Big Shakti Teachers and Health Professionals Support 

This section is focused on supporting teachers and health professionals to understand how to apply Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy in a teaching and healing environment.

Access our growing body of Articles on Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy, and relevant contemporary medical reviews.

Our teacher's section will also provide you with access to online courses designed to assist you gaining higher knowledge. 

Ayurveda ~ Traditional Indian Medicine

By understand the Ayurvedic constitution of your client you can better understand what is going on with their body and mind from a doshic point of view. You can then give them information, techniques and therapeutic interventions appropriate to their constitution and needs.

In order to achieve this you will require a basic understanding of Ayurvedic principles. This can be found in our eLearning Courses on Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy and articles which will be developed over the coming months. 

Big Shakti teachers of Ayurveda include Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati, Dr Robert Svoboda and Dr Claudia Welch.

The Beginning Ayurveda eCourse is a 20 lesson program based on a classical Indian approach to learning Ayurveda. Dr Claudia Welch is a senior lecturer at the Ayurveda Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. The course is designed to give an in depth understanding of Ayurveda, uses traditional Sanskrit terms, and is a substantial introduction to the subject.

Yoga Therapy ~ Managing Illness

The Yoga Therapy section of the teachers and health professionals area will be focused on how to use yoga to improve health and to better manage illness.

Yoga Therapy is the application of yoga to disease situations.

It has been scientifically proven that yoga and meditation have a profound healing effect on cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes, cancer, depression, and many other chronic degenerative and psycho-somatic disorders.

We are in the process of developing an eLearning package on Yoga Therapy.

Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati is a Medical Doctor, Yoga Therapist and Lecturer who is an internationally recognized authority in Yoga Therapy. He was trained directly by the great yoga master Swami Satyananda of the Bihar School of Yoga, India. His books on Yoga Therapy include; Yogic Management of Asthma and Diabetes, The Effects of Yoga on Hypertension, and The Practices of Yoga for the Digestive System.

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