Creativity and joy in cooking and enjoying: Learn about the Ayurvedic art of cooking in its diversity and createdelicious recipes for more health, vitality and healing of body and mind.
In traditional Ayurveda, cooks are called alchemists of life energy. And even today, expert Ayurvedic cooks know about the healing power of foods, spices and preparation methods and implement them in an enjoyable way with creative culinary art.
Learn to use the facets of Ayurvedic cuisine in a practical way. The special feature of our training as an Ayurvedic cook is the integration into Western, nutrition-conscious dietetics: The dishes are prepared according to Ayurvedic principles, but do not have to be typically Indian in their taste and style. Rather, you learn to develop your own recipes and create an enjoyable synthesis of traditional Indian, Mediterranean and therapeutic cooking.
The training as an Ayurvedic chef provides you with a sound knowledge of Ayurveda, Ayurvedic nutrition and spices. You learn to apply the rules of Ayurveda nutrition to strengthen health and balance the doshas and agni and can integrate this knowledge into the kitchen practice.
During the Ayurvedic cook training you will learn
- basics of Ayurvedic nutrition with 8 factors, 6 tastes, 4 forms and 12 food groups.
- Ayurvedic cooking for every occasion: from fast everyday cooking to gourmet buffets, from regional and Mediterranean cuisine to original Indian Ayurvedic recipes.
- How to use and prepare spices, herbs and food according to the principles of Ayurveda.
- Ayurvedic constitution determination, creation of Dosha-balancing menus and the type-appropriate preparation of meals.
- to adjust recipes and menus according to the seasons, constitution and needs of the individual.
- to design, calculate and successfully implement holistic menu plans for Ayurveda cures and seminars.
- to inspire and pamper people with professional, creative and tasty Ayurvedic cuisine and to motivate them to adopt a healthy diet.
Many hotels, health resorts and clinics know about the good quality of the cooks trained at the European Academy for Ayurveda and ask us directly for competent staff. We are happy to act here as a "job exchange" and are pleased to have already conveyed the "Birsteiner Ayurveda cuisine to many other places in Europe.
The Ayurveda Chef training includes four theory modules, an intensive practical training with 5-day Ayurveda Cooking School and an internship.
The theory blocks of Ayurveda basics, nutrition and spice theory can be completed as an online study at the Rosenberg eAcademy or as a classroom course at our locations:
The Ayurveda Cooking School takes place as a 5-day intensive course in Birstein or as a 5 x 1-day cooking course at our locations in Austria or Switzerland.
The training concludes with a 6-day kitchen internship with integrated practical examination in the bio-certified Ayurveda kitchen of the Rosenberg Ayurveda Academy and Health Resort in Birstein.
Postgraduate studies
Many of our students extend the training as an Ayurveda cook with only one further training module
Your way to the degree
| Designation | Days | Attendance time | Total learning hours | |
1 | Training Ayurveda cook | 17 | 127,5 | 190 |
| 2 | Internship (incl. REAA final exam: written elaboration of an Ayurveda menu plan and practical preparation of an Ayurveda menu) | 6 | 45 | 60 |
| Certified Ayurvedic Chef | 23 | 172,5 | 250 |
Ayurvedic nutrition according to type
- General rules of Ayurvedic nutrition
- Individual adjustment of food to the constitution and metabolism
- 8 factors of nutrition, 6 tastes, 4 forms, 12 food groups
- Recognizing Agni states according to type, including tongue observation
- Design Ayurvedic menu and meal plans according to the chronobiological bio-clock
- Type-appropriate recommendations for dosha balancing and agni strengthening
Ayurveda Basics: Concepts and Factors of Disease
- Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Ayurveda
- Essential Features and Literature of Ayurveda
- Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine versus Modern Science
- Five Elements (panca-mahabhuta)
- Nature of Man: Differentiation of body, mind and spirit
- Introduction to the anatomy and physiology of Ayurveda
- Functional components: doshas (classification, properties, functions, seats) and agnis (classification, function, states)
- Structural components: dhatus, upadhatus , malas and srotas
- Process of tissue formation (dhatu-parinama)
- Definition of health (svastha)
- Causes (hetu) of health and physical and mental diseases
- Process of etiopathogenesis (samprapti)
- Stages of etiopathogenesis (six kriyakala)
Ayurveda Basics: Constitution and Healing
- Theoretical and Practical Introduction to the Concept of Ayurvedic Constitutional Theory (prakriti)
- Introduction to Ayurvedic Symptomatology:
- Symptoms of the doshas
- Symptoms of the tissues (dhatu), excretory products (mala), transport spaces (srotas), digestive power (agni)
- Theoretical Introduction to Diagnostics in Ayurveda: Models of patient examination
- Three-fold examination (tri-vidha-pariksha)
- Six-fold examination (shad-vidha-pariksha)
- Eight-fold examination (ashta-vidha-pariksha)
- Introduction to Ayurvedic concepts of health maintenance (svasthavrtta):
- Dinacarya: daily routine measures and order therapy
- Rtucarya: Recommendations for a lifestyle adapted to the seasons
- Introduction to Ayurvedic nutrition and food science
