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Neurobiology of Transformation

Discovering Purpose, Health, Happiness, and Global Peace


A Synergistic Partnership

Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc. (SHEN) partners with Ubiquity University to offer degree programs in the Neurobiology of Transformation. While Ubiquity is a global university for inner and outer regeneration, science-based education which transforms the whole person, is the purpose of SHEN's existence.


Go Deep to GO Far


SHEN's Inclusivity Policy

Please note that SHEN offers a sliding fee scale for its coursework. As a result, students from low-income countries pay as little as 10% of fees payable by those from high-income countries.


We are enrolling now for April 2025!


Introductory Offer

All students enrolling in 2025 will receive a 50% discount on their fee payable to SHEN for its coursework certificate.

SHEN also offers scholarships to deserving students on an online meeting with the applicant.


Register for a free information session


 

Entry Requirement and Fee Structure

 

 

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

For MASc, or MASc/PhD:
  1. A bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline, preferably in Health or Life Sciences, with good communication skills 
  2. Or a mature student with a strong commitment to learning advanced scientific and contemplative material, on approval by the co-directors.
For PhD: 

      MASc in Neurobiology of Transformation

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

For MASc:
  • Coursework by SHEN in Neurobiology of Transformation - 16 Credits

  • Coursework by Ubiquity -  4 Credits 

  • Dissertation writing by Ubiquity -  10 Credits 

For PhD:
  • Coursework by SHEN in Neurobiology of Transformation - 13 Credits

  • Coursework by Ubiquity -  11 Credits 

  • Dissertation writing by Ubiquity -  36 Credits 

For MASc/PhD Combined:
  • Coursework by SHEN in Neurobiology of Transformation - 24 Credits

  • Coursework by Ubiquity -  19 Credits 

  • Dissertation writing by Ubiquity -  36 Credits 

Co-Directors

Dr Pradeep Kumar (IJivasu), MD, Director of Education

Dr Shiv Talwar, Founder/President of SHEN and Director of Research

ACADEMIC TERMS

There will be two academic terms in a calendar year, fall term beginning the third Monday of September and winter beginning the third Monday of January. New students may enroll in fall or winter term.

FEE STRUCTURE

The total fee payable by the student is the sum of the fees payable to Uniquity and the fee payab;e to SHEN.

 FEE PAYABLE TO UBIQUITY

 MASc

PhD

MASc/PhD

US $5,000

US $15,000

US $16,600
  • In addition to the above fees, the students will be responsible for any travel and living expenses related to any in-person requirement of Ubiquity. Please check with Ubiquity for what applies to you. Also check with Ubiquity for its installment plan.

 FEE PAYABLE TO SHEN

In its commitment to universal accessibility of its coursework certificate, SHEN offers a sliding scale of fees payable by students from different countries. Students from high-income nations pay more, and those from low-income nations pay less, using tables published by the World Bank classifying countries as low-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, and high-income. 

The following table shows the fees payable to SHEN by nationals of the four country groups:

 
Country Group MASc PhD MASc/PhD
High Income US $7,200 US $5,850 US $10,800
Upper Middle US 5, 040 US $4,095 US $7,560
Lower Middle US $2,880 US $2,342 US $4,320
Low Income US $720 US $585 US $1,080
  • The fee may be paid in two installments, one each at the beginning of the first two terms. 
  • In addition to the above fees, the students will be responsible for any travel and living expenses related to the SHEN in-person Transformative Bootcamp, which does not apply to PhD students.
  • To determine your country's income group, visit the World Bank site and search for your country's name.
 

Why should you choose our graduate degrees?

 

  1. Our faculty

Our faculty's approach is truly unique. They blend scientific and contemplative knowledge, experience, and wisdom. They are not just educators but also mentors who deeply care for the individual learner. 

  2. Our Program

  •  Ours is a health science program fully compliant with the World Health Organization's definition of health and aims to reach beyond it.
  •  Ours uses a judicious blend of cognitive and contemplative in-depth theoretical and experiential learning to attain complete health and transformation.

  3. Convenience and Economic Considerations

  • Most learning and in-person learning opportunities are delivered to students electronically in their homes.
  • Competitive, affordable, and inclusive fee structure 

4. Expanding your Personal, Professional, Social and Global Horizons

5. Futuristic, integrative, and Scientific Vision of the Program push science's frontiers

 

How can our degrees help you in your professional career?

