Ayurveda Wandering Monks

Dedicated to my great Gurudev Yogacharya Shri  S.V. Govindan

 The Wandering Monks Ayurveda Association

was established to promulgate Ayurvedic massage according to the teachings received, perpetuated and handed down 

by the venerable Shri S.V. Govindan

and to train assistants and teachers

so that they can maintain

this tradition around the world 

I would like to show you and express something that is not easy to convey: the preparation of an Ayurvedic therapist.
Intellectual, psychological, spiritual, poetic preparation.
Preparation that leads to a new way of feeling and that has a different therapeutic effect.
I will take you with me to the places I have visited, through the conversations I have had with doctors and monks and on the many journeys I have taken. I will try to lead you to what is the essence of Ayurveda: creation and poetry.
Every massage, when performed with this in mind, is an act of creation. The body is capable of changing with every treatment, as are the mind and our most interior facets.
The Ayurvedic Massage of the Wandering Monks is a very, very ancient treatment and an art that risks being lost forever... my task today is to make this wonderful technique better known around the world, to remind us of what Ayurveda really means. I have learned all the Ayurvedic massage treatment techniques practised in Ayurvedic hospitals in India.
I have had the great fortune and privilege to be personally supervised by the maestro Govindan.
He accompanied me step by step, year after year, teaching me the ancient art of Ayurvedic massage rigorously and patiently for more than twenty years. I followed him and from him I learned the most profound, most precious, most unique aspects of this tradition. ....... This is the art of Ayurvedic massage that I am now passing on to the world."

Alida Dal Degan


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This is a group of traditional Ayurvedic hospitals. The maestro Govindanji has spent recent years at the main premises in Changanacherry and has taught valuable lessons at the Sree Sankara Gardens in Kumily. It is here that Alida Dal Degan continues the work of the Maestro, teaching the Ayurvedic massage of the wandering monks.

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We delighted to announce that Alida Dal Degan is now a member of the teaching staff of the
Sree Sankara Community for Ayurveda consciousness.