Leadership & Accomplishments - The Joyful Belly School Of Ayurveda

Joyful Belly's leadership in Ayurveda is vast. Developed in 2006, we offer the most clinically advanced, comprehensive, and innovative Ayurveda education in the west.

The founder of our school graduated from Harvard, and his academic achievements infuse the whole school to a higher quality education.

Leading Ayurveda Innovation in the West

Our credibility, authenticity, knowledge, and commitment to Ayurveda and to public service is best demonstrated through these accomplishments:

• We offer thousands of novel, integrative, and experiential articles for free to the world as part of our public service mission.
• We created a vast website with over 150,000 cross references to help practitioners and the public filter food & recipes, greatly improving ease of use and client compliance across the entire profession.
• We formalized Ayurveda's theory of medicine as biocharacteristics, including new models for pathogenesis (samprapti), so that Aurveda can be evaluated by the scientific community. At Joyful Belly, you learn the "why" behind the theory.
• We developed and provide next generation diet and food tools to the public to make recipe and ingredient selection easier
• We have collated quiz profiles to build reports on over 1,000 different disorders and imbalances, frequently not tracked by Western medicine. See examples here: Diabetes
• We have published novel food reports on the effects of over 150 herbs and ingredients.
• Improved the comprehensiveness of Ayurveda assessment and reduced analysis time across the profession through automating an advanced Ayurveda body map and chart for clients,
• Developed Intelligent Herb - a clinical case management tool that provides smart suggestions for diet, lifestyle, and herbs, greatly improving efficiency and accuracy in consultations.

Joyful Belly's vision is an experiential, hands-on, evidence based education that inspires and delivers real health results to clients. We have a strong focus on outcomes, and cross-cultural accessibility.

State licensing is a demanding process that requires schools to operate according to best practices and stable financials. While many schools seek exemption from this process we have embraced it and thus have government backing as a college. As a college, our license to teach Ayurveda is given directly by the state of North Carolina, not by private associations who lack legal standing. The North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges is not an accrediting agency.

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AADP Accredited

The Joyful Belly College of Ayurveda has provided advanced clinical training for Ayurvedic professionals since 2008. We are licensed to teach Ayurveda by the state of North Carolina Board of Community Colleges (not an accrediting agency), and accredited through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP). We partner with the American Association of Biocharacteristics Clinicians (AABC) to support our graduates' clinical success in Ayurveda (Why AABC?). We are a member college of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG). Joyful Belly is also recognized by the National Association of Ayurveda Schools and Colleges (NAASC), and the Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America (AAPNA). Our founder, John Immel, is the current president of NAASC.