Health

Tamil Nadu, India, April 1st 2022

Around me is a beautiful forest of neem, pomegranate, hibiscus, coconut, bamboo, all kinds of ficus and so many other indigenous trees of this part of India. The soil is moist and red, the birds are of all sizes and of so many colors.

Ten years ago, this land was bare, there was no tree, there was no bird. Until a group of five Ayurvedic doctors decided to create a clinic and a template of healing through and with nature.

At the end of their treatment, each patient have had to plant their tree. They created the immense forest, faune and flora I am now surrounded by.

Here, medicines come from the garden or from the heart of the doctors, prescribing the art of surrendering and the one and only life purpose of spreading positive energy around you.

Even the buildings you stay in embody the very essence of the land, using the soil for all construction.

Here, you learn about the five elements we are all made of. Appreciating their subtle balance in absolutely every representation of the living, is in fact, at the core of wholeness, or health.

Mornings and nights, chanting is performed by the doctors. They made their clinic their main residence, servicing their patients as their life purpose and going back to their home and family one or two days a week.

Coming from the villages around and all over the world, patients are singing along, listening quietly, praying to their own divine.

Here, you learn about your body, how you abuse it, how you treasure it, how it holds your soul.

You learn about food and that digestive fire, your most precious gift.

You learn about the mind, the ego, those endless games and inner dances. Most importantly you learn how to make peace with all of it.

You learn how to live very simply, you learn how to care, you learn how to love.

Here, success is measured by how much you protect your environment.

The intelligence and consciousness of nature are way far more superior than anything we can comprehend. Only by connecting deeply with it, can human beings, medicine, science and consciousness truly evolve together.

Beyond all treatments and all medicines, you learn that following a daily routine (how small and simple it is!) embracing the rhythms of the earth, the rising of the sun and cycles of the moon, the seasons and yourself in it, is the one key to health.

In the country of Hinduism, karma and rebirth, you also learn that any positive action you make today can change your destiny, and the one of the world you live in.

“Health is a state of bio-physical and physiological well being and a contented state of consciousness, senses and mind.” (from the Charaka Samhita at Vaidyagrama)