Aparna Bapat, B.A.M.S.

Dr. Aparna Bapat is the Ayurvedic Program Director and Instructional Advisor at the New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda, and instructs the Foundation-Level Certification course, Ayurvedic nutrition and food theory, physical diagnosis and assessment, materia medica, pathology and other applied and clinical disciplines. She is an experienced Ayurvedic physician who graduated from the renowned Pune University Faculty of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery in India. During her years of practice, she has worked in Bombay and Pune gathering expertise in Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis, phytotherapy and pancha-karma therapy, and has traveled, practiced and taught in many European countries including Belgium, Holland, Austria, England and Germany giving lectures, workshops and consultations on Ayurveda and its practical values. Dr. Bapat was a senior lecturer at the College of Ayurveda in London and is now a visiting lecturer at Ayurvedic facilities in London and Belgium.

William A. Courson, BVS (Ayur), D.Ayur., MSNHS (Herb.Med.), CH

Director, New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda; Bill is a certified herbalist with special interests in the fields of ayurvedic and traditional Western herbal medicine and energetic healing through 'subtle therapies' including chakra, color and crystal therapies. Additionally, he is a Reiki Master/Teacher in the traditional Usui lineage, a nd a practitioner of the Bach flower therapies which he integrates with his ayurvedic practices in New Jersey and Florida. He is also the author of numerous professional publications. He is an active member of the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, and is a members of its schools and standards committees. Bill is a member of the Government of India-sponsored Ayurvedic Advisory Council for the United States, and is Professor of Ayurveda at the Sai Ayurvedic College of Miami, Florida as well as Dean for Institutional Development there.

Jason Martin, BA, MA, Ph.D.

Dr. Jason Martin was educated at Yale University and the University of Rochester, earning his doctorate from the latter. He has a background in higher education. He is formerly co-director (now retired) of the Starseed Center for Yoga & Wellness in Montclair, New Jersey and is Academic Director of the New Jersey Institute of Ayurveda. Dr. Martin has a private practice as a gestalt empowerment therapist specializing in Heart Centered Gestalt Therapy and is a meditation teacher. He studied Insight Meditation with Sri Gowenka in India and continues to study Amazonian shamanism in Peru with Don Agustin Rivas-Vasquez. He is the author of Starseed’s signature Level One /Meditation Class and former director of Starseed’s meditation training program.