12 Day Ayurveda Course with Daily Yoga and Pranayama in Rishikesh, India
Ayurveda Course India
Ayurveda courses in Rishikesh, India are designed by Real Happiness Vedic School in order to acquire a deep knowledge of ancient Ayurveda medicine, herbs, and spices system.
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Highlights
- Study of doshas, Rasayana, Ayurvedic herbs, and spices
- Learning sattvic, rajsik, and tamsik principles
- Daily yoga stretching and pranayama classes
- Daily detox and cleansing sessions
- Excursions to various attractions
- 11 nights accommodation
- Daily yogic meals, tea, and juices
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Yoga styles
11 days with instruction in English
Average daily hours of activity: 10
Accommodation
Facilities
- Spa
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Meditation garden
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Library
- Parking lot
- Wireless internet
Real Happiness is a peaceful accommodation offering a yoga school environment and neat and clean rooms. The following rooms are available:
- Garden view
- Balcony view
- Mountain view
Program
This Ayurveda training in Rishikesh is the best fit for beginners who are not from Ayurvedic study backgrounds and for intermediate-level students. In this course, students will practice, research, theory, and observation of Ayurveda.
Feel the inner silence
This program involves classes that include a point-to-point understanding of Ayurvedic fundamental ideas, including cleanliness and positive wellbeing. During the program, you will encounter one-on-one collaboration and backing from your group of professional experts who take care of you consistently. They, and the office wherein they work and educate, are completely prepared to give information to you on all Ayurveda treatments and medicines. Ayurveda courses in Rishikesh, India, give a good introduction and overview of Ayurveda.
It helps in understanding one’s own constitution and accordingly adjusting the diet and lifestyle. This knowledge can be used for the benefit of oneself and can also be shared with family, friends, and students. Readings incorporate notable Indian philosophy messages, anatomy in a piece of writing, the possibility of tridosha, prakriti or constitution, zygomatic bone or side-effect, ojas digestion and metabolism, Ayurvedic herbology.
Ayurveda programs in India
They offer many Ayurveda programs in India including your active Ayurvedic body treatment (panchakarma). These comprehensive private projects were made according to Western norms. From the time you leave the airport, the entirety of your requirements for carrying on with an Ayurvedic way of life is given. This exceptional little bunch of vivid pieces of training empowers you to uncover what the ancient insight of Ayurveda needs to teach you. On completion of the course, you will be given a certificate as a reward for your hard work.
Study of Ayurveda
The fundamental advantages of examining Ayurveda are personal, familial, mutual, and professional. Despite where your objectives lie, you should start the way with recuperating yourself. Self-mending, known as swasthavritta, is the initial step to recuperating others. The work is personal, vulnerable, and powerful. With time and self-study, you will see into your nature some new and transformative changes. So, Ayurveda is a wonderful and profoundly satisfying work.
Study of panchakarma
Panchakarma is the most well-known detoxification cycle of Ayurveda, reestablishing youth with the assistance of oils. This extraordinary treatment of sedated oil back rub and natural cures was endorsed in old Vedic sacred writings and has been practiced in Kerala for a long time, considering the degree of groundbreaking detoxification they give; it is not difficult to understand why.
Study of herbs and spices
Ayurveda is a conventional Indian system of medicine. It plans to safeguard wellbeing and health by keeping the brain, body, and soul in balance and forestalling illness instead of treating it. To do this, it needs a comprehensive methodology that includes diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Ayurvedic spices and herbs are likewise a significant segment of this methodology. They are thought to shield your body from sickness and offer an assortment of medical advantages, including improved absorption and psychological wellness.
Study of Rasayana
Rasayana is an Ayurvedic restoration treatment that helps in the support and advancement of wellbeing. Rasayana implies nourishment at all levels, from the full scale to the miniature cell level. Rasayana treatment renews the indispensable liquids of the body; helps the ojas (crucial power of life) and the invulnerable framework, consequently avoiding illnesses and forestalls against the sick impacts of the modern age. Rasayana treatment forestalls the impact of maturing and gives life span, improves mental ability, and has other advantages as well.
Dosha
Vata
Vata gives the fundamental motion to every single substantial interaction and is amazingly crucial for wellbeing. On a yearly basis, vāta is generally noticeable in the fall and at the difference in seasons, and these are the main occasions to be cautious about diet and way of life. One motivation behind the way of life contemplations is to balance this movement. Routine is valuable in helping the vata individual to adequately ground a lot of moving energy.
Pitta
Pitta dosha controls your absorption, digestion (how well you separate food sources), and certain chemicals that are connected to your hunger. Things that can upset it are eating sharp or zesty food varieties and investing an excess of energy in the sun. If pitta dosha is your fundamental life power, you are bound to create conditions like Crohn's illness, coronary illness, hypertension, and infections. There could be multiple symptoms of pitta, like bad breath, body odor, anger, irritability, etc.
Kapha
Kapha is made out of the earth and water elements. It is hefty, moderate, cool, smooth, sensitive, thick, steady, gross, and shady. Kapha gives construction and strength to all things; it gives the cohesiveness expected to keep a specific structure. Kapha also hydrates all cells and systems, greases up the joints, immerses the skin, keeps up resistance, and shields the tissues. Kapha is regularly connected with water energy, and with adoration and sympathy.
