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Kanha Shanti Vanam is the global headquarters of Heartfulness Institute. It is a spiritual retreat center or Ashram and an integrated township spread across in a sprawling 1,400 acre campus. Located in Kanha village, near Chegur village of Ranga Reddy district, about 50 km from Hyderabad, India. . The retreat center is still under construction, set to inaugurate in Feb 2020.

Facility & Infrastructure
The facility is equipped with temporary and permanent living spaces to support housing of large gathering often in excess of 35,000 practitioners who travel from across the globe to take part in mass meditation sessions while staying over three to five days. The entire facility is completely self-sustaining with solar energy systems meeting the power needs. The facility will host a massive meditation hall, promising to be one of the largest in the world by accommodating one hundred thousand practitioners of Heartfulness at one go. . In April 2019 the Heartfulness Learning Center was launched which aims to provide a blended learning environment to Pre-KG to Grade 8 (age 3 - 13 yrs) children.

In Nov 2019, Union Minister for Jal Shakthi Gajendra Singh Shekhawat laid the foundation stone for the world class Ayush Wellness Center at Kanha Shanti Vanam. The Ayush Wellness Center will provide access to all Ayush systems, including Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy and the Tibetan system of medicine, Sowa-Rigpa

In January 2020, Rohit Sharma, the Vice Captain of Indian Cricket Team visited Kanha Shanti Vanam to lay foundation stone for an International Cricket Stadium and Training Center. The stadium will be called as Rohit Sharma Stadium.

Training Programs
The retreat center is designed to facilitate extensive spiritual training & mentoring programs that aim at promoting personal inner experience and providing opportunities to learn and contribute. Each month over 1000 people from different walks of life, countries and professions visit the center for training.

Green Kanha Initiative
In the last 3-4 years, the dry and arid area has undergone transformation with the plantation of more than two lakh tress. A sapling nursery with more than 600,000 saplings is acting as a supply for the plantation in the region, while close to 1,000 trees saved and translocated from faraway places resurrected here. . In December 2017, Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, E.S.L. Narasimhan, Governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana visited Kanha Shanti Vanam Ashram and planted 100,000th tree with Kamlesh D Patel (Daaji), the Global Guide of Heartfulness under the Green Kanha initiative. .

Awards & Recognitions

 * In July 2019 Kanha Shanti Vanam was awarded with 'The Pride of Telangana' award hosted by Round Table India, under the category 'Inner Wellness'
 * Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Kanha Shantivanam, was awarded the 'Haritha Mitra' (Green Friend) Award by the Telangana government for the year 2016.