UPDATED – Ayurvedic Living Nutrition 3-Month Online Live Course
Practical Solutions for a Healthier & Happier People, Planet & Future
Feb 1 – April 25, 2023
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you must decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
The Ayurvedic Living Nutrition Course is an exclusive program that incorporates the age-old wisdom of Ayurveda with the latest advancements in a wholistic nutritional approach. It offers a unique and powerful dietary lifestyle that goes beyond your imagination. This program brings a new era of human thought, values, and action and provides spiritual growth opportunities for human consciousness. It encourages a shift from a mindset of domination and exploitation to communion, cooperation, and respect for all forms of life.
Explore the spiritual, scientific, intuitive and physical aspects of nutrition and the awakening of consciousness.
- Learn how your everyday choices directly impact the health and harmony of our planet and the future.
- Immerse yourself in an in-depth understanding of your body and the role of the constitution for enhanced strength and vitality.
- Discover how food habits shape consciousness and culture.
This experience examines traditional dietary beliefs and replaces them with Ayurvedic Nutrition insights, encouraging conscious eating and a shift towards a healthier lifestyle.
At the heart of Ayurvedic teachings lies our connection with the Elements of Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Ether. This wholistic system combines traditional and contemporary knowledge with processes grounded in the earth. As you learn more, you’ll discover practices that will help you connect with each Element on a deeper level and learn how to activate their life-force energy.
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive set of practices and teachings that can help us reconnect with what is natural and healthy. It aims to empower you to live with energy and enthusiasm while supporting the environment. This course allows you to take control of your life and become the artist of your destiny.
Includes:
- Experiential models to deepen active learning
- Three 1-hour one-on-one support sessions
- Articles & Essays
- The Healing Tastes Manual
- Integrated home learning
- Small group ‘buddy’ system
- Designing your Nutritional Lifestyle Program
- Leadership Presentation Opportunities
- An Ayurvedic Living Nutrition Certificate of Completion (when taken with the Ayurvedic Living Nutrition Correspondence Course
Engaging Practices
- 3-Modules with a 28-day Transformation Process in each module
- Living the Essential Keys
- Reflections & Insights
- Interactive Format
- Group Processes
- Buddy Mate for Change
- Key Lessons
- Q & A
- Recorded Sessions for Future Viewing
“By having reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
Nourishing Wisdom: A Conscious Evolutionary Diet
The Fasting Path: Inner Quest Experience – Virtual (Optional)
Feb. 1-7, 2024
“The decision to fast often begins in a deep, unconscious part of the soul. Eventually, if we are wise, we start to listen, think, and prepare ourselves for a journey. Like all journeys, fasting takes preparation of the soul, emotions, and body.:
~Stephen Harrod Buhner
This week-long experience can be life-changing as each day is a commitment to self-love and conscious living. With carefully designed tools and techniques, you can explore your body, mind, and spirit and overcome limitations. The program includes guided meditations, introspection and journaling time, nature-play, and breathwork. These integral components will help you grow personally and practically.
The Fasting Path with Lorenna Kacera and Shantree Kacera, held exclusively online to serve our worldwide community, consists of a 7-day spiritual juice fast (non-medical) to support the body, mind, emotions and spirit.
During this online retreat, you will likely make a deeper connection to your soul by creating a quiet mind, returning to your sacred design, and accessing higher spiritual energies.
Daily activities such as earth connection meditation, insightful lectures, and spiritual discussions offer you an opportunity to enhance your spiritual fasting journey by including more profound levels of relaxation, self-discovery, and expansion of consciousness.
Benefits
- Increases your spiritual energy
- Activates your vital life force
- Increase balance
- Empowering practice
- Realign with your true purpose
- Profoundly healing on all levels
- Finding Your Pause
“The mechanics of fasting are the same, but the intent on which you enter the fasting is different. “
~Dr. Gabriel Cousens
MODULE I
Vital Energy: The Next Generation of Biological Rejuvenators
February 1 – 22, 2024
4 – Thursday Evenings
A New Way of Seeing Nutrition
An ancient and original approach to understanding our relationship to nutrition, focusing on quality and the possibility of pleasure in eating to transform and enhance metabolism.
Metabolism is not a thing. It’s a journey.
