Sarasvati Buhrman, PHD

Specialties

1) Clinical Practice of Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga Therapy:

Ayurvedic internal medicine, health and wellness counseling, digestive disorders, allergies, chronic and auto-​immune illnesses, gynecological issues, mental health, spiritual emergence issues

Recommending as appropriate:

Individualised Ayurvedic herbal formulations, nutritional and lifestyle recommendations, therapeutic Yoga practices including breath, meditation therapy, and Yoga Nidra, and pancha karma interventions

referrals: Dr. Buhrman works with a network of health care practitioners including an integrative medicine physician, a psychiatrist, a psychotherapist, and a massage therapist specialising in pancha karma.

2) Individualised Instruction: traditional Yogic methods of pranayama and meditation

3) Teaching for various educational institutions: history, philosophy, and practices of all six classical Yogas including Bhagavad-​Gita and Yoga Sutras; Theory and Practice of Ayurvedic Medicine and Yoga Therapy.

History

Established in 1987.

Dr. Sarasvati Buhrman was a graduate student in Genetics at the University of California when she met her spiritual teacher, Yoga master Baba Hari Dass.

Trained in traditional Hatha Yoga, which is based on Ayurveda and the subtle body teachings of classical sattvic Tantra, Babaji taught his students Ayurvedic principles as well as the texts and methods of all six classical Yogas: Jnana, classical Tantra, Ashtanga, Karma, Hatha, and Bhakti.

He also brought to the U.S. eminent Benares Hindu University Professor of Ayurvedic Medicine, Dr. R.P. Trivedi, and Sarasvati had the privilege of studying with him. After her training, Dr. Trivedi asked her to teach and practice Ayurvedic medicine. When Sarasvati had to drop out of her grad program due to chronic fatigue syndrome, she was able to cure it using Ayurvedic medicine and the methods of Hatha Yoga therapy.

Sarasvati opened her clinical practice in Boulder, Co.

in 1987, and co-​founded the Rocky Mtn Inst of Yoga & Ayurveda in 1990.

Meet the Business Owner

Sarasvati Buhrman, Ph.D. B.

Business Owner

education:

B.S. Biology, College of William and Mary

M.S. eq. Biology, University of Illinois

Certifications in Yoga Teacher Training and Ayurvedic Medicine, Mount Madonna Center

Biofeedback Certification, Evolving Institute and London Psychological Institute

M.A. and Ph.D. Anthropology (specialising in psychological anthropology), University of Colorado, Boulder

Yoga of the Heart Yoga Therapy for Cardiac patients certification with Nischala Joy Devi

articles and publications:

available on website

professional memberships: World Council of Yoga, professional member and former board of directors National Ayurvedic Medical Association, International

Association of Yoga Therapists, Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association, Yoga Alliance RYTE-​500, American Academy of Religions

present or former faculty:

Rocky Mountain Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda, Naropa University, Metropolitan State College,

Mount Madonna Center, Salt Spring Centre,

Anandaseva Yoga Therapy, American Yoga College