Outline

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS FOUNDATIONAL COURSE?

Ayurvedic Course Units

	STUDY UNITS	DELIVERY
HLTAYV001	Develop Ayurvedic practice	Outline
HLTAYV002	Make Ayurvedic lifestyle assessments	Outline
HLTAYV003	Provide Ayurvedic bodywork therapies	Outline
HLTAYV004	Provide Ayurvedic lifestyle advice	Outline
HLTAYV005	Provide advice on Ayurvedic nutrition	Outline
HLTINF004	Manage the prevention and control of infection	Online
CHCCOM006	Establish and manage client relationships	Online
CHCDIV001	Work with diverse people	Online
CHCLEG003	Manage legal and ethical compliance	Online
CHCPRP003	Reflect on and improve own professional practice	Online
HLTAAP002	Confirm physical health status	Online
HLTWHS004	Manage work health and safety	Online
HLTAID011	Provide first aid.
BSBSMB404	Undertake small business planning	Online
CHCAGE001	Facilitate the empowerment of older people	Online
CHCCCS001	Address the needs of people with chronic disease	Online
CHCDIS007	Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability	Online
CHCMHS001	Work with people with mental health issues	Online

PROFESSIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT AND ETHICS
FOR AYURVEDIC LIFESTYLE CONSULTANTS

PRELIMINARIES

This Code of Ethics has been established by the Ethics Committee of the Health Institute Australasia (HIA).

The purpose of this Code of Ethics is to set a standard of conduct for Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant  students and graduates of HIA.

In this document, An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant, or student, hereinafter may be referred to as an ALC Consultant.

By becoming a student of HIA, the ALC Consultant accepts this Code of Ethics and will conduct her/his professionalism accordingly.

Any serious breach of this Code of Ethics will subject the ALC Consultant to disciplinary action by the Executive Committee  HIA.

CODES

1. The primary function of the Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant is to maintain the health of the healthy and provide accurate and relevant advice to support the health of the individual.

2. In doing so, however, the Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not attempt to diagnose a disease in the person and purport to cure a disease.

3. The Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not prescribe medication of any sort to alleviate the signs, symptoms or disease-related conditions.

4. Upon being aware that the client/patient’s condition is beyond the scope of her/his qualification, the Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must refer the patient to a fully qualified Ayurvedic practitioner or to other health professionals as s/he considers appropriate

5. The Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must be humble, kind and caring, and when Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant realises that s/he may not be able to help the diseased, s/he must refer the diseased to other health professionals who may be able to help further.

6. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must act or do such things so as to improve and learn more about her/his art of practice for the benefit of her/his patients.

7. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not attend to a diseased under the influence of alcohol, drugs or any such substance that may impair her/his judgment as an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant, and health professional.

8. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not engage in sexual conduct with the client/patient.

9. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must practice within the legal system of the Commonwealth, State or Territory and must not knowingly breach any such law that may bring disrepute to her/his colleagues, the Association and or the College.

10. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not refuse to treat a patient on the basis of religion, caste, colour, creed, sex, ethnic origin, marital status, cultural background or any such thing that may be discriminatory.

11. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must maintain a good standard of practice with all relevant records of the client/patient and treatment provided, and keep such record/s in a secure area.

12. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not provide false and/or misleading information that may be incriminating, such as claiming to cure a disease or condition that may give false hope to the patient.

13. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not give false or misleading information about the therapy s/he is proposing for the client/patient that can not be substantiated.

14. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must obtain consent from the patient for any procedural treatment provided or proposed.

15. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not divulge information obtained from the patient in confidence without the consent of the patient concerned, however, an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant with her/his colleagues may discuss matters with the consent of the patient for the benefit of the patient.

16. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must not engage herself/himself in any way that will in any form or manner denigrate the Association, the College, and bring disrepute to her/his colleagues.

17. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must clearly display within the premises the trading hours and the cost of services provided.

18. An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant must do or act in such a manner that will bring the College, to a high standing within the community in general and bring the profession to a high standard of health care.

Subjects:

UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE NATURE OF YOUR MIND AND BODY

(Foundations of Ayurvedic medicine, fundamentals and history, AVAT, AYPHIL)
Overview and introduction to the unchanging nature of Ayurvedic science, with an experiential understanding of its utility as a healing science.

• The science (veda) of life (ayur)
• Origins and history (ithias) of Ayurveda and the philosophies of India
• Evolution of Ayurveda (avataran)
• Philosophy of Ayurveda
• Sanskrit and illustrate its calligraphy (practicum)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COSMOS, WISDOM OF THE AGES

(Basic principles of Ayurveda AYUPRIN)
Ayurveda recognises that whatever is present in the universe, is also being presented in the human body:
a. Central principles
– Creation theory: History and background concerning the origin of life and consciousness
– Macrocosm and microcosm
– Five great elements, panchamahabhootas
– Three qualities, gunas
– Three biological principles, doshas
b. Classical principles and practices
c. Relationship of Ayurveda to holistic health, mental health; life mission and success.

