Ayurveda and Yoga College for Practice and Higher Education
for full information, please visit healthinstitute.edu.au
Health Institute Australasia (HIA) is an Ayurveda and Yoga College located on the beautiful Gold Coast of eastern Australia. At HIA we have developed numerous educational programs in the form of interactive community lectures, workshops, series, and seminars as well as Australian government accredited diploma training courses to meet the needs of the twenty-first century. Health Institute Australasia is Government Accredited as a registered training organisation offering flexible payment plans. Government subsidies such as Austudy and Youth Allowance are available for eligible domestic students.
Face-to-Face and Online Yoga Teacher Training
HIA offers the highest Yoga qualification you can obtain not only in Australia but in the world. We offer the 600 hour, Certificate IV in Yoga by face-to-face, in person learning for domestic and international students, and online studies to domestic (Australian) students. This is training and healing in Yoga for Life. It strips away illusions, posits the soul's work that is necessary for the difficult task of making your life meaningful. You can also study advanced Yoga Teacher Training courses, namely, the Diploma of Yoga Teaching (1200 hours) and the Advanced Diploma of Therapeutic Yoga Teaching (1800 hours) which are also available face-to-face and online. Here, you can be part of the highest yoga qualification you can obtain … not only in Australia, but in the world - with our Advanced Diploma course being 1800 hours.
Face-to-Face and Online Ayurveda Courses
Come, study with us for your Diploma of Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultation, face-to-face, in person as well as by Distance Education to domestic (Australian) students and off-shore international students. You will be required to do some components of the course on campus such as skills training eg treatments, shirodhara, katibasti, Ayurvedic cooking, etc. However, the majority of your units can be completed via distance education with the facilities of tutorials, fully comprehensive lecture notes unit by unit, resource materials, homework and assignments.
Shanti Gowans, Dean and CEO of HIA
Our team is led by CEO Shanti Gowans, born in India. After completing her MA at the University of Mumbai, Shanti spent several years travelling around the world as an international guest speaker with global and cosmic perspectives. Whilst on the speakers' circuit, Shanti has shared the lecture platform with several spiritual luminaries, such as some of the teaching monks of the Ramakrishna order, Sharda Math, Buddhist monks, Dr. Swami Gitananda, and many training and new age luminaries, including Professor P.H. Kulkarni, Dr. Manish Patwardhan, Dr. Deepak Chopra in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. As a result, for the last five decades, Shanti has witnessed what touches people, what energies them, what reminds them of something they know but perhaps have forgotten, and what challenges them to come back to their journey. Her teachings ask that the student be serious about looking at their life and taking responsibility for it, reflecting attitudes, behaviours, and disciplines that move you towards enlargement, unfolding and a discernment process for the choices and values you have to make on a daily basis in the depths of an authentic journey, destination unfolding. Shanti Gowans has also brought the concepts and practices of a healthy body and still mind to thousands of Australians through her Yoga and Meditation programs which appeared on Australian national television for 3½ years on channels 2 and 10. Shanti Gowans is truly a remarkable and inspirational teacher and has developed life changing courses with true dedication and respect for the ancient and authentic science of yoga and Ayurveda.
Peter Gowans
Dip Ayurveda
Co-Owner, Nirvana Wellbeing Retreat
CEO One World Productions
Peter Gowans, together with Shanti Gowans, owns the beautiful Nirvana Wellbeing Retreat in the hinterland of the Gold Coast. Peter Gowans holds a Diploma in Ayurveda from his studies with Prof. P.H. Kulkarni.
Hilary Sullivan
Grad Dip Ed., B.A. Adv Dip Yoga, Cert IV Ayur. Cert IV TAS
Vice Principal
Principal lecturer for Dip of ALC Ayurveda at Health Institute Australasia
Hilary has a background in teaching yoga and Ayurveda. She is currently the Vice Principal of Health Institute Australasia and its public relations coordinator.
Sonja Stauder
B.A. (Japanese and Law). Adv Dip Yoga. Adv. Dip Ayur, Cert IV in Business Studies
Director of Education and Studies and Culinary Arts, HIA
Ayurvedic Practitioner
Sonja Stauder is the director of Education, Studies and Culinary Arts at Health Institute Australasia.. She is the current treasurer of AAPA, the Australasia Ayurvedic Practitioner's Association
Dr. Manish Patwardhan, M.D. (Ayu), F.I.I.M
Ayurvedic Development: Operations, Products, Training Adviser @ HIA
CEO • Spa Consultants • FitRanger, India
Joint Director: Institute of Indian Medicine
Dr. Manish Patwardhan, Ayurvedic Physician and Consultant, a postgraduate doctor in Ayurveda, who has undertaken studies in the medical school for 9 years has been teaching and consulting for The Health Institute Australasia since 1996.
Kamala Shakti,
BA., Grad Dip Ed., Business Computing, Grad Dip. Library and Info. Studies
Artistic Director, Padma-A step ahead
Director, Indian Dance @ HIA
Kamala Shakti is the artistic director of Padma with innumerable performances and workshops, and implementing full length productions with Arts organisations, BEMAC, Arts Queensland, QUT, and other educational institutions. Kamala Shakti has been conducting HIA’s Indian dance curriculum since 2007.
Sue Green
Adv Dip Yoga, Cert IV TAS
Lecturer for Cert IV Yoga and Life Education & Cert IV Workplace Assessment and Training
Sue Green hails from high level management in the hospitality industry, where she has worked for over 20 years. Sue has been teaching Yoga for HIA since 2010.
Dalal Sultan
Dalal Sultan was born in Egypt and raised in Dubai. She enjoyed many years of studying drama, dance and Rhythmic gymnastics (competing in nationals). A vegetarian her whole life, she has a deep love and respect for the furry & feathered creatures. She loves the beach, nature, dancing, experiencing new cultures, philosophy, SUP, Scuba diving, surfing, breathing, yoga, backpacking, drawing, travelling, life… and has recently spent 2 years travelling the world.