Born in Switzerland in 1951, he moved in 1975 to Bombay, India where he first studied Philosophy. Later, he got trained as a Yoga Teacher at the Yoga Institute, Santa Cruz, and Bombay. Then he became a student of Ayurveda in Bangalore under Professor Vasudevan Nair who was a formidable expert on Pancakarma, as well as Professor P.S. Rai. In 1988, he founded the Ayurveda Research Centre International (ARCI) in Bangalore, of which he is still the President. In 1991, he started the Ayurveda Clinic in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, where up to date more than 10,000 Europeans have been treated exclusively with Ayurveda. He has written several books on Yoga and Ayurveda. He is Head of the Ayurveda Department at the Florida Vedic College and Seva Academy, Munich and runs his own Clinic in Bangalore, India.