A 4-week module explores unique connections to food, assisting individuals in letting go of fear, guilt and old habits to learn to treat their bodies dignified and caringly.
This module revolves around eight universal metabolizers that have been ignored for a long time. These metabolic enhancers are transubstantial, which means they are beyond the realm of matter. They cannot be touched, seen, bottled, or sold. Yet, they are crucial to food, water, and exercise metabolism. Without them, we would not be able to thrive as the vibrant and expressive beings we are meant to be.
Discover the practical tools that will yield life-transforming, rejuvenating results.
There are universal metabolizers, the essential missing pieces in our collective metabolic puzzle. The next generation of powerful biological rejuvenators will prove vital to your health at the deepest level of medical reality.
“As long as we are not living in harmony with nature and our constitution, we cannot expect ourselves to be healed. Ayurveda gives us the means.”
~Dr. David Frawley
MODULE II
Nourishing Wisdom: Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Spirit
28-Day Reset Revolutionary Program
February 29 – March 28, 2024
4 – Thursday Evenings
“When we look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of the food itself.”
~Deepak Chopra, M.D.
A powerful, practical journey to reinvigorate your life at every level revolutionizes how we think about diets and nutrition. A pathway that will lead you back to a deeper and healthier relationship with eating by drawing on ancient food wisdom.
- We are more than just a physical body; we Are a spiritual source.
- By nourishing the body, we nurture the spark of life within the body.
- The body is Sacred, and therefore, the nutrition of the body is Sacred.
- A truly evolved nutrition approach takes us entirely into and beyond the body.
- Our relationship with food teaches us much about who we are and how we live.
* Includes:
Eat to Thrive: Vital Life Energy-Hippocrates Approach to Optimal Health e-Manual.
MODULE III
Conscious Nutrition: Ancient Wisdom – Modern Science Ancient Wisdom – Modern Science (
February 29 – March 28, 2024
Thursday 4-Evenings (except March 21.)
7 – 9:30 pm.
“When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” “Ayurveda teaches us to cherish our innate nature “to love and honour who we are,” not as what people think or tell us, “who we should be.”
~Ayurvedic Wisdom
This is a practical and powerful journey to improve your life through healthier eating habits. You can achieve greater vitality, freedom from addictions, bodily intuition, empathy, and self-awareness by exploring ancient food wisdom, modern nutritional science, and systems theory.
To change your lifestyle, you need to adjust your mindset first. No one can control you, but taking responsibility for your actions gives you the power to make changes. Passion, focus, enthusiasm, and discipline are essential for achieving anything. Our mind is a powerful tool, and we can manifest anything.
Can adopting an Ayurvedic Living Foods Lifestyle help us break free from our self-centred tendencies and feelings of isolation while also healing our inclination towards domination, aggression towards the feminine, and exclusivity? Can it assist in developing intuitive wisdom, cultivating compassion, and catalyzing our spiritual growth?”
The answer is a resounding YES!
These sessions will explore the deep spiritual longing behind our global challenges and nutritional crisis. By acknowledging the interconnectedness of our food, body, mind, emotions, spirit, and nature, we can take a wholistic approach to nourishing ourselves. We will embrace the practice of living cuisine as a means of creative expression and a transformative path toward the divine.
Key Points
- We are more than just a physical body; we Are a spiritual source.
- By nourishing the body, we feed the spark of life within the body.
- The body is Sacred, and therefore, the nutrition of the body is Sacred.
- A truly evolved nutrition approach takes us entirely into and beyond the body.
- Our relationship with food teaches us much about who we are and how we live.
- Reductionism & the Secret Shadow vs the Golden Rule
- Sattvic Diet, Spiritual Fasting & the Human Spirit
- Nutritional Power of Relaxation, Awareness & Rhythm
- The Interconnected Web of Life
- Cultivating Felt Awareness
- Sacredness & the Feminine Principle
- The Intuitive Imperative
- Energetics, Evolution & Spiritual Anatomy
Engaging Practices
- 28-Day Transformation Process in Each Module
- Living the Essential Keys
- Reflections & Insights
- Interactive Format
- Group Processes
- Buddy Mate for Change
- Key Lessons
- Q & A
- Recorded Sessions for Future Viewing
“The revolution that is demanded by our yearning for peace, freedom, and happiness must provide a new foundation for our culture, moving it away from its herding values of oppression and disconnectedness toward…values of respect, kindness, equality, sensitivity, and connectedness. Above all, this revolution must change our relationship to our meals—our most practiced rituals—and our food, our most powerful inner and outer symbol.”
