Rasa Yoga School of Ayurveda Yoga
All Things Ayurveda Yoga
Are you ready to experience wellness on an entirely new level?
Discover a perspective of health that considers all aspects of YOU and aligns you with the wisdom of Nature.
Wellness Program Challenge
Collect at least 25 stars and earn a $15 credit!
Summer Metamorphosis
Keep your practice going during the summer season. Come to class, collect stars, win! Weekly prize drawings 2 Grand Prize Winners receive a $50 Gift Card to a Local Business
Here are the details!
Attend class in person or livestream (camera on): 1 star
Attend Basics & Breathing 7/28: 1 star
Attend Shanti Soiree 7/30: 1 star
Register for Beyond the Mat: 2 stars
Read the 8 Limbs Blog: 1 star
Being Ayurveda Yoga & Meditation Intensive Dharana
Focus your mind and develop the mental edge in the Meditation Intensive: Dharana weekend workshop. Being Ayurveda Yoga classes illuminate nature's building blocks and our connection to it. Combined, harness the power of your mind and nature and bring the power of Ayurveda Yoga into your life.
Meditation Intensive: Dharana
September 19-20, 2026
12 PM-4 PM both days
Being Ayurveda Yoga
Fall 2026-Spring 2027
Thursdays 5:30-6:45 PM
Typically 1st 3 Thursdays of the month
Being Yoga All Invited: All Things Ayurveda Yoga
Join Padma for an inspiring evening learning about how Ayurveda Yoga empowers you to feel healthy and whole.
Monday, August 17
7:15 PM
3 Cikitsa Modules & Being Ayurveda Yoga
Changes how you see the body, how you understand yourself and how you move through the world. This is not theory sitting on a shelf, but applicable wisdom you will feel in your practice and in your daily life.
Upcoming Cikitsa Modules:
August 15-26, 2026
February 20-21, 2027 (6 AM-4 PM)
May 15-16, 2027 (6 AM-4 PM)
Being Ayurveda Yoga
Fall 2026-Spring 2027
Thursdays 5:30-6:45 PM
Typically 1st 3 Thursdays of the month
Being Ayurveda +
Being Yoga
Unlock clarity across all aspects of life through ancient and practical wisdom. Being Ayurveda classes illuminate nature's building blocks and our connection to it. Being Yoga, an ongoing lecture class with a practical lab, integrates yoga psychology.
Together, they paint a complete picture of your highest self and how to fully realize that excellence.
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Cikitsa Module 1
August 15-16 6 AM-4 PM
Hone your skills of observation, develop your functional knowledge and focus on the modalities to enable self-awareness and coherent innervation of the brain, breath, body and emotion.
Upcoming Cikitsa Modules:
February 20-21, 2027 (6 AM-4 PM)
May 15-16, 2027 (6 AM-4 PM)
Being Yoga All Invited:
Beyond the Mat Kickoff
Join Padma for an engaging evening learning about how Beyond the Mat will empower you to upgrade your practice on every level.
Monday, August 31
7:15 PM
Wellness is Your Natural State
Picture a state of wholeness and vitality that encompasses every aspect of who you are. You are more than a body and you can thrive far beyond treating the symptoms of sickness.
Ayurveda Yoga empowers you to realize Total Health:
- Discover a perspective of health that offers tools for you to be well established physically, psychologically and spiritually.
- Develop lifestyle practices that support true nourishment and living in alignment with the rhythms and cycles of Nature.
- Embrace a perspective and worldview that empowers you to step into a role of co-creator in manifesting the abundance and vitality that is your natural state.
Ayurveda and Yoga are meant to be practiced together. You will realize through experience that health is a choice and develop the discernment to know what is needed to support sustainable well being.
"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied." - Herophilus
A total shift in perspective on health!
Sickness vs. Wellness
- Do you feel frustrated with the typical approach of just treating symptoms and are ready to thrive on a whole new level?
- Are you ready to move beyond the latest and greatest fad systems of diet and exercise?
- Are you looking for education and working with a guide that focuses on wellness rather than a sickness mentality of "what's wrong"?
Ayurveda and Yoga are Sister Sciences
Ayurveda is the Science of Life
Through Ayurveda you learn about the elements that make up all of creation - including you and your unique nature. Think of Ayurveda as the "who", "what", "where", and "when". Yoga is the "how". Practiced together, Ayurveda Yoga can transform your health and wellbeing!
