• Experience authentic Ayurveda Training
• Learn directly from the centre of mastery
• The 5 medical directors have a combined 150+ years experience
• The 16 medical officers have a combined 120 yrs experience
• A 120-bed hospital
• Daily outpatients (mostly speaking local language)
• Surrounded by 45 acres of lush green nature
• Make new friends along the long, covered paths
• Let Vaidyagrama stillness be your meditation
• The following program is a guideline only.
• We can tailor one for each group.

The location

Ayurveda Clinical Internship at Vaidyagrama Healing Village offers an extensive 3-6 week immersive learning experience in authentic healing practices. Nestled amidst 45 acres of lush green nature in India's village life, this program allows students to live and study within the heart of Ayurveda's homeland. At Vaidyagrama, the learning approach goes beyond conventional classroom teaching. It encompasses a 24-hour immersive experience where students become part of the community, learning from seasoned physicians and practitioners. The program emphasises experiential learning, including herb walks, medicine making, and active participation in community service.

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curriculum

The curriculum covers a wide array of topics essential to Ayurvedic practice, including ancient texts, patient care observation, herbology, panchakarma theory, cooking for health, organic gardening, and service initiatives like medical camps and temple services.

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Your program

The program format includes a mix of discussions, lectures, hands-on training, and personal practice sessions. Daily schedules are intensive, typically from Monday to Saturday, allowing some Sundays for rest and exploring the surrounding areas.​

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Format

• Each day will include a variety of learning opportunities including discussion, lecture, experiential learning, demo, and personal practices.
  
• Our classroom component will be anchored by an exploration of the ancient texts of Ayurveda, chiefly the Astanga Hridayam. One of our senior physicians will guide the students through chosen chapters, providing interpretation and relevant clinical examples from personal experience.
• ​In addition to classroom learning, students will rotate through several experiential learning components. Each student will be assigned to 2-4 patients and will be involved in their care throughout the patients’ admission. Students will visit the patients with their physicians on rounds, assist in making the medicine for those patients, study the herbs involved in those preparations, and learn the purpose and actions of their therapies.
• Outside of patient care, students will also learn aspects of organic gardening and permaculture as carried out in Vaidyagrama’s extensive herb and vegetable gardens. There will be cooking lessons focused on preparing sattvic, fresh, vegetarian meals.

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Requirement

• Participants must have done sufficient hours of Ayurveda training with fundamentals, lifestyle medicine, herbal medicine, herbal recipes, pharmacognocy, ethology, pathology, diagnosis, and therapeutics including Panchakarma.
• Ideally, this is designed for Ayurveda practitioner trainees( which are usually 1000-2000 hours). 
• This internship program is for Ayurveda practitioners or Ayurveda practitioner trainees - from outside India. ​Indian Ayurveda degree has a 1 year internship built in which will be 2500+ hours and they spend their time in more than a dozen different Ayurveda departments - and they are constantly moving between patients, medicines, therapists, therapies, treatment-panning, therapy-supervision, medicine-dispensing, and so on.

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Purpose

All internship programs are for Ayurveda practitioners or Ayurveda practitioner trainees outside India, as mentioned above. 

• Vaidyagrama Ayurveda Internship program starts from 3 weeks and is extendable if necessary. 
• This coaches one in all aspects of running a hospital, seeing clients multiple times daily and communicating with them effectively, ongoing health assessment and frequent treatment update with duration and more appropriate herbs on a daily basis, communicating with the therapists and supervising them. 
• Vaidyagrama Clinical internship is to transform an professional Ayurveda student into a complete health practitioner.

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A ​TYPICAL Day

Vaidyagrama is a dynamic place, and engaging in learning here requires flexibility and a willingness to go with the flow. While the information provided here is intended to give you as clear a sense as possible of what you can expect, you must be ready to experience the unexpected!

1. 0500 Personal dinacharya practice. 
2. 0615 Group Meditation. 
3. 0800 Breakfast.
4. 0830 Rounds with doctors on patient visits
5. 1030 Case discussion with allocated Medical Officer.
6. 1130 Supervised Case Presentation 
7. 1300 Lunch.
8. Afternoon has options to take part in 2-3 doctor initiated 30-60-minute discussions
9. 1400 Training in Selected Topics 
10. 1600 Tea and Herb garden walk / Medicine making
11. 1700 Break
12. 1815 Group Meditation
13. 1930 Dinner.
14. ​2130 Bedtime. 

Supervised Case Presentation and discussion among student clusters. This helps other students share their experience with you. Selected topic includes Women's health, Ayurvedic Cosmetics, Tongue diagnosis, Elements constitution, Mind-Body Medicine etc.

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fee and payment

• Fee: US$120 per day shared accommodation.
• Payment: 50% (USD$2260) paid while booking. 50% (USD$2260) paid at arrival. 
• Condition: A minimum 3 weeks stay. Not included non-educational items such as your travel expenses. 
  

While the program cost varies and needs to be inquired about, it typically covers classroom instruction, accommodations, meals, select texts, and airport transfers from/to Coimbatore Airport in Tamil Nadu. Overall, the emphasis of this internship is on providing a holistic understanding of Ayurveda through experiential learning, community immersion, and a comprehensive curriculum aimed at deepening students' knowledge of this ancient healing tradition. 

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our team

let the wisdom come to us from everywhere