Our Bala Vihar Teachers

Chinmaya Mission Houston Bala Vihar provides a structured and consistent Sunday activity that binds a family towards a common cause of all round spiritual growth for the entire family. It provides families a common frame of reference founded on the Vedanta’s millennia tested principles, to discuss and navigate the world that children face every day. It allows parents to convey to their children their respect and love for the culture of India and strengthen their children’s spiritual foundation. In a true tradition of Guru-Shishya Parampara – children get to observe the results of hundreds of volunteers at Mission working in a Karmayoga spirit of dedication to Gurudeva Swami Chinmayananda.

A team of specially trained, experienced, and dedicated teachers conduct the Bala Vihar program. Through games, arts, crafts, stories, and other unique techniques, the Bala Vihar program teaches and reinforces spiritual and cultural values. The curriculum designed for all grade levels (Pre-KG through Grade 12) is creative and dynamic and covers a wide range of topics. 

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Grade/
Subject
Room No. Topic Session 1 Session 2
Pre-KG S 117 Miscellaneous        

Forum Joshi, Sangita Mankar

Surya Kantipudi, Ami Dave
KG N 105 The Alphabet Safari

Hinal Parikh, Prathyusha Veruva,  Sruthi Parameswaran

Jolly Datta, Prasanthi Katuru
Grade 1 S 110 Bala Ramayana Surya Kantipudi, Akshima Labroo Vaishali Chaubal, Param Moothath
Grade 2 N 103 Sri Hanuman The Super Superman        Sushila Patel, Kanan Mehta, Prathibha Holla Priya Mohan, Namrata Kamalapuri, Bria Dave
Grade 3 S 107 Bala Bhagavatam Sujatha Prabhakaran, Sandhya Harpavat Megha Rao, Srilatha Aluru
Grade 4 S 112 Krsna Krsna Everywhere, My Twenty-Four Teachers Shobha Ravishankar, Ravi Chawla Nehal Dave, Sunita Bhat, Ramya Badala
Grade 5 N 204 Symbolism In Hinduism Padmaja Reddy, Shreya Sheth Harsha Odhav, Nisha Mehta
Grade 6 S 202 India, The Sacred Land Sweety Trivedi, Manasi Scott Parvathi Sriram, Manish Dhutia
Grade 7 S 204 P.O. Box Mr. God, Key To Success Sarita Sheth, Mrudula Madireddy Shilpa Byrichetty, Rekha Trivedi
Grade 8 S 201 Yato Dharmah Tato Jayah Priya Jayashankar, Dhara Shah Deepa Suresh, Shreevani Rao
Grade 9 S 109 Hindu Culture Jasmin Patel, Radhika Koppanur, Madhu Mittal Deepthi Raju, Priya Jayashankar
Grade 10 S 203 Gita For Me Padmashree Rao, Sreedevi Gundamaraju Manasa Kethireddipalli, Sreedevi Gundamaraju
Grade 11 N 202/3 Gita For Me Priti Parikh, Asha Kohli Mamatha Narra, Dhara Shah
Grade 12/CHYK S 108 Self Unfoldment Varun Mittal, Mamatha Narra Anil Sheth, Jasmin Patel

Language, Bhajana, Orchestra, Slokathon Teachers

Grade Room No Session 1 Teachers    
Hindi 1A                               N 202 Padmasree Ventrapragada, Sima Arora, Amrit Plaha Chavada    
Hindi 1B   N 203 Sipala Shah, Ruchi Shahani    
Hindi 2 N 204 Malini Udtha, Shweta Saxena, Charoo Bhati    
Hindi 3 N 105 Sunita Dawar, Mona Uppal    
Hindi 4 N 104 Ravindra Aglave    
Hindi 5 N 104 Poonam Bhateja, Miti Verma    
Telugu 1 S 203 Swetha Rachamadugu    
Telugu 2 S 203 Nagasirisha Uppalapati    
Telugu 3 S 204 Aparna Mirayala    
Telugu 4 S 204 Veera Kambala, Vineel Kota    
Gujarati 1 S 110 Smita Pandya, Kalpesh Divecha    
Gujarati 2 S 110 Priti Dhruv, Jay Mehta    
Marathi 1 S 107 Jyotsana Gaikwad    
Marathi 2 S 107 Jaishree Kulkarni    
Bhajana – 1 N 103 Pooja Bhat, Ashmi Kesaria, Pooja Dasani    
Bhajana &
Orchestra – 2A
S 108 Sucheta Karandikar, Nithya Giridhar    
Bhajana &
Orchestra – 2B
S 109 Jamuna Murali    
Slokathon-1A N 201 Jai Ganesh, Vyoma Upadhyaya    
Slokathon-1B S 202 Rucha Sheth, Ravi Vemuru        
Adult Chanting S 117 Shravan Arra    
GCC  

Shravan Arra, Sreedevi Gundamaraju, Priyanka Gupta, Priya Mohan, Bharat Radhakrishnan, Anita Bennur, Veena Wunnava, Kaushal Trivedi, Prajna Pundalika, Jai Ganesh, Dileep Rao, Prasanthi Veruva, Pundalika Shenoy, Adhish Gupta