Next round starts September 14th, 2010
Tuesday evenings: 6:30 to 9pm
Dates and
Tuition
Dates TBA. Tuition is $400
+HST ($13.33 per contact hour)
Click here to register online.
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Prerequisites: AHECP #1 and #2, or permission
of the instructor.
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Twelve
2.5-hour weekly classes. 12 case-study
homework assignments.
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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.
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balance of the class will be taken up with the
presentation, recreation, and review of case
studies from the instructor's files.
Details of initial consultations will be
presented, and students will be required to
write suitable Ayurvedic protocols for each.
This is a
pass/fail course. It must be passed to progress
onwards to Course #4: Consultation. Course #3
requires that you engage in a thorough review of
Courses #1 and #2, 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. Before each
class, the homework is to be posted on Google
Docs. 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 2 lectures out of the
12 total. These lectures will be recorded,
but not downloadable, and not in a public forum.
The homework assignment for the missed class
will still be due.
Finally, you are encouraged to
continue learning 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 general therapeutic
technique and application.
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.
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