Soul Science

Signature programme

A subject for the part of a child that no examination reaches.

Soul Science is the Birla Open Minds curriculum for the mind, the body and the character, built with people who work in psychology, physiology, meditation, music, philosophy and spirituality, and taught in the timetable rather than around it. Here it is the strand that sends children out of the gate.

Taught in the timetablenot an after-school club
Mind, body and characterthe three it is built around
We Carethe programme the activities run under
A Digital Gurukul session: a boy walking a visitor through his own phone at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
A Digital Gurukul session: a boy walking a visitor through his own phone

What the subject is

An integrated approach that puts mind-body practices, yoga, meditation and mindfulness, alongside the work of understanding yourself. It was developed with specialists from outside school teaching, which is why it does not read like a moral science period.

  • Yoga and breath work
  • Meditation and mindfulness
  • Reflection, and the vocabulary to describe what you feel
A session on the covered turf at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
A session on the covered turf
The Bravery Shields the children painted themselves at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
The Bravery Shields the children painted themselves

What it is for

Physical, mental, social and emotional well-being, treated as one thing rather than four. The activities are built to help a child take a change in their stride, carry stress without breaking, recover from a setback, and find what they are actually good at.

  • Taking a change in your stride
  • Carrying stress, and recovering from a setback
  • Finding your own strengths and working them

The three strands

Pranayama, one mat each at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

Gurukul Hub

A space kept for stillness, breathing, reflection and the practices that do not fit a desk.

A crowd around the students' help desk at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

Enlighten a Soul

Children teaching, and learning what it costs to be patient with someone who is learning from you.

Grandparents' Day in the school hall at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

Inclusion Calendar

A year of causes the school takes up together, each one ending in something done rather than discussed.

We Care, in practice

What the strands look like when they leave the classroom. Every one of these happened on or from this campus.

One student, one visitor, one phone at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

24 August 2026

Digital Gurukul

Students set up a help desk and taught people from the villages nearby to use the phone already in their hand, a call, a message, a payment.

A sapling handed across at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

19 September 2026

Grandparents’ Day

Grandparents came to school, were received on stage by their own grandchildren, and were sent home with a sapling.

Planting along the campus edge at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

3 July 2026

Plantation Drive

Beds dug along the campus and saplings put in by the children who would then have to keep them alive.

The check-up at school at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal

1 July 2026

Doctor’s Day

A health check-up at school, so that the first visit to a doctor is an ordinary morning rather than an emergency.

In photographs

The help desk, mid-morning at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
The help desk, mid-morning
A grandmother honoured on stage at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
A grandmother honoured on stage
Lined up along the new bed at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
Lined up along the new bed
Shields held up on the steps at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
Shields held up on the steps
Waiting their turn at Birla Open Minds International School, Bhopal
Waiting their turn

Come and see a Soul Science session

Walk the campus, meet the teachers and see a class running before you decide anything.

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