Co-Founder of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association
Dr. Marc Halpern
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Explore an ancient yet proven system for activating whole-being health that harnesses the wisdom of your body’s senses, innate constitution, digestive power, and microbiome to help you metabolize the totality of life — including your mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical responses — in a balanced, enlivening, and optimized way.
You may have heard that poor digestion has been linked to all forms of disease.
While most of us are likely aware of how the gut microbiome influences our digestion, immunity, and health, we also tend to look at digestion as a localized event.
The ancient Indian medical system of Ayurveda considers whole-being digestion and our ability to metabolize the totality of life — mind, body, and spirit — in a gentle, effective, and coherent way to be the foundation of our health.
In fact, as Ayurvedic doctor Marc Halpern teaches, the digestive system regulates every other system in the body. This allows us to use our digestive systems as a barometer of wellbeing for everything going on inside of us...
... including our physical health, thoughts and emotions, spiritual wellbeing, and sense of inner agency, such as heightened clarity, higher purpose, and connectedness.
In learning how to align with our true body constitution — or dosha — through nutrition and our daily habits, we can also consciously work with our digestive systems to create our health.
During this thought-provoking course with Dr. Halpern, you’ll explore an ancient yet practical system for activating whole-being health that harnesses the wisdom of your dosha and your body’s digestive power to help you metabolize the totality of life — and optimize your health.
As the founder and President of the California College of Ayurveda, the oldest school of Ayurvedic Medicine in the United States, Dr. Halpern is a leader in the development of Ayurvedic Medicine in the West.
During your time with him, he’ll share the most potent Ayurvedic techniques for self-regulating your health by aligning mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically with your dosha.
In this health-enhancing course, you’ll:
- Gain a deeper understanding of your digestive physiology and the role each digestive organ plays in your ability to metabolize food and life
- Discover the role doshas play in common digestive imbalances and how aligning with your true dosha can help you balance your digestive system and overall health
- Explore the six tastes of Ayurveda and the healthy and unhealthy tastes for each dosha
- Recognize how your Ayurvedic prakruti (constitution) is a living map to your most optimal health state and wellbeing
- Consider the best daily routines for each dosha that nourish the body and mind and optimize health and wellbeing
- Elevate your consciousness and reconnect to Spirit
- Uncover why psychological imbalances are often the root cause of digestive challenges
- Help restore healthy digestion using common kitchen spices
- Understand how your gut microbiome functions like an organ and underpins the characteristics of the doshas
- Identify the foods and meals that help each dosha return to balance, and those that aggravate each dosha and create imbalance
- Remove blockages to the flow of energy prana (energy) through your subtle body
Dr. Halpern will share which foods, herbs, spices, and tastes your dosha needs to ignite the health of your gut microbiome and nourish your entire being...
... and the best daily routines and lifestyle instructions for not only keeping your dosha on track for success but restoring balance to your body systems and life.
From there, you can catalyze spiritual growth and expand your consciousness in a more easeful and natural way.
You’ll explore the role your mind plays in forming your experience of health — and why physiological imbalances are often the root cause of digestive issues.
Ultimately, you’ll activate whole-being health by cultivating the inborn wisdom of your dosha and digestive system — and applying it within the time-tested practices and philosophies of an ancient healing system.
If you’d like to discover how your digestive system and dosha work together to inform your health and help you metabolize food and life, join us.
“Dr. Marc Halpern has a wealth of knowledge and experience.”
Dr. Marc Halpern has a wealth of knowledge and experience. I found that he was able to share this knowledge in our sessions in a way that I could understand and easily implement into my life. I have started practices of daily routine, eating, and living a lifestyle appropriate and respectful of my dosha. I feel amazing after following a healthy routine these last few months, and will continue to practice them. Thank you so much, Dr. Halpern. I hope to continue my education with you.
— Kristi Cox, Temecula, California
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational intensive, Dr. Halpern will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to activate whole-being health that harnesses the wisdom of your body’s innate constitution and digestive power to help you metabolize the totality of life.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Dr. Halpern and experience his teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Dr. Halpern’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Marc. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to harness the wisdom of your body’s innate constitution and digestive power to help you metabolize the totality of life — including your mental, emotional, and physical responses — in a balanced, enlivening, and optimized way.
Module 1: Use Your Digestive System & Dosha to Trace Your Ailments & Rebalance Your Body Systems (April 19)
The digestive system is the root, or core system, of the entire body. If it’s functioning well, the rest of the body has the best chance of remaining healthy.
Too often, however, its physiology is disturbed and the rest of the body slowly begins to suffer.
You’ll explore your digestive physiology and digestive system functions through conventional Western and Ayurvedic perspectives...
... and integrate the knowledge of both disciplines to accurately connect any digestive symptoms or imbalances you may have to the physiology of your body.
