Consultations are held at Elephant Pharmacy at 1607 Shattuck Avenue at Cedar (7 blocks north of University Avenue) - 8 blocks walk from the Downtown Berkeley Shattuck BART station), Berkeley, California 94709

Director: Losang Jinpa (Michael Reid Kreuzer), D.Ayur, M.A.H., Ph.D   (1) 510-292-6696  Call to Book Appointment
www.Ayurveda-Berkeley.com     Please CALL US, no e-mail available.

Indian and Tibetan Ayurvedic Medicine:
Fee Schedule for Consultations, Massage and Other Therapies

Your Initial Consultation: What It Costs?

Initial Consultation: 1 to 1 ˝ hours
Cost: $108 per hour (sliding scale donation available). Herbs cost $50 to $80 for a one and a half to two month supply (6 to 8 weeks).

Consultations with Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, Ph.D; Jenny Dinh, D.Ayur, M.S.; or Sheng-Wei Lan, L.Ac.

We are a non-profit 501(c)3 and serve the public through Ayurvedic health consultations in Northern California to serve those in need of Ayurveda in San Jose, the East Bay, in San Francisco, and in Silicon Valley.  No on is turned away due to lack of funds.  

We specialize in House Calls for those in need!

25% of the proceeds of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and its Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and Vipashina Buddha College are donated to benefit the kindred spiritual healing non-profit religious services (Seva) organizations -- for the list click here.

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Your Follow-up Consultation: What It Costs?

Second Consultation: approximately 1 hour
Cost: Half hour minimum.  $54 per half hour.  $108 per hour donation. 

Monthly Follow-up Consultations - Generally recommended once every 1 to 3 months depending on the health concerns.  Those with more chronic or serious health conditions may require more frequent visits (monthly instead of quarterly).

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Ayurvedic Practitioner Losang Jinpa, D.Ayur, Ph.D; Sheng-wei Lan, L.Ac., C.A.H.S., Ph.D; Jenny Dinh, D.Ayur, C.A.H.S., Scott Roos, D.Ayur, M.S., Arjun Boone, D.Ayur, C.A.T., and the other members of our healing team offer the same rates for suggested donation on our health consultations, herbs and services.

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Your Customized Herbal Formula: What It Costs?

Customized Herbal Formula:
Cost varies from $50 to $80 for a one and a half to two month supply (6 to 8 weeks) depending on the herbs that need to be used in the formula based on the diagnostic findings during the consultation.

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Special Discounts: How to Save Money on Your Health

1. Referrals – Refer a new client to us and get 30% off your next consultation or massage session   

2. Attend a series of 2 of our Ayurvedic Healing paid lectures (see www.Ayurveda-California.com for schedule details) and get a ˝  Price Consultation

3. In the spirit of the compassionate Buddhist healing arts of India, a donation-based “sliding scale” is available for seniors, single  parents, students, and those on fixed incomes.  Ordained robed Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monks and nuns are free-of-charge.

4. Holiday or Birthday Gift Certificate – ˝ Price Discount off of the normal $90 per hour.
    

As a non-profit 501(c)3, we rely on your donations to support our Dharma (life purpose) of spreading the healing wisdom of Buddhist Ayurveda to people throughout the Bay Area and the world.

25% of the proceeds of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and its Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and Vipashina Buddha College are donated to benefit the kindred spiritual healing non-profit religious services (Seva) organizations -- for the list click here.

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“The healer who regards kindness to humanity as his supreme religion and treats his patients accordingly, succeeds best in achieving his aims of life and obtains the greatest pleasure.”  

-- from Charaka, honored 2^nd century B.C. Ayurvedic Physician

Affordable Pancha Karma Cleansing and Rejuvenation Programs

The Medicine Buddha Healing Center offers affordable Pancha Karma program.  We believe that although panchakarma is the "Ayurvedic therapy for Kings", that it should not be too expensive and should be affordable to those with chronic diseases that have left them debilitated both financially and health-wise.   Hence, we offer it via the non-profit Medicine Buddha Healing Center which makes all services available on a sliding scale suggested donation basis.  Although most 5-day long Pancha Karma programs in the United States cost from $1900 ($367 per day at the Ayurvedic Institute) to $3,333 ($645 per day at Maharishi's high priced The Raj), the Medicine Buddha Healing Center offers Pancha Karma for the sliding scale suggested donation of $540 to $1375 ($200 to $275 per day).  We offer a limited number of these low cost slots each month to those on a low income who have a chronic debilitating disease like Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome and are forced to live off of savings.  Otherwise, for those who experiencing such economic hardship, the typical donation range is $1080 to $1375 for a five-day Panchakarma program.

