how to start learning - options

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Hi Shannon -

Where are you located? So. Cal or Santa Cruz area? And do you learn

very well from correspondence format? If certification in the

ayurvedic work and listing in the national registry is desired, you

will want to ensure you study with a live teacher in some form. There

is a woman in Santa Barbara (your cell phone is from there?) named

Corinna Schmitt, LMT/Ayurvedic Panchakarma therapist and advanced

student of Ayurvedic herbs et al, who can offer some of the training

if available.

 

For intro Ayurveda options in LA at Chopra centers or an Ayurvedic

college there, or San Louis Obispo with Robert and Melanie Sachs are

both likely available. In Santa Cruz there are options both at the

Mt. Madonna Center and with Cynthia Copple in town. We can also

provide a recommended reading list used for students not concerned

about all the direct preceptor contact hours but wanting familiarity

with key information. The list includes ayurvedic cookbook and home

remedy options, Intro material to Ayurveda and for mothers and babies

from physicians such as Dr.s Kummuda REddy, Vasant Lad, Deepak Chopra,

and others. It is of course not exclusive, there are many ways to get

similar information. For more in depth, I believe Svoboda and Frawly

both offer extensive correspondence courses, not easy for most to get

thru but good. Dr. Lad has a new textbook of Ayurveda out, which will

be added to my reading list as soon as I can officially take time with

it myself. I know it is good - Mike, have you seen, and can you

comment? Todd Caledcott also has a new book out on Ayurveda, not sure

it is intro or more focused on herbs.

 

Any of these options will be enough, ***as students begin to practice

the concepts in your daily life and eating habits and learn

experientially how it works, to then order unit 1, Ayurvedic

Foundations of Postpartum Care & Cooking ($15 each by download, about

200 pages each) or all 7 AyurDoula training units for $100. Some of

those units really require a few more days study on Ayurveda for the

counsulting and herbsal units. For you with familiarity with some

terminology, I'd like you to look at the rec reading list/terminology

and see where you place yourself before choosing a text or class.

Learning by reading is not the same but it is much better than not

having this information to begin to care better for your clients,

hence decision to offer the option.

 

I hope this isn't confusing - there are many options and I'm more

interested in seeing people learn and apply than that it is exactly

this way or that. Life and client work have their way of teaching the

sincere health professional as we are inspired to research our sources

when the need comes up.

 

Feel free to call me (until March 24 at 360-642-4158; West Coast

times, afternoons only) for help deciding.

 

Warm Regards;

Ysha

 

> Hello Ysha,

> I " m soo glad to see some courses offered. Which would

> be the best for someone fairly new to the concepts of

> ayurveda? I'm a midwife, so I get the postpartum

> needs, but other than experimenting with ayurveda at

> home and being familiar with indian spices (married to

> a pakistani!), I haven't had any formal training in

> ayurveda. The thing is I am on a budget so I can only

> afford one or so classes. Thanks!!

>

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> Warmly,

> Shannon Staloch, CD

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> Nourished

> " Feeding the Whole Mother "

> 408-295-4471

> 805-291-1382 (cell)

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