Ayurvedic Therapy Training

The core of formal Ayurvedic therapy training is to teach the life balance system originated from ancient India. By identifying the proportion of the three major energies of wind (Vata), fire (Pita), and earth (Kapha) of the individual, diet adjustment, work and rest optimization, and natural healing methods are used to achieve body health. Heart Balance is suitable for yoga practitioners, natural therapy enthusiasts, and ordinary people who need self-conditioning. However, there is currently no unified professional qualification certification in China, and the quality of courses varies. When choosing, you must be wary of the marketing trap of "quickly practicing medicine with a license in 7 days."

Last spring, I took an offline get out of class with a tutor from Kerala, India, in a small courtyard in Dali. I still remember taking my pulse in the sun on the first morning. I had always thought I had a pure vata constitution based on the self-test online. I drank ginger tea every day to warm up, but the tutor took three minutes. Then he looked at the red tip of my tongue and the vertical lines on my fingernails, and directly told me that I have Vata-Pita type. Drinking too much ginger tea will aggravate pitta anger, so he asked me to switch to warm coconut water with mint leaves. After drinking it for three days, the toothache I had suffered in the afternoon actually disappeared. There were only 12 people in that class, half of them were yoga teachers, and the other half were ordinary people who had suffered from insomnia and gastrointestinal problems all year round. No one came with the mentality of "becoming a master", but everything they learned was implemented.

Of course, the industry has been quarreling for more than a day or two about how much Ayurveda training requires to be considered qualified. I know a practitioner who has been at an orthodox Ayurveda college in Kerala for 8 years, and she still goes back to study for 3 months every year. She particularly despises the 7-day crash courses in China. She feels that many institutions simplify Ayurveda into "drinking ghee and doing full body oil therapy" ", completely losing the core of "individualization" - it is also constipation. Vata type needs to drink warm ghee to moisten the intestines, pitta type needs to drink fresh aloe vera juice to clear the fire, and kapha type needs to drink turmeric and tangerine peel water to promote metabolism. She has seen too many cases where messy plans have caused problems. However, there are also teachers who work on localization and popularization who do not agree with this view. They feel that the vast majority of ordinary people do not need to learn Sanskrit or read "Jalaka Samhita" at all. If they can understand their own physique, know not to be greedy in summer, not to make up for it in winter, and avoid pitfalls in health care, then this training will be worthwhile. The last time I met the teacher who was doing popularization, she had replaced many herbs in the original Indian recipe with common domestic ingredients. Emblica was replaced with tangerine, and cardamom was replaced with domestic grass cardamom, and the effect was not much worse.

Putting aside the disputes between schools, the biggest headache for everyone now is actually that the domestic training market is too chaotic. First of all, we need to clarify an objective fact: At present, the National Health and Medical Commission has not included Ayurveda in the professional qualification catalog. All those who say that "after completing the course, you will be issued a nationally recognized practice certificate and you can open a clinic to practice medicine" are all liars. Formal cooperative courses are either a certificate of study hours issued by a formal Ayurveda college in India, or a skills training certificate issued by a domestic naturopathic institution. They can only be used as a reference for your studies and do not have the qualifications to practice medicine. I have encountered even more outrageous training courses before. The tuition for the three-day course is 20,000 yuan. Half of the time they sell their so-called "exclusive Ayurvedic oil", which is three times more expensive than the market price. They also say that applying it can cure breast hyperplasia. It is just cutting leeks.

I know a friend who runs a yoga studio. He signed up for a 99-yuan online class for a cheap price. After learning a little bit, he dared to prescribe an oil treatment plan for his members. However, he used a particularly heavy sesame oil on a member who had a Kapha constitution and was prone to moisture. He was so bored that he developed a patch of eczema on his back. In the end, he paid a few thousand in compensation to settle the matter. To be honest, if you just want to condition your body, there is no need to sign up for a master class that costs tens of thousands. It is enough to find a three-day basic class with a good reputation and learn how to identify your own physique and understand the dietary, daily and rest taboos corresponding to different physiques. If you really want to become a professional practitioner, you still have to calm down and stay with a teacher with practical experience for the first half of the year. Follow more cases and don't think about taking shortcuts.

In fact, Ayurveda is essentially just a way of life. There is no need to praise it as something magical or to make it a metaphysics. If you have finished learning and can remember the simplest principle of "don't force yourself to eat when you are not hungry, and don't force yourself to stay up when you are sleepy", the training fee will not be in vain.