Along with professional life, Dr. Hafeel and Dr. Saya are partners in personal life too. In the year 2000, they started their first integrative clinic – Swasthya – in Bengaluru, India, which comprised a team of experts from ayurveda, homeopathy and western biomedicine. Alongside, with FRLHT (Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions), India, they assumed an innovative and integrated approach towards local health practices and were involved in documentation and rapid assessment of local health traditions across southern India.
They were also involved in devising social and medical research tools, testing them on-field and having them implemented. This venture was funded by ETC Compass, The Netherlands and the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, and helped advocate effective practices in community health programs. The social and medical research tools devised by them were used across multiple developing nations.
2005 saw them practicing holistic and integrative medicine in Dubai. The Healers’ Clinic was born in 2016 and has seen patients across geographies, cultures, and traditions. In their more than twenty-three years together, Dr. Saya and Dr. Hafeel have devised innovative protocols in traditional and integrative medicine and have advised a large number of people in this arena.