SAMA, which stands for the Swiss Ayurvedic Medical Academy, is the Sanskrit word for ‘balance’. The name thus represents the very principles of health in Ayurveda. SAMA was born of a working partnership between Jean-Pierre Bigler, ayurvedic practitioner and yoga therapist who trained in India and in Europe and, in 2000, opened one of French-speaking Switzerland’s first ayurvedic centres, and Doctor Simone Hunziker, general practitioner specialising in alternative medicine who, in 199 […]