Being There

There is no ‘i’ in wellness,” said Dr. Shetty, my stern-faced but softspoken wellbeing consultant at Joali Being. To illustrate his point, he wrote it down on a piece of paper: Illness–Wellness. He then circled the first letters of each word — (I) (We) — and concluded that the journey to wellbeing, in essence, is really quite simple: “Just reduce the ego.” Putting a hand on his chest, he explained: “Parts of my lungs are here, parts of them are in the trees outside. Without them, I could not breathe. Our wellbeing depends on everyone and everything around us.”

He instructed me to clasp two brass cylinders, one in each hand. They were wired to a sci-fi-looking bioresonance machine that