Come to Rasa Ayurveda Traditional Healing Centre in Kerala, India, for a journey into Ayurveda that promises to transform your relationship to yourself, your world and your life!

With a maximum group size of fourteen, your trip will leave the well-beaten tourist path behind, offering an experience of traditional Ayurvedic therapies along with immersion in the natural environment, local culture and spiritual traditions.

And when you join us at Rasa Ayurveda Traditional Healing Centre, you make a valuable contribution toward preserving traditional medicine, culture and native botanicals for the next generation of Malayalee women and families.

Niika Quistgard welcomes you to Rasa Ayurveda for this 14-day experience of a lifetime!

This transformational healing women's retreat offers personal Ayurvedic diagnosis, treatment plan and nine days of traditional therapies. (Trip participants may extend their residential treatment until February 26th.)

Our small group will also travel to beautiful sacred places, celebrate Sivaratri—the night of Siva—and connect meaningfully with local Malayalee women in the spirit of oneness. You’ll learn how to do a wonderful Ayurvedic head massage and how to prepare tasty and healing Ayurvedic drinking waters, snacks and treats!

While you can count on enjoying some quiet time to yourself, this retreat features an atmosphere of connection with the nurturing and knowledgeable people of Rasa Ayurveda, and with your "trip mates" as you soak up a broad introduction to basic Ayurvedic concepts, traditional healing practices and spiritual knowledge and experience.

You’ll go home in balance, and brimming with memories and "how to" knowledge that can nourish your life for years to come.....

Niika Quistgard welcomes you to Rasa Ayurveda for this 14-day experience of a lifetime!

This low-cost internship experience will develop your Ayurvedic knowledge, your personal confidence and will vitalize your practice of Ayurveda. Applicants must be graduates or students of Ayurveda who possess an understanding of basic Ayurvedic concepts, typically having completed at least one year of formal instruction or rigorous self-study in Ayurveda.

This program offers the opportunity to:

* Explore the living material medica, the botanical wealth that is the root of traditional Ayurveda in Kerala. Make medicines for internal use and healing oils for external use in the traditional way--from fresh ingredients, by hand.

* Observe and discuss actual cases (intake, treatment planning and observation of treatment results). Rasa Ayurveda is a women's clinic, and our focus will be mainly on women's health issues.

* Deeply consider the importance of the mind state of the patient, and learn how best to foster the most healing attitude in our patients.

* Receive and practice performing traditional therapies, such as elakizhi and shirovasti.

* Learn to prepare traditional Kerala dishes in an Ayurvedic context.

* Contribute your time and energies to The Mutashi Project.

* Enjoy time for personal quiet and study, and a chance to connect with other women who practice (or will practice) Ayurveda......

Niika Quistgard of MayaShakti Ayurveda and David Crow of Floracopeia welcome you for a 16-day immersion in classical Ayurvedic aromatherapy at Rasa Ayurveda.

Come join us for this special benefit trip in which we will:
     .... soak up the knowledge and energies of two great teachers, plus the Rasa Ayurveda staff
     .... experience the effectiveness and delight of aromatic Ayurvedic therapies
     .... enjoy hands-on participation in traditional medicinal oil making
     .... observe and participate in traditional distillation in a Tribal area (This is a rare chance!)
     .... learn the healing and culinary secrets of Kerala's aromatic herbs and spices
     .... trek in the sandalwood forests of Kerala