...."Educating Natural Health Professionals for the 21st Century"

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..... The New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda (NJIA) at the Starseed Center for Yoga & Wellness offers an independent-study based professional level training program for aspiring practitioners of Ayurveda, the estimatedly 6,000 year old healing tradition of the Indian subcontinent. This distance learning program comprises a series of tutored, self-study courses in the basic and clinical sciences designed to afford the highest quality of education and training for aspiring practitioners.

..... Areas of instruction in the program include anatomy and physiology; history and traditions of Ayurveda; pathology; theory and practice; botanical medicine; physical diagnosis; constitutional analysis; nutrition and food theory; preventive medicine, psychology and counselling, ayurvedic jytosh and manipulative therapy, inter alia.

..... The NJIA curriculum is structured to educate a well-trained and well-rounded practitioner of this ancient healing art, knowledgable in both its theoretical and applied facets and proficient in adapting its time-tested modalities to meet the needs of contemporary health care consumers.

.....Within the NJIA program, the first course (and a prerequisite for the other courses in the program) is the Ayurvedic Foundation-Level Certification Course, an intensive, broad and deeply detailed initiation into the fundamental principles of Ayurveda and their application. The Foundation-Level Certification Course is intended to serve two functions: firstly, to provide prospective Ayurvedic practitioners with a sound basis for further study of the basic and clinical sciences. Secondly, it is intended for the general public who, while not planning to continue training, nonetheless desire to take a larger measure of responsibility in caring for their own health and that of their families. Upon completion and the successful passage of a comprehensive final examination, the student is awarded the Certificate in Ayurvedic Self-Care & Health Maintenance. For further information on this facet of our program, please click here.

..... The distinction awarded graduates of the professional program (involving an estimated 16 to 24 months of study) is the Diploma in Ayurveda. It is planned to offer both programs via both residential study as well as on an independent study/distance learning basis.