Key points
- Introduction to Ayurveda
- History and types of Ayurveda
- Principles and aim of Ayurveda
- Panchakarma and its techniques
- A deep study of Ayurvedic oils
- Learn to make Ayurvedic oils
- Study of the five elements
- Study of sapta dhatu
- Ayurveda nutrition
- Marma therapy
- How to cook Ayurvedic food
- Ayurvedic body massage - abhyanga
- Shirodhara
- Herbal steam bath
- Ayurvedic foot massage
- Silent walks
Mindfulness
- Sightseeing
- Silent walk
- Spiritual tour
- Sketching
- Stone art
- Self enquiry
Daily schedule
The daily course schedule is well-structured for beginner students because it progresses from very easy to easy, from easy to medium, and from medium to hard. It includes 10 hours of daily practice, study, self-study, meals, music, walks, sightseeing, and much more.
- 05:00 - 05:30 Wake up and Nitya Karma
- 05:30 - 06:00 Vedic - Wellness Pooja
- 06:00 - 08:00 Pranayama and yoga
- 08:30 - 09:00 Ayurvedic tea
- 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 - 11:30 Meditation theory and practice
- 11:30 - 13:00 Outdoor activities
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 16:00 Self-relaxation
- 16:00 - 17:00 Ayurveda class
- 17:00 - 17:30 Tea
- 17:30 - 19:00 Ayurveda class
- 19:30 - 20:30 Dinner
Included excursions
- Natural waterfall visit
- One village visit
- One trekking or ancient temple visit
Instructors
Sanjay Raturi
Sanjay Raturi was born near the source of the holy river Ganga in a Brahmin family. Since his childhood years, he has practiced the Vedic Mantras and Meditation. Sanjay’s village is the Brahmin Family Village located in the Himalayas. Till this day, the people of his village are still doing Vedic pooja for their daily karma. Sanjay is an experienced meditation teacher and he teaches mindfulness meditation, Vedic meditation, mantra chanting, Om and silent meditation, Vipassana, and Kundalini meditation. Sanjay has done many workshops worldwide and did Sadhana workshops in the Himalayas.
Retreat location
Rishikesh is known as the "world capital of yoga" covered by beautiful mountains and located on the banks of the River Ganges. It will be your life-changing experience to see spiritual elements such as beautiful temples, local streets, bookstores, River Ganga Ghats, Ganga Aarti attractions, cows and monkeys in the streets, and other local places.
A meditation retreat offers more than meets the eye; it comes with a myriad of benefits which include serenity of the mind, clarity of the thoughts, inner peace and unwinding the stress, ultimate joy, lifting your spirit, and a feeling of equanimity. The spiritual vibes of Rishikesh can calm down your senses and enrich the inner you. Away from the horde of people, get relief and solace in the meditation retreat.
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
Daily delicious Sattvic food is included in the course pricing. The food provided at the center is 100% vegetarian and yogic diet. You will also learn how to cook Ayurvedic food.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Yogic
- Ayurvedic
Things to do (optional)
Below are the most amazing things to do in Rishikesh. These activities are not included in the package but Real Happiness can arrange upon request. There will be an extra charge for this.
- River rafting - the most popular thing to do in Rishikesh
- Bungee jumping
- Mountain biking
- Flying fox
- Cliff jumping
- Trekking
- Rappelling and rock climbing
- Kayaking
- Ayurvedic massage and therapies
- Parasailing and paragliding
What's included
- Study of dosha, Rasayana, Ayurvedic herbs, and spices
- Study of sattvic, rajsik, and tamsik pravritti
- Daily yoga stretching class
- Natural waterfall visit
- Daily detox session
- Trekking or ancient temple visit
- Some outdoor yoga classes
- Daily pranayama class
- 11 nights accommodation
- Daily yogic food and tea or juices
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
- Visa
- Extra activities
- GST
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 20 per person
Jolly Grant Airport
14 km away from your destination
Transfer available for additional US$ 70 per person
Indira Gandhi International Airport
209 km away from your destination
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL). You can also book your flight to arrive at Jolly Grant Airport (DED). Transfer from and to the airport is available for an additional cost of 70 USD.
Arrival by bus
Rishikesh is 28 kilometers from Haridwar. The Rishikesh Bus Station is five kilometers away from the Yoganandham - A School for Yoga Learning. The bus to Rishikesh leaves from Haridwar every hour. You can also take an auto from the Rishikesh Bus Station to Anand Dham Ashram.
Arrival by train
Haridwar is directly connected by rail to all main cities in India. When you reach Haridwar, buy a prepaid taxi from the stand at the entrance of the station. This will save you the trouble of negotiating a price with the driver. The bus station is situated across the street, where there is regular service to the Rishikesh bus stand which is four kilometers away from Yoganandham Ashram. You are advised to book rail tickets as soon as possible. Trains are usually fully booked near the time of travel. Train e-tickets can be booked up to three months in advance via the internet. For reserved tourist quota seats, you will need to visit the railway reservations office.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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