About Gurukula
Vedika Gurukula…a Back to Tradition School of Ayurveda
Welcome to Vedika Gurukula, a contemplative education tradition in Ayurveda. Here you will benefit from a unique, experiential, spiritually and scientifically balanced, consciousness transforming, in-depth immersion education in Ayurveda.
Vedika Gurukula is a Back to Tradition School of Ayurveda -and it not only teaches at subsidized cost to students, the principles and practices of Ayurveda in 1 to 6 year study programs, but is also dedicated to preserving the oral tradition of Ayurveda, an invaluable heritage of humanity. Inside Vedika Gurukula, as students, you will first and foremost be encouraged to activate your own self healing processes. Next, you will be systematically taught by a top notch faculty of teachers to build a repertoire of Ayurveda knowledge and skills to be able to tap into the professional opportunities that are opening up in the field of Ayurveda, worldwide. And above all, in the tradition of age old spiritually rooted science of Ayurveda, and in tune with the universal, humanitarian and compassionate vision unfolded by the sadhus and sages of Ayurveda, you will be nurtured and encouraged into becoming agents of conscious spiritual change and selfless service; so that through your work in Ayurveda, you can create conscious communities and serve humanity.
Vedika Gurukula offers in-depth training in Ayurveda with 1 to 6
year study and training programs including study from source texts, six month Panchakarma intensives, and concurrent study in the Vedas, Yoga and Vedanta psychology and spirituality, Sanskrit language, Jyotish or Vedic Astrology, Vastu Shastra, extensive apprenticeship and advanced study opportunities in India, and classified teachings from the rare oral tradition.
Some Salient features of Gurukula education:
* Gurukula education is experiential and transformative. Sometimes academia talks about not getting too close to one's subject. This is the opposite.
* It follows the Vedanta model of shravana, manana, nidhidyaasaana: listening, contemplating and internalizing by constant practice.
* Thorough the ritual of Upanayanam (fire ceremony), students are initiated into both formal studies and into the values and heritage of the Vedic culture. They embrace the dharma of a student.
* In a Gurukula there is spirit of selfless service both on the part of the students and the process of learning.
* There is an atmosphere of reverence for knowledge, teacher, student and the process of learning.
* The oral tradition's syllabus includes not only Ayurvedic regimens, formulas, etc, but also an emphasis on spiritual and yogic practices that develop the intuitive faculties and nurture the student's inner life, which in turn enhances their ability to contemplate and assimilate their studies.
* There is a progressive study of the Vedic foundations of Ayurveda, from the Atharva Veda to Vedanta and Yoga philosophy.
Hema Patankar
President,
Vedika Global, Inc
