THE AYURVEDA NATUROPATH

Ayurveda International Academy offers a new Professional Title coming from the wise Tradition of Ancient Time

The science of Naturopathy is spreading increasingly throughout the West due to the soaring demand for natural methods and products concerning Well-Being, Health and Longevity issues.

Ayurveda’s current diffusion in our hemisphere has bestowed a modern science direction on her due to the need of combining different practices, maintaining a coherent, though not always uniform, vision on health issues and individual Well-Being.

Despite sharing the same way of dealing with health problems with natural methods absolutely devoid of side effects, Naturopathy practiced in the West is different from the type practiced in the East especially compared to what is pursued in India where this science is characterized by a different history and tradition.

Naturopathy in general – in the West and in the East – is essentially a therapy without drugs. Restoring and preserving the optimal state of health is achieved trough practices and remedies that are necessarily combined with a life-style that is in harmony with natural laws.

In India many Naturopathy principles are embedded in people’s family, dietary, hygienic and behavioral habits. They have, thus, been transmitted for thousands of years from generation to generation. Women have played a crucial role in conserving this inestimable heritage of Well Being and Health; it is thanks to them that this heritage has been kept alive within families.


Prakrita Chikitsa historical and philosophical basic principles date back from before the remedies themselves were born. The most ancient principles of this science come form the philosophical system of ancient India, they are found in the Veda, the ancient texts of Ayurveda and in Yoga.

There are, therefore, many similarities between the theory of Indian Naturopathy and the premises of all other traditional ancient sciences. It is often hard to discern between these practices due their common root. Since Prakrita Chikitsa became part of family routine, it gradually lost its philosophical ties and turned into a series of everyday habits.

On the contrary Ayurveda, being the "Science of life", had to face the problems of illness and healing, though upholding her vast set of rules prescribing how to preserve optimal health.

In order to do so, it did not take an empirical approach to health, but it safeguarded its own science, maintaining a deep bond with the principles of India philosophical systems.


One of Prakrita Chikitsa fundamental principles concerning preserving good Health and Well Being says that when people expose themselves to nature whims and allow themselves to get excessive gratification out of desire, they get sick.

People ought to, therefore, look for a way to regain and maintain the mental and physical equilibrium. People giddiness and their giving into the whims of nature are the two fundamental elements that determine people’s health. They also constitute the ground on which the Ayurveda Naturopath has to be confident wandering around on in order to fulfil his task of Well-Being operator.

An other fundamental principle of this natural method says that healing comes from within the body. The body, in fact, has some self-healing forces that work to keep up its health and healing. These self-healing forces heal.


People, according to Ayurveda – and according to Prakrita Chikitsa as well – are made of five mahabhute. These are prithvi, jala , agni, vayu e akasha. They are present in specific proportions within the different types of body tissues. When the relation between these factors is unaltered, people are in good health.

The equilibrium of these mahabhuta, however, is constantly subject to changes due to the physiological processes that take place within one’s body, to the mental and physical activity and to the environmental, climatic situation.

In order to keep these five elements – inclined for different reasons to increase or diminish – in constant equilibrium, people have to keep them balanced within their body through the intake of the right food, drinks and air.

It is necessary to ensure that the substances eaten are exactly of the same kind of which the body is in need. For the ordinary man it is not always easy to follow this rule. Habit often pushes us to indulge in excesses in order to satisfy out desires, and in doing so, alter the equilibrium of the elements out of which the body built.

This altered state of things is the origin of all evil, be it physical, mental or spiritual. In order to fix this condition or prevent its occurrence it is necessary to absorb food, drinks and other natural substances in the right amount. Moreover, one need to try pursuit a life style in harmony with the environment, the seasons and one’s own vital rhythm as much as it is possible in our modern times.


Prakrita Chikitsa or Indian Naturopathy has such important, peculiar characteristics that even a revolutionary man such as Mahatma Gandhi tried to protect them. According to Gandhi the only way to live in harmony with the universe was that of embracing a practice of life that would reflect the universe order.

Prakrita Chikitsa provides the best tool to reach such goal, as it is capable of uniting the simplicity of methods with the extraordinary efficacy of results. To be faithful to this precious cultural heritage the Ayurveda Internationla Academy has devised a course that includes the study of the fundamental principles of Ayurveda.

The result is a program that unites a traditional practice of great efficacy to a unitary philosophical scheme explaining the deep and extended power of the Ayurveda Naturopath action.

This learning process includes a gradual engagement with the philosophy of Ayurveda, together with the acquaintance of a practice that uses natural methods only and pays particular attention to the environment, the seasons, and the mental and physical hygiene of people.

Furthermore, the Three-year-Course emphasizes the choice of appropriate food in relation with one’s individual body-build, the environment, the time of the year and the knowledgeable cookery of every ingredient. The Ayurveda International Academy with its courses in Ayurveda Naturopathy wants to bring back to the individual and the family the responsibility of optimal health.

Because of this reason it chose these two systems, the most ancient of those that have been transmitted, as the precious heritage needed to study and practice Well Being.

This is Naturopathy to which Ayurveda International Academy turns to for the porfessional traninig of Ayurveda Naturopaths.


This excellent approach to health, that persisted unaltered for thousands of years, is the heritage the Ayurveda International Academy employs to structure its courses to train Ayurveda Naturopaths. Its basic principles, simple and clear, conserve a priceless value nowadays.

The Ayurveda Naturopath, with the natural methods and techniques at his disposal, provides assistance to the well being of the individual, the environment and society. His field of competence goes from different kinds of physical exercises, diets and fasting to detoxify the body and allow it to eliminate all the waste.

In order to guarantee the right nutritional intake, the Well Being specialist teaches the best nutrition for each kind of body-built and the appropriate use of spice and drinks. To provide assistance in certain pathologies, he or she suggests vegetal remedies, performs massage techniques and sets the rules for a correct daily and seasonal routine.

To put the mind at peace Naturopaths use mental exercises and meditation techniques, while they advise specific Yoga Asana in order to keep the body flexible and in a good condition. Training as a Ayurveda Naturopath includes acquiring the knowledge of the most important massage techniques to rejuvenate the body, increase physical energy and mental peace. Moreover, these specialists have to gain a philosophical understanding of the main herbs that are the important ingredients of the remedies that benefit people’s health. They also know the fundamental Hatha Yoga positions and Pranayama techniques to improve physical and psychic conditions, the basis for individual well being.

This is, in short, the basis of Prakrita Chikitsa and Ayurveda Naturopathy as the Ayurveda International Academy intends to spread it in the European Union countries, training Well-Being operators or Naturopati Ayurveda according to the ancient tradition that has been transmitted to us.