Ayurvedic Nutrition and Sensory Alchemy
With Kimmana Nichols
Hone your sensory perception and present moment awareness to naturally calm your mind, quiet your heart, and enhance your healing abilities
Engaging your sensory laboratory — the practice of consciously tasting, smelling, and feeling — invites you into a state of presence, where deeper calm and self-healing can unfold. This mindful connection anchors your awareness in the now, quieting mental distractions and allowing you to connect with the wisdom of your body.
Do you know what your senses are addicted to? Or how these sensory addictions are influencing your health or disease? Are you able to feel what foods are best for you? Or taste a food you’ve never known before and instantly know how it will affect your body and mind? The answers to all these questions and more are inside this course...
Desires and addictions are the primary cause of disease and suffering. According to Ayurveda, our senses are to blame. On the other side, the wholesome use of our senses is the primary path to not just physical healing but also mental balance.
Imagine instantly knowing how any food or medicine will affect your body and mind
This course teaches you how to use your sensory laboratory to assess any food or medicine and know what effect it may have on your body and mind. Not only can this be incredibly useful for individualised healing with nutrition, but it can also increase our “body awareness”. Understanding the messages our body is communicating to us is essential to guide ourselves to health, happiness and enlightenment.
Course Overview
Learn to identify and balance the root cause of disease.
Discover how Ayurvedic elemental theory is profoundly useful to balance nutrition and life.
Experience the qualities, tastes and textures of foods with your sensory laboratory to know what each will do to your body and mind.
Acquire the ability to shift metabolism and improve elimination with herbs, spices and foods.
Uncover the foods and herbs that Kimmana uses with his clients because of their results over 20 years of clinical experience.
Walk away with access to recipes for meals, herbal teas and medicinal formulas that Kimmana uses with his private wellness clients.
Feel the benefits of using your sensory laboratory and how this can promote deep relaxation and mental peace.
"When nutrition is wrong, medicine is of no use. When nutrition is right, medicine is of no need."
~ Ayurvedic Proverb
Who is this for?
In short: For everyone who is wishing to understand the secrets of nutritional healing and is seeking a time-tested system that integrates spirituality, holistic health and all types of nutrition.
For complete beginners, this course offers the foundations of Ayurveda with plenty of practical experiences to establish the knowledge firmly. This will enable you to unlock the mysteries of diet and healing with Ayurveda, and instantly apply it to your life.
For professional consultants, this curriculum presents a multitude of intellectual, practical and intuitive methodologies, enabling a greater degree of holistic diagnosis and individualised healing for your clients. Regardless of your experience with herbal medicine or nutrition, this course offers a platform from which to build a successful healing practice framed in a holistic view and rooted in traditional wisdom.
Course Objectives
Develop the ability to intuitively sense the qualities of foods and herbs by engaging your sensory laboratory — allowing their healing properties to naturally reveal themselves.
Learn to formulate balanced, personalised diets using Ayurvedic principles and the agni (metabolic) type test.
Refine your presence and deepen self-healing by entering a calm, trance-like state — a space where your mind quiets, your awareness sharpens, and your connection to your body's wisdom strengthens.
Gain practical skills in identifying and combining Tridoshic herbs and foods to promote balance and wellbeing.
Example Day
(Timings are approximated and subject to change if we feel the group dynamic will benefit.)
6:30am - Morning yoga (optional)
8:30am - Breakfast
9:15am - 12:15pm - Morning session (theory and practice): Explore the qualities of Tridoshic herbs and foods (those that harmonise with almost everyone) and learn how to formulate a balanced diet. Through mindful observation and touch, you will connect with these ingredients, noticing their textures, aromas, and energies. In pairs, you will quiz your partner using the agni (metabolic) type test, sensing how different foods may balance their unique metabolic type. This practice invites you to tune in deeply, sharpening your inner awareness as you choose and combine foods with thoughtful intention.
12:30pm - Lunch
1pm - 2:45pm: During your free time, whether you are swimming, feeling the coolness of the water, or simply resting in nature, immerse yourself in the sounds, textures, and scents around you. This sensory immersion not only deepens calm and presence, but also refines your ability to tune in — sharpening the awareness needed to sense the subtle qualities of foods and herbs. By cultivating this connection, you enhance your intuition and skill in the practice of clinical nutrition and assessment.
2:45pm - 5:45pm: Afternoon session (theory and practice): Specific herbs and traditional formulas to balance metabolic types. How to engage your sensory laboratory and fully immerse yourself in the experience of tasting, smelling, and feeling the herbs. Learning to interpret your sensory experience and understand how the food may affect you and others. In pairs, you will create a digestive herbal formula specific for your partner, combining sensory insights with Ayurvedic wisdom to tailor a balanced remedy.
6pm - Dinner
7:30pm - 8:30pm - Community program time (optional)
On the first day of the course, we will be starting at 2:30pm. Please arrive as early as you need to settle in, have some time for yourself and arrive at our training space on time. On our final day, we finish at 12:30pm, and you are welcome to stay for lunch before heading off.
