Bala Vihar®

What is
Bala Vihar® ?
Chinmaya’s Bala Vihar® is a cultural & spiritual value-based education program for students ages four to seventeen, striving to create balanced and integrated individuals, who will contribute positively to the society. Chinmaya Bala Vihar®’s have been teaching children for the last 60 years in 400 centres worldwide. In North America alone, 20,000 students attend Bala Vihar® every week, in its various cities.
At Chinmaya Mission London, we started with 25 students in 2011 and now we have over 100 students. Our exponential growth has been possible by the grace and blessings of Bhagavan and Guru and steadfast support from Chinmaya family members like YOU.
Spiritual growth is most conducive when you learn and evolve as a family. To encourage attending as a family, we are offering several adult classes on Sundays including Bhagavad Gita, Yoga and Meditation, and Chanting classes to encourage parents to attend. We are also offering Shishuvihar classes for children ages 3-4.
“Children are not vessels to be filled, but lamps to be lit”
– Swami Chinmayananda

Chinmaya Mission London
What is
Bala Vihar® ?
Chinmaya’s Bala Vihar® is a cultural & spiritual value-based education program for students ages four to seventeen, striving to create balanced and integrated individuals, who will contribute positively to the society. Chinmaya Bala Vihar® has been teaching children for the last 60 years in 400 centers worldwide. In North America alone, 20,000 students attend Bala Vihar® every week.
“Children are not vessels to be filled, but lamps to be lit”
– Swami Chinmayananda

frequently asked questions
CLASS | GRADES | TEXTBOOKS | TEACHERS | Class TIME |
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Sishu Vihar | Age 3 and 4 | Sishu Vihar | Dharsana Sankar | 4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Anjaneya | JK & SK | The Alphabet Safari | Srinidhi Srinivasan
Ashwini Solai Rameshbabu |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Chiranjeevi | Grade 1 & 2 | Sri Hanuman The Super Superman | Sujata Chevendra
Anupama Krishnan Jiya Patel |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Maruti | Grade 3 & 4 | My Twenty-four Teachers | Deepa Thangavel
Seena Nambiar Mahalakshmi Manoj |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Vajrangi | Grade 5 & 6 | India, The Sacred Land | Veena Nayak
Shashi Sharma Krishna Panicker |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Ramduta | Grade 7 & 8 | Keys to Success | Sangeetha Vaideswaran
Rekha Khandekar Abhay Manoj |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Pavanputra | Grade 9 & 10 | Gita for me | Vinod Varapravan
Amit Wala |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |
Paramvira | Grade 11 & 12 | Gita for me | Sreelatha Varapravan
Dev Sainani |
4:30 – 5:30 PM |