Ayurveda: Art of Being

Sep 20, 2001

1h 41m

★ 5.2

Overview

Ayurveda is a science of life and a healing art, where body, mind and spirit are given equal importance. This voyage of thousands of miles across India and abroad takes you on a unique poetic journey, where we encounter remarkable men of medicine or simply a villager who lives in harmony with nature. "Hope is nature's way of enabling us to survive so that we can discover nature itself."

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Monsoon Films Private Limited

Pan Nalin Pictures

Sunrise Filmvertriebs

Pandora Film

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