~Will Tuttle, World Peace Diet
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
~Albert Einstein
“Humans are the only ones who think we can perfect nature; because of this, we are riddled with disease. ~Dr. Brian Clement
“Every time we choose what we are going to eat, we create a world for ourselves and others; either a world of violence and exploitation or a world of compassion and sustainability.”
~Will Tuttle
* Includes:
Eat to Thrive: Vital Life Energy-Hippocrates Approach to Optimal Health e-Manual.
The World Peace Diet -10th Anniversary PDF MiniVersion -Will Tuttle
The Course is done through Zoom. The link and all material will be sent to you through email.
What Will You Experience?
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
The course offers a beautiful blend of modern science and trans-disciplinary knowledge essential to becoming an Ayurvedic Living Nutrition educator, with a wide range of experiential experiences.
By the end of this program, you will have a unique ‘Medicine Pouch’ that will equip you with specific skills, practices, and approaches to enhance your well-being and effectiveness as an educator. Topics covered during the program include visioning, project development, stewardship, and the ability to design programs. Additionally, we will delve into aspects of inner leadership like cultivating gratitude, balance, ‘inner resilience,’ and exercises that will help you ground your leadership in the heart, nature, and partnership with a community of other leaders.
Through this nutritional medicine program, you will learn a new way of thinking and being. You will discover to source your leadership from this connection and stay attuned to the patterns in your own life, creating a new level of success and awareness in your stepping forth – empowered!
- Receive Lifetime Access to all Video Lectures Recordings
- 12 Live & Interactive Classes with Shantree
- Case-study-based learning with intimate weekly discussion rooms
- 12+ Podcast-Style Audio/Video Recordings
- 30+ Live-Food Recipes
- 12+ Journal Prompts
- 12+ Live Meditations
- 1 Capstone Client-Case Taking
- Certification of Completion post-graduation
- You will explore the correlation between ecological design thinking and the related disciplines of bioregionalism and inner ecology and apply this to designing a healthy nutritional program;
- The foundation of an ecological worldview (wholistic design, systems thinking, and rebalancing human gut microbiome) and the application of living systems principles to the design of systems, objects, and places;
- You will develop personal and group inquiry practices to raise awareness of the interdependent relationship between the individual, society, and nature and between theory, experience and practice;
- You will develop and enhance your design, communication, and facilitation skills in support of communities of place and interest;
- You will make use of a range of tools, methods and facilitation techniques for project delivery;
- You will collaborate to develop practices and principles encouraging a regenerative and healing approach to designing projects. You will then apply these practices in both class and community projects. Additionally, you will learn how to evaluate the relationship between the environment and built structures, behaviour, well-being, and resource consumption using research indicators and case studies.
“All the beauty that’s been lost before. Wants to find us again.”
A Mentorship Approach
Mentorship is a form of experiential education that has been around for a long time – almost as long as the concept of apprenticeship. In some cultures, herbal training is conducted where seasoned herbalists work closely with others to impart their knowledge. While the structure of these relationships may differ, the aim is to share information and provide support, guidance, and constructive feedback.
Our process supports individuals in becoming confident, skilled leaders. Often, those who have completed training in plant nutrition actively seek the support and guidance of an experienced nutritionist to act as a mentor.
Community is a crucial aspect of nutrition because wholistic nutrition is based on relationships. These relationships exist between ourselves, our health, and the plants we consume. One of the most unique relationships in nutrition is the bond between a plant mentor and their student. Aspiring nutritionists often find mentors to learn from, as this is the traditional way that plant medicine knowledge is passed down from one generation to the next. Many whole food nutritionists have had mentors who have helped them become the conscious nutritionists they are today, and some continue to work with mentors to further their knowledge.
The mentor-student relationship is valuable and unique because it helps us orient ourselves. Who do we want to become? In what direction are we moving? Mentors are individuals we wish to emulate, people who have been where we are now and have gone ahead where we want to travel. Having a mentor also helps us by providing insight and perspective when the going gets tough. When we struggle with new questions or a new case study, and we can’t seem to find answers, or when it seems like we’ve lost our way on our path, a mentor can be there with encouragement, a new idea, or the wisdom from a parallel experience that helps us find the missing pieces of our puzzles.
