Ayurveda for Modern Living
Your Body Knows the Truth. Learn Its Language in Just 90 Minutes a Week.
What if the exhaustion, the restless nights, and the stress you carry weren’t problems to solve but signals to understand?
You don’t need another wellness trend. You need wisdom that’s worked for 5,000 years, now translated for your modern life. Welcome to Ayurveda for Modern Living: a 28-week journey rooted in Vedic texts, that teaches you to read your body’s language, restore your natural rhythms, and rediscover the calm, steady energy you thought was gone forever.
This isn’t about overhauls or impossible routines. It’s about coming home to yourself—one simple, powerful shift at a time.
Starts January 29th
Thursdays 5:30 - 7 PM PT
42
Total Hours
Online
Format
Just $199 To Begin
Start with Part 1
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Discover How Ayurveda Fits Your Life
Is Ayurveda for Modern Living Right for you?
Join Vaidya Jayarajan Kodikannath, Academy Director of Kerala Ayurveda, for a FREE live webinar on January 7, 2026, at 5 PM Pacific.
Get a quick overview of this beginner course, discover how Ayurveda can support your energy, sleep, and daily wellness, and see if the 10-week program is a good fit for you.
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What Awaits You
A life where your mornings feel like awakenings – not obligations.
Imagine 28 weeks from now:
- You wake up before your alarm, not in a panic but with steady, natural energy.
- Your mind is clear by 9am, not foggy until noon.
- You move through your afternoon without that 3pm crash.
- You feel grounded, even when life gets chaotic.
- You finally trust your body again.
- Your days flow with steady energy—not the caffeinated spikes and crashes, but real vitality that carries you through meetings, meals, and moments with your family without burning out.
- When your head hits the pillow, you fall asleep easily and stay asleep.
- Your body knows it’s time to rest because you’ve finally learned to live in sync with its natural intelligence.
This is what happens when you stop fighting your body and start listening to it.
Ayurveda for Modern Living will help you discover why certain foods drain you while others energize, why your sleep patterns shift with the seasons, and how 10 minutes of morning ritual can recalibrate your entire nervous system.
You’ll learn practical, modern applications of ancient wisdom: how to eat for your specific needs (not someone else’s diet plan), how to build self-care routines that actually fit your schedule, and how to recognize—and respond to—your body’s early warning signals before burnout happens.
By the end of this journey, you won’t just understand Ayurveda. You’ll have a personalized toolkit for sustainable wellness that grows with you—no extremes, no rigidity, just wisdom you can trust.
- Discover your unique constitution—your personal blueprint for balance. Finally understand why you respond to food, stress, and sleep differently than everyone else, and get a personalized wellness roadmap to bring your mind and body back into balance.
- End the confusion around food and eating. Learn how to turn everyday ingredients into medicine, master intuitive eating tailored to your constitution, and know exactly which foods energize you versus drain you—no more random diets that don’t work.
- Wake up with natural energy and sleep through the night. Master the simple morning rituals and night time practices that recalibrate your nervous system, eliminate 3pm crashes, and restore the deep, restful sleep you’ve been missing.
- Build resilience that lasts. Learn breathing techniques, seasonal routines, and self-care practices that strengthen your immunity, prevent burnout, and help you recognize your body’s early warning signals before exhaustion hits.
- Gain confidence as your own healer. Walk away with practical home remedies, herbal allies, and the tools to maintain balance through every life change—no expensive supplements or complicated protocols required.
- Transform how you live, not just what you know. This isn’t about theory—it’s about embodying 5,000 years of wisdom in your daily life so that clarity, vitality, and peace become your natural state, not something you’re always chasing.
If you’ve explored Ayurveda before, you know most beginner programs are short, surface level introductions that are high on inspiration but low on real-life application.
Ayurveda for Modern Living was designed to be the opposite.
Where other programs teach you what Ayurveda is, this 28-week journey shows you how to live it, how to listen to your body, and how to create sustainable shifts that support your energy, digestion, sleep, emotions, hormones, and daily rhythm.
Instead of a weekend workshop or a few video lessons, you get:
- 28 weeks of guided integration—not a quick dip
- Live weekly classes that meet you where you are
- Small, practical steps that layer into long-term habit shifts
- Tools that fit into real, modern life (kids, work, stress, schedules and all)
- Teachings rooted in classical Kerala lineage, not surface-level social media Ayurveda
- A personalized roadmap based on your constitution and current imbalances
- A pathway forward, whether you’re here for personal transformation or considering professional study
This isn’t an introduction you finish—it’s a container you emerge from feeling clearer, calmer, revitalized, and connected to the language of your own body
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Just curiosity and the willingness to meet yourself where you are. Part 1 – is the foundation for the entire journey, the rest unfolds from there.
