Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist (ABS) Newport Program
Intensive! Study “Live” with Karyn in Newport, RI:
New Dates To Be Announced Soon
Online Options for Distance Students Here
Approved and Credentialed by RIOPC & CBTMB.
Member: NAMA & APPNA
Details:
Intensive Immersion: 139 hours. 22 CEs from NCBTMB.
Click here to see a list of products and equipment needed. The school provides the larger more expensive equipment for students to practice during training.
This particular program is limited to 8 students making this a very personal experience.
There are many lovely AirBnB’s walking distance to town and to the location of the ABS program.
TF Green Airport in Providence, RI is the closest airport and about a 40 minute Uber ride.
Kingston, RI Amtrak Station is about a 35 minute Uber ride.
Each individual seminar that make up the entire ABS program can be attended separately to those students not wishing to receive the full ABS Certification.
Click here for individual Seminar Descriptions & dates.
‘Live’ ABS programs are offered once or twice every year in Newport, RI. Online ABS courses are offered anytime and self paced at this link.
An individual, stipulated amount of attendance is required to become a ABS Registered Graduate and receive a certificate of completion.
ABS Program Master Instructors: Karyn Chabot, M.Ay, LMT, RYT, Dr. Munira Merchant, Chelynn Treteault, LMT, AHP, Joa Agnello, LMT, AHP, Gauri Trainor, LMT, RYT & and many more!
Travel Costs
Travel costs are not included in tuition. We is not responsible for refunding travel costs for long-distance students should a seminar need to be canceled due to inclement weather or illness with an instructor. Consult with someone at Sacred Stone School before purchasing airfare or making hotel reservations.
Become a Registered Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist (ABS) Teacher!
Prerequisites for becoming an ABS Certified Teacher: Candidates must speak to Karyn about this for approval, as well as take the program twice. The 2nd time, candidates will be groomed and trained by one of our Master Instructors, as well as expected to lead some portions of the program during their 2nd round. Graduates of 2 full ABS programs will be awarded a Masters certification for teaching and eligible to distribute NCBTMB continuing education credits to their students under Sacred Stone School. The requirements for ABS Teacher Training are still under development and are subject to change.
ABS Master Teacher Requirements
Participated and graduated from Sacred Stone’s ABS program twice
Pass the verbal and practical ABS exam with 85% or higher
Graduate from a 500 or more hour AHC program
Natural affinity and ability to teach
Clinical intern teaching hours for experience and grooming
State Massage License
Assisted in at least one ABS written and practical examination.
Provide documents showing 15 hours of approved
Graduates can expect to become certified and proficient in hands-on healing using the ancient wisdom of Ayurvedic principles to remedy the stress of today’s world. This metaphysical training, approved by the RIOPC and NCBTMB, will offer guided practice, concepts and theory in the foundations of medical Ayurveda. Ayurveda is the sister science to yoga and the 5,000 year old science of self-healing and longevity, recognized by the World Health Organization. Become the healer you were meant to be at Sacred Stone Academy. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. The meaning of life is to find your gift with the intention is to give it away. The two most important days of your life is the day you were born and the day you find out why. Mahatma Gandhi states, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service to others.” Our ABS Manual © (280 pages – 8 X 11)
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest hers/his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease” — Thomas Edison
This course was not designed for diagnostics, pulse analysis, or the replacement of a licensed massage therapy program or the allopathic medical profession, but instead, designed for harmonious integration into all indigenous and traditional medical systems. It helps if students have a massage license prior to enrolling in this course, but is not a prerequisite for this course. Though it may be a prerequisite at the “state level”, for legal reasons, if graduates intend to charge for the services outlined in this book. We recommend learning rules in the particular state in which you reside or wish to practice regarding the legality of professional massage therapy, as each state is different. Some states allow for spiritual touch healing with an online minister’s license. Shirodhara Therapy can be done, with some exceptions, without massaging the body. Therefore it may one of the therapies that would fall under the category of spiritual touch healing, not requiring a license. Each state will have a different name and description for such categories as well.
“Health is equilibrium of the dhatus. Health is happiness, disease is unhappiness.”
Charaka Samhita Su 9/3
Our ABS course manual was designed for two types of students: online and on-campus (Live) students. It is a compilation of many classroom handouts, slides, articles and classroom unpublished books with material that may not be found anywhere else. We seamlessly and coherently merged all this data to create this very comprehensive, unique text based on true Ayurvedic theories and experience from many licensed massage therapy instructors with extensive training and history, many of whom trained with some of the worlds Ayurveda’s leading experts and doctors.
Location: Newport, RI
Course Description
This course is available as either a 4-week, in-person in Newport, RI, live intensive or as an independent, self-paced online program.
Students will learn the foundations of Ayurvedic bodywork, specific applications of oils, poultices, thermo and hydrotherapy, healing muds/pastes, marma pressure points, herbal potions and more. Students will learn how to harmonize bodywork modalities with the seasons, doshic diet and routine protocols, use Ayurvedic oils, pastes and herbal remedies, as well as be able to demonstrate proficiency using hands-on techniques. The material in this course is rooted in the ancient healing modalities of ‘pancha karma’, a Sanskrit word referring to India’s ancient purification and rejuvenation system. Students will uncover modified, yet sacred and powerful versions of this ancient system.
