Instructor Biographies
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Vishnu Dass
Asheville, NC
Vishnu Dass (NTS, LMT, CAyu) started studying Ayurveda in 1992 under the guidance of Dr. Vasant Lad, world renowned Ayurvedic physician and teacher, and graduated from the Advanced Studies and Clinical Program at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM. He worked for the Panchakarma Department of the Institute while finishing his studies, and also graduated from the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics. He is a former Board Member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association.

His holistic approach enables him to create individualized programs, specifically tailored to your particular needs, integrating into your Ayurvedic consultation nutritional and lifestyle counseling, herbal nutrition, Ayurvedic therapies, therapeutic massage, and Ayurvedic yoga therapy, depending on your specific situation, goals, and needs. He is clinically trained to offer full Panchakarma programs and Panchakarma therapies, and personally guides and supervises your process throughout your treatments.

Vishnu Dass offers lectures and workshops on Ayurveda and yoga philosophy for various herb schools and yoga centers throughout the South East, and has published several articles on Ayurveda and yoga, both on local and national publications.

He learned hatha yoga, yogic practices and yoga philosophy while living at Mount Madonna Center for the Arts, in Watsonville, CA, under the guidance of Baba Hari Dass, renowned yoga master, and also while living in India with the Vairagi monks. He has taught classical hatha yoga, pranayama (breathing techniques) and meditation since 1992 at various yoga centers and retreats in the US, and is able to blend his knowledge of Ayurveda and yoga to set you up with an individualized Ayurvedic yoga program to meet your constitutional needs.