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Ayurveda: Art of Being

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India, Switzerland, Germany · 2001
1h 41m
Director Pan Nalin
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Genre Documentary

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."

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Village Voice by

For the most part, though, Ayurveda speaks in subtitled Asian cadences to an affluent international audience primed to believe.

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The New York Times by Dave Kehr

As a believer preaching to an audience of believers, he (Nalin) feels no need to offer proofs or anything even approaching a rational argument.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

A sometimes eye-opening, if overlong, German-Swiss documentary on a holistic health system that's been practiced, mostly in India, for more than 500 years.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Writer-director Pan Nalin's film is at its best when he focuses on the meticulous, hands-on preparation of herb- and mineral-based drugs; it's also genuinely provocative to hear Ayurvedists argue that healing should be a vocation rather than a career.

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