Distance Ayurvedic Education
Designed for Success
Yoga Veda Institute’s Distance Program is designed for the Ayurvedic student that needs the freedom from location and time flexibility that distance education offers. As valuable as this freedom is to the needs of many students, many students find that they need certain elements of structure in order to be successful in their program.
Students are most likely to be successful in the YVI distance program if they:
- Are self-directed learners
- Are able to work independently
- Have access to local clinical opportunities
Freedom of Location
Students are able to complete their studies wherever they live in the world. Students must have access to the internet (high-speed options highly recommended), and have word processing and printing capabilities.
Students complete their clinical training with an approved local preceptor and through our online internship program. Students may wish to identify appropriate clinical training options prior to entering the YVI program. For those students who find travel to be an impossibility – various other options are available including transferring clinical studies from another recognized institution, working with a pre-approved faculty preceptor, or graduating as a non-certificate seeking student.
Students are able to complete academic and clinical work on their own time schedules. Students begin courses at the same time throughout the year; however, a student may find that they need extra time to complete a course. Students are encouraged to finish their courses within a trimester but may extend a course if necessary. Instructors, preceptors, and school mentors are available to support each student’s success in reaching their goals and moving through the program.
Major Maps are course completion schedules that students develop with the YVI Student Advisor. Major Maps allow students to see what course work must be completed within each trimester to meet the student’s graduation goal date. Major Maps give structure to the flexibility of YVI course work.
Financial Options & Incentives
YVI students do not need to worry about gathering a large sum of tuition all at once in order to finance their education. YVI offers students reasonable extended payment plans to make this program accessible.
The tuition covers all credits enrolled in at the beginning of each trimester.
Students can take as few or as many credits as they wish each trimester.
The Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner program is designed to be completed in 2 years (6 trimesters). Students may take up to 6 years (18 trimesters) to complete the program with no additional fees.
Students who opt to pay in full at the time of enrollment will benefit from an additional Pay In Full savings. There are no additional fees. Additional payments will only be billed should the student take longer than the allotted timeframe to graduate, at which time will be billed at the published trimester tuition rate for each additional enrolled trimester.
Students can take as few or as many credits as they wish each trimester of enrollment.
Because the tuition covers all of the credits students who wish to take more credits will progress through the program faster.
The YVI academic year is divided into three trimesters.
Winter — January through March
Spring — April through June
Fall — October through December
Students may begin at any time throughout the year. Live classes commence at the beginning of each trimester. This encourages students to complete course work by the end of the trimester so that they can enroll in additional courses for the next trimester. The trimester system also allows students to begin new courses with other students at the same time, making student study groups more effective.
Personal coaching is a unique service that YVI offers students enrolled in the distance program. Students have access to a student advisor throughout their program. Student advisors can help students identify and overcome progress challenges, suggest Major Map changes, and provide accountability and support through the student’s program.
For some distance education students, isolation is a concern. YVI strives to mitigate isolation through healthy learning communities and peer-led support groups. An affinity group of peers creates relationships and a culture of accountability to each other. YVI is providing Ayurvedic education wherever there is an internet connection!
Our students are building electronic communities across platforms and geographies!