Certificate Course In Ayurvedic Psychotherapy

Explore how an ayurvedic diabetic diet supports mental wellness by balancing the doshas, favoring sattvic foods, mindful eating, and seasonal adjustments for mental clarity.

Adopt a balanced daily routine with regular sleep, meals, physical activity, nutrition, and stress reduction techniques to support psychological well-being and resilience.

Discover how ayurveda and naturopathy approach mental well-being through doshas, prakriti, and the five elements, and learn holistic therapies like diet, yoga, herbal medicine, and lifestyle changes.

Explore ayurvedic psychology as a spiritual mind-body approach to modern mental health, addressing attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity disorder with herbal therapies and balance, rooted in Charaka, Sushruta, and Bhagavata.

Explore Ayurvedic approaches to psychological healing, balancing doshas through diet, lifestyle, herbs, panchakarma, and yoga to support mental well-being and resilient mind-body health.

Explore psychology's central role in ayurveda by outlining mind (manas) and prakriti, graha chikitsa, and Sattva pariksha as core tools for integrating mental and physical health.

Explore the concept of mind in Ayurveda and learn how mental instability affects treatment, social well-being, and the role of sattva in intellect and virtue.

This lecture examines the two mental doshas, Rogers and Thomas, whose exaggeration can lead to psychiatric disorders; Rogers drives attachment, desire, and overwork, while Thomas causes ignorance, illusion, and indecision.

Explore how psychological disorders arise from improper sense contact, excessive analysis, and faulty judgement, driven by doshas and factors such as Pradnya Bharata, buddhi, and smruti that vitiate mental health.

Identify how water dosha influences mind and anxiety in ayurvedic psychotherapy. Learn to craft personalized treatment plans addressing psychological factors and emotional toxins.

Explore how rajasic and tamasic pleasures affect mind and senses, where apparent nectar can turn poison, and how ayurvedic psychotherapy relates Hodges, Manas, and Vidya to mental balance.

Examine the patient in Ayurveda by assessing the mind and psychological symptoms tied to dosha aggravation, prognosis, and karmic factors, recording relationships, habits, and addictions, with Sattva and Kapha indicators.

Explore Ayurveda psychotherapies through rational therapy with appropriate foods and opposite dosha qualities, and embrace divine methods like mantra, rituals, and spiritual practices.

Purify the mind and fortify mental peace through dhoop chikitsa, using medicated smoke and sacred incenses, enhanced by mantra chanting, yantras, and related practices.

Explore the homa ritual, a psychological yajna using fire and fragrances to burn negative impressions, cleanse the psychic environment, and promote healing of mind and heart.

Engage in dhyana by choosing a target, reciting or listening to the Omkara, and recalling it with eyes closed to calm the mind and body for ten minutes.

Explore sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic diets and how food shapes temperament, energy, happiness, and mental clarity. Learn sattvic staples, spices, and Ayurvedic exercise guidelines, including yoga, walking, and nasal breathing.

Explore how ayurvedic panchakarma detoxifies the body and mind to promote mental health, balance the doshas, and support emotional stability through therapies like shirodhara, abhyanga, and nasya.

Explore vaman in ayurvedic psychotherapy, detailing a licorice decoction and medicated emrs, and follow snana and Sedona procedures to achieve best results with puranic rhythm.

Explain the irritant medicated position for kapha and pitta types by Chandra, using Arab Ward Cassia fistula or triphala decoction after pre kama procedures of nahana.

Explore basti as a panchakarma procedure for psychological disorders linked to the water dosha, detailing the sequence—basti, naraha decoction basti, annavasal oil basti—made with sesame oil.

Explore nasya within panchakarma as an effective treatment for psychological disorders, delivering immediate relief near the brain with pre procedures and vacha in powder or oil.

Delve into shodhana in ayurvedic psychotherapy, detailing panchakarma procedures like emesis and basti, shirodhara with brahmi oil, and mind-stabilizing decoctions to balance doshas and calm the brain.

Shirodhara uses oil poured on the pani mama point to calm aggressiveness and balance rajasik dosha, with dosha-specific music and Shiva stotra chanting, using Brahmi oil or buttermilk.

Pour Kyoto-based imperial oil into a cap placed on the patient's head and keep it there for 30 to 45 minutes to stabilize mind and body in Shirobasti therapy.

Pacification of samana contrasts with sedatives by ayurveda, favoring media arts and media rasayana to boost intellect and normalize mind, using brahmi, jatamansi, ashwagandha, amalaki, calamus, vacha, basil, sandalwood, valerian.

Explore the mind's relationship to chakra dhatu and how ojas links mental state to tissue, with rasayana concepts, adaptogens, and immunomodulators supporting psychological disorders.

