Ayurvedic Living Nutrition:

Correspondence Course

Ayurvedic Living Nutrition

Nourishment by the Elements

“Every tree, plant, shrub, herb, fruit and seed possesses the life-giving juice rasa, the essence of which has been refined since the beginning of life.” ~ Maya Tiwari

Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science

Ayurveda is a holistic health philosophy that honours the uniqueness of each person. Every individual has a specific constitution, shaped by a unique balance of hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters, and responses to the environment. No single diet or lifestyle can serve everyone equally. Ayurveda teaches us to look at the whole person, their digestive system, nervous system, body structure, and more. From this understanding, a diet and lifestyle are designed that truly match the needs of the individual.

In today’s world, countless approaches to nutrition exist—each one promising results. Ayurveda, however, offers a time-tested pathway that has guided humanity for more than 5,000 years. It is a living science that helps us recognize what brings balance and vitality to our own unique body and mind.

What is Ayurvedic Nutrition?

Ayurveda acknowledges that every action has a reaction. The way we eat, breathe, move, think, and relate all influence our well-being. Ayurvedic nutrition invites us to understand the vital energies within foods, herbs, and spices, and how they affect body, mind, and spirit. In learning this, we are guided on a compassionate journey of self-discovery, one that empowers us to become our own best healer.

Food, according to Ayurveda, is more than fuel. It is the carrier and balancer of Prana—the vital life force. Each food has a unique energetic signature that shapes our physical constitution. By exploring these qualities, we learn how to create nourishment that supports harmony and vitality.

What is Living Nutrition?

Living foods are nature’s original foods, abundant with bioactive nutrients, phytonutrients, biologically active water, and life-giving energy. They are whole and unaltered—uncooked, unprocessed, and free from chemical treatments or engineering. When we eat foods in their natural state, we receive their full vitality.

Cultures that thrive on living foods are known for their health, vibrancy, and joy. Fresh plant-based foods strengthen immunity, support balanced pH, and nurture clarity, radiance, and resilience. They are a complete nutritional gift, carrying both physical nourishment and spiritual essence.

Living nutrition restores our relationship with food as sacred. It invites us into harmony with the earth and ourselves, offering a pathway toward health, vitality, and spiritual renewal. As we embody this way of living, we not only heal ourselves but also share this vitality with our loved ones, contributing to a more nourished world.

Curriculum: Ayurvedic Living Nutrition

Bridging the Gap Between Ayurvedic Medicine & Living~Foods Nutrition

“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”~Ayurvedic Proverb

    • The Ancient Ayurvedic and Essene Approach to Healing

    • What is Ayurveda?

    • Who Were the Essenes?

    • The Sevenfold Path of the Essenes

    • Credo of the International Biogenic Society

    • What are living foods?

    • Living Foods: One of Our Keys to Outstanding Health

    • Q & A: About an Ayurvedic Vegetarian Live-Food Lifestyle

    • Mastering the Art of Ayurvedic Living Nutrition

    • The Constitution

    • Understanding Your Constitution

    • Prakruti: Your Original & Permanent Constitution

    • Characteristics of Vata Types

    • Characteristics of Pitta Types

    • Characteristics of Kapha Types

    • Signs of Vata Dosha Imbalance

    • Signs of Pitta Dosha Imbalance

    • Signs of Kapha Dosha Imbalance

    • Constitutional Questionnaires & Diagnostic Worksheet

    • The Terrain: An Introduction

    • The Elements

    • Ayurveda & The Five Elements

    • Memory & The Five Elements

    • The Elements in Life

    • The Elements & The Six Tastes

    • The Five Elements & Man Creation Originating in Cosmic Consciousness

    • Energy, Elements & Elementals

    • Discovering Your Elemental Constitution

    • Elemental Questionnaire

    • Return of the Elements

    • 101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian

    • Acid/Alkaline Balance – The Basics

    • pH Introduction

    • pH Buffer System

    • Detoxification in Relationship to Alkaline /Acid Balance

    • Understanding the Acid/Alkaline Balance

    • Acid/Alkaline Balance: The Cause of Disease

    • Acid/Alkaline Food Chart

    • Acid/Alkaline Balance & Other Food Selection Systems

    • Steps to Alkalize the Body

    • Alkalizing the Body

    • Acid/Alkaline Testing

    • How Are You Tipping the Scales

    • Daily Cycle Tests

    • Wake-Up Test

    • Salivating Test

    • Alkaline Meal Test

    • Acid Meal Test

    • What Are Enzymes

    • What Do Enzymes Do?

