Himalayan Education Center:

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The Himalayan Education Center (HEC) is a non-profit organization, registered with the IRS as a 501 (c) 3 charity, since June 2001. 

The Himalayan Education Center was founded by Sant S. Dharamananda in 1998. 

Sant is a direct disciple of Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas and he holds a Ph.D degree in Eastern Philosophy, with emphasis in Higher Consciousness from Williamsburg University in England.

The unique blend of Himalayan tranquility and modern academics is best experienced at the Himalayan Education Center in Menomonie, Wisconsin.


The Himalayan Center offers:

  1. Yoga Science and Meditation
  2. Ayurvedic Culinary Arts
  3. Indian Music and Concert
  4. Herb and Spice Gardening
  5. Himalayan Massage Therapy
  6. Himalayan Cuisines
  7. Holistic Wellness
  8. Vedic Astrology
  9. Vastu Studies
10. Sanskrit

The Himalayan Center offered free yoga classes to the senior citizens for over seven years and the public attended on a daily basic. There is a Labryant on the lawn used for walking meditation. The Center supports disadvantaged students in resident, who attend the University of Wisconsin Stout for higher education. 

We are renovating and preserving the historic building to continue more programs in the future. We would like to bring additional courses in martial arts, acupuncture, mantra medicine and to set up a degree program as a college in the culinary arts.

The Pastoral Quarters:

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The Himalayan Missionaries added a Pastoral Quarters to the Himalayan Education Center Campus, to housed the Director and Himalayan Monks, who are traveling and imparting ancient teachings. 

The Vastu facility was built in 2007 and it has ancient Sanskrit writings on the wet concrete during the construction.  Thousands of Sanskrit Mantras were chanted and a grand ceremony was done for the inaugaration.

There is a beautiful octagonal skylight that brings natural lighting all the way to the basement. There is a meditation hall, a room for chanting Sanskrit, infloor heating in the basement and many rooms for guest monks. The facility is the only construction of this sort in 165 miles radius.

Vastu studies and technology involve the placement of the functional elements in their respective quadrant of a home. For instant, in a Vastu home construction, the earth element is most active in the south west quadrant of the home.  The water element is most active in the north east quadrant of the home. 

The fire element is most active in the south east quadrant of the home.  The wind element is most active in the north west quadrant and the ether element is most active in the center where all the elements connect.  A skylight is installed in the center of the roof allowing light and sound to the lowest floor.  

About the Himalayan Center:

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The campus of the Himalayan Education Center is very peaceful.  There is an apple orchard to the north west, along with a camp fire to the west.

There is a labryant to the south west and a parking lot to the south.  There are few large oak trees on the grounds that provide shade in the summer and many colorful flowers in different areas.


The building is 8 blocks from the 400-acre Lake Menomin.  It is ideal for water skiing, boating, canoe fishing, and ice fishing in the winter. The neighborhood is very quiet and the air quality is one of the cleanest in the midwest.

The Himalayan Center is located at 710 11th Street East, Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751 on 1.6 acres of land, just 6 blocks from the University of Wisconsin Stout campus. The HEC building is 15,000 square feet and the Pastoral House is 5,200 square feet.

There are shopping centers close by and highway I-94 connects in all directions.  We are just one hour from Minneapolis and half hour from Eau Claire. 

The major industries in Menomonie are UW-Stout, 3M, Phillips Plastics, Wal-Mart, Red Cedar Medical Center, Mabel Tainter Historic Center for the Arts, Wilson Museum and many smaller shopping malls. The population is about 16,500 residents, plus 10,000 student population at UW-Stout.

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