Curriculum Overview
Part 1: Foundations Of ayurveda - 10 weeks (15 Hours)Class One: Relevance of Ayurveda
Kick off your journey by discovering the timeless relevance of Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicine that offers practical insights for modern living. Learn how this holistic approach can be the key to incorporating Ayurvedic principles into your life.
- The uniqueness and relevance of Ayurveda
- More relevance in current times as we have moved away from Nature
- Gives us the User’s Manual for a meaningful and purposeful life
- Irreplaceable science that gives us the wisdom of life, Should co-exist with conventional medical system
- Only science that has a pragmatic framework for prevention of diseases
Class Two: Understanding Life and Its Foundations
Dive into the core principles of Ayurveda with a focus on the structural (5 elements) and functional (3 doshas) basis of life. Explore how understanding these concepts can lead to conscious living and a more harmonious existence, while learning how the mind-body system works and how to use this knowledge to support yourself.
- The Philosophical Background
- The Five Great Elements
- The Three Functional Principles
Class Three: Building blocks of your body systems
Uncover what it truly means to be healthy from both a functional and structural perspective. Understand how your digestion and metabolism actually work—and learn practical ways to support and streamline these critical systems. We’ll explore why mastering these aspects is crucial for your energy, immunity, and overall well-being..
- Agni: The digestive and metabolic basis of life
- Dhatus: The tissues that bring integrity, strength and substance of the body systems
- Role of our senses
- Introduction to disease prevention methods
Class Four: Mind Your Mind: An Ayurvedic Approach to How Your Mental State Influences Your Life
We will explore practical techniques to cultivate emotional balance, mental clarity, and inner peace. We will begin by understanding the nature of the mind, its functions, and its unique qualities, then move into how these aspects shape our overall health and daily life.
- What makes mind challenging to manage
- Understand your best friend- MIND
- Techniques for attaining clarity and mental balance
- Examples of breathing techniques
- Additional tools for cultivating Satva
Class Five: Discovering Your Unique Constitution
Understand your unique Ayurvedic constitution—the key to your structural nature, functional patterns, tendencies, and natural affinities. Learn practical assessment tools you can use for yourself and your family, empowering you to manage health and wellness decisions with awareness and create truly personalized approaches that work.
- Background- We are a reflection of Nature
- What is Prakriti or Ayurvedic Constitution?
- Knowing who you are and how it helps you to align with your purpose in life
- Methods of assessing Prakrit: questionnaire, observation, general touch
Class Six: Achieving Optimal Health
Learn the secrets to healthy elimination and mental well-being. Discover practical strategies to support your body’s natural detoxification processes and nurture your mental health for a balanced life.
- Definition of Health
- The internal and external biorhythms
- Daily routine, Seasonal routine
- Sleep, abhyanga, exercise, seasonal tips
Class Seven: Vitality and Longevity
Discover that true health isn’t just the absence of symptoms—it’s the quality of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance and strength. Gain practical, valuable tools to achieve this complete wellness in your daily life.
- Regeneration Vs Degeneration
- Graceful Aging
- Understanding balance and the importance of ‘Middle Path’
- Code of conduct for ethical and moral behavior that promotes well-being
Class Eight – Eat to Thrive: An Ayurvedic Diet Overview
Explore Ayurvedic principles of nutrition, food energetics, and mindful eating to discover what balanced eating truly means. Learn that you’re not just what you eat, but what you digest—and understand how to customize meals for yourself and your family based on your unique constitutions and the seasons.
- Basic Ayurvedic dietary principles/ nutritional guidelines
- How Food becomes Medicine
- Transformative power of spices
- Formulate simple recipes (or Traditional recipes)
- Healthy gut, healthy you
Class Nine– Self-help tools
Discover that the healer is within you—you have the innate ability to resist imbalances, and that is true immunity. Learn practical ways to support yourself to optimize your immunity and vitality from the inside out
- Concept of immunity in Ayurveda
- Building resilience
- Herbal allies
- Collective well-being
Class Ten – Ayurveda’s Response to Today’s Health Challenges
Understand the root causes and progression of today’s most prevalent health challenges—including obesity, diabetes, stress-related conditions, autoimmune disorders, and cancer. Learn how to potentially prevent these conditions and take action when you recognize early warning signs.
- Metabolic disorders
- Stress
- Autoimmune diseases
Part 2: Diet & Nutrition - 7 Weeks (10.5 Hours)Class 11 – Healthy Diet Review, US Consumer Thoughts (Note, this may be changed after description is done)
Scientific discovery involves constant changes. But fluctuating healthy diet recommendations can be frustrating and harmful. Learn the
consistent and coherent principles of a healthy diet for you.
