NAMAH hosted a four-part online course on Ayurveda & Integral Health on September 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2025, featuring Dr. Rammanohar, Research Director at Amrita School of Ayurveda. This comprehensive exploration revealed how ancient Ayurvedic wisdom offers profound solutions for modern health challenges.
Beyond Symptom Management: A New Health Paradigm
While modern medicine has achieved unprecedented technological advances, gaps remain in extending healthy lifespans leading to soaring healthcare costs and environmental strain. Dr. Rammanohar presented Ayurveda's transformative shift from reactive treatment to proactive prevention and wellness.
Integral Health, as defined through Ayurveda, represents a complete harmony between body, vital energy, mind and innermost consciousness. The Sanskrit term Svasthya captures this beautifully: "one who is completely merged with himself." Health (Arogya) becomes the foundation for sustainable living (Dharma) and lasting happiness (Sukha).
Personalised Wisdom: Understanding Your Unique Blueprint
The series revealed that suffering stems from Adharma (misaligned action) and Prajñāparādha (lack of health intelligence). The antidote is leveraging Jnana (knowledge) as medicine.
Ayurveda rejects cookie-cutter solutions, instead offering personalised frameworks based on each individual’s constitutional blueprint (Prakriti) comprising the three Doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha), and the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas). Body and mind function as one integrated system, where managing physical health creates the foundation for mental clarity and transformation.
Living in Rhythm: Daily Practices for Vitality
Dr. Rammanohar illuminated the "three pillars of life" comprising Food, Sleep and Activity by connecting ancient practices of Ayurveda with cutting-edge science. Kala Bhojanam (timed eating) aligns remarkably with Nobel Prize-validated research on circadian rhythms and cellular renewal through autophagy.
The Dinacharya (daily routine) and Ritu Chakra (seasonal cycle) emphasise systematic self-care synchronised with natural cycles, while Sadvritta (right conduct) calls us to recognize the unity of all life exemplified by looking upon even a weakened ant as One Self.
Deeper Dimensions: Karma, Rebirth
The concluding session systematically explored rebirth not as dogma but as a therapeutic context for understanding disease origins. The Charaka Samhita identifies three disease sources: Dosha imbalance, Karmic patterns or both. Yet Ayurveda empowers us by declaring that strong personal effort (Pauruṣa) can overcome weak destiny (Daiva).
Practical Application: Botanical Interventions
Practical guidance on botanicals (Ashwagandha, Brahmi, Triphala, and Tagara) emphasised that their effective use requires adequate focus on quality assurance, professional guidance and constitutional personalization, not self-medication.
Dr. Rammanohar enriched his presentations by drawing extensively from classical Ayurvedic texts and complementing them with illustrative anecdotes from his personal practice. These real-world examples helped participants grasp the practical applications of the Ayurvedic concepts under discussion. Each session concluded with engaging dialogue, as participants posed thoughtful questions and shared their reflections. Notably, Dr. Rammanohar demonstrated adaptability by adjusting the course content in response to participants' expressed interest in learning more about the concept of rebirth.
This series emphatically positioned Ayurveda as an inclusive, forward-looking framework for achieving integral health and human potential. Participants left deeply inspired and motivated to further deepen their Ayurvedic knowledge and integrate its principles into their healing and wellness practices. It was a great opportunity to discover how this timeless science of Ayurveda can transform our path to wholeness.
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“His explanations helped me see Ayurveda not just as a healing system, but as a way of understanding life itself. He brings a very unique perspective about Ayurveda.”
“It was not just informative but empowering, reminding me of my own inner wisdom and capacity for healing.”
“He offers a unique and authentic perspective on Ayurveda. The way he weaves original, ancient understanding with his personal lived experience makes the learning deeply meaningful and enriching.”
“I’m currently studying Ayurveda, and to be honest, I had felt a bit disheartened by how mainstream practices often present it. But Dr. Ram Manohar reignited that spark in me. His depth and authenticity reminded me of the true essence of Ayurveda and inspired me to study it more deeply and share its wisdom in a meaningful way.”
“Greater awareness of daily rhythm, mindful eating, and aligning lifestyle with nature’s cycles, simple yet powerful shifts. The discussion on rebirth was very insightful.”
“The sessions were beautiful. A dedicated Q&A session in the future would make it even more engaging and helpful. If it could be a separate one at the end. it would help contemplate and integrate the sessions.”
“That all scriptures in Sanatana dharma are teaching one thing, work towards liberation and that Ayurveda helps in that endeavour, not just for the patient but also for the doctor. I was very happy to know there is an evolution of the Ayurvedic practitioner through the practice and sometimes I was wondering whether ayurveda is an art or a science.”’
“My love for Indian wisdom is always deepen when I attend Dr Rammanohar’s courses. Looking forward to the next one.
“I would love it if NAMAH could introduce a 2-year course in Ayurveda by Dr. Rammanohar.
