When the Beatles first incorporated an Indian String instrument called the sitar in the first notes of their classic song Norwegian Wood, they would forever change the sound and direction of pop music. They were beginning a love affair with Indian mysticism and music that would take them on a historic pilgrimage to the ashram of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This was followed by encounters with the hip and beautiful personalities of the 1960s who visited the ashram such as Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love of the Beach Boys. Reintroducing the world to India’s mysticism.

Constraints of modern medicine have led to a growing interest in ancient proven healing methods. Western medicines is organized around the theory of diseases, which believes that a person becomes sick because he or she contracts a disease. Each disease is seen as an independent entity that can be fully understood without regard to the person it afflicts or the environment in which it occurs. Thus, conventional treatments are treatments of diseases, not of people.In contrast to the Western system of medicine, traditional systems of healing in India, as in other ancient cultures, approach sickness as a dynamic event in life of an individual.