Resources, All Streams, In-Service Teacher Programs

 
We offer several areas of resources. These principle areas are:

  • All Programs (see streams below) and Guest Teaching at schools
  • In -Service Programs for Teachers and Support Staff
  • Environmental Education Excursions 
  • Resources
  • Entertainment (Bollywood dance)

All Programs and Streams

  1. Yoga for Schools Physical Education (HPE)
  2. Mindful Movements
  3. Bollywood Dance - Cultural. Active. Fun (HPE & Performing Arts)
  4. As a Twig is Shaped (Performing Arts) 
  5. Ready, Steady, Relax. Ready, Steady, Go.  (HPE)
  6. Peaceful Warrior. Education for Peace (SOSE Multicultural; Geoghraphy; Economics; Politics)
  7. Grooming for Excellence. 8 week course (HPE; English/Language/Performing Arts)
  8. Focus and Concentration - The key to success in study and work (Life and study skills)
  9. Your Future is in your Hands - Youth Leadership and Goal Setting Program for High School aged Children
  10. Girl Talk - Surviving middle school: Bullies, Brands, Body Image fears, the pressure to be perfect, the academic stress, the friend/frenemy competitions, the popularity problems, the major family issues and more for teens and tween girls
  11. Environmental Education Program - Learning through discovery. Experiential excursions to Nirvana Wellness retreat, a 70 acre tropical, rainforest retreat sanctuary in Beechmont.
  12. Life Skills for the 21st Century

Guest teaching

We organise a teacher with expertise in appropriate areas to work in liason with the school. All our teachers hold a blue card. 

 

In service

The kinds of seeds that we plant now help to direct growth, blossoming and fruiting later. As we tend the seeds we plant, we might just motivate our loved ones to plant seeds of their own, contributing to their own growth and to that on the planet. 
Shanti Gowans

In-service programs provided at your school, or at a mutually selected location. Programs of teacher support may be designed for specific groups and offer information relevant to a particular area of interest and education. Examples include:

  • Just Chill. A residential weekend in nature for teachers and staff
  • Earth, Fire and Wind. Understanding the Ayurvedic body/mind types for self management and student enhancement.
  • The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
  • Success without Stress
  • Living Better Longer - The art of healthy living
  • Working with Emotions
  • Transforming Anger. Changing the seven forms of anger: irritation, frustration, grudges, resentment, contempt, hatred, rage.
 
 
Environmental Education Excursions
 
CHILDREN IN NATURE
Our children have become increasingly alienated from nature. Camping under the stars or in the bush, climbing trees, collecting bugs, picking wildflowers, running through long grass are among some of our childhood memories. However, for a whole generation of todays's children, the pleasure of free-range childhood is missing, and their indoor habits contribute to epidemic obesity, attention-deficit disorder, isolation and childhood depression. Our children are the first generation to be raised without meaningful contact with the natural world.
 
At Nirvana Wellness Retreat nature surrounds us and embraces us all, and can help you too, if you would only let it. Nirvana Wellness retreat is a place of exquisite beauty and healing tranquility. It's healing message is about connection to nature. The raw elements of earth, water, fire, air and space are up front in the natural landscape. It is within this elemental world that a 'nature adventure' is offered. Here are hands-on, eco-educational, nature teaching presentation areas, undercover picnic areas and lots more, all within the 70-acre outdoor “classroom” just waiting to be explored!

Nirvana Educational Excursions are a great way to bring nature and sustainability education out of the classroom and into the practical experience of today’s generation of youth leaders. We spend all day in the natural landscapes, regardless of weather, stopping somewhere to eat our bag lunches. Nature is as important to children as food and sleep, much like outdoor play itself. In nature a child finds freedom and genuine creativity

The aim is to help youth 

  • touch the earth and get in touch with nature
  • appreciate the many different realities that exist in our world
  • experience sustainable living systems and processes as well as i
  • be inspired to be responsible for their position as caretakers of the planet
  • provide opportunity to reflect on, and discuss, how nature can be a metaphor for how we live in family, community and society.

 

Store Resources

We offer as range of books, audio and visual materials for educational institutes. Click here for Yoga Tools for Schools.

Bollywood fun and fitness cultural exchange program 

(HPE & performing Arts)

  • Fun, active and healthy
  • Promotes joy and laughter
  • Move the body, dance like no one is watching
  • Enhances social, emotional and cognitive skills
  • Builds confidence and self esteem

Bollywood Dance Entertainment

The Shanti Yoga Health Institute & Bollywood Australia has been providing Yoga and Bollywood to schools in NSW and Queensland since 2005.

Bollywood Australia's schools include:
 
  • Benowa State Primay School

  • Canningeeraba State School

  • Currumbin Valley State School

  • Elanora State School

  • Hillcrest Christian College

  • Labrador State School

  • Marymount College
  • Merrimac State High School
  • Miami State Primary School

  • Murwillumbah State School

  • Nerang PCYC
  • Robina State Primary School

  • Smarter Kids kindergarten at Carrara
  • Southport Kindergarten

  • St.Hilda’s School

  • St.Andrews Lutheran Primary School

  • St.Brigids School, Nerang

  • St.Vincents Catholic Primary School

  • St.Vincents Catholic Primary School

  • Tallebudgeera State Primary School

  • Teddy Bears Childcare Centre, South Tweed

  • The Health Institute, Southport
  • Upper Coomera State School
 
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