- Popular Diets
- Ayurvedic diet, how is it different
- Classification of dietary ingredients
- Examples from each group
Class 12 – Following the right Diet
Discover the art and science of Ayurvedic cooking that helps to create balance.
- Eating right for your constitution
- Dietary modifications to create balance
- Examples of disease-specific diet
Class 13 – Dietary Ingredients Group 1
Class 14 – Dietary Ingredients Group 2
Class 15 – Food Combinations
How to enhance favorable and reduce unfavorable actions in food combinations
- Examples of favorable food combinations
- Concept of Viruddha
- Examples of unfavorable food combinations
Class 16 – Personalizing Food
What are the eight factors used to personalize diet
- Nature of the food
- Traditional processing methods
- Food combinations
- Quantity of food
- How geographical location impacts diet
- Time and its impact on nutrition
- Golden rules of consuming food (can be a separate topic)
- Mind-body type of the person and its impact on nutrition
Class 17 – Water/Beverages
Learn the underlying principles of proper hydration
- How to drink water the Ayurvedic way
- Healing water recipes
- Other beverages and their qualities
Part 3: Self - Care Routines - 6 weeks (9 Hours)Ayurveda views self-care as daily alignment with nature’s rhythms — a sacred dialogue between body, mind, and spirit. This session brings ancient self-care wisdom into modern life, offering gentle practices that prevent imbalance and restore harmony. Through sleep, movement, mindfulness, and seasonal awareness, you’ll learn to create a lifestyle that sustains both inner calm and outer vitality.
Class 18: Sleep
In Ayurveda, sleep (Nidra) is one of the three pillars of life, along with diet and energy regulation. In this class, we explore not only how much sleep we need, but the deeper importance of its quality. You’ll learn to align your sleep with natural rhythms, discover simple nighttime rituals, and understand how rest rejuvenates both mind and body.
● Sleep quality and rhythm
● Ayurvedic concept of sleep
● How to sleep like a baby
● Sleep and nutritional choices
● Yoga Nidra
● Herbal teas
Class 19: Exercise
Movement is medicine when practiced in balance. This class explores how to choose the right type and intensity of exercise according to your constitution (Prakriti) and current state (Vikruti).
Learn when and how to move your body for strength and renewal — without depleting energy or creating imbalance.
● Exercise based on your nature
● Right time to exercise
● Caution
Class 20: Mindful Practices – Meditation, Yoga, and Pranayama
Ayurveda and Yoga are sister sciences — together they form a complete path to physical, mental, and spiritual health. In this class, you’ll learn how mindful practices such as meditation, breathwork, and movement strengthen your mind, balance your emotions, and cultivate inner awareness.
● Gym for strengthening your mind
● Breathing exercises to warm and cool your body
● Benefits of Yoga & Pranayama
● Golden rules of Meditation
● Tips and Tricks
Class 21: Seasonal Care
Nature moves in cycles — and so do we. This class explores how to live in harmony with the changing seasons, adjusting your diet, lifestyle, and habits to maintain equilibrium. Learn how to identify when your system needs a gentle cleanse, and how to transition smoothly between seasonal shifts.
● What happens during season shift?
● Diet and lifestyle changes
● Who needs a seasonal cleanse?
● Phases of seasonal cleanse
Class 22: Cleanses and Rejuvenation
Cleansing and rejuvenation are essential for maintaining vitality and preventing disease. In this class, you’ll learn how to listen to your body’s subtle signals, recognize areas of weakness, and apply simple Ayurvedic techniques to restore balance and energy.
● What is your body trying to tell you
● Understanding vulnerable systems
● Ways to strengthen and rejuvenate
Class 23: Work–Life Balance
A balanced life is a happy life — and Ayurveda offers a framework for understanding balance beyond work and rest. Through timeless concepts such as the Four Goals of Life and the Three Pillars of Health, this class helps you reflect on purpose, structure, and fulfillment in your daily routine. You’ll also explore practical strategies for managing stress with grace and awareness.
● The four goals of life
● Three pillars of life
● SWOT analysis based on Ayurveda
● Definition of stress and how to manage
Part 4: Adding Life to Living - 5 Weeks (7.5 Hours)True wellness goes beyond the absence of disease — it is the joyful expression of energy, creativity, and beauty in daily living. This session brings Ayurveda’s deeper promise to life, showing you how to cultivate radiance, resilience, and sustainability in every aspect of your existence.
Class 24: Beauty
Ayurveda teaches that beauty is a reflection of inner harmony. In this class, you’ll explore natural, holistic ways to care for your skin and enhance your glow from within. Learn how to identify your Ayurvedic skin type, create customized routines, and use herbs, diet, and lifestyle practices that nurture authentic, lasting beauty.