 

Besides the transformative growth in your personal life, the program can complement your work in the following fields:

  • Life Coaching
  • Social Work
  • Public Policy Development
  • Mental Health Counselling
  • Physical Health Counselling
  • Counselling in Habits and Addiction Management
  • Family Counselling
  • Behaviour Modification
  • Physical Rehabilitation
  • Complementary Healthcare
  • Spiritual Care
  • Scientific Research
  • Education and Training
  • Entrepreneurship in Wellness
 

Pillars of Our Scientific Approach

 

Pillars of Our Scientific Approach to Whole-Person Transformation

Pillars

  1. A seamless union of ancient wisdom and contemporary science 
  2. Understanding the evolution of the brain to initiate individual and collective evolution
  3. Through epigenetic control, healing the five traumas of life
  4. Learning mind-body medicine to live with complete health and well-being
  5. Mastering the transformative process and practices, to bring personal and communal changes
  6. Contemplative Learning and Research

We can’t change the genes, but we can change the gene expression to bring transformation.

 

Course Descriptions

 

TYPICAL COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

 

COURSE TITLE: Behavioral Psychology

INSTRUCTOR:  Dr. Shiv Talwar PhD

TERM OFFERED: Winter, Wednesday morning from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

This course studies human behaviour from the perspective of evolution and world scripture. Students will learn how the evolution of life is the story of the evolution of consciousness from unconscious matter to conscious human beings. 

 

COURSE TITLE: Physiology of Mind-Body Health and Rejuvenation

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Bhuvan Awasthi, PhD

TERM OFFERED: Fall, Saturday morning from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

This course shall examine the body-mind interrelations, the role of external and internal stressors that alter psycho-social well-being and the physiological basis of mind-body interventional techniques. 


COURSE TITLE: Understanding five traumas of life for healing, health, and transformation.

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Pradeep Kumar, MD

TERM OFFERED: Fall, Monday morning from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

This course teaches students to understand their personalities and their relationship with the autonomic nervous system and brain. Students prepare a self-care plan and how to prevent and heal life's five traumas.

 

COURSE TITLE: Contemplative and spiritual practices and professional ethics

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Pradeep Kumar, MD

TERM OFFERED: Winter, Monday morning from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Contemplator

In this course, the students will learn the science, methods and effects of mind-body practices including yoga, breathing techniques, and various meditations. 

 

COURSE TITLE:  Right Parenting: Raising a Healthy, Happy, and Body-wise Child in a Turbulent World

INSTRUCTOR - Dr. Pradeep Kumar, MD

TERM OFFERED: Winter, Tuesday morning from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Parenting

By emphasizing the understanding of each child's unique somatic personality and needs and preventing and addressing potential trauma early on, Right Parenting aims to help children become compassionate change-makers and architects of a better world.

 

Title of the course: Science of Conscious Breathing

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Shiv Talwar PhD

TERM OFFERED: Fall, Wednesday morning from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm

Breathe

In this course, students will explore how conscious breathing can be a powerful tool for self-directed life, opening it up to various possibilities under our control and living with health and well-being.

 

TRANSFORMATIVE BOOTCAMP

Offered in the summer of each year from 2026 onward

Retreat

A ten-day in-person live-in transformative practice immersive bootcamp, mandatory for the MASc and MASc/PhD combined degree students, will be scheduled each year from 2026 onward around the Toronto area in Canada. This opportunity will also enable students to review the program with teachers and deepen their practices. 

A detailed schedule will be sent to the participants at the beginning of the year. The retreat is estimated to cost around US $1500. In addition, the students will be responsible for travel.

 

THESIS

Students will be expected to submit a degree-appropriate thesis on an approved research topic, which may include the impact of transformational practices on practitioners. MASc students may engage in a practical capstone project instead of a thesis.

 

CAPSTONE PROJECT

A project only for MASc students may comprise developing something practical (e.g., a digital app, a biofeedback device, or technology) to facilitate teaching or regularly practicing contemplative body-mind practices and cultivating awareness or conviction of their effectiveness for the practitioner. 

A project only for MASc students may comprise developing something practical (e.g., a digital app, a biofeedback device, or technology) to facilitate teaching or regularly practicing contemplative body-mind practices and cultivating awareness or conviction of their effectiveness for the practitioner. 


