The Program

Ayurvedic Doctor

Banyan for Ayurvedic Doctor Program

This is where your career as an ayurvedic practitioner takes a leap. Continue your training to achieve the highest level of ayurvedic education offered in the Western world. Take all of the knowledge and wisdom you have already acquired and refine it into a truly precious and unique gift.

IIA’s Ayurvedic Doctor Program trains you to specialize in a chosen field within Ayurveda and helps you climb higher towards mastery. You will be immersed in advanced topics, engage complex cases with nuanced protocols and produce unique ayurvedic content such as books, articles, podcasts and workshops.

Each of the four years helps you become sharper and more graceful with your ayurvedic diagnoses and case management. Work side-by-side with top-level Ayurvedic Doctors from the States, Europe and India. Discover subtle uses of the more exotic ayurvedic herbs and formulations. Refine your dietary and lifestyle protocols to pin-point accuracy. Learn how to design advanced panchakarma protocols. Travel to India and Italy to learn with IIA Faculty.

This is where you learn to transform your potential as a healer into a reality.

Location

In Person and Online

Duration

4 years

Hours

2,500

Certificate

Ayurvedic Doctor

Course Information

Curriculum

  • Extensive client interactions

  • Advanced topics in Ayurveda Philosophy

  • Cultivation and creation of unique ayurvedic content

  • Advanced ayurvedic herbology, including rasashastra

  • Advanced counseling techniques

  • Complex case review

  • Advanced ayurvedic dinacharya, brahmacharya, ahara and nidra

  • Advanced panchakarma protocols

  • Advanced samprapti

  • Advanced topics in your chosen specilization

  • Increasing the effectiveness and messaging of your ayurvedic business

  • Severe imbalance management protocols

International Clinical Intensive

Tuscan Valley Ayurvedic Doctor Program

Experiences

The clinical intensives for the Ayurvedic Doctor are more varied than they are in the Ayurvedic Practitioner program. Each year you’ll discuss the best opportunities for your chosen specialization and current educational needs. Then you will travel to work with IIA faculty that can best fulfill those needs.

The Ayurvedic Doctor Program internships will challenge and broaden your perceived limits as you will be exposed to ayurvedic specialists in their own element. Since you will already have the basics well established, the pace of learning can be extremely efficient and focused.

You will be training either one-on-one or with a small group of other Ayurvedic Doctor students to keep the level of learning at its peak. Become inspired to apply a confluence of ayurvedic principles in unique permutations and combinations to develop new protocols relevant for clientele you help the most. Share these with other enthusiastic experts to glean priceless feedback and create something truly profound.

FAQS

    • Ayurvedic Practitioner Certification or higher

    • A conversation with our CAO and an application

  • We offer “rolling admission” which means you can start the program anytime between March and the end of October of any given year. We can offer this because most of the foundations of Ayurveda are learned in a one-on-one context.

  • The Ayurvedic Doctor Program is $32,000 for the four years. This includes four clinical intensive, three week internships (except travel, food and lodging).

    Why are some Ayurvedic Doctor Programs at other schools less expensive?
    Be sure to take a look at their clinical internship requirements. Some programs charge these separately brining their final program costs to $35,000+

    Can I make monthly payments?
    Yes. IIA is happy to structure a payment plan that works for you.

  • Upon completion of the program you will receive your Ayurvedic Doctor Certificate. This marks 2,500 hours of completed training.

  • Unlike the allopathic model of health there is very little infrastructure for Ayurvedic Practitioners to become employees. In general, our graduates start their own business. Part of the AD Program is learning how to improve on an already existing ayurvedic business. IIA offers continued support for all of its graduates in growing their career.

  • You’ll learn with Victor Briere, A.D. for two hours each week. Your client encounters over the four years will be supervised and/or reviewed by an Ayurvedic Doctor.

  • Si! Prego! Training at the IIA Clinic and Academy in the historic center of Montepulciano is welcomed. Its also optional and not required to complete the AP Program. Have a chat with our Chief Academic Officer to discuss incorporating Italy into your program.

  • This does not necessarily mean you can’t enroll in the AD Program. If you have specific circumstances that don’t allow lengthy travel then we suggest you schedule a video or phone call with our CAO to come up with potential solutions. After all, a core value of Ayurveda is dexterity.

  • In general yes. IIA will honor the training you have already completed.

    If you have already completed an Ayurvedic Practitioner Program at another school we can discuss the details of how prepared you are for an Ayurvedic Doctor Program.

  • You are not required be a NAMA Member or take the NAMA Exam to practice Ayurveda in the States. However, if you choose to, this program fulfills the requirements and prepares you to sit for the NAMA AD Exam.

    The IIA AD Program is not a NAMA approved program. This is to avoid NAMA’s yearly program approval fees which allows us to keep our tuition lower.

    You do not need to attend a NAMA approved program to sit for the NAMA Exam or become a NAMA Member. IIA has both graduates that have chosen to become NAMA members and graduates that have chosen not to become NAMA Members.

    If you are in a country other than the United States there may be an organization similar to NAMA. These organizations are like membership clubs, not governmental authorities. They do not have a say in whether you can practice Ayurveda in your region.

  • No. Ayurveda is not currently a medically licensed practice in the USA, Canada or Europe. This means you do not need a government license to practice Ayurveda in these locations. There may be local requirements about the scope of ayurvedic practice.

  • Life happens. In the event that you can’t complete the program IIA will discuss potential continuation options with you for the future. If continuation is not possible then you will be given a transcript with what you have completed thus far. Depending on your payment structure you’ll either be given a partial refund or will be excused from future payments.

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If you’re interested in learning more about IIA’s Ayurvedic Practitioner program, please reach out with your questions or schedule a video or phone call with our chief academic officer.