Ayurvedic Medicine - The Future of Primary Health Care?

Ayurveda deserves a great deal of respect as a more than 5,000-year-old science of health. Learn from leading experts--Dr. Vijay Jain, Medical Director of Amrit Ayurveda for Total Wellbeing, and Ayurvedic Specialist, Shekhar Annambhotla, Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America—how Ayurveda, could easily become the basis of primary health care in the U.S.

Dr. Vijay Jain brings more than 40 years of experience in General Surgery and 18 years of focused study of integrative medicine to his integration of traditional/Western medicine with ancient medicine and well-tried systems of healing from different cultures. He has studied mind/body medicine with Deepak Chopra, MD; Yoga Therapy at the Vivekenanda Research Center (Bangalore, India); Ayurveda medicine with Sunil Joshi, MD (Nagpur, India); and Integrative Medicine with Andrew Weil, MD, (Tucson, AZ). 

Shekhar Annambhotla is an Ayurvedic specialist classically trained in India. A practitioner and teacher of Ayurveda since 1988, his education and mission--to help people live healthier lives with Ayurveda--began his eight-year course of study in Ayurveda at the age of 17. The Licensed Integrative Bodywork and Massage Therapist (LMT), Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance, and instructor of therapeutic Hatha Yoga, has a Masters Degree in Ayurveda.

Shekhar, foundiing director of Ojas LLC Ayurveda Wellness Center in Pennsylvania, and Dr. Vijay Jain instruct participants in the Amrit Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant Training at the Amrit Yoga Institute in Salt Springs, Florida. (http://www.amrityoga.org/amrit-ayurveda-training.html).