 

SHEN Faculty

Dr Bhuvan Awasthi is a cognitive neuroscientist, with research expertise in the science of human consciousness, emotions and decision making. Dr Bhuvan has degrees in consciousness studiescognitive science and life sciences from Australian and Indian institutions, as well as yogic and spiritual training from the contemplative traditions of India. In recent years, he has worked across North America (USA, Canada), South America (Uruguay), Europe (UK, Denmark, Russia), Asia (China, India) and Australia with various organisations

Over the last two decades, he has been applying cognitive, behavioural and neuroscience research for evidence-informed practices in spirituality and mind-body interventions. His research on meditation, consciousness, cognition, emotion and well-being has been disseminated via international peer-reviewed outlets (journals, conferences), workshops and public talks

Dr Bhuvan is based in Ottawa, currently working as a Senior Behavioural Scientist with the Canadian Federal Government. 

Santwana is based in Basel, Switzerland and has lived in Africa, India and U.K before arriving in Switzerland; her life split between three counties and six cities. She speaks four languages. On a scholarship from India and the UK, she completed a Ph.D. at the Univerisity of Cambridge and a diploma in Business Management from London Business School. She published a paper from her PhD work that shed the first light on the working of tau protein, a major player in Alzheimer’s disease. Having worked in the Pharma industry at three of the top five global companies, she has extensive experience in diverse therapy areas, specializing in Neurosciences. About 15 years ago, she started her first novel and has published short stories and articles, and is working on her third novel. Her first novel is in the process of being published. She lives in Basel and also has a bachelor's degree in Hindustani Vocal music.

Jivasu is a pediatrician who went on to study integrative mind-body medicine at Harvard Medical School and Acupuncture in Sri Lanka and Canada. Based on his transformation, his work focuses on the bio-psychological architecture of what he calls ‘Soma. The Soma framework explores the scientific basis of healing traumas, living in our somatic self, and attaining complete health and transformation. 

 He has extensively studied the intersections of biomedicine, acupuncture, meditation, and neuroscience. He synthesizes a vast array of insights into an easily digestible, simple, and scientific language that addresses how to accelerate human evolution and growth by harnessing the innate powers of the body and the brain. He has taught yoga, meditation, mind-body medicine, and acupuncture worldwide, including at McMaster University, Canada, and Rishikesh, India.

He is the author of:
Soma: Harnessing the Powers of the Body to Attain Complete Health and Transformation, Soma Parenting- to raise healthy, happy, and successful children in a turbulent world, Soma of- Artificial Intelligence, Love and Relationships, Somatic Personality, Sensuality, Aging and Old Age, Death and Dying and Meditation

Dr. Shiv D. Talwar is a founding member of Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc. He also has served on its Board of Directors as its president since its very inception in year 2000.

Shiv received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Punjab University in India, Master’s in civil engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. During his professional career, he taught at Thapar College of Engineering in Patiala, India and served as the Coordinator of Civil Engineering at Conestoga College in Kitchener, ON, Canada.

Shiv's education in spiritual and ethical direction began informally in India on early morning walks when his parents used to engage him in discussion on such matters. This informal introduction was followed by some excellent formal education in scheduled courses at school. It is still continuing, thanks to his spiritual mentor Late Swami Vishwatma Bawra.

This education continues to enrich his life and shape his values in a significant way. Shiv researches, develops, delivers and promotes education in the wisdom underlying the religious and scientific heritage of humanity to cultivate the spirit of inclusion and love for all existence. Shiv’s work is intended to be used for raising consciousness for the care of each other and that of the planet on which we live.

Faculty Testimonials

 

Dr. Bhuvan Awasthi

What a wonderful talk by Dr Bhuvan, such simplicity and ease

S, Europe

Dr Bhuvan, you explained the neuroscience of consciousness and spirituality in such simple terms. So grateful for your time. I learnt so much from you.

W, North America

Dr. Pradeep Kumar (Jivasu), MD

Jivasu combines science and wisdom, leading to self-knowledge and acceptance of who we are.

Liz Tudoreanu

Jivasu’s gentle and wise teachings explore life from Relationships to Self-Knowledge to End of Life.