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Medicine Buddha Healing Center
Actively Supports The Following Non-Profit Organizations:

Emulating monastics or aspiring to renunciate vows as Bhikshus (Monks), Bhikshunis (Nuns), or Buddhist Yogis, our teachers and practitioners trust that their livelihood needs will be met through donations.

All classes and consultations offered by the Center are by donation (see left side bar).  No one is ever turned away due to lack of funds. 

25% of the proceeds of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and its Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and Vipashina Buddha College are donated to benefit the kindred spiritual healing non-profit religious services (Seva) organizations below.  We humbly request our patients to give directly of their time and money to these selfless service groups.

Among our Center's practitioners, we have visited most of the following Monasteries, Nunneries and Dharma Centers and organizations and had the good fortune to meet many of their inspiring teachers who are primarily monastic Sangha members.  To plant a "field of blessings" in the pollination and sowing of the seeds of healing Dharma in the West, our Center makes offerings of as much of our monetary proceeds, medicinal herbs, time and energy as we can afford to: 

• Venerable Tripitaka and Chan Master Hsuan Hua of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and Dharma Realm Buddhist University in Mendocino, the worldwide Dharma Realm Buddhist Association, their Buddhist Text Translation Society, their Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and their Institute for World Religions
   

• H.H. Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa’s Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and their Nalanda Monastery in France, their Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies in San Francisco, and the Land of the Medicine Buddha in the beautiful Santa Cruz California Pacific coast redwood forest covered mountains.  Jinpa has just returned from Autumn retreat visiting and volunteering at Nalanda Monastery in France and will be donating monthly to support the building of the new Nalanda Monastery building.
   

• The Venerable American Buddhist Monk Longpor Sumedho and the Amaravati Forest Monastery in England, and his Dharma brothers - the Venerable monks Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro of the Mendocino California Abhayagiri Forest Monastery of the Longpor Ajahn Chah Thai Forest Theravada Vipassana meditative tradition.
   

• California Vipassana Center for Meditation as taught by the Venerable Upasaka S. N. Goenka.  Vipassana, which means to see things as they really are, is one of India's most ancient techniques of meditation. It was taught in India more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills, i.e., an Art of Living. For those who are not familiar with Vipassana Meditation, an Introduction to Vipassana by Mr. Goenka is available.  Jinpa and Sheng-Wei regularly attend retreats here to go deeper into the meditative stillness needed to be a good healer.
   

• The venerable Sakyadhita - International Organization of Buddhist Women. This non-profit is dedicated to the welfare and concerns of Buddhist laywomen and nuns worldwide. They offer an amazing insightful compilation of articles by well-known Buddhist monks and nuns: "Reflections for Westerners Considering Buddhist Monastic Ordination"
   

• The Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery & International Retreat Centre for Women. Venerable English Nun Tenzin Palmo's special project; where young women from Tibet and the Himalayan border regions could come together to study and practice as nuns of Tibetan Buddhism.
   

• The venerable Liberation Prison Project
  Directed by the Venerable Nun Robina Courtin, this Tibetan Buddhist organization offers free Buddhist books, prayers and practice booklets, practice items, video and audio tapes of teachings to over 3,500 incarcerated individuals and Buddhist study groups in over 500 prisons in the United States and the worldwide.
   

• The Human Kindness Foundation and its Prison-Ashram Project Founded by Bo and Sita Lozoff, this non-profit stresses a way of life based upon three common principles taught by the great sages of all religions: Simple living, a dedication to service, and a commitment to personal spiritual practice.
   

• United Religions Initiative
  A global community dedicated to promoting daily interfaith cooperation, ending religiously motivated violence and creating cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.
  
  NOTE WELL: We are not affiliated in any way with any of the above Monasteries, Nunneries and Dharma Centers and organizations although we support monetarily and in spirit their selfless work.

Our Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute and Vipashina Buddhist College donates 25% of all proceeds from their Buddhist and Ayurvedic Distance Learning Programs to the above non-profit religious service (Seva) organizations.

It is our hope that those who receive the teaching - healing services of our Center and Institute will share with us a heartfelt commitment to the deep practice of generosity.  Please support the group above.

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