Ayushya is a Centre for Healing and Integration. It was started in 1985 under the auspices of Medical Mission Sisters, to promote Health, Healing and Wholeness. The Centre conducts regular training programmes in Non- Drug Therapies, and runs a daily clinic using various non-drug therapies for treatment of Physical, Psychological, Emotional and Spiritual maladies. A team of experts trained in Holistic Health and several non - drug therapies from the East and the West heads the clinic. Besides non - drug therapie, the team also provides councilling, group therapy, psycho therapy and emotional body work.

Medical Mission Sisters

The Centre is run by Medical Mission Sisters, an International group of religious women whose foundress is Mother Anna Dengel from Austria. In 1925, Dr. Dengel, started this group of women with the goal of rendering professional medical care without distinction of religion, caste, creed or sex especially for Muslim women and children who were deprived of proper obstetrical and medical care at that time in India, now Pakistan. Medical Mission Sisters established well equipped hospitals all over the world training the sisters in all medical fields. Later part of twentieth century other religious congregations also entered into medical service. With the scientific and technological advancement the hospital turned out to be business centers from service centers where the poor found less and less access. So the Medical Mission Sisters did an analysis of their medical service and decided to hand over the hospitals to other agencies.
From 1970's onwards, Sisters moved out from institutions to be with the poor and to render health service not on physical cure only, but care for life in all its various dimensions. The idea of holistic approach to wellness/healing/health was tried out as a new venture.
An example of this experiment is Ayushya, started in 1985. The Centre stands today to render services to individuals and groups, making them aware that 'health is in their hands' and it is a personal responsibility. The Centre is open to all.

To know more about Medical Mission Sisters, visit

www.mmssouthindia.org and www.medicalmissionsisters.org

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Ayushya

Centre for Healing and Integration

Veroor P.O., Changanacherry, Kottayam (Dist.), Kerala, India