Dr. Halpern will also share the deeper functions of gut microbiome, which is significantly more complex and influential on your health than most people realize.
This week, you’ll:
- Gain a deeper understanding of your digestive physiology and the role each digestive organ plays in your ability to metabolize food and life
- Explore where Western conventional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine ideas of digestive physiology converge and diverge
- Understand how your gut microbiome function like an organ and underpin the characteristics of the doshas
- Discover the role doshas play in common digestive imbalances and how aligning with your true dosha can help you balance your digestive system and overall health
Module 2: Align With Your Dosha to Correct Imbalances & Toxicity and Harness the Power of Digestion (April 26)
At the heart of Ayurveda lies an understanding of the doshas and how they influence agni — the power of digestion.
You’ll explore agni and a variety of classical Ayurvedic concepts this week, including prakruti (constitution), vikruti (disturbed doshas), ama (toxicity), and ojas (endurance)...
... and learn how all disease begins in the digestive system and then spreads to other areas of the body.
As you reflect on your deepest tendencies and patterns — nutritional and otherwise — you’ll gain a deeper sense of how aligned you are with your dosha and how your body is functioning in relation to that alignment from an Ayurvedic perspective.
You’ll also gain powerful insights on how to restore health digestion, optimum health, and peace of mind as the path to health that is most aligned with your true constitution begins to come into focus.
This week, you’ll explore:
- How your Ayurvedic prakruti (constitution) is a living map to your most optimal health state and wellbeing
- How your Ayurvedic vikruti (imbalance) can be used to gauge the quality of your digestive health and illuminate the path to rebalancing your system
- The deeper role and complexities ofagni, the power of digestion
- How ama (toxicity) occurs in the digestive system
- How ojas (endurance) protects your digestive system and your entire body and mind
Module 3: Choose Health-Supporting Tastes & Foods to Prevent Imbalance, Harmonize Your Physiology & Optimize Your Digestive Health (May 3)
Our experience of life is a combination of our inborn tendencies and the choices we make.
You’ll learn how your choices impact the physiology of your body from an Ayurvedic perspective.
You’ll begin by exploring the six tastes, which include the same five elements of the doshas — space, fire, air, water, earth — and the role they play in supporting and repairing your health.
Dr. Halpern will share how each taste can be beneficial or lead to imbalance, depending on your dosha, and offer insights on which foods and spices are beneficial overall to prevent and treat disease.
This week, you’ll:
- Explore the six tastes of Ayurveda and the healthy and unhealthy tastes for each dosha
- Discover the foods that help each dosha return to balance and those that aggravate each dosha and create imbalance
- Gain potent insights and techniques for preparing healthy meals for each dosha
- Realize how to help restore healthy digestion using common kitchen spices
Module 4: Avoid Digestive Upset by Creating a Healthy Daily Routine That Minimizes Stress & Nourishes Your Body and Mind (May 10)
In Ayurveda, your lifestyle plays a huge role in the foundation of your health. How you eat and your overall lifestyle around eating is more important than what you eat.
Unhealthy lifestyle choices can lead to physical and emotional stress that upset digestion, the balance of your entire physiology, and potentially, your health.
You’ll explore healthy daily routines that nourish your body and mind from the time you wake up until you go to bed. This includes how you relate to and consume your food.
Dr. Halpern will share healthy eating guidelines and explore common work-life balance issues that arise — and how to mitigate them from Ayurvedic and yogic perspectives.
This week, you’ll:
- Discover why how you eat is more important to your overall health than what you eat
- Explore the best daily routines for each dosha that nourish the body and mind — and optimize health and wellbeing
- Consider how to mitigate work-life balance issues that commonly interfere with maintaining a healthy lifestyle
- Gain deeper insights on how physical and emotional stress upset digestion and the balance of your entire physiology
Module 5: Calm & Balance Your Mind to Restore the Health of Your Body Systems & Spirit (May 17)
Disease moves from the subtle (the mind) to the gross (the body). If the mind is not at peace, the body’s physiology will be disturbed. In Ayurveda, the first place that disturbance is felt is within the digestive system.
Dr. Halpern will guide you through the healing and hampering mechanisms of the mind from Ayurvedic and yogic perspectives — and how the doshas affect not only digestion, but the mind as well.
You’ll learn why restoring balance throughout the body requires a holistic approach — what you eat, how you eat, and your ability to bring the mind back to a state of peacefulness...
And you’ll explore key concepts for keeping your mind healthy and your physiology in a balanced state.
