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The work we do

Four ministries, one healing mission.

A clinic, a non-formal education centre, a community outreach and a hillside — together the Holistic Health Ministry of PMMSS.

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Ministry

Holistic Health Healing Centre

A practitioner providing acupuncture treatment at the Healing Centre. A patient receiving Shirodhara treatment at the Healing Centre. A practitioner applying mud during a traditional therapy session. A therapist massaging a patient's legs in a treatment room. The Holistic Health and Education Centre building on the PMMSS campus.

At the heart of the campus is a clinic where qualified practitioners offer acupuncture, Sujok and auricular therapy, as well as naturopathy — from mud packs and shirodhara to therapeutic massage and foot reflexology.

People arrive with chronic illness, family and personal difficulty, frustration with prolonged medication, or hoping to avoid surgery. They are welcomed and treated with unhurried attention.

  • Acupuncture, naturopathy, Sujok, auricular therapy, foot reflexology, cupping, therapeutic massage, counselling and personal accompaniment
  • Natural therapies offered without reliance on pharmaceutical drugs, giving each person unhurried time and individual care
  • A new concrete pathway now reaches the Centre — wheelchairs, autos and scooters can get all the way down
  • Acupuncture courses adapted to feedback from people receiving care, focusing on sustained relief
  • Monday–Friday 8 am–5 pm · Saturday 8 am–12 noon · Sunday by appointment
Ministry

Holistic Health Education

Illustrative image of a sister teaching an adult holistic health class. A sister demonstrates foot reflexology to students in a holistic health class.

The six-day Basic Holistic Health workshop is a residential programme for nursing students, philosophy students and members of the public — with daily guided yoga sessions.

Participants explore the meaning and purpose of life, stress management, nutrition, environment, home remedies, yoga, meditation and foot reflexology. Sessions include practices they can use in daily life.

The Society also shares holistic health principles beyond the campus, conducting sessions on preventive health, nutrition and lifestyle awareness for community groups across Maharashtra.

Explore workshops and courses

  • Residential workshop cohorts include nursing students, college faculty, health workers and independent participants
  • Nursing students from colleges across Maharashtra have participated in workshop sessions and experiential learning activities.
  • Students come from multicultural and multi-religious backgrounds
  • Hands-on learning covering stress management, nutrition, herbal remedies, yoga and reflexology
Ministry

Outreach — care for persons living with HIV/AIDS

A woman speaks to a seated group at an outdoor community gathering. Families gather for an HIV awareness event with a community health speaker.

The outreach sisters and community social workers walk alongside families across Pune’s slum communities. Each month, nutritious grains reach families through nutrition kits, while home visits, hospital accompaniment, and assistance with pensions and school fees continue year-round.

Guest speakers give health talks on distribution days, with time for families to ask questions. Families who miss the distribution because of illness or a hospital appointment can collect their nutrition kits on a second day.

  • Monthly nutrition support providing grains and essential groceries to families in the programme
  • Wheat, jawari, rice, peanut, green moong, brown gram, dates and unrefined jaggery — with oil, suji, gram flour, tea and sugar on feast days
  • Children living on the street supported to enrol in local Marathi-medium school, with ongoing follow-up with families and teachers
  • Weekend tuitions and coaching classes for neighbourhood children
  • Empowerment focus supporting families toward self-reliance and community interdependence
Ministry

Samanvaya — Eco Healing and Health

The blooming water lily pond at Samanvaya Eco Centre on the Sandipani hillside. Two women plant a young tree on the Samanvaya hillside.

Samanvaya means harmony. Established on the hillside the sisters greened by hand, it exists on the conviction that human wholeness is impossible on a sick planet — offering space to touch the divine in oneself and in all creation, through quiet reflection, time in nature and learning.

The facilities are open to everyone: individuals and groups, for retreats, sessions, workshops, seminars and quiet days.

  • Groups of men, women and children welcomed for retreats, quiet reflection and environmental learning
  • Residential facilities with guest rooms, dormitories, a seminar hall, chapel and dining room
  • Organic vegetable garden — spinach, okra, string beans, onions, bitter gourd, brinjal, drumsticks and rosella, with papaya and banana
  • Solar lighting, organic composting from neighbourhood cow dung, and rainwater harvesting
  • A dedicated resident community caring for the grounds, facilitating retreats and nurturing organic biodiversity

A new initiative

One Health, and a record of everything living on this hill.

One Health holds that the health of people, animals and the land are a single question, not three. It is the idea the hill has been run on since it was first planted, now being set down formally.

What follows is slow work: walking the hill, naming what grows and nests there, and keeping a record that outlasts any one of us.

Women planting a sapling on the Sandipani hillside.
Planting on the Sandipani hillside.