Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya's
The Ayurvedic Nutrition Certification Program
Ancient framework · Modern context · Learn from the Sanskrit sources ·
Apply it to your own body, your kitchen, and the people you feed or guide
8–10 Months · Classical Sanskrit Texts Decoded · Modern Nutrition Science ·
Mentored Practicum · Original Research · NAMA PACE-Listed
Next Cohort Begins in October 2027·
Two paths available: Personal & Practitioner.
Nidhi's Ayurvedic Nutrition
Certification Program
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Meet Your Guide –
Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya
Certified Advanced Ayurvedic Practitioner · Author of Your Body Already Knows · Creator of the InnerClimate® Method
Hi, I am Nidhi
I’m a New York City–based Ayurvedic practitioner, educator, and author of Your Body Already Knows, translated into nine languages.
I grew up in India in a family deeply rooted in Vedic philosophy and healing traditions, where Ayurveda wasn't something I studied from a book - it was part of everyday life.
My formal training is deeply classical. I spent over five years studying at a gurukulam, immersed in Ayurvedic texts, Sanskrit, and the traditional way of learning the science. I later completed clinical training and have since worked with thousands of women through private practice and long-form programs.
Over the years, I’ve learned to take what is written in the classical texts and apply it to modern life - real people, real bodies, real food, and real-world complexity.
Through my InnerClimate® Method, I’ve developed an intuitive way of understanding doshas, helping people see the patterns behind their symptoms, behaviours and imbalances. My work brings together classical Ayurveda with modern science, psychology and circadian health.
At the heart of everything I teach is a simple belief:Given the right conditions, the body already knows how to heal.
Features & Collaborations
First The Source Texts, Then Your Own Kitchen,Then The People You'll Guide
21 lessons, a revision class, and three reserved weeks held for extra topics and guest lectures, so nothing important gets rushed.
Both Paths:
You'll study Nutrition as the classical physicians taught it, from the Charaka Samhita, Ashtanga Hridayam and Bhavaprakash Nighantu, translated live. Dense at first. Within weeks, the gunas turn up in your kitchen.
- The doshas across a lifetime, a day and a single meal
- The ten pairs of qualities, and how to read any substance
- The six tastes, tasted for yourself
- Grains, pulses, dairy, oils and spices, including quinoa and oats
- Timing, preparation and the 18 incompatibilities
- Agni, and one meal's journey through the body
A revision class brings it together.
Both Paths:
Part A becomes daily choices for you, your family and the people you'll guide.
- Real meals from cuisines around the world, and a kitchen set up to nourish
- Modern foods, and a five-part tool for reading anything new
- Macronutrients, iron, B12 and calcium, mapped to the six tastes
- The six seasons, with gentle seasonal cleansing
- Personalization: intake, cravings, emotional eating, and ways out of the deprivation, binge and guilt cycle
- Lifecycle nutrition: first foods, menstruation, PCOS, perimenopause and menopause
- Rasayana, Ayurveda's rejuvenatives
- Food for Common Conditions
Practitioner Path:
This is where what you've learned becomes your own work.
- Your thesis: research a question you choose, from traditional cuisines through Ayurveda to comparing dietary systems or building a food protocol for a specific condition. Work alone or in a small group, and present your research to the cohort
- Your practicum: work with five real people. You'll take each person's intake, understand their history and agni, and create an individual food roadmap, with Nidhi's guidance throughout.
Part C Opens with live Friday sessions, then moves into independent thesis and practicum work. By graduation, you'll have original research and real experience applying what you've learned.
The Self-Practice Lab
Before you guide anyone else, you become your own first case. Over two weeks, you'll:
- Keep your own Food-Mood-Poop journal
- Take yourself through the full intake
- Read your own agni, ama and Inner Climate®
- Design your Phase 1 rhythm around a few anchor habits
- Choose your ideal foods for your constitution and the season
- Write a sample day of meals, and edit your pantry to match
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