs suggested, and knowledge of any symptoms and body systems involved. Practitioners are trained to confidently provide a Summary of Findings to clients during a follow up visit and follow patients independently as a Practitioner upon graduation. Completion of a college-level Anatomy & Physiology course is a prerequisite for graduation as a CAP.
The Internship portion of the CAP training program involves bringing your own clients (a minimum of 10 new patients and at least 25 follow-up visits) for evaluation and specific recommendations and ongoing monitoring from an Ayurvedic perspective. Considerable time is also spent in group settings with other interns to discuss case management and make presentations to fully equip graduates as instructors of all material covered during their training program. The internship portion of the training program is very flexible in scheduling hours. In some cases, students may be approved for field internship programs under the supervision of other certified practitioners and instructors in other geographical areas. The internship also includes panchakarma instruction to give students advanced experience in herbal preparations, tonification and reduction therapies and panchakarma modalities.
Ayurvedic Course Outlines and Dates
