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Meditation Centers In
Rajasthan
Government Yogic Treatment Cum
Research Centre
Rare because it is the only
government-supported yoga centre in India,
the institute was established in 1961. Even
since, it has found yoga-based remedies for
ailments such as asthma, diabetes. No
medicines are used in the treatment, with
yoga being the only method of finding relief
from chronic problems. Naturopaths work in a
fully-equipped laboratory, and treatment for
its patients who reside on the premises is
free, as is the board and lodging.
National Institute of Ayurveda
Established as an ayurvedic college in 1946
by the former rulers of Jaipur, it has since
been upgraded, and its impressive complex on
Amber Road houses thirteen departments of
medicine and an attached hospital. It has a
fine collection of medicinal plants, and its
own pharmacy where herbal and vegetable
drugs are manufactured.
SPG Kayakalp Centre
Located in Lakshmangarh in Shekhawati's
Sikar district, this modern facility of
traditional sciences aims to fill the gap in
healing the human mind, body and spirit.
With restoration rather than merely
defensive cure its aim, the centre offers
three and seven day rejuvenation packages.
Facilities include mud therapy, colon
therapy, herbal oil therapy, local steam
therapy, spinal baths and the like. Visitors
are also initiated in yoga and meditation.
Along with modern communication facilities,
the centre also offers a swimming pool,
dairy, gymnasium and a pathological
laboratory on its premises.
Nature Cure Centre
Colloquially called Prakritik Chikitsalaya,
this nature cure institute has been a
pioneer in the field since five decades. A
health farm, it uses the five elements in
its treatment with fasting, sun bathing, mud
baths, wet sheet packs, steam baths, and
water therapy to offer remedies for
arthritis, acidity, asthma and other
respiratory ailments, bronchitis, colitis,
diabetes, heart problems, obesity, jaundica,
and lumber spondylitis. Set in a garden
compels, and with separate wards for men and
women, it also has a juice centre, dairy
farm, acupressure pathway and physiotherapy
centre within its three acre premises.
Navneet Prakritik Yoga Chikitsa Dham
Located outside Jaipur, this yoga and
naturopathy centre is a modern complex where
sadhaks (promotives) rather thana patients
are provided hope in the treatment of very
large number of diseases and disorders. No
medication is offered, and with gentle
exercises, clean living, and natural fools,
cures are found to the debilitating ailments
from which people suffer.
Rajasthan Swasthya Yoga Parishad
Yoga consists of breathing and physical
exercises, and the proper manner in which
these are performed can lead to amazing
results in people, curing them of ailments
and increasing the longevity of their lives.
The organisation here is a training centre
in yoga, and has as many as ten other
centres in Jaipur alone, with more outside
the city.
Vipassana Dhammathali Centre For
Meditation
One of the branches of the institute in
Maharashtra, this beautiful centre disburses
training in the ancient technique of
vipassana maditation as practiced
two-and-a-half-thousand years ago by Gautam
Buddha. The complex has a distinctive
Buddhist look, and there is a central
meditation hall for one-hundred-and-fifty
people as well as one-hundred-and-sixty
cells. Meditation courses at the complex
last ten days for beginners, and longer ones
of twenty, thirty and forty-five days
duration for the more experienced. There are
also refresher courses for old students of
one, three and ten days.
Yoga Sadhana Ashram
A prominent yoga centre, started in 1969,
the ashram nestles in a serene environment,
and besides regular classes in the morning
and evening, also has courses lasting three
months to a year. Besides yoga, it also
undertakes the yogic treatment of cardiac
problems, psychic disorders, blood pressure
complaints, and spondylitis.
Other Institutes In Jaipur
Besides these, there are a number of other
centers in Jaipur that are associated with
natural or alternative forms of medicine.
These include the Todermal Homeopathic and
Acupressure Chikitsalaya for acupressure and
naturopathy; and the Yoga Acupressure
Magnetic Chikitsa Paramarsh Kendra for
acupressure healing.
Desert Healing
Other than in Jaipur, there are similar
institutes spread all over Rajasthan, a few
prominent ones of which are listed below.
Shri Mahavirji Sansthan
The township of Shri Mahavirji in Sawai
Madhopur district boasts a Jain temple where
the management committee runs a health
service centre in an adjoining building with
naturopaths attending to patients in
peaceful wards. Known for its mud therapies,
the centre also helps to seek remedies for
diabetes, and disorders relating to the
respiratory and digestive systems.
Other Centres In Rajasthan
Some of the other places where visitors in
Rajasthan can seek health and fitness cures
are the following: Yoga Sadhana Kendra in
Sikar for treating polio; Parmahansa Yoga
Sadhana Ashram in Sawai Madhopur for yoga;
Nature Cure Centre for naturopathy in Alwar;
Yoga and Nature Cure Centre in Churu's Ladnu
village for naturopathy; Acupressure Health
Care System in Jodhpur for acupressure and
naturopathy; Prakritik Chikitsalaya in Kota
for naturopathy; and Arogya Dham in
Bharatpur for yoga and naturopathy. |