This week, you’ll:
- Recognize the healing and hampering mechanisms of the mind — and why psychological imbalances are often the root cause of digestive challenges
- Understand why restoring balance to your body requires knowledge and healthy choices — and why making healthy choices is so difficult
- Gain a deeper understanding on the role positivity plays on your digestion and overall health
- Explore how to elevate your mind to its highest potential
Module 6: Establish a Solid Spiritual Foundation to Prevent Mental & Physical Turmoil and Fortify Your Overall Wellbeing (May 31)
According to Ayurveda and yoga, disease begins when we lose our spiritual connectedness, resulting in a ripple of internal disturbances that begin in the mind and move throughout the physiology of the body.
The first place affected in your physiology is the digestive system. A strong spiritual foundation is therefore necessary for a peaceful mind and a healthy body.
You’ll explore how to establish a solid spiritual foundation that supports optimal health and peace of mind. And be encouraged to find your own unique relationship with the Divine, in any form or tradition that resonates with you.
Dr. Halpern will also share many aspects of yoga and practical suggestions to enhance your connectedness to the greater whole of life.
This week, you’ll:
- Discover why a lack of connection to Spirit is the root cause of all suffering
- Experience powerful practices to help you elevate your consciousness and reconnect to Spirit
- Gain deeper clarity on your challenges and the path to healing through the philosophy of yoga
- Explore how the four traditional paths of yoga are a guide to optimal health
Module 7: Remove Blockages & Increase Prana With Yoga Nidra and Establish Your Plan for Healthy & Optimized Digestion (June 7)
Yoga nidra is a traditional technique utilized to calm the body and mind, establish a healthy flow of life energy, enhance healing, and support creating the experience of reality that you desire. This process of creation is called sankalpa.
Dr. Halpern will guide you through a yoga nidra meditation that focuses on creating the experience of optimum digestion.
You’ll then have an opportunity to share your experiences and ask Dr. Halpern any final questions.
This week, you’ll explore:
- The meaning and implementation of sankalpa (creating your experience of reality) and how it relates to healthy and optimized digestion
- How you create and live your own experience of reality, including the way that you metabolize food and life
- How to remove blockages to the flow of energy prana (energy) through your subtle body
- A guided experience of deep, conscious relaxation by Dr. Halpern that you can continue to use as you create whole-being digestion and health
The Healing Digestion With Ayurveda Bonus Offering
In addition to Dr. Halpern’s transformative 7-week virtual course, you’ll receive these special bonuses with leading visionaries and teachers to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Harness the Energy of the Universe to Create Yourself & Life Anew
A Video Teaching on the Gloriousness of Prana Shakti by Dr. Marc Halpern
Prana is the knowledge energy of the universe that permeates everything — from your cells to the natural world to the cosmos. Shakti is the power of that energy to create. In this powerful 25-minute teaching by Dr. Halpern, you’ll explore the many layers of prana as it influences bodily functions, the functions of the mind, and the unfolding of consciousness — and how you can consciously work with prana and shakti to create yourself and life.
What Graduates of Dr. Halpern’s Courses Are Saying...
— Dr. Abbey Leigh: “Dr. Halpern Emanates This Radiance About Him”
— Dr. Laksman Das: “I Left With a Sense of Calm, Confidence, and a Sense of Purpose”
— Dr. Sandra Gutierrez: “I Often Find Myself on the Edge of My Seat”
“Dr. Marc Halpern is an amazing, intelligent, kind, loving, patient, and welcoming man!”
Dr. Marc Halpern is an amazing, intelligent, kind, loving, patient, and welcoming man! All seven modules (consisting of pre-lecture meditations, lectures, Q&A sessions, post-Q&A meditations, and not to forget the FB group) were absolutely fantastic and very close to perfect, directly applicable to all areas of life. Of course, if you don’t put in the effort, then you won’t get the results. The price for admission was well worth it. Please have Dr. Marc Halpern instruct more courses in the future. He’s like the grandfather I never had but wanted. An Albus Dumbledore!
— Iggy S., Lowell, Massachusetts
“Dr. Marc Halpern is a wonderful teacher: inspiring, clear, informative, caring, and fun!”
This course was great. Dr. Marc Halpern is a wonderful teacher: inspiring, clear, informative, caring, and fun! I could happily continue to listen to him for many more hours. Ayurveda is a brilliant system to live by. The knowledge I have gained in this course will continue to benefit me throughout my life.
— Terri, Forres, Scotland
“Dr. Halpern was an excellent teacher, clear, precise, and knowledgeable.”
It was a deepening learning experience. Dr. Halpern was an excellent teacher, clear, precise, and knowledgeable. I very much appreciated participating in the class.
— Lydia, Paris, France
“Thank you, Dr. Halpern, for your depth of knowledge, your skill in presenting, your engaging style and most importantly, your healing presence.”