Janet Glancy

Jivasu is a born teacher. He combines spirituality and neuroscience with passion, clarity, and humility.

Sheila Cress

Dr. Shiv Talwar

On Dr Talwar’s book entitled Global Action in Education: Contemplative Learning of Unity in Diversity

Global Action in Education

In his remarkable and comprehensive book envisioning the future of education, Dr. Shiv Talwar analyses contemporary education systems, showing how they lead to dissatisfaction within, strife in the world, and destruction of nature. Like an expert doctor of the human condition, he points out clearly how to cure the illness.

The cure from him is not a theoretical construct but a potent mixture of practice, philosophy, and science. Instead of following a reductionist model, he suggests seamlessly combining the domains of natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, holistic sciences, and ancient contemplative wisdom. Such a union will initiate unity in diversity, wholesome growth in a person, and harmony among people and all living beings.

Jivasu MD, founder of Somatofulness Teachings

Thank you, Dr. Talwar, you have taught us “well.” You have given us a road-map and an action plan. Now it’s up to us to apply it and follow it. This “Good News” needs to be spread and practiced far and wide.

Yanni Maniates, MS, author, mentor, and Board chair of UNITY EARTH

This book captures the dynamic nature of evolution and transformation happening in the universe as well in our physical existence. This inspirational knowledge is very valuable for all educators participating in the movement of transforming global education.

Jagdish Kohli, PhD, author of Leaders Transform Education by Reflective Learning

Dr. Talwar brings extraordinary — if not unique — strengths to the development of this proposal. His thought is solidly grounded in the ancient Vedic wisdom of his native India. His keen sense of the need to overcome the “us versus them” thinking that pervades our world comes from having been a witness to the terrible communal violence that accompanied the partition of India in 1947. Trained as an engineer, he also brings to his work a scientific cast of mind and a profound curiosity about the relationship between science and spirituality. Years of study of religious and spiritual traditions outside the one he grew up with have broadened his perspective and deepened his conviction that all of these traditions share a common core truth.

Bob Chodos, Temple Shalom, Waterloo, ON

On Dr Talwar’s book entitled The Common Ground: A Unified Basis of Existence

The Common Ground

Shiv Talwar has written a remarkable book. It is entitled The Common Ground and “it envisions integrating humanity into a planetary family through meaningful education on the common ground of existence.” No small task. Talwar cites the UN Declaration on Human Rights that affirms that everyone has a right to education and that education should be free. But the education that Talwar envisions is rooted in the great wisdom traditions of humankind. So, you are in for an education that “expands consciousness … beyond the traditions we are born into.” It is about that “infinite and infinitesimal … spirit/energy … underlying existence”; it is a metaphysical journey.

Dr. M. Darrol Bryant, Centre for Dialogue and Spirituality in the World Religions, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

Dr. Shiv D. Talwar has gifted us with a lucid, brilliant, most profound book. The work is majestic, startling and literally revolutionary, opening the possibility of the next stages of an expansion of human consciousness through education.

The Absolute Splendour, the Common Ground, has been incarnated in human form, without our realizing who one is. ”The kingdom of God is within you,” said Jesus — Vedic tat tvan asi or That you are, or You’re it. This message, this education, will change the direction of planetary freedom, peace, prosperity and happiness.

Dr. Orest Bedrij, author of The Greatest Achievement: Miracle after Miracle the Easy Way

This book offers an education in and of itself - a deep read with wonderful explanations of our unified existence and the need to educate for "total fulfillment of the student". Dr. Shiv Talwar shares his vast knowledge and passion to teach and helps shine the light outside the walls of our conditioned boxes - helps break down those walls by pointing out how we are all connected and how, through education, we move toward harmonious living on this planet. Excellent!

John West, Lake Havasu Citym AZ

It is a gem of a book and one which brings people of different faiths together in the cause of a peaceful and harmonious world. This book has very powerfully brought out Dr Shiv Talwar's energy, commitment and enthusiasm towards spiritual education which have been addressed in his conferences in Kitchener in Canada in the last decade. It is books like these that can draw one out of the existentialist despair of our troubled times.

Dr Sami Rafiq, Professor of English, Ali Garh Muslim University, India

Shiv Talwarhas written a masterpiece on the unity of science & spirituality.

Books For Peace – International Awards 2020