Ayurvedic Practitioner Certificate (Level II)

Career Options

Ayurvedic medicine includes a wide and rewarding range of practice opportunities, such as preventive care, health promotion, and disease management across a variety of client and patient populations. Ayurveda graduates can serve the general population, from young children to the elderly, as well as specific populations, as Ayurveda provides whole-person health and wellness care.

As an Ayurvedic healthcare professional, you’ll have many career options available to you, including:

• Ayurvedic Health Counselor/Educator: Graduates will be able to offer lifestyle guidance and support individuals with health prevention
• Ayurvedic Practitioner: Graduates will gain the skills and knowledge to assess the Ayurvedic constitution and imbalances in a client and suggest food, lifestyle changes and recommend Ayurvedic herbs, spices and Ayurvedic herbal supplements
• Yoga Instructors and Therapists may enhance their classes and sessions with Ayurvedic Yoga, seasonal and personalized solutions.
• Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers can open Panchakarma centers or apply Ayurveda bodywork therapies to enhance their practice for deeper, customized healing. Graduates may not perform the bodywork therapies unless allowed in their scope of practice under other licensing.
• Estheticians in skin and beauty may enhance their treatments, services and products with Ayurveda’s natural and personalized approach.
• Wellness Center Owner/Operator, or work with other wellness professionals to start or join an integrative practice

Ayurveda Practitioners and Counselors work in variety of healthcare settings, such as, rehabilitation centers, home healthcare centers etc. They can also open a private practice in this field. The most common healthcare practitioners who include Ayurveda in their practices are holistic physicians, naturopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, nutritionists, and acupuncturists.

Industry Resources and Career Opportunity Information

• National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA)
• SCU Job Opportunity Page

Salary Information

Earnings in the Ayurveda field vary widely depending on whether you’re a medical doctor with Ayurveda training or an independent practitioner with certificate training, and whether you work part time or full time. Salary data can be found at Salary.com.

Lifestyle

Ayurveda graduates are able to do work that is meaningful because Ayurveda is a whole-person health system that is patient-centered and improves the health and lives of their patients through diet, lifestyle, herbs, and body therapies. Many graduates open their own businesses so they can be their own boss, which allows them to do meaningful work while also having flexibility. Within the curriculum, students learn practice management and how to develop and manage a clinical practice business.