Our Vision
From the outset of the founding of The Academy in 1995, the intent has always been to establish a number of country-based retreats where people may come for physical, mental and emotional healing and for self-improvement, education and transformation. Jacaranda Haven is the first of these retreat centres.
It’s about re-awakening in each of us the wonderment of the child – seeing a butterfly for the first time, or sunlight reflecting like diamonds in dew drops. Yet not being blinded by, but rather being balanced with, the wisdom and discernment of maturity. Not always seeking a new experience/pleasure with a ‘been there – done that’ attitude, but rather perceiving with that first-time freshness. Under-pinning all this is the living, eating, breathing of the Values of the Academy as timeless, eternal tenets for guidance in ‘right-living’ that honour all that is animate and inanimate.
It offers a sensible, sensitive and caring way of living that encompasses every aspect of our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs, about how we relate to each other and all of Creation – and does so in a joyous, practical, non- sectarian and non- denominational manner. It lives an alternative culture to that popularized by the media, based on violence, fear, greed and separation. It’s about easily and smoothly achieving harmony and balance in our lives whereby there is awoken a constant awe and reverence for all life.