Learning Objectives
History of Ayurveda
Foundations of Ayurvedic Theory
Doshic Pain Identification and Management
Principles of Ayurvedic Eating
Nasya & Karna Purana (Cranial Therapy)
Intro to Marma Point Therapy (Opening the doorways in the body)
Abhyanga (Ayurvedic Massage)
Garshana (Friction Massage with Raw Silk Gloves)
Sacred Stone Massage Therapy (Shila Abhyanga)
Vedic Bodymask Therapy
Doshic Oil Therapy & Mixing
Marma Stone Facial Therapy
Swedhana Therapy (Thermo-hydrotherapy)
Shirodhara Therapy
Vishesh Deep Vedic Massage
Udhvartana Therapy (herbal paste/salt glows)
Eastern Cupping, Moxabustion & Eastern Meridian Therapy
Doshic Oil Therapy & Mixing
Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist Manual Table of Contents
“In order to create the space for others to heal, we must first establish a sattvic gentleness without our self.” –Karyn Chabot
Materials Included:
(The e-dvds & webinars listed below are approximately 60-75 mins or more)
Illustrated manual 280 pages 8 X 11 instructional (copyrighted)
Instructional Shirodhara Therapy e-dvd
Tandem Abhyanga Therapy e-dvd
Instructional Garshana & Swedhana e-dvd (aka Exfoliation/Detox Thermo-Hydrotherapy
Sacred Stone Massage Therapy (Shila Abhyanga) Classroom Demonstration e-dvd
Sacred Stone Marma Facial & Crystal Therapy e-dvd
Sacred Stone Marma Massage Therapy e-dvd
And much more!
Save $10 on your application fee by sending a check. Click here to download, print and fill out the application. Include a $40 check in your envelope to me. Contact me for a mailing address. Be sure to include your email to receive your acceptance letter. Or use the above Apply Now button to do everything online.
Prerequisite
A passion for the healing arts and a desire to serve others with pure intentions. Most anyone can enroll. We will match experienced therapists with other experienced therapists and beginners with other beginners during practicum.
Perks: All “live” ABS students will have access to our Online Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist Course!
“When Sattva predominates, the light of wisdom shines through every gate of the body”.(Bhagavad Gita 14:11)
In our “live” Newport ABS seminars, massage tables, stone heaters, stones, and most other “equipment” will be provided by Karyn in Newport, RI for practice and learning. Students will be generally responsible to bring their own oils, linens and other topical substances. Click here for products you will need.
Tuition Options
After you have submitted your application and have received your acceptance letter via email, (see the above Apply Now button) please choose from the following tuition options:
$2,800: Paid in full with a money order or personal check payable to Karyn Chabot
$2,900: Paid in full with a credit card secure here.
$3,000: Weekly Installments.
This program is limited to 8 select students only.
Extra Fees: $5-20 per Seminar for Supplies. Students bring their own supplies. SAMA will supply the large equipment such as massage tables and more.
State Approved!
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Sacred Stone School is approved to operate as a school in the state of Rhode Island and is a continuing education provider for the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB). Our Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist Course provides unlicensed and licensed health and beauty professionals to become trained in Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist Modalities. In the state of RI, unlicensed health and beauty professionals can legally operate under the title of Ayurveda. Please click on this link for more information regarding the legality. This course will not prepare the student to become a licensed massage therapist and is not designed for the student to learn how to manipulate the musculature, fascia or the bone structure of the client. Click here for more info about legally “touching” the body without a massage license. .
Refund Policy
If a student decides not to participate in our program and informs Sacred Stone in writing 15 days prior to the agreed upon orientation (first day), a full refund will be provided minus a $108 processing fee. The $50 application is not refundable.
If a student decides to withdraw from our program within 2 weeks of the first day of the program, $500 of the tuition is non-refundable.
If a student decides to withdraw from our program within 24-hours of, on, or after the start date, a minimum of $800 of the tuition is nonrefundable. Any additional amount due/refundable will be calculated and prorated based on the date the letter of withdrawal was received by Sacred Stone
No refunds or credit will be issued for canceled/postponed seminars for inclement weather. Every effort will be made to reschedule such training sessions.
Missed ABS Seminar Policies
One missed seminar is permitted. Students may make up for one missed seminar in the next program without an administrative fee. After that, any missed seminars can be made up in the next program for half the individual tuition of that particular seminar. A student missing hours may only transfer into the next consecutive program and not into future programs without paying the re-enrollment tuition.
Our online and on-site Ayurvedic training program is a state credentialed Ayurveda school approved by the CBTMB. We have the Best Online Ayurvedic massage and bodywork training course registered Ayurveda school in the USA. Enroll and become a certified and registered Ayurvedic Bodywork Specialist today.
