THAC is a Mirror.
Your body holds within itself the potential to heal; to naturally fight anything that comes in the way of its health. With mindfulness, awareness and practice, wellness becomes a far less daunting landscape to navigate. THAC is that map that makes the journey a whole lot easier.
THAC or The Health Awareness Centre is a guiding light that helps you explore the path, practice and discipline of natural laws. So that you have a better understanding of health management principles and how best to use its tools like nutrition, daily practices and good discipline.
It is an invitation to learn about yourself and your body – the structure, the science, and the function, thereby unlocking the mystery of its potential for health and wellness.
THAC is a Person, a Personality and
a Philosophy
We invite you to rethink your idea of illness and wellness.
As a custodian of nature’s ethics, aesthetics and principles, THAC encourages you to explore that mindset where you believe that it is possible to live without medicines. One where you trust your body and its natural rhythm, and thus find a more holistic approach to wellness.
THAC is a safety-net in your day-to-day
health challenges.
A far cry from the dilution, fragmentation and isms that pervade the current wellness industry, THAC is a return to basics. We are bound by a value system, an affiliation to ethically sustainable wellness and no quick fixes. Does this mean more work? Yes, it does. But it also means a stronger wellness consciousness that is deeply rooted in the routine of daily care. A practice that translates into good health.
What is THAC ?
A first of its kind, The Health Awareness Centre (THAC) had its inception way back in 1989, well before SELF CARE became fashionable. Located in Mumbai, its genesis was fuelled by the belief that the key for wellness, for the health and healing of ourselves and the planet, lies within each and every one of us.
The Centre was created to educate and motivate people to take care of their own health by helping them to make correct health choices. The emphasis is on understanding the underlying causes of disease and putting a little perspective on illness. In the light of this goal, THAC specialises in sustainable foods in health management; the THAC methodology provides a way to understand and apply proper health care measures that integrate the body, mind and the environment around. Through its programmes, THAC functions as a link between our daily living habits and their effects on the environment.
In its two decades of health activism that covers food safety to natural farming, THAC has demonstrated a model for integrating taste and health, illness and wellbeing through ecology and economy.
THAC is open to all those who are interested in making sustainable health choices which are socially protective and productive. It is dedicated to help people enhance their health and wellbeing and promotes the principles of health care by Adding Life to Life.
In the words of Dr.Vijaya Venkat
- The nature of nature is to nurture.
- It's not about going back to nature. It's about flowing with nature.
- LOVE is Light Over Vital Energy
- Every breath is a new birth. So it's a birthday for all of us, all the time. A new thought with every breath, a new life, waiting to unfold.
- Health is not a competition, in fact it is cooperation and interdependence.
- Our beliefs shape our behaviour which determines our actions. Believe. Behave. Belong.
- Thought comes through information, check-ups, diagnosis, etc. It separates us from vital energy.
- Language creates and reinforces our thoughts. We need to be conscious of the words that we choose.
- If you are preventing disease, you are preventing health.
- Health is an exuberant position you take to feel fully with life.
- Health is a reality.
- How unnatural natural can become?
- Tension is misplaced attention.
- What is energy? Energy is that which comes to me, is what is making me act, react, do everything.
- Absence of disease is only in a dead body.
THAC is 30 years young
THAC is an idea and its subsequent 30-year outcome was born of Dr. Vijaya Venkat’s explorations in the fields of nutrition and dietetics, biochemistry, botany, childcare, eco-activism and developmental politics, and how these reflected on healthcare.
THAC has been a pioneer in the nutrition segment since the 1980s. It began as a lunch service, a dabba with wholesome food that was equal parts philosophy and equal parts relevance. It was the lone voice of a resilient and warrior lady who firmly believed in the transience of fast food and industrial food production systems.
Today, THAC is a veritable family member for tens of thousands across the country; a sub-culture of living in sync with the principles of nature’s design. One that has internalised a unique, vibrant, healthy identity. We are proud that the legacy of THAC’S founder, Dr. Vijay Venkat, is alive in these homes.
The Health Awareness Centre – THAC, is a space that educates and empowers individuals and groups, to learn about their relationships with food, the body, disease, and their sense of place in the environment around.
THAC is also present online. Here, the outcome has been a community-driven safety net for wellness. A network of “buddies” in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore – health enablers who connect one and another through regular meetings. This participative action from the community creates pathways to natural laws of daily living.