● Ayurvedic analysis of skin types
● Customize your skin care routine
● Diet, medicines, and face packs for glowing skin
Class 25: Enhanced Immunity
Your immune system is your body’s expression of resilience — the sum of your digestion, vitality, and emotional balance. This class reveals how to build lasting immunity through Ayurvedic principles, seasonal cleansing, and the use of nourishing Rasayana therapies and recipes for self-defense.
● Unlock the secret to strong immunity
● Seasonal cleanse and immunity
● Recipes for self-defense
● Rasayana medicines
Class 26: Energy
Vitality, or Ojas, is the subtle essence that fuels joy, clarity, and strength. In this class, you’ll learn practical ways to support energy naturally — through food, lifestyle, and rejuvenating herbs. Move beyond quick fixes to discover how true energy comes from harmony between body, mind, and spirit.
● Being energetic inside out, no quick fixes
● 3 energy drink recipes
● Rasayana medicines to improve energy levels and vitality
Class 27: Self-Help and Home Remedies
Ayurveda empowers you to be your own healer. This class provides simple, practical remedies for common imbalances — using everyday ingredients and mindful practices to maintain wellness at home. Learn the “3Ms”
— Meditation, Massage, and Mindful Eating — along with herbal and kitchen-based remedies for digestion, sleep, and radiant skin.
● The magic of 3Ms – Meditation, Massage, and Mindful Eating
● Home remedies to support digestion
● Home remedies for good quality sleep
● Home remedies for glowing skin
● Home remedies for minor ailments
Class 28: Sustainable Living
Ayurveda extends beyond personal health — it’s a philosophy of living in harmony with the world around us. In this closing class, you’ll learn how to bring Ayurvedic principles into your home and lifestyle through sustainability, conscious consumption, and mindful creation. Explore practices that honor the Earth, reduce waste, and connect you to the greater web of life.
● Ethos beyond medicine
● Herb garden at home, regenerative farming, natural insect repellants
● Making simple Ayurvedic products for personal use
● Zero-waste kitchen
What You'll Get
Live Classes
Live ClassesJoin Kerala Ayurveda Academy's expert faculty every Thursday evening, 5:30-7pm PT. Learn in real-time, ask questions, and connect with a community of fellow seekers.
Actionable Tools
Actionable Tools Walk away from every session with practices you can implement immediately. No theory without application—everything you learn, you'll use.
Online Access
Online AccessYour transformation doesn't end when the course does. Revisit recordings and materials when you need to reconnect with the wisdom.
Community
CommunityJoin a global network of 3,000+ alumni who are living proof that ancient wisdom works in modern life. You're not alone on this journey.
Credentials
CredentialsComplete the program and earn recognition from an institution with 75+ years of Ayurvedic excellence—a foundation for further study if you choose.
Personal Assessment
Understand your unique constitution and imbalances with tools that reveal exactly what your body needs to thrive.
Meet Your Faculty
Vaidya Jayarajan Kodikannath
Bachelor of Science (Ayurveda),
Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery
Vaidya Jayarajan Kodikannath is the Academy Director of Kerala Ayurveda USA, responsible for all academic programs conducted internationally by Kerala Ayurveda. He is an experienced Ayurveda Scholar, with a degree in Ayurvedic Medicine from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He has run a successful Ayurvedic Wellness Practice. He is also a lead trainer for domain experts in Ayurveda, focused on developing internal resources through training programs and developing new offerings in Ayurvedic Education. He has rich experience in creating programs in Ayurvedic Wellness and has effectively demonstrated and implemented new offerings in Ayurvedic Wellness in India, Europe and the US. He headed the Ayurveda Expert team in the new research project development at Kerala Ayurveda on Efficacy, Safety and Standardization of Ayurvedic Wellness solutions. He is a member of the Expert Curriculum Committee for Masters in Ayurveda at Bastyr University, Seattle, US, as well as a Board Member of North Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Anyone seeking natural, sustainable wellness—especially if you’re juggling work and family, feeling burned out, or looking for science-backed wisdom that honors both tradition and modern life. No prerequisites required.
You’ll understand your unique constitution, know how to eat and care for yourself according to your body’s specific needs, have daily and seasonal routines that support lasting vitality, and possess the tools to maintain balance through all of life’s changes.
Live online sessions every Thursday evening, 5:30-7pm PT. Can’t make it live? All sessions are recorded for lifetime access.
You must complete Part 1: Foundations before taking any additional parts (it’s the essential blueprint for everything else). After that, you can take additional parts individually or save by enrolling in the complete 4-part journey.
This program was designed for busy people. Sessions are 1.5 hours weekly, and the practices you’ll learn take 10-20 minutes daily. The goal isn’t to add more to your plate—it’s to help you work with your body instead of against it, so everything in your life flows more easily.
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Starts January 29th 2026 - Thursday Evenings 5:30 - 7pm PT