Hale Veda Presents

Foundations of Living Ayurveda

A 200-hour certification journey in embodied Ayurveda, food as medicine, yoga, marma, seasonal living, and nature-based wisdom.

Founding Cohort Begins Saturday, January 9, 2027

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The Hale Veda Way

Living Ayurveda. Cultivating Connection. Remembering Our Nature.

What We Believe

Health is cultivated through relationship—with ourselves, nature, community, and spirit. Ayurveda reminds us that we are not separate from the natural world, but an expression of it.

What We Teach

We teach Ayurveda as a lived practice through food, daily rhythm, yoga, self-care, marma, seasonal living, and connection to land and plants.

What We Hope For

Our hope is that students leave with more than knowledge. We hope they leave with a way of living that supports health, purpose, resilience, and deeper connection.

Why We Created This Program

Ayurveda was meant to be lived.

For years, students, clients, yoga teachers, healthcare professionals, and community members have asked us how to learn Ayurveda in a way they can actually live.

This program was created as a bridge between personal transformation and professional development. For some students, it becomes a pathway toward deeper Ayurvedic practice. For others, it becomes a lifelong foundation for personal health, family wellness, and conscious living.

This is the first professional training program offered through Hale Veda, but it is built upon many years of teaching, clinical experience, mentorship, and successful practitioner training programs that came before it.

Hale Veda lifestyle and learning environment

Who This Is For

This program is for those who feel called to live Ayurveda—not merely study it.

Whether your intention is to deepen your own health or one day support others, this program begins with the same foundation: you must first become your own practitioner.

Seekers of Intentional Living

For those wanting vitality, resilience, purpose, and a more conscious relationship with body, mind, food, and spirit.

Yoga Teachers & Practitioners

For those who wish to deepen the relationship between Yoga and Ayurveda as paths of self-awareness and transformation.

Future Practitioners

For those considering a professional path who understand that true guidance arises from lived experience.

Curriculum Overview

What You Will Study

The Foundations of Living Ayurveda program is designed as a 200-hour immersive journey into the principles and practice of Ayurveda as a way of life.

Curriculum overview for Foundations of Living Ayurveda

Weekly Rhythm

Designed to become part of your life.

This program is structured to integrate into your weekly rhythm through live learning, guided practice, and personal embodiment.

  • Weekly Saturday Class: 3-hour live teaching session online.
  • Monthly Hybrid Option: One Saturday each month is also offered in person for local HawaiĘ»i students.
  • Weekly Integration: 3–4 hours of guided practices, journaling, cooking, yoga, or seasonal observation.
  • Daily Micro-Practice: 10–20 minutes of embodied practice to bring Ayurveda into daily life.
Weekly rhythm of embodied Ayurveda practice

The Immersive Experience

Two 3-Day Intensives in Hawaiʻi

The intensives are the embodiment anchors of the program—where the teachings move from concept into lived experience through food, movement, nature, marma, and community.

Immersive Ayurveda experience in Hawaiʻi

March Intensive

Foundations & Embodiment

Deepen the foundational principles of Ayurveda through observation, food, rhythm, yoga, marma, and nature-based practice.

June Intensive

Integration & Application

Bring the teachings together through applied lifestyle guidance, peer practice, deeper embodiment, and completion integration.

What Is Included

Teaching, guided instruction, experiential sessions, community learning, and one nourishing Ayurvedic lunch each day.

Travel, lodging, transportation, and additional meals are not included.

What You Will Walk Away With

More than knowledge — a way of living.

  • A personalized understanding of your constitution
  • A living relationship with food as medicine
  • Daily and seasonal rhythms that support well-being
  • Tools for longevity, vitality, and prevention
  • A personal practice rooted in Ayurveda and Yoga
  • Foundational skills in marma and self-care
  • Greater connection to nature and land
  • Confidence to support others through lifestyle guidance

Investment & Enrollment

Your Investment in Living Ayurveda

This six-month journey is designed as an intimate, experiential, and highly interactive training.

Founding Cohort Early Bird Tuition

$6,200

Standard Tuition: $7,500 after Early Bird enrollment closes.


Payment Plan Available

$1,000 deposit to reserve your seat + 8 monthly payments of $650.

Tuition includes all educational programming. Travel, lodging, transportation, and meals outside of provided intensive lunches are not included.

Enrollment Process

A simple and personal application process.

  • Step 1: Submit your application.
  • Step 2: Connect with us for a brief conversation if needed.
  • Step 3: Secure your seat with a deposit or full payment.
  • Step 4: Receive orientation materials and begin your journey January 9, 2027.

Join the Founding Cohort

If you feel called to live Ayurveda more deeply, we invite you to apply.

Applications are now being accepted for the January 2027 Founding Cohort. Enrollment is intentionally limited.

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