Experience Ayurveda sensually
Practical training for therapists
Next training from 20-22.3.26
Knowledge transfer from practice to theory.
For 25 years, we have been introducing all students to the teachings of Ayurvedic knowledge at the beginning of our Ayurveda training programme: How do we arrive at valid knowledge of the natural laws of health and disease? Through a) transmission of specialised knowledge via source texts and their interpretation, b) direct sensory perception, c) logical deduction and d) application.
You will acquire the theoretical knowledge in the 10 modules of your Ayurveda training. In this initial practical training you will now receive the direct key through sensory experience and confirmation through application to your own body and mind.
Once upon a time...
Around 2,500 years ago, wise and mindful people, the so-called Rishi, In the mountains of the Himalayas in the north of India, they recognised the changes in nature through the six seasons. They recognised that the macrocosm of nature and the microcosm of man are inextricably linked.
The Ayurvedic Samhita emerged from this sensory experience and deep realisation, in which the laws of nature were written down and thus made available to subsequent generations with less insight.
Become your own Rishi and experience Ayurveda at first hand.
Understanding basic concepts with all senses.
After your basic training, do you think you really understand Ayurvedic concepts such as the five elements and their properties, Vata-Pitta-Kapha, Agni and Ama, Raktadushti, Dhatu and Upadhatu, Mala, Srotas, Prakriti-Vikriti-Vyadhi, Dosha and Dushya, Roga and Svastha? If so, we are sorry to disappoint you.
We do not learn the true depth of Ayurveda in theory, but only through direct experience with our own bodies, in nature, with other people and in everyday life. In this first module and practical training, you will experience the essence of Ayurvedic thinking in direct transmission from teacher to student. And experience nature in a new way.
Your Ayurveda retreat at a glance
This practical training is part of our Training to become an AYUMED® Health Consultant and is aimed at therapists in their own practice or a health centre as well as candidates for the therapeutic healing professions. There are only limited places available for external participants who have already completed their Ayurveda training, so please enquire early.
We experience Ayurveda as a retreat for three days together in an organic guest house reserved exclusively for us with its own Demeter farm. Away from disruptive influences, we experience the elements in their purest form with their inherent properties and transfer these to the structures and functions of our own bodies.
Through attentive observation of the plants, animals and people around us, we learn to interpret natural phenomena ayurvedically, to appreciate characteristics and forms of expression and to differentiate between them. We develop a sense of aesthetics and transience, harmony and disharmony, balance and imbalance, pathogenesis and salutogenesis.
The practical training is also intensive sensory training: you learn to hear, feel, see, taste and smell nature and its elements. This lifelong skill is the basis of Ayurvedic diagnostics.
We provoke reactions in body and mind through targeted, even unconventional stimuli via nutrition, daily routines and mental impressions. These experiences give you a direct insight into causes and effects from an Ayurvedic perspective.
Experience Ayurveda sensually
- Exteroception and enteroception - the basics of sensory perception
- Introduction to the holistic perception triangle according to EURASIAMED
- Purushartha पुरुषार्थ - Consciously integrating the quartet of human endeavours into everyday life
- Anitya अनित्य - Transience and Jara जार - Experience ageing in nature
- Responsibility, change and discipline - the three musketeers on the road to health
- Experience unity and duality in the Ayurvedic paradigm
- Jnanendriya ज्ञानेन्द्रिय - Perceiving and using the sensory organs in a targeted manner
- Karmendriya कर्मेन्द्रिय - Recognising the organs of action and using them purposefully
- Guna गुण - recognise 20 properties in nature and transfer them to your own body
- Mahabhuta महाभूत - Recognising five great elements in all appearances
- Sensually experience Agni अग्नि and its four states on your own body
- Mala मल - How long do they support, when do they start to harm?
- Srotas स्रोतस् - Life is movement and our body is a network of channels
- Ama आम and Raktadushti रक्तदुष्टि - recognising metabolic disorders with your own senses
- Ojas ओजस् - Feel the vital essence in your own body and perceive it in others
- Vegasamdharana वेगसंधारणा - Recognising impulse control and correcting it as required
- Dinacarya दिनचर्या - The ayurvedically all-round successful day
- Vyayama व्यायाम - Ayurvedic healthy movement
- Ayurvedic healthy harvesting, cooking, eating and digesting
This practical training is offered as Classroom seminar carried out on site.
Leading trainers are Ralph Control nail and Corina C. Steuernagel.
Numerous exercises are carried out in changing role plays.
We communicate on all paths, walk and sit, laugh and remain silent, observe outside and inside, harvest, cook and eat, rest and reflect, experience and enjoy together.
Practical training >>> Friday 15.00 to Sunday 16.00 | 3 seminar days | 10 teaching units | approx. 18 hours
Post-Meeting >>> Q&A and exchange of experiences | approx. 2 hours
Total scope >>> approx. 20 hours plus a lot of time in personal exchange on site...
The next practical training - Experience Ayurveda through the senses - will take place from 20-22 March 2026.
Seminar times:
Friday 15.00 - 22.00
Saturday 9.30 - 22.00
Sunday 9.30 - 16.00
During all seminar breaks and on Saturday evenings, we meet „open end“ to exchange ideas with like-minded people.
Approximately four weeks after the practical training, we meet online for a post-meeting with Q&A, exchange of experiences and case studies.
Biohotel LindenGut
Kohlgrunder Weg 1
D-36160 Dipperz (near Fulda)
Phone: (+49) 6657 981-0
E-Mail: information@linden-gut.eu
Website: https://linden-gut.eu/de/
Surrounded by the Demeter agriculture of the organic farm, we enjoy the view of the marvellous Rhön. You will stay in individually designed tree species rooms with high-quality natural materials. Alternatively, you can also choose from the affordable organic hostel or the glamping offer in the garden.
Our food here is literally a means of life and comes primarily from seasonal local produce. We eat together, laugh and cry and communicate with each other in the spirit of Ayurveda - analogue, respectful, appreciative.
The seminar fee is 597 € plus VAT and will be paid by bank transfer after registration.
The seminar price includes all teaching units as well as water and tea during the day while the seminar is running.
Not included are your travelling expenses, accommodation and meals.