    • Enzymes: A Secret of Health & Longevity

    • The Importance of Enzymes

    • Enzymes & Living Foods

    • Live Enzymes: A Must for Good Health

    • Plant Versus Animal Enzymes

    • Plant Enzymes Survive Gut Acids & Support Digestive Fire – Agni

    • Enzymes & Agni

    • Simple Kitchen Enzyme Experiments

    • 101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian- Pamela Rice

    • Agni

    • Ama: The Seed of Disease

    • Rekindling Your Digestive Fire

    • Agni & Ama

    • Ayurveda & Live-Food Dietary Suggestions for Your Constitution

    • Food for Vata Constitutions

    • Foods for Vata Constitutions

    • Foods for Pitta Constitutions

    • Foods for Kapha Constitutions

    • Live-Foods a Natural Way to Eat

    • Ayurvedic Concept of Food Combining

    • The Benefits of a Personalized Ayurvedic Diet

    • Biogenic Nutrition & Ayurveda

    • Bioactive & Biostatic & Biocidic Nutrition

    • The 10 Essentials of a Healthy Biogenic Diet

    • Biogenic Daily Nutrition Guide

    • What is a Healthy Biogenic Acid/Alkaline & Yin/Yang Balance

    • The Five Steps to Eating Live Foods

    • Alkaline/Acid (Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio Balance)

    • Symptoms of Calcium-Phosphorus Imbalance Chart

    • Calcium-Phosphorus Ratio of Foods

    • The Four Transition Dietary Phases

    • The Diet: Consciousness is the Essence of Food

    • Sattvic Diet & The Six Tastes

    • Ayurvedic Dietary Approaches: Sattvic, Rajasic, Tamasic

    • Food for Good Health

    • Sattvic Living Nutrition

    • Live-Food Sattvic Meals

    • Cleansing of the Senses

    • Cleansing of the Tongue

    • Cleansing of the Eyes

    • Cleansing of the Ears

    • Cleansing of the Nose

    • Regulation of Natural Bodily Urges

    • Our Mental Constitutions

    • Peace through a Sattvic Diet

    • Nature’s Sattvic Foods

    • Metal Constitutional Questionnaire

    • Fasting: The Great Physician Within

    • How to Enhance Your Spiritual Life

    • Spiritual Nutrition: Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Spirit

    • Food & Spirituality

    • Spiritualizing Your Eating

    • Purpose of an Individualized Approach to an Evolutionary Diet

    • 7-Ways to Nourish Yourself at Work –Without Eating a Thing

    • Nourishing Wisdom: Eating Consciously

    • The Local Food Movement

    • The Slow Food Movement

    • Vegan Organic Gardening Movement

    • The Edible Wild Plant Movement

    • Permaculture Movement

    • Glossary

    • Bibliography

This course provides a solid foundation for comprehending Ayurvedic Living Nutrition as a natural healing art and science. The training intensives will offer ample hands-on experience.

The following information will answer your questions about how to use these lessons.

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The Process

Part I

Welcome to the Correspondence Course’s home study section. This section has been designed to offer you the flexibility to learn at your own pace. You will have access to all the course material, and you can complete the lessons at your convenience. Once you have completed each lesson, you can choose to submit your work either through postal mail or email. Our team of experts will review your work, provide constructive feedback, and monitor your progress to ensure that you are on the right track. We are committed to helping you achieve your educational goals, and we look forward to supporting you throughout this exciting journey.

Part II

As part of this course, you can take the Advanced Study & Research module, which allows you to explore topics in greater depth. You have the freedom to choose an area of study that interests you and inspires your curiosity. To complete this module, you need to write a thesis of 5,000 words and conduct a research project within the given time frame. Additionally, you must provide a couple of workshops or lectures to your community and document them. This will help you develop expertise, knowledge, and confidence in your chosen field.

One-on-One Sessions

These sessions are available to support and deepen your learning experience of this course. You can book three sessions of 30 minutes each, either over the phone or through Zoom. These sessions will guide and advise you on your research thesis project. To book these sessions, you must submit your proposed thesis topic and schedule the sessions in advance.

Your Guide & Adviser: Shantree Kacera

During this course, you will discover the following:

  • Your Unique Constitutional Body Type.

  • The fascinating interplay of the Five Elements (Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth). Methods to harmonize your constitutional nature (through food, herbs, and lifestyle)

  • These are simple ancient secrets to getting the life force, digestive fire, and life essence from your food.

  • The Kitchen Pharmacy: Usage of Kitchen Herbs and Spices

  • Cleansing and Rejuvenation tips (including recipes for herbalized massage oils and medicated herbal tincture)

  • The Sattvic Diet- The Healing Diet

  • The Conscious Eating Kitchen

  • Food Antidotes

  • The Art of Live-Food Cuisine Ayurvedically for You and your family.

We’ll explore the common myths and realities of the different perceptions of vegetarianism to live-food concepts.

  • Inadequate protein consumption?

  • Calcium and Iron Deficiencies?

  • Plant sources don’t have enough protein?

  • High or Low Protein Diet?

  • Is vegetarianism imbalanced and complicated?

  • Is the diet bland?