Meet Your Facilitator
Kimmana Nichols is recognised as a visionary in the field of holistic healing. Having taught his unique methodology in 17 countries, Kimmana's transformative curriculums have been translated into 7 languages, reflecting his commitment to sharing healing wisdom worldwide.
As a student, Kimmana’s advanced talent resulted in three Australian Naturopathic Collages inviting him to teach before he graduated. He has since trained globally with 46 of the worlds greatest and most renowned bodywork and health practitioners, including many years in India studying under some of the most respected Ayurvedic doctors, such as Dr. Vaidya Vilas Nanal and Dr. Neelesh Taware.
KIMMANA NICHOLS
This extensive training inspired Kimmana to develop the ThaiVedic System, fulfilling his dream of helping people all over the world to rediscover health and vitality. ThaiVedic Medicine shares the most useful parts of authentic and timeless healing traditions, fused with highly effective modern therapies. Kimmana Nichols and the courses he has developed are getting profound feedback from people who attend.
Before booking, please have a look at our Code of Conduct. If you are dealing with any physical or mental health issues, please also check our Are you ready page.
Testimonials for Kimmana's work
KIERA LOUISE DOUGLAS
Zen Thai Shiatsu Therapist, Zen Thai Flow facilitator
“If you are curious about how to maintain optimal physical health… or have a fascination in these traditions… then I’d highly recommend Kimmana’s trainings".
GWYN WILLIAMS
FOUNDER OF ZEN THAI SHIATSU
“There isn't much Kimmana doesn't know. Continually learning and refining, his exceptional workshops and classes are a product of his wide, in-depth and ever growing educational base. Kim’s expression and teachings have been a big inspiration for me."
SHY SAYAR
blogger
“I firmly believe that he will soon be seen as one of the greatest health and wellness luminaries of our generation".
Cost & Payment
Early Bird Deal: Save $240 off the below prices if you book more than 2 months in advance
The investment below includes: tuition, 3 meals/day and accommodation of your choice.
Commuter: AU $1130 ($890 early bird)
Camping (Tent): AU $1254 ($1014 early bird)
Camping (Van): AU $1270 ($1030 early bird)
Budget Single Room: AU $1390 ($1150 early bird)
Bunkies: AU $1530 ($1290 early bird)
Lotus Pod Room: AU $1530 OR AU$1350 each (2 people) ($1290 or $1110 early bird)
Bhakti Guest House Room with Ensuite: AU $1630 OR AU$1400 each (2 people) ($1390 or $1280 early bird)
Private Cabin with Ensuite: AU $1790 OR AU$1502 each (2 people) ($1390 or $1280 early bird)
Payments - We require a $200 deposit to hold your spot in the course. The full payment is due no later than 6 weeks prior to the start of your course. Please read our Terms and Conditions for more information.
Choose your date to make your booking
On the first day of the course, we will be starting at 2:30pm. Please arrive as early as you need to settle in and arrive at our training space on time. For a relaxed experience, you have the option to add an extra night and simply enjoy the Krishna Farm, yoga classes and maybe a massage before the course begins. On our final day, we finish at 12:30pm. You are welcome to stay for lunch before heading off.
Accommodation
Krishna Village is located on a beautiful organic farm in the scenic foothills of Mt. Warning, half way between Byron Bay and the Gold Coast. The closest town is Murwillumbah, and the nearest airport Coolangatta (the Gold Coast airport).
Our Retreat Center is spread out across a beautiful natural farm setting, which means that some of our facilities and accommodation require a bit of walking. We offer a range of accommodation options from camping spots to creatively renovated container rooms, private pine cabins set in the hills overlooking the valley and more.
Delicious Vegetarian Meals
The Krishna Farm has been producing organic veggies since the 1980s and is well established to grow a variety of high-quality produce, free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. We grow as much of our own food as we can, and otherwise buy locally wherever possible.
All our food, whether served at the village is prasadam - sacred food prepared in a consciousness of loving service. Like in other cultures, we offer our food before we eat to say Grace and thank the Divine for the sun, the rain, and all the visible and invisible blessings necessary to co-create a delicious meal. Feel free to sing along with us, or just listen and enjoy…
About the Krishna Farm
Nestled in the foothills of the Wollumbin National Park in the heart of the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, the Hare Krishna Farm “New Govardhana” is a 1000 acre certified organic property with orchards, syntropic vegetable gardens, cows, horses, streams and swimming holes in abundance.
New Govardhana serves as an ashram to a community of yogis who aspire to live according to their deepest vows and commitments on their path of service, spiritual contentment and happiness (Bhakti Yoga). Their service and dedication make this location a beautiful place of growth, healing and spiritual awakening. The temple is the beating heart of the community at New Govardhana and we encourage all who visit the property to come along and experience the lifestyle and philosophy reflected by the practice of Krishna consciousness.
