Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America, Inc. (AAPNA)

The founding of AAPNA (Association of Ayurvedic Professionals of North America) began as a discussion amongst Ayurvedic professionals in 2002. They wanted to create a community of Ayurvedic professionals with the common goal of growing the presence of ayurveda in integrative health care.

AAPNA incorporated in December of 2007, as a non-profit 501(c)(6) corporation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, USA; it has since grown to unite ayurvedic and integrative medicine health professionals, students, academic institutes, and corporations throughout North America and internationally. Now it has grown to 1670 members from USA, Canada, Germany, India, United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Jamaica, Argentina, Belgium, Ukraine, Malaysia, Switzerland, South Africa, Turkey, Nepal, The Netherlands, Thailand, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Chile, Fiji, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ghana, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Sri Lanka.

vision :
Their vision is to bring the healing science of Ayurveda and its modalities to the forefront of integrative medicine in the West.

By sharing Their wisdom, extensive education and experience, diverse backgrounds, collective knowledge of Ayurveda and integrative medicine, AAPNA strives to:

• Build bridges of knowledge across all health professions to incorporate the healing approaches and modalities of Ayurveda into mainstream health care.
• Bring together all Ayurvedic and integrative health professionals to offer each other support, academic discussions, professional development, and friendship.
• Strengthen the awareness of Ayurveda as a healing science, thereby contributing to bringing the wisdom and knowledge of Ayurveda to everyone.