April 28-30, 2023
NAMA’s 2023 Annual Conference will take place from Friday, April 28 - Sunday, April 30, 2023, in beautiful Boone, North Carolina at the Art of Living Retreat Center. This upcoming live-only conference will include three renowned featured speakers and multiple opportunities for our community members to come together and explore a variety of topics and learning formats.
NAMA Professional Members can earn 15 PACE credits for attending the full conference. Three additional PACE credits can be earned for attending the Post-Conference Practicum (separate registration required).
2023 Featured Presenters
AYURVEDA IN MODERN TIMES
with Vasant Lad, BAMS, MASC
Vasant Lad is a native of India and served for three years as the Medical Director of the Ayurveda Hospital in Pune, India. He was a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Pune University College of Ayurvedic Medicine for 15 years. He holds a BAMS degree from the University of Pune and a Master’s of Ayurvedic Science (MAsc) degree from Tilak Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya. His academic and practical training includes the study of allopathy (Western medicine) and surgery as well as traditional Ayurveda. He traveled to the U.S. in 1979 and started the Ayurvedic Institute in 1984. The author of numerous books, Vasant Lad is respected throughout the world for his knowledge of Ayurveda. His work, which comprises over 500,000 copies of his books in print in the U.S., has been translated into more than 20 languages.
Ramkumar Kutty, BAMS, is a student of Ayurveda and has spoken across the world for 20+ years. Ramkumar is the Founder of Punarnava Ayurveda, committed to “Authentic Ayurveda for Universal Well Being.” He is creating vaidyagrama, an experimental self-sustaining Ayurveda healing community.
INTEGRATING AYURVEDA INTO WESTERN MEDICINE
with Sheila Patel, MD
Dr. Sheila Patel, MD, is Chopra’s Chief Medical Officer and a board-certified family physician who combines the best of conventional medicine with Ayurveda to help people achieve optimal mind, body, spirit well-being. She is a certified yoga, meditation, and Ayurvedic lifestyle teacher and is a lead educator in the Chopra certification programs. She teaches in a variety of settings and enjoys bringing light to the science and mechanisms of action of mind-body practices