About us
Antahasatva means the inner essence of our being, and it is the whole idea behind this practice. Your body has the power to heal itself. Everything we do here, in this home in Arcot or online with you wherever you are, is only about giving it the conditions to do so.
My father was Dr. B. Premchand, a nature cure practitioner in Chennai, and one of the finest of his generation. People came to him when they had run out of other options, and they left healthy without any medications.
I was five when I started helping him. I fetched things, I helped, I watched, I listened. I saw people arrive so unwell they could barely walk in, and I saw them walk out happily again months later. Nobody sat me down and taught me nature cure. I grew up with it, the way you grow up with a language, and by the time I was old enough to choose a profession there was nothing to choose.
I began practising in 1993. More than thirty years later I am still doing what I watched him do, in my own home now, the same way.
It started with one person.
In 2014 someone in my family fell seriously ill. She had been through everything the usual route offers and was not getting better. I brought her home so I could look after her myself.
I had grown up in an environment surrounded with nature cure. My father practised it, and I had been beside him since I was five, watching him work. But I had never done this in my own house, and never taken responsibility for someone's healing on my own.
It took six months to put everything in place, the equipment, the therapies, the routine. And I needed rooms. My son was away studying, and my daughter was still small enough to share with us. So I took my children's bedrooms and turned them into the rooms where people would come to heal.
She recovered.
Then someone else came. And then someone else. That is how this began, unexpectedly, one person at a time.
What we believe
Every living being is built to repair itself. A cut closes. A bone knits back. Nobody instructs the body to do this. It knows.
Disease is not the body failing at that work. It is the body doing that work while the thing that caused the illness is still there, every day, in the food, the habits, the sleep, the stress. Take that away, give the body what it actually needs, and it will do what it has been trying to do all along.
That is the core of nature cure. Food, fasting, water, mud, sun, rest only creates the conditions for the body to its work, heal itself and bring it back to its natural state of health.It also means the healing is yours, not mine. I can set the conditions and guide you through them. Your body does the rest.
