The Centre
Welcome to the Shanti Yoga Health Institute, our urban centre, and Nirvana Wellness Retreat, our rural centre, founded and headed by Shanti Gowans. You have found a place of community where you can rest your mind and make friends with being human.
We offer a core curriculum of Ayurvedic, Yoga and Meditation, training you in proven ways to build valuable health, happiness and peace of mind skills, in a supportive and peaceful environment.
We invite you to explore our diverse programs designed to help you discover your inherent sanity, gentleness, humour and a renewed sense of wellbeing. We focus on ways that carry these inspirational practices into improving the quality of your daily life and communities.
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FREE Shanti Yoga community events.
Our centre is primarily a holistic, psycho-spiritual, health education centre. We teach people why, what, when and how
- to breath
- to exercise and stretch
- to relax
- to think positively and creatively
- to cook and be healthy
- to dance
- to contemplate
We aim to enlighten our students in right thinking, to give them an objective perspective on their stresses and tensions and to realise that no relief is possible without release.
We bring the sufferer’s attention to the fact that our ailments are largely self-invited and self-engendered. They have their roots in a faulty lifestyle – ‘wrong eating’, a lack of, or incorrect exercise, poor hygiene, a warped attitude to life and its goals, to relationships and expectations thereof. This results in an inability to withstand the stresses and strains of life without a breakdown. With our help, you can change this. In our dissemination of health knowledge, we often find ourselves in the position of urging people to avoid strong drugs and other measures which interfere with the integrity of the body-mind-spirit complex. This happens most often when we notice that the remedies prove worse that the disease they are administered for, creating iatrogenic diseases. We gear people towards the healing and resorative power of nature and their own essential nature.
