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With several existential experiences, we develop our thinking, attitude, and behavior. These become the cause for fostering or hindering our future. In fact, what we experience today had the seeds sown in our past. This is the eternal theory of cause and effect that keeps perpetuating throughout kalachakra or cycle of time.

“I (the manifested soul) am blessed with the unique integral medium of the mind, body and intellect. By purposeful and seamless use of this medium, I can cause the change that I wish to realize, externally and internally.”

With this philosophy, our vision is to integrate the developing fields of modern medicine with western psychology and ancient, sustaining Indian tradition of Yoga & Spirituality to obtain simple and effective concepts and techniques which can enable you to liberate yourself from your ailments, maintain positive living, realize your potential for internal and external growth and ultimately discover holistic harmony.

About Dr. Bhupendra Palan


Founder and Director - Samatvam | M.D. | D.Clin.Hypno. – ABMH, USA | Founder & President – Academy of Hypnosis, India

Dr. Palan’s career started in 1975 as a Physiology teacher at Jamnagar Medical College. He was suffering from acute asthma. In 1981, he moved to Vadodara (Gujarat) to have a change in climatic conditions in the hope of coping with his disorder. But, his health deteriorated. While teaching Physiology at Vadodara Medical College, he took a Basic Training Course in Hypnotherapy from Indian Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in 1982 and started practising self-hypnosis. It helped him significantly in managing his asthma. 

From 1983, he started getting involved in several research projects on Hypnosis and participated in 10th and 11th International Conferences of Hypnosis & Psychosomatic Medicine at Toronto (1985) and at The Hague, Netherlands (1988). During the same period, he also started Psychosomatic Medicine and Hypnotherapy Clinic at SSG Hospital, Medical College, Baroda, India. 

In 1988, he appeared for American Board of Medical Hypnosis examination at the Netherlands during 11th International Conference an obtained Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis and became the first doctor in the country to have recognised qualification in Hypnosis. 

In 1990, he started learning Pantajali’s Yogdarshan (one of the six Darshan shastras in Indian spiritual tradition), Bhagvad Gita and Upanishada. He has been teaching the subject, “Mental Health and Yoga” in Yoganiketan, Vadodara, since 1991. 

After teaching for 20 years, he opted for voluntary retirement from the medical college in 1995 and founded Samatvam – an Institute for Mind-Body Healing and Healthy Living. He developed and conducted various "tranceformation" workshops / training programs catering to 50,000+ participants, nationally and internationally: 

 “A holistic stress management and self-development workshop” for professionals, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, teachers, home makers 
 “Towards Success & Excellence” for adolescent students 
 “Healthy Parenting” for parents 
 “Self-hypnosis training for Sports people” for athletes / sports professionals 
 Self-hypnosis training for pregnant women, for managing menopause, and so on 

Dr. Palan contributed to creation of a one-year P.G. Diploma course in Clinical and Applied Hypnosis run (since 2000) by the M.S. University of Baroda and he is one of the main faculties. He also created an Online P.G. Diploma course in Clinical Hypnosis, offered by Charotar University of Science & Technology (CHARUSAT) since 2016. 

Over the last 40 years, he has contributed at national and international levels in the academic journals and books in the areas of Stress Management, Psychosomatic Medicine, Yoga and Hypnotherapy.

Samatvam Team

Rushika Palan

| B.Arch., PGDCH, PGDGC

Management Team

8+ years of experience in Interior Designing & Art Direction.

Dr. Baljeet Kaur

| BHMS, PGDCCP, PGDCH

Clinical Team

15+ years of medical experience with 10+ years as a practicing Hypnotherapist.

Dr. Pooja Parmar

| BDS, PGDCH

Clinical Team

17+ years of medical experience with 4+ years as a practicing Hypnotherapist.

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