Are you an Ayurvedic practitioner wanting to deepen your expertise in a more meaningful and community-centered setting?

Or simply someone wanting to learn about Ayurveda for your own enrchment?

When you sign up for one of our classes, you will have a chance to:

  • Sit at the feet of Alakananda Ma, one of the country’s foremost experts in Ayurveda with over 35 years of experience

  • Be exposed to a unique style of learning within a traditional teacher-student context

  • Have the consistency and follow through to truly develop your understanding and application of the content

  • Learn how to bridge the gap between Ayurveda and Western Medicine so you can offer a truly holistic and well-rounded path of support

  • Experience depth and devotion that’s often missing from other classes

  • Blend theory and practice so it’s not just a regurgitation of a textbook but an adaptable process unique to the person you’re serving

Spring/Summer Classes

Panchakarma Therapies Intensive – 4-Day Hands-On Training with Prema Shakti, AD, LMT

Wednesday, May 20 – Saturday, May 23 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (1-hour lunch break)
Cost: $595—sign up by April 30 and get $50 discount.

 Join us for an immersive 4-day training focused on the foundational body therapies traditionally used during Panchakarma. Designed for Ayurvedic professionals, massage therapists, and bodyworkers, this course emphasizes hands-on learning so you can confidently integrate these powerful treatments into your practice.

 Participants will both give and receive therapies, gaining practical experience while learning the benefits, indications, and contraindications for each treatment.

Therapies Covered

• Abhyanga (2-handed and 4-handed Ayurvedic oil massage)
• Svedana (herbal steam therapy)
• Shirodhara (continuous oil stream over the forehead)
• Nasya (nasal therapy)
• Netra Basti (ghee eye therapy)

With integrated lecture and a strong focus on practical application, this training offers the opportunity to develop skill, confidence, and therapeutic sensitivity in a supportive learning environment.

Plant Walk at Chautauqua with Alakananda Ma

Wednesday June 10th 9-11:30

Cost: $45

Learn how to identify common plant families and discover their herbal uses as we walk together in beautiful Chautauqua.

Fall Semester Classes

Nadi Pariksha (Pulse Diagnosis and Therapeutics) with Alakananda Ma – 3credits

Wednesdays 10 am - 1 pm starting August 19th

Suitable for all levels; beginners welcome. Take just the fall semester or continue in spring semester for to learn the full science of the pulse.

Alakananda Ma has been teaching and refining her pulse course, a favourite among her students, since 1998. As well as training students in the pulse reading methodology she learned from Dr Lad, Ma also offers her unique compilation of treatment strategies for each aspect of the pulse. Thus the class is extremely practical and of great benefit for Ayurvedic professionals as well as those who want to learn how to support their own heath and that of their family.

Cost: $800

Case based studies in Women’s Health with Alakananda Ma – 3credits

Wednedsdays 2:15-5pm starting August 19th

Suitable for all levels. Prerequisite—Fundamentals of Ayurveda or instructor’s permission.

This is a problem based, student directed approach designed to provide participants with the tools needed to garner and evaluate knowledge and information. Working with real life cases, students, with Alakananda Ma’s guidance, will research and study Ayurvedic approaches to the diagnosis and management of gynecological problems.

Cost: $800