Understanding and experience of the body. In this study the author analyzes the relationship between individual body and body politic in Garhwal in connection with social changes occurring at the local and trans-local level, which are impacting the status of the different healing systems. By investigating these issues, this paper aims to shed light on some of the complex ways in which practitioners and patients resorting to a local method of healing, in this case ritual healing through possession,respond to the expansion of biomedicine.