Next section begins September 16th, 2010:
Thursdays 6:30 to 9pm
Timing and
Tuition
This course
will be held over 12 classes. RYA tuition is $400
+GST ($13.33 per contact hour.)
Click here to register online.
Distance Learning:
For students
who live beyond the GTA, and who have
completed AHECP 1, a distance learning
option is available. You'll receive your
course manual by priority mail in the week
before the course starts, and 2 days after the live section
begins, you'll be e-mailed a link to stream
that week's lecture. Distance students are
also welcome to join the online discussion forum.
During the course,
on five Sunday evenings
from 6-7pm EST, Matthew will host a
supplementary phone-in tele-class for all
distance
students. This class will feature a
20-minute review of key material from previous classes, leaving 40 minutes for Q&A,
in which either course or personal material (if
appropriate to the teaching purpose) can be
explored. This will give distance students
the feeling of being fully present.
(Please note that this call will be a toll call. RYA suggests that you use a calling card or
purchase bulk minutes.)
Dates for Distance Learning Teleclasses:
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dates 10/3,
10/17, 11/7, 11/28, 12/12
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all calls
take place on Sundays at 6pm ET
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directions
for calling in to the class are in the course
manual
Click here to register online.
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Prerequisite: AHECP #1 – Implementing
Ayurvedic Lifestyle, or permission of the
instructor.
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This course
is the second of nine in RYA’s AHECP. It will
provide the foundational and practical
knowledge that one studying to become an
Ayurvedic Health Educator will need. It is a
prerequisite for each following Foundation
course: (up to #4), and a recommended
introduction to the Supplementary courses
(#5-#9).
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Twelve
2.5-hour weekly classes. 12 homework
assignments. 12 contemplation assignments.
Memorization of traditional chants and
invocations. Daily journaling.
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Since the
basis of Ayurvedic learning is svadhyaya
(study of self and root-texts) each class will
include theoretical overview culled from
various traditional sources. This
learning will be supported through online
testing, which will help you master the
details of the required readings each week.
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Since
theory is best learned through immediate
practice, a second element of each class
will feature the homework to be practiced or
completed over the following week. These
homework assignments will generate discussion
and question-and-answer for the following
week’s class.
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Since
practice is best enriched through jnana
(wisdom), a third element of each class will
introduce a topic suggested for dharana
(concentration) through the following week.
This is in keeping with traditional Ayurvedic
training, in which doctors are required to
meditate on the various principles in order to
personalize their learning and enhance their
intuition. More than the first course was,
this course is somewhat spiritual in nature,
and requires engagement on a psychological, as
well as an intellectual level.
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The course
ends with two oral exams which will fully
review and integrate the knowledge acquired in
the first two courses.
This is a
pass/fail course. It must be passed to progress
onwards to Course #3: Therapeutics. Course #2
requires that you engage in a thorough review of
Course #1, and take enough time weekly to
complete and review the homework and
contemplations to be able to contribute to class
discussion. At minimum, this would entail about
6 hours per week, but may range to 2 hours daily
depending upon how much you want to derive from
the instruction, or how difficult it is to
absorb.
The required reading each week will be from Dr.
Lad’s textbook. There is required memorization
of devotional and pedagogical chants from
Nicolai Bachman’s “Language of Ayurveda”.
You’ll also be asked to keep an “Attributes
Journal” detailing your observations of the
natural world and other people. This will
consist of approximately 1 page of journaling
per day, in addition to the regular writing
assignments. Suggested word lengths are
assigned for each homework essay. Brevity,
however, is a great virtue – so if you can
answer fully in less than the suggested
word-length, well done.
The homework policy is 100% completion.
Homework is to be posted to the Ayured Google
Docs account before class each week. The course will not be recorded as complete
until all assignments have been received. We’ll
allow a 30-day grace period following the final
lecture for all homework to be turned in.
The attendance policy is 100%, although audio
support will be available. This means that you
may miss no more than 3 lectures out of the 12
total. These lectures will be recorded, and be
recoverable by download, although not in a
public forum (not posted online). You’ll have
to bring a flash drive to the class following
the class you missed, and we’ll load the lecture
onto your device directly from our hard drive.
The homework assignment for the missed class
will still be due.
There is also memory work to be done each week
in preparation for the two oral exams in weeks
10 and 11. You should count on having to spend
a few hours each night of week 11 cramming for
the final oral exam.
Finally, you are encouraged to learn the
Sanskrit vocabulary for Ayurveda and its correct
pronunciation, as given in “The Language of
Ayurveda”, by Nicolai Bachman.
The goal is
that students graduate with a solid understanding of the more
detailed aspects of elemental, doshic and gunic
theory, as well as a working knowledge of
tissues, organs, and channels. This will serve
as preparation for the remaining Foundation
courses: Therapeutics and Consulting.
On a pedagogical level, this course prepares the
graduate for the following 2 foundational
courses of the RYA Ayurvedic Health Educator
Certification.
The public goal of this programme is that it
serves as the inspirational and
community-building experience that must
accompany the popular advent of Ayurveda in our
culture.
- Dr. Lad’s Textbook,
Volume 1 (available at RYA)
- “Language of Ayurveda”
by Nicolai Bachman (available at RYA)
- Personal journal
- Deepening the
Foundations – Spiritual Basis, Layers of
Consciousness
- Course 1 review and
supplemental: elements, doshas, and subdoshas
- Course 1 Review and
supplemental: Agni
- Course 1 review and
supplemental – Prana, Tejas, and Ojas
- The 20 Gunas and the
Basis of Therapy
- Tissues in Detail –
Plasma, Blood, Muscle
- Tissues in Detail – Fat,
Bone, Nerve, Reproductive
- Channels
- Organs
- The Mind
- Enumeration of
Principles
- Oral Examination
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