Originating in India and then spreading to Egypt, Greece, Rome, Tibet, China, Russia and Japan, Ayurveda is probably the world's oldest continually practiced holistic healthcare system.

In AYURVEDA - THE ART OF BEING, the Indo-French director, Pan Nalin, travels all over India and follows several Indian practitioners of this discipline as they apply - with astonishing success - the ancient Ayurveda doctrines in this age of nuclear power,the internet and instant everything.

This film follows healers who scan their patients by covering the body with a certian kind of mud to detect disease, tribesmen in remote Indian deserts who never become ill simply by telling themselves not to do so, doctors curing leukaemia with the bark of a tree ...

But AYURVEDA - THE ART OF BEING is not about the quantifiable success of ancient healing methods. The film discovers the mysteries of human mind and body in the light of Ayurveda, where every disease is an imbalance of a human being's life energies and thus every disease can be cured by re-establishing and maintaining this balance.

AYURVEDA is a journey through India - but it is also a journey in time: times of ancient ways of healing, times of tribal ways of healing, times of modern ways of healing.

And all this to comprehend the timeless way of healing - a means to a more balanced state of mental and physical wellbeing.