Vaidyas
“Every day I remind myself to be grateful to the opportunity I got to learn this health science in a gurukulam, and to receive my first lessons of this ancient wisdom from my grandma. I thank the universe for letting me be born in one of the last Vaidya families in south India so that I could grow with the routines of ayurveda, my body and mind naturally becoming accustomed with a natural and healthy lifestyle from the very first memory of my life. I am grateful to exist on this earth as a Vaidya, living my whole life as a student of this health wisdom and like my ancestors, the great Vaidyas, I will be happy to leave this world with the satisfaction of having helped many lives with my traditional knowledge during my journey on this planet.”
About Janesh Vaidya
Born in a traditional family in India Janesh Vaidya started his education in ayurveda in the early years of his life with his grandmother and extended his knowledge in the subject of Mana-shastra (psychology), Vedanta (philosophy), Dhyana (meditation), Kalari (Martial art) and Yoga therapy from the traditional village schools in South India known as gurukulam. Janesh Vaidya also has a bachelor’s degree from Mahatma Gandhi University and a master’s degree in human resources development. For more than a decade he has been traveling in Europe sharing his knowledge in the field of ayurveda through lectures, columns and books, based on his traditional knowledge in the subject and the experience in working as a practitioner of ayurveda around the world. Vaidya has done hundreds or inspirational lectures and so far he has written six books in the field of health, which has been translated and published in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Holland.
Janesh Vaidya, the MD (Managing Director) of Vaidya’s Ayurveda Village in Kerala, south India, is an internationally known Ayurveda practitioner and ambassador, lecturer and the author of best selling health books in Europe.
Vaidyas - the god fathers of ayurveda
Ayurveda has been practiced in India for more than 5000 years and was the mainstream medical system until the immigration of allopathy and homeopathy to the country during the British colonial times. In ancient India ayurveda was studied and practiced by a group of families known as Vaidyas, the wisdom passed from one generation to the other, from the eldest Vaidya to the youngest. Those days, every village in India had a Vaidya family who took care the health of the people of all classes in the society. And to keep the health regimes of the king and the royal families a resident ayurveda physician was permanently appointed, who had the noble designation Raja-Vaidya. Though Vaidyas are considered as the godfathers of Ayurveda, with the wind of modernisation on the earth many rituals of this most ancient tradition has blown away.
Gurukulam - Vaidyas' educational system
In Vaidya’s gurukulam education system the ayurveda studies start from very early age. A Vaidya then continues his/her education not only by the practice with the patients, but also through self-practice in his/her own life. However, in the last centuries, when the number of Vaidya families drastically diminished in India because of the modernisation, the government started to establish ayurveda colleges across the states to compensate for the scarcity of ayurveda practitioners. Nowadays, instead of gurukulam, ayurveda colleges are providing opportunity to study this ancient medical science under the syllabus of a university for everyone who wants a career in ayurveda. Even though our modern education system is much shorter compared to the Vaidya’s gurukulam education in the past, these institutions are filling the vacancy of the Nature’s physicians every year which helps the nation to continue to serve the modern society with one of the oldest natural health systems of the world.
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