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Ayurvedic Healthy Living

The Art and Science of Ayurvedic Healthy Living

RETREAT – Friday, 19 September 2025 – Sunday, 21 September 2025 at NIRVANA WELLBEING RETREAT

Learn skills for life. Eating well is not about deprivation. Our physical and mental health has its foundations in the food we cook and eat. You cannot buy, beg, borrow or steal health. It is nature’s gift to you. Ayurvedic Education & Vegetarian Cooking Retreats introduce you to the principles of Ayurvedic Health and bring you ways to improve your health and add more energy and vitality to your life.

“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”

HIPPOCRATES

MEET SHANTI GOWANS

I was born and educated in India, at a time when the distractions and entertainments of today did not exist. It was a slower world, before the internet, computers, i-anything, television, DVDs, mp3s, blue ray, supermarkets, shopping malls and so many things that are part of the landscape we take for granted today.

Education encompassed Indian arts, culture, and a living, spiritual philosophy for a healthy mind in a healthy body; and for those who chose to pursue it, academia. Teachings and guidance from elders, sages, and gurus as part of normal life were the everyday sacred path of practice. Decades of such discipline and training have led me to a deep, spiritual understanding in the path of unity, wellbeing, and living peace, which I happily share as a teacher-mentor, author, and practitioner. The power of the practices I have developed to change people’s lives, heal and expand their abilities, and thus beneficially affect the world around them, has never ceased to humble and continues to inspire me.

The greatest guru is the practice itself. Aided by the power of collective practice and shared intention, I invite you to enjoy this unique opportunity to explore living peace and wellbeing at greater depth with me and my team. Principles, discipline, and devotion all guide you into deepening your experience. This, here, now is the journey. Come and join me.