The definition of the word is “an experienced and trusted advisor.” That’s a rather broad definition! Each mentor-student relationship is unique since those two parts of the equation will always be two different individuals. It’s up to the parties involved to create the relationship in a way that makes sense for them.
In some cases, the mentorship unfolds very informally, like a friendship. However, mentorships can also be very formal, even to the extent of the mentor being paid in exchange for their time and the mentoring experience being guided by a written contract that details specific goals and desired outcomes the student and mentor have for the relationship.
Regardless of the prearrangement being formal or informal, a mentor is there to inspire and support the ongoing growth of the student and to provide assistance. They should be willing to help us troubleshoot, although it’s okay if they don’t just hand us the answers! Making us think and offering helpful suggestions when problems arise are the symbols of a truly great mentor. They understand our efforts and are there for us when we need encouragement. They can also help us be realistic and hold us to a standard, helping set the foundation for skills and a knowledge base that will serve us well.
Most importantly, though, mentors can be a role model. We should be careful not to put them on a pedestal – after all, our mentors are human, too – but at the same time, they should be people we think are worthy of imitating in some way. Our mentors are setting examples for us as teachers, consultants, and professionals.
It is important to remember that having a mentor is not a replacement for learning about herbs and herbalism on your own time – it should complement your studies. The point of being mentored is to assist you to grow on your path! Trustworthiness is essential; the relationship should always be directed by professionalism. The mentor-student relationship should always be mutually respectful.
“It is the supreme art of the educator to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
~Albert Einstein
Registration
2024 Dates
Feb 1 – 7 The Fasting Path: 7-Day Experience (Virtual Optional – Extra)
Feb 9-29 – Vital Energy: The Next Generation of Powerful Biological Rejuventators – Online Module
February 29 – March 28 – Nourishing Wisdom: Feeding the Body-Nourishing the Spirit – Online Module
April 4-25 – Conscious Nutrition: Ancient Wisdom -Modern Science – Online Module
Time:
Thursday 12 Evenings 7 – 9:30 pm (Online)
Spiritual Fasting: Inner Quest All Day 7-Day Experience (Virtual)
Registration
Note: Only 10 Positions are available
Your Price – $1500
Early-Bird– $1250
Certification Package – Register for this Course, Ayurvedic Living Nutrition Correspondence Course, for $2500
To maintain a high quality of learning and care, the Mentorship is limited to only 10 participants.
- Course – $1500
- Ealy-Bird or Full-time Students – $1250
- A $500 deposit will guarantee your spot
- Partial scholarships are available if funds are available.
Please inquire: 519-652-0230 - To maintain a high quality of learning and care, the Mentorship is limited to 12 participants.
Scholarships– Partial scholarships are available upon request. Assisting promising young adults with the tuition costs of the mentorship program – please send a detailed letter of request. Our scholarship aims to build bridges between future leaders to experience the powerful connections between personal and planetary health. Please see the Scholarship Application Process.
Community Supported Education Program(CSE Program) ALL Scholarship applicants and anyone interested in financial assistance with the mentorship program should consider creating their Community Supported Education Program (CSE Program). Find more info and details here.
We live in a time of significant change, and creating a new story for our world is crucial. People all over the world are reclaiming their power and responding to the cry of Mother Earth. Are there young adults in your community who would thrive in our mentorship program? Help transform our culture, one heart at a time, by nominating a young adult to help redefine our culture!
** Certificate of Completion in Conscious Nutrition is granted upon completion of this Conscious Nutrition course, Ayurvedic Living Nutrition correspondence course. and
Payment can be made through e-transfer (bank-to-bank transfer) using PayPal below or by certified check. Please make cheques payable and mail them to:
The Living Centre 5871 Bells Rd.,
London, ON., Canada, N6P 1P3
Please note that we require a minimum number of registrants for the program. If we do not receive the minimum registration, you will be notified two weeks before the start date, and a full refund will be issued for the amount paid until then.
For questions or additional information, please call 519-519-652-0230 or email info@thelivingcentre.com
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