About Corinna Maharani
Corinna Maharani is a certified Ayurvedic practitioner and educator with over 30 years of experience in teaching and practicing Ayurvedic Sacred Bodywork™, Marma Therapy and PanchaKarma. Her legal name, “Maharani,” means Great Queen, chosen because she wanted to reflect her devotion to the power and blessings of the Divine Feminine as well as honoring the principles of treating others with noble respect.
She graduated from one of the first Ayurveda programs held at the Maharishi International University in Iowa in 1989. There she also met her lifelong teacher Vaidya R.K. Mishra, who is considered to be one of the most brilliant minds in Ayurveda history. She remained being his devoted student for 25 years and he taught her directly from his ancient lineage, the SVA lineage (Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda).
For fifteen years, Corinna was the director of the Pancha Karma educational program at the Kanyakumari School for Ayurveda, in Wisconsin. There she taught hundreds of students the Art of Ayurvedic Bodywork and PanchaKarma. Many of whom have since then successfully operated their own Ayurveda businesses and work all around the globe in Spas and Clinics.
She launched the Maharani Academy in 2010, an international school for Ayurvedic Bodywork, that teaches vocational trainings both Online and live, in Santa Barbara and some of the world's most beautiful places. The Academy offers in-depth certified training to those who feel called to spread the light of Ayurveda. Corinna’s primary goal with this work is to deepen the understanding of this holistic science and to help lay people and professionals alike to apply these ancient principles toward health and healing. Corinna also owns her own Ayurvedic product line and is a frequent public speaker and published writer on the topic of Ayurveda.
“Corinna is one of the foremost experts in Pancha Karma in North America.” Vaidya R.K. Mishra
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Corinna has long been a passionate advocate for the environment, farm animal rights, and the Arts. She’s served as president and director of a local non-profit and Arts organization called Fishbon for over a decade.
She currently lives and teaches at the Santa Barbara Center for Arts Science and Technology, SBCAST, but also frequently travels to Europe to visit family and to teach Ayurveda in both Germany and US.
About Ayurveda and the Shaka Vansiya lineage
Ayurveda originated more than five thousand years ago in the Vedic civilization of India and is considered the mother of all healing modalities. Unlike contemporary Ayurveda, which is built on the limited texts that managed to survived the multiple invasions that befall ancient India, the knowledge of Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda was preserved and handed down through Vaidya R.K. Mishra’s ancient family lineage. This ancient family lineage can be traced back 126 generations and was even mentioned in the ancient Vedic texts, the Puranas. Vaidya R.K Mishra, being a direct successor of this ancient lineage, brought the wisdom of Ayurveda to life. It is from that living tradition that Corinna shares her love of Ayurveda. For his complete biography, visit here.
The SVA Lineage
Vaidya R.K. Mishra’s family lineage served as Raj Vaidyas, personal doctors to the royalty of India, who preserved their medical knowledge even through the Mogul era, when most Ayurvedic Sanskrit texts were destroyed. SVA stands for Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda and originated on of the islands of Sri Lanka, called Shaka.
Vaidya Mishra addressed the many modern stressors that burden our civilization today. Problems like environmental pollution, toxic foods, artificial chemicals, increased electromagnetic frequencies, heightened stress and hectic lifestyles, all these didn’t even existed at the time the Vedas were written. But through his lifelong perused, Vaidya R.K. Mishra created brilliant and soulful Ayurvedic treatments and protocols, highly effective and suitable for today’s world. He discovered a new delivery systems for ancient Ayurvedic remedies that managed to bypass the so often overheated liver system and protect the patient’s digestive system. In short, he was brilliant and ahead of his time.
All those who had the pleasure to meet him discovered his unusual depth of knowledge, but what fascinated everybody the most about Vaidya was his endless kindness and deep compassion that he displayed with all who met him.
Vaidya Mishra passed away in April 2017, but the Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda lineage will be alive in every student that comes to study at the Maharani Academy.
Vaidya Mishra and COrinna in Santa Barbara 2003