The Four Phases of Transition

Phase 1 ~ Red Meat

Phase 2 ~ Poultry

Phase 3 ~ Fish

Phase 4 ~ Dairy and Eggs

  • The Vegetarian Diet in Perspective

  • Beyond Vegetarianism

As a part of this course, it is essential for students to comprehend the science and art of ‘Healing Tastes.’ Throughout the world, tastes have played a crucial role in healing and maintaining health, irrespective of culture. Unfortunately, the ‘Healing Tastes’ are missing from our modern-day diet. Each taste affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We will cover each taste in theory and practice as we prepare our delicious meals.

This informative course will provide guidance on creating Ayurvedic Balanced Vegetarian Live-Food meals. We will suggest ways to customize your diet and herbal regime to balance your energies and achieve physical equilibrium and harmony.

Food is the Prana of all beings. Life is a continual search for nourishment: physical, mental or spiritual.

Topics

  • acred Nourishment

  • Nature of Food

  • Ayurvedic Dietetics

  • The Healing Tastes

  • Healthy Physical Digestion Signs

  • Healthy Mental Digestion Signs

  • The Principle of Habituation

  • The Ritual of Eating

  • Bioenergetic Assimilation

  • Application of Essene Food Principles

  • Enzymes: A Secret of Health & Longevity

  • A Basic Key to Health: Acid-Alkaline Balance

  • Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Nutritional Medicine

  • 101 Reasons Why Meat is Unnecessary for a Healthy Life

  • External Factors Influencing Dietary Regimes

  • Treatment of the Digestive System

  • Creating a Menu Plan

The nutritional and dietary principles that you will learn from us are based on the extensive experience of Shantree, a professional nutritionist, who has spent over 45 years working with whole natural live foods. He has also applied these principles to his own body and observed their effects on his patients. The information you receive, including handouts and recipes, is based on his research and writings.


The Recipes

All the recipes we offer prioritize the use of fresh, organic ingredients and follow live-food preparation procedures. With a thorough understanding of proper nutrition and food preparation, you can create a delicious menu that consistently balances your constitution, maintains a well-balanced pH, and provides nourishment or detoxification while also warming or cooling the body in accordance with the season.

  • Multi-Cultural Cuisine

  • Masala Recipes

  • Nuts and Seed Recipes

  • Grain Recipes

  • Exciting Vegetable Entrees

  • Soups

  • Salads

  • Salad Dressings

  • Sauces, Spreads and Dips

  • Sea Vegetable Recipes

  • Fruit Dishes

  • Fermented Foods

  • Dehydrated Foods

  • Delectable Desserts and Smoothies

Homework

After completing each lesson, you will receive homework which needs to be submitted back to us. You don’t need to send your reference files. However, you are required to keep us informed about the progress of your projects. This includes updates on your reference file, reports on your herbal preparations, and the status of your plant press and herbarium.

Time Completion

You have the flexibility to complete the lessons at your own pace. However, to make the most of the course, we suggest you set a regular time to work on each lesson. Setting aside an evening or an afternoon on the weekends will help you maintain your progress. On average, it takes about a year to finish the course, although some students have completed it in just six months and others may take a few years. Please note that we expect you to complete the course within a year. If you fail to do so, you will be charged a $100 time-extension fee for each additional year after the two-year mark.

Questions

One of the key features of these lessons is the personalized attention given to your inquiries, assignments, and feedback. We welcome your feedback, preferred herbal recipes, and suggestions.

Certificate

After successfully completing all the lessons and homework, every student will be awarded a stunning Ayurvedic Live-Food Nutrition Certificate. This certificate recognizes that you have conducted a comprehensive and detailed study of Live-Food Nutrition and is considered superior to other professional live-food centers. This course has a remarkable reputation and is highly esteemed in the industry.

Lessons 1-10 & An Adobe DVD Reader

This Ayurvedic Nutrition Correspondence Course comes as an Adobe DVD Reader. The course is easy to follow and keeps your lessons, homework and other course material together. The material and textbooks are sent out when we receive your tuition.

Textbooks for the Course

  • Conscious Living e-Manual: The Sevenfold Path to Peace, Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D. & Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, 2002

  • Spiritual Nutrition (Dr. Gabriel Cousens, North Atlantic Books 2005)

  • Conscious Eating (Dr. Gabriel Cousens, North Atlantic Books 2003)

  • Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine (Dr. Gabriel Cousens, North Atlantic Books 2005)

  • Ayurvedic Healing: A Comprehensive Guide (Dr. David Frawley, Lotus Press, 2001)

  • Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing (Dr. Vasant Lad, Lotus Press, 1983)

  • Ayurveda Tongue Diagnosis (Shantree Kacera, Lotus Press 2006)

  • Ayurvedic Living Nutrition: Adobe DVD Reader (Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D.)

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Begin Your Journey

Cost:  $1500
Payment plans are available at check-out.

Includes:

  • All Correspondence Course Material

  • One-on-One Sessions

  • Taxes where applicable

Shipping is $50 for North America
Shipping is $100 for International

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