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Nature Cure: The Revival
During the 15 months I spent studying and training in Nature Cure hospitals across India, the settings and natural environments varied—from one region of the country to another—but the philosophy behind healing and rejuvenation remained remarkably consistent: give the body the conditions it needs to heal and thrive.
In Nature Cure hospitals, patients are taught how nutrition, exercise, rest, sunlight and other supportive lifestyle practices can become part of everyday life—making naturopathy not simply a way of healing, but a complete way of living. In Nature Cure: The Revival, I take you inside this remarkable system of healthcare to meet some of the world’s leading Nature Cure doctors and gain a first-hand view of its patients, treatments and guiding philosophy.
About the Filmmaker
Robert Mazure is a naturopath, acupuncturist and massage therapist who has worked in natural healthcare since 2008. His experiences studying and training in Indian Nature Cure hospitals inspired an ambition to establish a similar centre in Britain. He subsequently produced Nature Cure: The Revival to introduce this integrated approach to Western audiences.
Today, the documentary forms the foundation of the Nature Cure Revival Project, an initiative seeking to bring India’s institutional experience into wider international discussion and encourage informed dialogue between Indian Nature Cure institutions and Western healthcare professionals.
Watch the full documentary below. Use the chapter menu in the video player to explore individual subjects, interviews and institutions.
The Nature Cure Revival Project
The Nature Cure Revival Project builds upon the documentary Nature Cure: The Revival to bring India’s integrated, institutional approach to Nature Cure to wider international attention. Although many individual elements of the system—including nutrition, fasting, exercise, acupuncture, yoga, stress management and health education—are increasingly recognised in the West, the integrated healthcare model developed in India remains relatively overlooked and insufficiently examined internationally.
At a time when chronic lifestyle-related illness is placing growing pressure on healthcare systems, India’s experience deserves serious consideration. The project aims to organise existing knowledge and research, bring Indian Nature Cure institutions into dialogue with Western doctors, researchers and healthcare professionals, and explore which elements of India’s experience could be rigorously evaluated and responsibly adapted.
The longer-term ambition is to encourage meaningful collaboration between Indian institutions and Western healthcare professionals, creating opportunities for research, education and the exploration of integrated, lifestyle-centred approaches to healthcare.
Why the Documentary Matters
Western healthcare systems face mounting pressure from chronic illness, rising demand and constrained resources. India has developed an established institutional model that brings lifestyle-based interventions together within a structured healthcare environment. That model deserves serious investigation. In Britain, independent assessments of the NHS, including Lord Darzi’s 2024 independent investigation of the NHS, have highlighted the need for stronger prevention, multidisciplinary care and greater patient involvement. These are areas in which India’s institutional Nature Cure experience may offer valuable insights, although the effectiveness and transferability of its approaches require careful scientific evaluation.
Filmed between 2014 and 2015, Nature Cure: The Revival provides a historical record of this system and a starting point for wider international conversation: one that brings India’s institutional experience into serious consideration and explores how its lessons might inform the future of Western healthcare. Further reading: What the West Can Learn from India’s Nature Cure Hospitals — an exploration of India’s institutional Nature Cure system, its history and potential relevance to Western healthcare.
Featured Institutions and Contributors Behind the Documentary
We gratefully acknowledge the institutions, professionals and patients who shared their knowledge, experiences and time in making this documentary possible. The following institutions and contributors are featured in the documentary. Institutional affiliations reflect the time of filming in 2014–2015.
| Institution | Featured contributors |
|---|---|
| SDM College of Naturopathy & Yogic Sciences and associated Yoga & Nature Cure Hospital, Ujire / Dharmasthala | Dr Prashanth Shetty, Dr Shiva Prasad Shetty, Dr Geetha Shetty, Dr Ganesh Prasad, Dr Abhay Shankargouda, Dr Laksh Meesh, Dr Roshitha P, Dr Kiran Reddy and Dr Chandrakanth KK |
| Soukhyam Nature Cure & Yoga Hospital, Kerala | Dr Shimji Nair and Dr Aswathi Sreedharan |
| Mahatma Nature Cure Centre, Kerala | Dr Sona Ramanujam and Dr S.K. Madhevan |
| Gandhiji Nature Cure Hospital, Kerala | Dr Jyothsana |
| S-VYASA University | N. V. Raghuram |
The documentary also features contributions from Professor Alex Hankey, Dr Sat Bir Singh Khalsa (PhD) and Heather Mason of The Minded Institute, alongside England-based acupuncturist Shobana Kataria, who shares her perspective following a visit to Soukhyam Nature Cure & Yoga Hospital.
Participate in the Revival Project
The Nature Cure Revival Project welcomes contributions from Indian Nature Cure institutions, documentary participants, doctors, researchers, educators and healthcare professionals interested in exploring India’s integrated approach to healthcare. Participation might involve sharing institutional experience, published research or patient outcome information; contributing a professional perspective; taking part in an interview or discussion; or exploring opportunities for educational and research collaboration.
We are particularly interested in encouraging dialogue between Indian Nature Cure institutions and Western healthcare professionals, with a view to examining what can be learned from India’s experience and how relevant approaches might be responsibly evaluated and adapted.
Interested in contributing?
Please contact robert@natureheal.co.uk with a brief introduction and an outline of your interest or proposed contribution.
Educational Use and Sharing
Nature Cure: The Revival is available to watch and share as an educational resource. We welcome its use by healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, students and institutions interested in learning more about India’s Nature Cure system.
You are welcome to share a link to this documentary page or embed the original Vimeo video on relevant websites, where permitted by the video’s sharing settings. When referencing the film, please credit Nature Cure: The Revival, produced by Robert Mazure, and include a link to the documentary’s official page on Nature Heal.