DISCOVERING YOUR AYURVEDIC BODY TYPE

(Constitutional analysis AYUPRKTI)
Students are introduced to the concept of the three doshas and how Ayurveda conceives the body-mind in health and disease.
a. Nature (prakruti)
b. Ayurvedic Body types

DEFINING THE AYURVEDIC BODY

Sharira: Snatomy and physiology (SHAR)

• Healthy Body – Western A&P TBA
• Ayurvedic Anatomy & Physiology I
  – Knowledge that how the tridosha (vata, pitta, kapha) work in our body
  – the assessments of body types;
  – understanding the physiology related to the sub-doshas.
  – how to correlate qualities, functions and places of dosha in our body.
• Ayurvedic Anatomy & Physiology 2
  – The sub-doshas of Vata, Pitta and Kapha that function within our body.
  – Detailed understanding of prakruti and vikruti (essential and present condition).
  – Assessment of doshic imbalances.
  – Determination of subsequent methods to rectify imbalances.
  – Clinical understanding of seven tissues (dhatus).
  – Metabolic function of dhatus and their affect on well-being.
• Ayurvedic Physiology 3
  – Working knowledge of channels (srotas) and their role in health and disease.
  – The role of agni in clinical physiology and pathology.
  – Knowledge of what is ama and how it takes form in our body
  – Factors responsible for causing physical and mental ama.

AYURVEDIC PSYCHOLOGY

Ayurvedic and Yogic approaches in working with the mind.
Co-requisites: Yoga and Meditation

SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DISEASE

Students are more deeply grounded in how Ayurveda conceives the body-mind in health and disease and taken through the process of:

• Understanding the fundamentals and nature of health and disease
• Ayurvedic Clinical Diagnosis
• Ayurvedic Clinical Pathology
• Pulse Diagnosis

AYURVEDIC NUTRITION & EATING RIGHT WITHOUT DIETING

Aahar: Ayur Nutrition & Clinical Nutrition (AHR)

• Ayurvedic and Western views on Nutrition. AHR-1
  Introduction to nutrition. Understanding ayurvedic and western food fundamentals and eating for health.
• Diet and Constitution AHR-2
  – Eating for Health.
  – The energetics of different types of food and recipes which then can selected after taking into account an individual’s diet and constitution.
• Ayurvedic Kitchen Herbs. AHR-3
  – The use of medicinal fruits, vegetables and the study of 22 commonly available Ayurvedic kitchen herbs
  – Their application in a clinical setting to bring about balance to the mind-body.
• Ayurvedic Cooking for Nutrition
  Practicum. AHR-4
  The knowledge and skills to prepare Ayurvedic sattvic meals, recipes for different seasons and the significance of Ayurvedic cooking in Ayurvedic psychology, yoga and meditation sciences.
• Food and Mood AHR-5
  – Food and subtle energy.
  – Diet, mind and yoga.
• Ayurvedic Cinical Nutrition.
  Food as medicine.
  Treatment of various diseases and disorders using food articles as medicine. AHR-6

AYURVEDIC HERBOLOGY AND MATERIA MEDICA

Herbs are nature’s healing gift to human kind and have been used for their maintenance and curative purposes throughout history by almost all the cultures of our world.
– Ayurvedic Materia Medica I: Introduction to Ayurvedic medicine.
– Ayurvedic Materia Medica II: Anupana, & Herb preparation and usage in different conditions.
– Ayurvedic Materia Medica III: Detailed study of tailam (medicated oil) and ghritam
(medicated ghee) and their preparation and selection for different conditions.
– Ayurvedic Herbology & Pharmacy

VIRILIFICATION, REJUVENATION AND LONGEVITY (RASVAJ)

• Health, Longevity and the Disease process
• Ayurvedic rejuvenation therapies (rasayana) RASVAJ-1
• Virilification and Aphrodisiacs (vajikaran)  RASVAJ-2
• Introduction to the five physiological detoxification & purification processes, the 5 actions (Panchakarma therapy)

CREATING HEALTH THROUGH BALANCE (SVRIT)

• Ayurvedic Psychology and Spirituality 1 – non-physical aspects of ayus (life) that play a critical role in physical and mental health and enhance our consciousness.
• Ayurvedic Psychology & Spirituality II – Three gunas, antahkarana (mind, ego, intellect and consciousness) and life supporting diet, aahara, lifestyle, vihara and conduct, achara.
• Ayurvedic Psychology & Spirituality III – The psychological development of the Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant. This period will include un-supervised clinical work wherein students will be required to continue with the therapies that they learnt in their practicum and complete a number of case studies for each therapy at their own location.

IMPROVING YOUR LIFE USING THE WISDOM OF THE AGES

Practical Tools for Health, Personal Development and Stress Management

• Concept of exercise in Ayurveda.
• Stress management
• Fundamentals of Sanskrit – calligraphy (practicum)
• Purification and cleansing therapies
• Knowledge and skills to assess cases

REVITALISATION THROUGH AYURVEDIC MASSAGE

• Principles and fundamental techniques of massage. AYMAS1
• Ayurvedic massage principles. ABH1
• Relaxation Massage practicum AYMAS1