Purposes of the Institute

The purposes of Catemaco Ayurveda Institute fall into several broad categories:

The sections below detail these purposes:

Healing Products

To grow, manufacture, market and distribute locally-grown organic healing herbs, essences, waters and sacred substances.
To make the best quality herbal products and sacred healing substances easily and conveniently available to practitioners and students of Ayurveda, including the general worldwide public, through the Internet.
To maintain the highest standards of purity, organic agriculture and land management, packaging, customer service and trade practices in our operations.

To educate practitioners, students and the general public in the advantages, benefits and methods of Ayurvedic medicine.
To encourage people in general to understand, explore and eventually, to prefer Ayurvedic techniques for health maintenance.
To promote the original spiritual understanding, philosophy and practices of Ayurveda to an international audience.
To provide practitioners, students and users of Ayurveda with adequate, accurate training and education in its theory, applications and ethics.

To promote the Ayurvedic ethic that a little prevention is more valuable than a lot of cure; that the best method of maintaining health is to avoid contaminating materialistic activities, especially eating meat, fish and eggs, illicit sex, intoxication, speculation and gambling.
To promote the Ayurvedic ethic that a low-stress, spiritually oriented community life in a pure, natural rural location is the best foundation for healthy living.
To offer and provide facilities in a natural environment for retreat from stressful living in materialistic cities.
To consult with local providers of Ayurvedic and other compatible treatment modalities and make these treatments available to our clients.

To exchange advanced appropriate technology, such as heatless extraction techniques, satellite Internet connectivity, business models and merchandising with members of our host village community.
To introduce traditional Vedic healing herbs and food items such as neem, asafetida, dahl etc. with local herbalists.
To gather and disseminate information on the identification, cultivation, preparation and use of healing herbs, especially those of the local area.