Rasa Yoga School of Ayurveda Yoga
Ayurveda Yoga Training
“Together, Ayurveda and Yoga afford a complete discipline, one which can transform our existence from the physical to the deepest spiritual levels of our being with extraordinary vitality and creativity on all levels.”
– Dr. David Frawley
Applied Ayurveda
Biweekly classes offering you the tools, guidance, and space to embody this ancient wisdom in modern life. Offered in-person and livestream.
Ayurveda Yoga Certification Krama I
Weekend workshops plus weekly lecture classes focused on knowledge and experience of Ayurveda Yoga principles.
Ayurveda Yoga Certification Krama II
Weekend workshops plus weekly lecture classes focused on deeper experience and application of Ayurveda Yoga principles.
Being Ayurveda
Weekly lecture for the student seeking to assimilate and integrate Ayurveda into his/her life practice.
Vitality Begins Here
Applied
Ayurveda
The wisdom of Ayurveda Yoga is not meant to stay on the pages it is meant to be lived.
Applied Ayurveda Yoga offers you the tools, guidance, and space to embody this ancient wisdom in modern life.
- Perspective and worldview
- Elements
- Doshas
- Gunas
Experience more calm, vitality, clarity and connection in your everyday life. Understand yourself and others with empathy through real life application of Ayurveda Yoga.
Observe, Empower and Apply
Yoga Cikitsa &
Ayurveda Training
Learn to hone your skills of observation through a deeper understanding of your body. These modules will further develop your functional knowledge of the muscles and structure in relationship to the development of proprioceptor and interoceptor abilities. We will further focus on the modalities to enable self-awareness and coherent innervation of the brain, breath, body and emotion.
Module 1: August 15-16, 2026
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Ayurveda Yoga Certification
Krama I
Develop understanding, experience and the ability to apply newfound wisdom to your personal practice leading toward transformation and the ability to study Ayurveda Yoga more in depth.
- Samkhya Cosmology
- Elements & Chakras
- Gunas, Ayurveda Yoga Psychology
- Energetics & Essences
- Eastern Anatomy in Sound
- Principles of Nourishment for Life: Detoxification and Purification
Ayurveda Yoga Certification
Krama II
Deepen experience and application of wisdom in your personal practice, experience transformation though the in-depth study of Ayurveda Yoga.
- Samkhya Cosmology
- Vayus and the Energetic Flow of Health
- Rasa and Psychological Wellness
- Agni Yoga: Ojas, Tejas and Prana
- Sapta Dhatus: Bodily Tissues
- Ayurvedic Herbology
Assimilation and Integration
Being
Ayurveda
Being Ayurveda is for the committed student to assimilate the teachings of Ayurveda so that integration takes place in the student’s life practice. In Being Ayurveda classes, students are guided to deeper understanding and application of the principles of Ayurveda Yoga.
- Samkhya Cosmology
- Elements & Chakras
- Layers of the Mind
- Gunas, Ayurveda Yoga Psychology
- Diet for Type & Season
- Ayurvedic Herbology
- Bodily Tissues & Health
- Vayus and the Energetic Flow of Health
Fall 2026-Spring 2027
Thursdays 5:30-6:45 PM
Typically 1st 3 Thursdays of the month
Really get the secrets of Yoga
Being Yoga
Being Yoga is an ongoing workshop guided by Padma Shakti teaching on yoga principles that apply and have great impact on daily life. A physical practice on the mat called Master Sadhana is included in the Being Yoga course and gives a more meaningful purpose to asana (yoga postures).
- Being Yoga Psychology Lecture classes
Monday Evenings at 7:15 PM, typically Monday Night Being Yoga meets the 1st 3 Mondays of the month. - Being Yoga Master Sadhana
Saturday mornings 6-8:30 AM, typically 2 Saturdays per month (schedule varies depending on other trainings scheduled)
Enrollment is Rolling
Learn about Being Yoga + Being Ayurveda
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the benefits of going to an Ayurveda Yoga School?
What is the difference between Yoga and Ayurveda?
How do these workshops complement my general classes?
Do workshops count toward Continuing Education?
Are Master's Path Programs Yoga Alliance Registered?
Does Rasa Yoga offer Yoga Therapy Training?
The Yoga Expo
Padma Shakti, Featured Presenter
Only the Greatest Podcast
Yoga Alliance
RYS 200, 300 and 500
IAYT Accredited
Rasa Yoga Cikitsa (Therapy) Program
