On the occasion of International Day of Yoga, members of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic, addressed a press conference calling for the use of yoga in treating pain among the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. They said potentially harmful painkillers were being routinely and heavily prescribed in government hospitals intended to provide care […]
On World Environment Day 2019, members of the Sambhavna Trust Clinic addressed a press conference with new information concerning the toxic contamination of groundwater in the aquifers surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, site of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster. The members said that they have found evidence that the contamination has spread to a […]
Ian Jarvis is a practitioner and tutor of ‘Spineworks’, a form of physical therapy focusing on the soft tissue of the body. Ian has just returned from his fifth trip to Bhopal, where he has been voluntarily offering his services at the Sambhavna clinic. Ian has been keeping a diary, recording some of his experiences of […]
So, what happens in Bhopal at the time of this Christian festival? Although Christians represent only a relatively small number of Indian people, it is still India’s third most popular religion. In Indian culture, festivals are celebrated with gusto and, in many cases, there seems no reason not to celebrate another’s festival! At the Chingari […]
Ian Jarvis is a practitioner and tutor of ‘Spineworks’, a form of physical therapy focusing on the soft tissue of the body. Spineworks is a holistic form of spinal therapy which understands the spine in terms of it being just one part of a complex, tension structure of bones and ligaments, as opposed to it […]
