Where the school is going
More courses, more healers, and an honest read on why the world is going to need them.
It has to be lived, not preached
The philosophy and the courses are not a position the school argues for. They are what it is made of. As students learn and become more sure of themselves, the hope is simply that they carry the knowledge — and the good temper that comes with it — to the people around them once they leave.
Why there will be more work, not less
Massage therapy is becoming one of the more viable professions to move into, and there is already a real shortage of people who can help with the physical and psychological complaints that modern life produces as a by-product.
That gap widens as stress does. More therapists and more healers will be needed, not fewer, and the school intends to add new bodywork and healing courses to meet it.
A place to begin from
The school thinks of itself as a safe haven, and hopes it works as one — somewhere a person can start healing and start learning at the same time, and where a social and a personal change can happen without being forced.
The courses that exist are already carefully built for that. What comes next is a fuller range of them.
What it looks like
The measure that matters
A school like this one cannot really be judged by how many people come through it. It is judged by how somebody treats another person a year after they have gone home, when nobody is watching and there is no certificate involved.
That is a slow, mostly invisible result, and it is the one the whole place is actually built for.
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.
- What the school is for, and what it will not trade awayThe mission, the vision, and the eight things Aithein tries to actually do rather than print on a wall.
- 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.
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.