The Science of Life

AYU120

January - December 2025

AYU120

2025

Jan - Dec 2025 | FREE

Join our free monthly 2‑hour online Ayurveda webinar and start a journey toward natural healing for both body and mind. If you're ready to leave behind unhealthy habits and embrace a more vibrant life, AYU120 is your pathway to wellness, clarity, and self-empowerment.

What AYU120 Offers
Over 12 months, explore 12 essential health topics with practical steps to transform your lifestyle. Choose the webinars that spark your interest—every session is free.

  • Balanced Nutrition: Learn meal planning that energizes your body.

  • Herbal Wisdom: Explore natural herbal remedies for everyday health.

  • Movement & Meditation: Engage in practices that connect body and mind.

  • Breath Work: Discover simple techniques to reduce stress and promote calm.

  • Lifestyle Strategies: Adopt habits that slow aging and ease mental stress.

All prerequisites are pre-recorded and available to view on our YouTube channel.

View all course subjects below.

Course Subjects

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Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy

Ayurveda (The Science of Life) considers health to be fully balanced body, breath, and mind. Alone or as a complimentary medicine, the 5,000 year old wisdom provides daily strategies to improve health for everyone in the family.

January 2025

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The 5 Pillars of Health

Designing a day to accommodate the 5 pillars of health ensures a balanced work-life experience: movement, breath, mind control, diet, and sleep. Each pillar requires manageable techniques that are repeated daily for long-term improvements.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy

February 2025

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120 Years: Longevity From Eastern Perspectives

First man was guaranteed 120 years to complete his work on Earth. And then modernism happened. Our life span, with high quality lifestyle, can be improved with small changes within the 5 pillars of health, including our understanding of life itself.

Pre-requisite: The 5 Pillars of Health

March 2025

A bowl of yellow rice garnished with cilantro, placed on a rustic wooden surface with scattered herbs, next to a bowl of brown rice, a bowl of split peas, and stacked black and silver bowls in the background.

Spring Cleanse

Cleanse & refresh in a 6-day retreat in the mountains of TN; yoga, ayurveda services, DIY skin/hair beauty workshop, cooking lessons, meditations, satsang, film, forest bathing, swimming, and pontoon picnic. Swag bag and yoga pajamas included.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy

April 2025

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Ayurveda For A Vibrant Thyroid

Americans are experiencing an epidemic of thyroid disorder and disease. With movement, breath, meditation, herbals, teas and kriya, you can prevent disorder. Learn how the 5 elements and 3 energies of physics and chemistry can be mobilized to support this vital 'dashboard' organ.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy.

May 2025

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Women's Hormone Health In 4 Phases

Ideally, healthy fertility and menopause is seeded in our younger years, but there is still time to improve the hormonal balance we depend on for healthy 3rd & 4th phases. Appropriate for all ages, this course will enlighten the participant in the purpose of natural evolution from maiden to crone, from the crown to the cave. For the 2nd phase, Dr. Vaishali will join us to share from her expertise on fertility.

June 2025

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Ayurveda For A Naturally Healthy GI Tract

GI disorders are the #1 reason people seek time with their physicians. But we are just re-learning the wisdom contained in the original Ayurveda texts about microbial balance, and tissue tone in the 3 quadrants of the digestive tract. The GI is the ring master of your physical existence, influencing every emotion, decision, or function of all other systems in the body. For prevention or intervention this course will provide the science and the methods available in any common home kitchen for everyone.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy

July 2025

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Understanding The Seeds of Disease

We are not just physical bodies. In fact, only 20% of our existence is material. Natural healing techniques require attention to adjusting the 80% we cannot see or touch. This course will explain the 5 layers of birth and existence, how diseases form and spread, with a discussion on methods of prevention and reversal.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy

August 2025

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Yoga Psychology ‘Layers of the Mind’

Long before modern psychology and psychotherapy, the mind and spirit were considered interconnected and inseparable. Yoga Psychology explains how the natural mind exists, describes different mind 'types', how people work together, and how a person expands alone. This course is appropriate for anyone who wants to improve communication, parenting, teamwork, or self-actualize.

Pre-requisite: Understanding The Seeds of Disease Through Pancha Kosha ‘5 Sheaths of Existence’

September 2025

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Retreat to India with Sita Wellness

Immerse yourself in a 600 year old ashram on the edge of the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. Live as a yogi, study, perform karma yoga, attend workshops or classes, take Ayurveda treatments, prep vegetables for the chef, or work in the cow yard. Authentic, original culture in the oldest yoga therapy institution in the world.

Pre-requisite: Introduction to Ayurveda or participation in 21-day course Yoga Lifestyle Workshop at Shri Jasnath Asan.

October 2025

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Yoga Therapies for Addiction with Guruji

With a PhD in Yoga Therapies for Addiction, Yogi Surajnath Siddh will share with us eastern philosophies’ psychological foundations, which underlie our tendencies toward attachment to illicit or harmful substances and habits. Drawing from his experience in his drug de addiction camps, which boast an 84% success rate, Surajnath is a fountain of optimism who proposes solutions from nature, finding much of his inspiration from the trees.

Pre-requisite: Yoga Psychology ‘Layers of the Mind’

November 2025

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Death & Dying, Perspectives From Nature

Many cultures offer a diversity of perspectives on death and dying. This course will feature guest speakers who will present a variety of philosophies, followed by wisdom from the Yoga shastras (sacred texts) and interviews with death doulas. As a natural part of life, eastern philosophies consider all the years before death as preparation for a perfect departure.. Dying perfectly healthy is always the goal.

Pre-requisite: Intro to Ayurveda & Yoga Therapy

December 2025

Testimonials for AYU120

  • "Thank you for teaching with a story and analogies, it is so powerful and makes intricate concepts understandable and applicable. With much gratitude."

    Kim Laubshcer

  • "I thank you dearly Shree, you have made a profound change on my life, I adore you as a teacher and a guru. Your knowledge, how you teach, and your sense of humour and mindset are infectious."

    Larla Meenan

  • "I was so happy that I attended Shreejan's AYU120 class! This class was exactly what I needed to educate myself further and continue along my path of Health and Healing. Not onlly have I learned a wealth of new information, I have been given the encouragement and motivation to continue learning more...Thanks Shreejan!"

    Brooke Van Deusen, MI

  • "Very thought provoking! So much information to take in that I am still processing it. I found the workshop to be very helpful at this time in my life, as things are evolving."

    Susan Erickson, Sioux City, IA

  • "I cannot thank you enough for your teachings, the generosity and clarity with which you share your wisdom. The impact of your work is substantial for my own health, wellbeing, my future career choices and my family. Please receive all my gratitude, my very best wishes and blessings to You and Your loved ones."

    Franziska Michels, Germany

  • "Thank you so much for such a wonderful course, I learned so much and feel very prepared to do more studies on myself and others. Every class eas so interesting and fascinating. I look forward to taking more of your classes in the future."

    Ciro Nivair, Greece