Explore Rasayana-Achara in ayurvedic psychotherapy, balancing chitta, manas, and buddhi through yoga, pranayama, meditation, sattva, and dharma-aligned lifestyle for mental harmony.

Explore medhya rasayana concepts, neurotropic, psychotropic, and nootropic drugs, and their stimulant and depressant actions in autism, ADHD, depression, and related cognitive conditions.

Discover herbal medicine for psychological well-being, using calming nervine herbs, mood-enhancing adaptogens, and cognitive support botanicals in thoughtful formulations.

Explore vacha (calamus), Acorus calamus, a warm, pungent stimulant used in Ayurveda to pacify water and support depression, epilepsy, and schizophrenia.

Boost mental power and enhance comprehension, memory, and recall with Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri). Stimulate the crown chakra and support meditative focus.

Jatamansi, also called Indian spikenard (Nardostachys), is an ayurvedic herb revered for easing daily stress, improving sleep, and supporting insomnia, mental stability, and memory per Charaka.

Ashwagandha acts as a powerful adaptogen and rasayana, nourishing nerves, promoting calm under stress, and balancing vata, pitta, and kapha to support mind-body harmony.

Shankhapushpi, botanical name Convolvulus pluricaulis, known as Pushpa Mandala, influences the doshas and offers rasayana effects; it shows warmth, energy, and dhatu affinity in tissue-centered chakras.

Explore Amalaki, or Emblica officinalis, the Indian gooseberry, and its influence on the doshas. Identify its tonic, rasayana, diuretic, laxative, antioxidant actions and high vitamin C content.

Jyotishmati, or Celastrus paniculatus, is discussed for its doses and effects on water, pitta, and kapha energy, promoting intelligence and digestive fire through pungent guna.

Explore minerals and herbal formulations like suvarna bhasma, rupiya bhasma, brahmaji, Saraswata ishtam, and chyawanprash to support smruti, manas, and mood in ayurvedic psychotherapy.

Explore how Ayurveda relies on counselling and psychology to educate patients on lifestyle changes that prevent disease, optimize health, and improve adherence to treatment across doshas.

Explains the ayurvedic perspective on stress, its etiology and pathogenesis, and how emotions, thoughts, and food influence digestion, immunity, and the body.

Explore stress treatment in ayurvedic psychotherapy through panchakarma procedures like Vamana, Snehana, Sudhana, and Shirodhara, complemented by meditation and pranayama to balance doshas.

Explore ayurvedic psychotherapy for schizophrenia, integrating pranayama, pratyahara, dosha balance, diet, herbs, panchakarma, and mind-body therapies to manage symptoms and support recovery.

Explore the modern view of anxiety disorders—panic disorder, OCD, PTSD, social phobia, specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder—and the common theme of excessive irrational fear and panic attacks.

Ayurvedic psychotherapy views anxiety as a water imbalance affecting prana and the nervous system, causing long-term worry, tension, and emotional instability.

Explore obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), detailing obsessive thoughts and compulsive rituals such as washing, double-checking, counting, or seeking order, and how these rituals provide only temporary relief from anxiety.

Explore PTSD, a crippling condition caused by terrifying events, with persistent frightening memories and emotional numbness, affecting victims of war, assault, accidents, and disasters.

Explore social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, a persistent, excessive fear of being observed, judged, and self-conscious in everyday social situations that can interfere with work, school, and daily life.

Ayurvedic anxiety treatment combines Panchakarma therapies, Shirodhara, and medicated basti with Brahmi and Jatamansi oils, plus pranayama, meditation, and sattvic diet to restore mind and balance.

Ayurveda identifies depression, including major depression, as a common mental health condition with mood swings and chronic symptoms lasting days to months, arising from tri-dosha imbalance and inadequate sattva pathogenesis.

Balance the body dosha to treat depression using warming foods, daily routines, meditation, yoga, panchakarma, nasya, and herbal remedies in ayurvedic psychotherapy.

The lecture outlines antidepressants' effects and ayurvedic herbs such as Shatavari, Jatamansi, Chandan, and Amalaki, plus oil massage with sesame, coconut, or mustard oil to balance doshas and cleanse tissues.

Examine anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa through DSM-IV criteria, detailing weight fears, body image disturbance, binge-purge patterns, and the cultural factors fueling aricak, malnutrition, and health risks.

Discover ayurvedic anorexia treatment through purification, dosha-based therapies, abhyanga, and media rasayana to restore appetite and mind-sense balance, with herbal methods and home remedies for binge eating.

Explore ayurvedic concepts of addiction, detailing how madakari substances impair buddhi, memory, and recollection, trigger emotional disturbances, and progress through three stages of intelligence deterioration.

Explore ADHD from modern and ayurvedic perspectives, detailing inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, plus diagnosis criteria and therapy options like psychotherapy, family counseling, yoga, and meditation.