Spices, herbs and oils in Ayurveda
- Fundamentals of Ayurvedic spice and herbology (Dravyaguna)
- Classification of spices Balancing the psyche (sattva, rajas, tamas) to balance doshas, Constitution and Digestion (Agni)
- Typical and practical use of spices in everyday life to improve food tolerance (Karana)
- Detailed discussion of 21 selected Ayurvedic spices according to their properties and qualities
- Detailed discussion of 12 selected AyurvedicHerbs according to their properties and qualities
- Detailed discussion of 13 selected Ayurvedic oils according to their properties and qualities
The great Ayurvedic cooking school
- Techniques of Ayurvedic cooking: Roasting and cooking methods, harmonizing menu components, preparation of dal, rice, vegetables, soups, chutney and spreads
- Practice of creative Ayurvedic cooking for all constitution types and seasons
- Ayurvedic healing food and special diets: Panchakarma cuisine, recipe variations for food intolerances and for vegans
- type-appropriate recipes and creations for the three main meals, conception for Ayurveda menus and buffets
- Kitchen management and quantity calculation for spa and seminar catering
Internship Ayurveda Organic Kitchen Birstein
plus examination fee € 100
minus discount for payment in one sum in advance € 50
On the campus of the European Academy of Ayurveda there are guest houses available. For your overnight stay during the training you can choose from rooms of different categories. Ayurvedic full board from our organic kitchen is included in the room price.
Deposit € 500
a) In one sum at the latest one month before the start of the training (immediately for eLearning modules, so that we can activate your eSeminars immediately).
b) Option for participants from Germany and Austria: monthly installments of 250 EUR each by direct debit. The payment (debit) of the monthly installments will be made on the 1st of each month, starting from the month of the beginning of the training booked here, for eAcademy modules immediately. If the training begins with modules of the eAcademy, the activation takes place provisionally immediately after receipt of the deposit, regularly then after receipt of the first monthly installment.
Rosenberg gGmbH - European Academy for Ayurveda | DE - 63633 Birstein
Especially recommended for
- amateur and professional chefs
- oecothrophologists and dieticians
- Ayurvedic nutritionists who would also like to work as Ayurvedic seminar chefs or cooking course instructors.
6 days in the Ayurvedic kitchen Birstein
In order for you to be able to practically apply your newly acquired cooking skills, an internship in the Ayurvedic organic kitchen in Birstein is part of your training. During this week you will work intensively on preparing Ayurvedic menus for our training or course participants. Our team of ayurvedic cooks will support you with words and deeds.
At the end of your internship you will work out an Ayurveda menu plan and prepare it practically as an examination meal.
Costs
The internship is free of charge. You only pay for the accommodation in the category of your choice.
Your cooperation in the Ayurveda kitchen leaves you approx. 4 hours of free time per day. If you need more time for yourself, for example to recover or to study, the internship is chargeable.
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The new Ayurveda kitchen (home cookbook)
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In this training, you demonstrate that you have internalized the knowledge from this course in the following way.
- Learning checks: Each module ends with a learning check to assure you and us that you have achieved the learning objectives. It contains 20 multiple choice questions and must be passed with at least 70%. You can take the learning check a maximum of three times.
The exam consists of 3 parts.
- Qualification test in the digital learning platform: 8 questions on the topic of Ayurveda nutrition and kitchen practice await you. You have two free attempts to answer the questions.
- Practical exam: During the practical exam you have to create a lunch menu on your own, cook it and present it to the guests.
- Written final paper: Execution about the basics of Ayurveda nutrition and the cooking course (2 pages) as well as the thorough elaboration and detailed explanation of your Ayurveda menu (approx. 6 pages)
The final exam is considered passed if all parts of the exam have been passed at least.
All done? Then you can look forward to your final certificate, which we will send to you by mail.
EFK
Required previous knowledge:
practical experience and enjoyment of cooking
Examination with degree: Certified Ayurvedic Chef
Scope:
302 learning hours* à 60 min.
-> 5 Modules (see below) + Learning assignments = 234 hrs
-> 1 modules internship 60 hrs
Standard period of study 8-12 months
Blended learning:
Maximum 4 of 5 modules as e-learning
Maximum 4 of 5 modules as live webinar
Training fee from € 2.990
Already completed parts of the training will be credited: see prices
plus examination fee € 100
plus room and board, if applicable
* Learning hours = total number of didactically accompanied and supervised incl. lessons, prepared exercises, guided learning or guided practical exercises, learning checks practice, learning checks in each case in online or in presence or also in own work.
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