Spiti: A Buddhist Land in Western Himalaya

Dr. Verma grew up with the tradition of Yoga and Ayurveda. She studied at the University de Paris, was trained in the National Institute of Health, Bethesda USA, worked in the Max-Planck Institute, a children’s hospital and a pharmaceutical company in Germany. She has founded Patanjali Yoga Darsana Society to spread the message of yoga throughout the world. Dr. Verma uses various yogic practices for health care and therapy, through her holistic health organization Now. Now has two centres, one at NOIDA, near New Delhi and the other in the Himalayan mountains of Garhwal. Dr. Verma travels throughout the world giving lectures, workshops, T.V. and radio programmes on Yoga and Ayurveda. Her book, Yoga for Integral Health and four more books on Ayurveda have been published in several European languages, and in Hindi.