About the Teacher
Dharma Bodhi studied biochemistry and psychology at Trenton State University from 1980 – 1982, finishing in the top 1% of students in his class while working as a psychotherapy counsellor at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, America’s oldest psychiatric hospital. He then earned his clinical doctorate degree in Chiropractic Health Care and Plain Film Radiography (x-ray) in 1986. That same year he completed post-graduate studies in physical therapy, spinal bio-physics and Japanese acupuncture.
From 1986 – 1996, he owned a multi-disciplinary health clinic in Australia where he pioneered the use of mind-body technologies from Yoga and Daoism learnt from his daoshi and guru in order to create healing in the most resistant diseases and conditions. During this period of time Dharma also apprenticed with a very talented healer from the native Hawai’ian Kahuna tradition and inherited this rich tradition of healing using the body’s energy and breath.
In 1997 Dharma graduated as an Acarya of Tantrik Yoga after 10 years of training with his Indian masters. During his training he studied the yoga healing method which combines Ayurveda and Tantrik Yoga. His guru was especially knowledgeable in the rare form of Ayurveda practiced by high level yogins called “Siddha Medicine”. This exposure stimulated Dharma to seek out formal training in Ayurveda with Dr. Vasant Lad.
After moving back to the USA in 1996 he traveled to New Mexico to enroll in Dr. Lad’s Ayurvedic Institute. There he completed the 2-year program for licensed health care practitioners. Dharma Bodhi enjoyed a rich learning relationship with Dr. Lad which led to him apprenticing with Dr. Lad in both his city and rural clinics in Pune, India. Dharma also taught Vedic and Tantrik philosophy as a part-time staff member of Dr. Lad’s Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico during those years.
In 1999 a group of his students invited him to live in the San Francisco, California. A year later Dharma and these students opened Yoga Mandala where Dharma lectured and practiced Ayurvedic medicine for 7 years. During this period he lectured all across the USA on how to integrate yoga and Ayurveda for the best benefits to the practitioner. In December of 2007 he and his family moved to a meditation retreat center he founded in the northern mountains of Thailand.
Over the decades Dharma Bodhi has been an apprentice to many healers of native traditions. This includes training in the Amazon Jungle to become an Ayahuascero, with Kahunas in Hawai’i and with Native American medicine men and women in the USA. His grandmother was a Germanic shaman with powerful healing capabilities. Many of his masters have said that her spirit runs strong in Dharma’s veins. All of the various apprenticeships he served have created a deep and comprehensive understanding of the body’s function and how to enhance them through Ayurveda and Yoga.
He now lives in Maine, USA with his wife and kids. He has dedicated his life to helping people heal body, mind and spirit through teaching live programs, online programs and books.
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