I found Dr. Halpern to be an exceptional teacher. He provided a tremendous introduction to Ayurvedic medicine, synthesizing very complex information into understandable concepts. Thank you, Dr. Halpern, for your depth of knowledge, your skill in presenting, your engaging style and most importantly, your healing presence. Thank you for sharing some of your vast knowledge and experience. I cannot wait to learn more!
— Lynn Rock, Victoria, Canada
Join the Global Community
Healing Digestion With Ayurveda offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Dr. Marc Halpern will share in this powerful training.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Dr. Marc Halpern
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Ayurvedic Doctor Marc Halpern, president of the California College of Ayurveda, author, teacher, and co-founder of National Ayurvedic Medical Association — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you on how to harness the wisdom of your body’s innate constitution and digestive power to help you metabolize the totality of life — including your mental, emotional, and physical responses — in a balanced, enlivening, and optimized way. Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
The Healing Digestion With Ayurveda Bonus Offering
- Harness the Energy of the Universe to Create Yourself & Life Anew
A Video Teaching on the Gloriousness of Prana Shakti by Dr. Marc Halpern
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Healing Digestion With Ayurveda Online Training
We feel honored that Dr. Marc Halpern has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an Ayurvedic doctor and teacher, author, president of the California College of Ayurveda, and co-founder of National Ayurvedic Medical Association whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning how to metabolize the totality of life in a balanced, enlivening, and optimized way, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE Healing Digestion With Ayurveda — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before May 3, 2023 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Dr. Marc Halpern...
“As a teacher, Dr. Halpern harnesses the vast science of Ayurveda and presents it clearly and wholeheartedly to his students.”
As a teacher, Dr. Halpern harnesses the vast science of Ayurveda and presents it clearly and wholeheartedly to his students. As the president of the California College of Ayurveda, Dr. Halpern is dedicated to upholding the highest standards of Ayurvedic Education to produce Ayurvedic practitioners that have the skills to use this medicine effectively and contribute greatly to the field of alternative medicine. Personally, Dr. Halpern embodies the Yogic Lifestyle and genuinely cares for his community. It has been a blessing to learn from him and is an honor to work with him.
— Jessica Ferrol, licensed mental health counselor, Ayurvedic doctor, yoga therapist
“Dr. Marc Halpern is one of the most revered and respected authorities on Ayurveda in the country.”
Dr. Marc Halpern is one of the most revered and respected authorities on Ayurveda in the country. He has done much to share his knowledge and wisdom with others. Dr. Marc Halpern is a gifted and engaging speaker, and a brilliant and generous teacher. I give him my highest recommendation.
— Lissa Coffey, lifestyle, relationship, and wellness expert
“Dr. Marc Halpern is an exceptional teacher.”
Dr. Marc Halpern is an exceptional teacher. He teaches with enthusiasm, humor, and deep insights. He has a wonderful way of communicating with people that is refreshing and engaging. He has established a wonderful community with his college that helps many people as students or clients.
— Camella Nair, Aqua yoga swami
“... easily accessible and deeply empowering...”
Both easily accessible and deeply empowering, Dr. Marc Halpern walks by your side as you walk the Ayurvedic path of healing.
— Dr. David Frawley, author and Ayurvedic scholar
“The many facets of Ayurveda are engagingly illustrated...”
Prepare yourself for an amazing journey. Dr. Halpern shares his personal path to wellness as a springboard... into Ayurvedic concepts of health and wellbeing. The many facets of Ayurveda are engagingly illustrated through examples and stories.
— Genevieve Ryder, founder and editor, Light on Ayurveda Journal
About Dr. Marc Halpern
Dr. Marc Halpern is the founder and President of the California College of Ayurveda, the oldest school of Ayurvedic Medicine in the United States. A Doctor of Chiropractic and an Ayurvedic Doctor, he is a leader in the development of Ayurvedic medicine in the West. By virtue of being a co-founder of the National Association of Ayurvedic Schools and Colleges, the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, the National Council on Ayurvedic Education, and the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, he has played an important role in building the infrastructure of Ayurveda in the United States.
Dr. Halpern has written five textbooks: Principles of Ayurvedic Medicine... Clinical Ayurvedic Medicine Volumes I, II, III... and Classical Yoga Therapy. He wrote the popular book, Healing Your Life; Lessons on the Path of Ayurveda, and recorded Yoga Nidra and Self Healing, the #1 bestselling meditation CD in the United States. He has also co-authored several published original research papers in the field of Ayurvedic dermatology.
He has been a keynote speaker at numerous national and international conferences worldwide, including the International Conference on Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He spoke before the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine on behalf of Ayurveda in the 1990s.
Dr. Halpern has received numerous awards for his service to Ayurveda in both India and the United States, and is one of the few Westerners who have been recognized in India as an expert in the field of Ayurveda.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
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— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Can I still benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can stream the recordings and download the transcripts of all course sessions, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage with the full community and leaders in our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
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