About Shantiji
Namaste, welcome and thank you for your interest about what we offer.
My name is Shanti Gowans, and I am the CEO of The Health Institute, Australia. I was born and educated in India and am still learning my Australian way. Through a lifetime of committed practices, study, education and travel, I have gained a vast body of knowledge and enjoy sharing these insights and wisdom with others. I look forward to assisting you on your journey.
On a day to day basis, I have the pleasure of being able to assist others in several, traditional, healing modalities. These include the spiritual arts of yoga and meditation, the health science of Ayurveda, and the performing arts of Indian music and dance. My work is a marriage between my background (which means experience) and my aspirations to be of service in the very best way that I can.
I have been extremely privileged to have learnt from great teachers and from several disciplines, starting with my Indian family who I loved, and laughed, cried, savoured food, beauty and the joys and struggles of life with. My extended family has been the Ramakrishna Order of monks and nuns who initiated me into advaitic vedanta for which my gratitude holds no bounds. These vedic teachings, together with practices from yoga, ayurveda and theravada have enabled me to spend my lifetime refining the 'yoga of life'. I have enjoyed many decades developing an umbrella teaching organisation which delivers yoga, meditation, ayurveda, culture and dance and is international in its scope and is nationally accredited.
The transmission of knowledge from master to disciple can be oral, symbolic or direct. The uniqueness of Shanti Yoga is the direct transmission, or direct introduction in which master and student find themselves in the primordial presence at the same moment, through one of the experiences related to the body, voice or mind. Due to the power of the transmission, the students are able to discover their own real condition in this way. If you are interested in receiving direct transmission, please attend my classes and be prepared to be a student. 'Guru' means master. 'Yoga' means having the knowledge or understanding of one's own, authentic state, the essential condition in which there is nothing to change or modify. This is the state of the guru. This is the main element in Shanti Yoga practice. You will work with the body series, the breath series and the nature of the mind, in order to have a concrete experience of it and on the primordial dimensions of emptiness which serves as a base for manifesting clarity.
Through The Health Institute and Nirvana Wellness Retreat, we provide a space and place where you can feel deeply nurtured and connected, sustain your body, mind and spirit, and touch your innate gifts. I wish to acknowledge and thank all those who help to keep the wisdom and compassion traditions of the past alive for the future. Our facilitators, practitioners, therapists and teachers walk their talk. They have an absolute passion for the work and a willingness to share it. We do our best for every student and for all human beings. We are surrounded by, and cultivate a wonderful community, through which we work. This gives us greater flexibility and puts a certain 'magic' into what we offer.
My name is Shanti Gowans, and I am the CEO of The Health Institute, Australia. I was born and educated in India and am still learning my Australian way. Through a lifetime of committed practices, study, education and travel, I have gained a vast body of knowledge and enjoy sharing these insights and wisdom with others. I look forward to assisting you on your journey.
On a day to day basis, I have the pleasure of being able to assist others in several, traditional, healing modalities. These include the spiritual arts of yoga and meditation, the health science of
I have been extremely privileged to have learnt from great teachers and from several disciplines, starting with my Indian family who I loved, and laughed, cried, savoured food, beauty and the joys and struggles of life with. My extended family has been the Ramakrishna Order of monks and nuns who initiated me into advaitic vedanta for which my gratitude holds no bounds. These vedic teachings, together with practices from yoga, ayurveda and theravada have enabled me to spend my lifetime refining the 'yoga of life'. I have enjoyed many decades developing an umbrella teaching organisation which delivers yoga, meditation, ayurveda, culture and dance and is international in its scope and is nationally accredited.
The transmission of knowledge from master to disciple can be oral, symbolic or direct. The uniqueness of Shanti Yoga is the direct transmission, or direct introduction in which master and student find themselves in the primordial presence at the same moment, through one of the experiences related to the body, voice or mind. Due to the power of the transmission, the students are able to discover their own real condition in this way. If you are interested in receiving direct transmission, please attend my classes and be prepared to be a student. 'Guru' means master. 'Yoga' means having the knowledge or understanding of one's own, authentic state, the essential condition in which there is nothing to change or modify. This is the state of the guru. This is the main element in Shanti Yoga practice. You will work with the body series, the breath series and the nature of the mind, in order to have a concrete experience of it and on the primordial dimensions of emptiness which serves as a base for manifesting clarity.
Through The Health Institute and Nirvana Wellness Retreat, we provide a space and place where you can feel deeply nurtured and connected, sustain your body, mind and spirit, and touch your innate gifts. I wish to acknowledge and thank all those who help to keep the wisdom and compassion traditions of the past alive for the future. Our facilitators, practitioners, therapists and teachers walk their talk. They have an absolute passion for the work and a willingness to share it. We do our best for every student and for all human beings. We are surrounded by, and cultivate a wonderful community, through which we work. This gives us greater flexibility and puts a certain 'magic' into what we offer.
