Dr. Svoboda's Melbourne visit commemorates the beginning of his final year of teaching and travelling. He will be co-teaching with Dr. Claudia Welch (Dr. of Ayurveda, Oriental and Chinese Medicine).
Consultations
Tuesday & Wednesday (6+7 April, 2010)
Individual consultations with either Dr. Svoboda or Dr. Welch.
Cost: $225
Joint consults with Drs. Svoboda and Welch.
Cost: $300
Weekend Workshop, Men and Women and Ayurveda, 9-11 April 2010
Life is relationship. Each of us relates continually with the environment accepting all manner of inputs into the inner cosmos, and influencing the outside world through communications, fabrications, movements, excretions, creations, and other actions. True health requires that these many and varied flows develop a dynamic balance, an ever-changing self-propagating equilibirum. Each of our relationships can be gratifying or tempestuous; each can heal and support us or sap our vitality and sicken us. The most important of our relationships is the one each of us has with him-or herself. The path to health is a road to self-knowledge, an awakening into the realities of your own personal person, a melding of all your different awarenesses into one well-integrated awareness.
Men and Ayurveda
Dr. Svoboda will inaugurate this weekend's program focusing on men–their physiology, psychology and their crucial weaknesses. This workshop is open to both men and women.
Friday 9 April. 9:30am - 2:00pm
Cost: $135 (by 1 March 2010) / $150
Shakti and Shaktiman
Lecture by Dr. Robert Svoboda. What appears in living beings as gender appears in the rest of the world in other guises. This lecture will explore energy and management, the two poles of the duality from which emerges all creation.
Friday 9 April: 7:30 - 9pm
Cost: $25
(free to workshop participants)
Women and Ayurveda
In this workshop Dr. Claudia Welch will continue with an exploration of what it means to be female, and how to make best use of a woman's body, mind and heart. Dr.Svoboda will be present during this program. This workshop is open to both men and women.
Saturday 10 April: 9:30am - 5:30pm
Cost: $235 (by 1 March) / $250
Summation
Dr.Svoboda and Welch will share the podium, tying together the male and female perspectives on existence and evaluating selected individuals to illustrate how Ayurveda addresses the similarities and differences of the genders.
Sunday 11 April: 9:30am - 1:30pm
Cost: $135 (by 1 March) / $150
Total Weekend - Friday to Sunday - Cost
Cost: $505 (by 1 March) / $550
Dr. Robert E. Svoboda
Leading practitioner and author of more than a dozen books Dr. Robert E. Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training Robert was tutored in Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. Robert travels extensively lecturing and conducting workshops on Ayurvedic subjects, while in India he continues his research into Ayurveda and other ancient sciences. www.drsvoboda.com
Dr. Claudia Welch
Claudia Welch is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, a practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, and an author of Eastern medicine and philosophy. She serves on the teaching faculty of The Ayurvedic Institute, the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, and Acupractice Seminars. Dr. Welch regularly lectures on Oriental and Ayurvedic medicines and brings a depth of knowledge and a sense of joy to her presentations. www.drclaudiawelch.com