What the school is for, and what it will not trade away
The mission, the vision, and the eight things Aithein tries to actually do rather than print on a wall.
Mission
To hold high and consistent standards in the way students are trained — built on real research across every course and workshop we run — and to make a positive difference to their lives.
Vision
To have a good effect on people’s lives. Aithein sets out to wake the power that is already in a person, through bodywork programmes that are scientific as well as felt, and to send a little more positive energy back out into the world.
Values
- To do everything we do with real passion
- To promote the benefits of touch, in order to heal people
- To keep an open mind and an open heart when knowledge is being exchanged
- To seek excellence in everything we take on
- Inspire: To inspire people with our own story, and to encourage them to inspire others
- To hold idealism and wisdom together rather than choosing between them
- To provide every service by way of honesty and integrity
- Heal: To be a catalyst for people to heal, and to bring some peace and love into the world
What it looks like
The one that is hardest to keep
An open mind and an open heart when knowledge is being exchanged is easy to write and difficult to do, because it means being taught by your own students — including on the days when what they show you is that your explanation was not as clear as you thought.
It is on the list because it gets broken, not because it does not.
More about the school
- The two people who run the schoolAithein is Gagori Mitra and Nikhil Gupta. She teaches; he built the school around her teaching. Both of them left other careers to do it.
- Where the name came from, and the school after itAithein is a Greek word. It means to rekindle — to burn again — and the school was named for what it hopes happens to the people who come.
- How the teaching actually works hereEverything at Aithein starts from one idea: a problem in the body has a cause somewhere, and finding it means looking inward rather than harder.
- Where the school is goingMore courses, more healers, and an honest read on why the world is going to need them.
Come and see for yourself
The courses run October to April on Agonda Beach. Tell us roughly when you could travel and what drew you here.