Master Class Package Description:

Ayurveda is a personalized approach to health: knowing the mind-body type allows one to make optimal choices about diet, exercise, supplements, and all other aspects of one’s lifestyle throughout the year. In this Master Class, discover how to see the world through “Ayurveda glasses” to integrate a personalized approach to wellness in your practice.

As a result of enrolling in the Ayurveda Master Class Package, you will:

• Develop a basic understanding of the elemental energies of the world from an Ayurvedic perspective
• Learn how those energies combine to create an individual constitution
• Develop effective self-care and patient-care strategies by understanding how the energetic shifts of days, seasons and stages of life impact the individual
• Develop a basic understanding of how elemental energies shift from season to season
• Learn which tastes can balance which season’s energies
• Learn how to craft a menu of seasonal foods for maximum wellness

Who should participate:

Yoga practitioners; nutritionists; health coaches; complementary and integrative health practitioners; nurses anyone interested in learning how to incorporate proven natural wellness practices into patient-care and self-care.

Pre-requisites:  None

Format:  Self-paced, On-Demand Online Program

Approximate Time to Complete: 2-3 hours total

Additional course materials required: N/A

What you will get:

• Lifetime access to the Master Class presentations
• Presentation PDF transcripts
• Master Class Handouts
• Certificate of Completion (upon completion of required course content and assessments)
• 2 CEUs (MUIH, Yoga Alliance, NBHWC, NANP Category I)*

*Additional board and professional organizations may accept this offering for continuing education requirements.  CEUs should be verified with the individual professional organization(s) for which you are seeking continuing education credit.

Presenter Bio:

Diane Finlayson brings to her position deep institutional history in the field of yoga therapy as well as experience in curriculum development, program design, and teaching. Her master’s thesis was on the practice of Ayurveda in America.

Prior to joining MUIH, Finlayson was the owner of yama studio (Yoga, Ayurveda & Meditation Arts) where she trained over 400 yoga therapists, therapeutic yoga teachers, ayurvedic wellness coaches, and meditation facilitators between 2000 and 2015. Hers was one of the first three studios to offer Yoga Teacher Training in the Baltimore area.

She has taught yoga philosophy and Ayurveda courses at Johns Hopkins Odyssey and Osher, Towson Osher, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Carroll Community College and the former Baltimore Hebrew University.

As an avid lifelong learner, Finlayson feels it is important to foster the ongoing love of learning and curiosity in those she teaches, and is committed to maintaining her connection to being a student as well as a teacher.

Offering Details:

*This offering is eligible for the PCE MUIH Community Benefit program. To redeem the benefit:

·        MUIH Employees and Current MUIH Students, retrieve promo codes for use upon enrollment through MyMUIH at MUIH PCE Benefits. 

·        MUIH Alumni, email alumni@muih.edu with your name and course/program of interest to request a promo code upon verification of alumni status.

Note: Only one promo code may be used at a time.

For questions about the Master Class, or CEUs, contact ce@muih.edu.

Refer to the minimum technical requirements for this course here: http://muih.edu/academics/online-learning/technical-requirements

For registration technical support, please contact 1-844-414-5052 or support@instructure.com. View a helpful video tutorial of Catalog and Canvas, PCE registration and online learning platforms.

Refund Policy:  This Master Class is non-refundable upon purchase.