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Deepak Chopra & the Chopra Center for Wellbeing
Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon M.D. opened the Chopra Center For Wellbeing in 1996. It had many locations when it first began, but eventually found its current home in Southern California at the La Costa Spa.
The philosophy of the Chopra Center is based upon the principles and practices of holistic and alternative medicine from around the world, integrating the best of western medicine and natural healing traditions of the East such as Ayurveda and Meditation.
Sarah McLean, director of the Sedona Meditation Training Company, was one of the first certified instructors in Perfect Health, a course on mind body health using the wisdom of Ayurveda, and Primordial Sound Meditation.
Sarah had a great opportunity to work with him for 8 years and served as the education director for the Chopra Center.
Experience the Chopra Center's most profound spiritual experience at the Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona, August 22-28, 2010.
The Seduction of Spirit, the Chopra Center meditation retreat intensive, is one of the prerequisites to becoming a Chopra Center certified instructor.
Special Offer: Because Sarah McLean is a certified instructor, through her you'll get exclusive savings on Seduction of Spirit and other Chopra Center programs when you call the Chopra Center, and tell them she sent you. 760.494.1629.
Seduction of Spirit is an extraordinary week of deep meditation, heart-opening yoga, and timeless practices for fulfilling your highest human potential. This six-day meditation retreat interweaves the secrets of meditation, the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, advanced meditation techniques, daily energy work and yoga practice, all which provide the perfect ingredients for an experience that will create an opening of your emotional and spiritual pathways.
Your journey begins each morning with a blissful group meditation and yoga classes for body-centered restful awareness. Then, Deepak Chopra and David Simon will guide you through a daily practice of mindfulness, visualizations, the Law of the Day from Deepak's classic best-seller The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, and deep meditations. In the comfort of a relaxed group setting, you will truly ground your meditation practice, experience higher states of consciousness and deepen your spiritual connection to discover your purpose in life.
In the afternoon Deepak and David go further into the Law of the Day, dancing, soul-exploring exercises, energy and breath work, rounds of meditation, and deep healing of your heart. Your day concludes with a group meditation and Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga instruction (for all levels). The program also includes:
- Primordial Sound Meditation instruction, including your personal mantra,
- optional Ayurvedic vegetarian lunches selected from the Chopra Center Cookbook,
- evenings provide you with an opportunity to share experiences with others in your group, spend time in quiet reflection, or
- enjoy nightly entertainment by special guest performers.
- rejoice in your awakening with a special celebration dinner on the last evening.
Give yourself permission to accept the sweet and gentle energy of Seduction of Spirit
held at the world class Enchantment Resort - noted as one of the world's top 100 hotels. Surrounded by the majestic red rock formations of Boynton Canyon in mystical Sedona, Enchantment Resort combines luxury with rugged grandeur inspired by Native American culture, which is honored every day through the resort and spa Native American Programs. It's truly an deeply transformational experience, and a prerequisite for those who wish to become Chopra Center Instructors. I'll see you there! Find out more.
Find out more, call the Chopra Center at
760.494.1629
and speak program consultant, Libby Carstensen. She's able to offer you an exclusive discount on this program if you mention that Sarah McLean sent you. Email her Libby@chopra.com or call 760.494.1629.
Deepak Chopra, M.D. a world leader in the field of mind body medicine
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Deepak Chopra, MD, is one of the best known and widely respected leaders in the field of mind/body medicine in the world today.
Integrating the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda with traditional Western medicine and with recent discoveries in the field of quantum physics, he forged a holistic approach to healing that has become enormously popular.
His first book, "Creating Health" was published in 1986. That was the start of his promotion of the idea of the interconnection between mind and body, advocating meditation and self-awareness as primary factors in both illness and healing.
Those themes were expanded upon in his book "Quantum Healing" (1989), where he examined the mysterious phenomenon of spontaneous healing of cancer. Here he introduced quantum physics as a means of understanding the mind-body connection, arguing — as he would in many other books — that consciousness is the basic foundation of nature and the universe.
Chopra authored the first widely read book on Ayurveda, the traditional system of Indian medicine in his book Perfect Health" (1991). Besides outlining the Ayurvedic concept of body types which are also called doshas, or prakriti, Chopra emphasizes that the roots of this healing are in creating a holistic balance of mind and body, spirit and environment. The Chopra Center and instructors around the world are now certified to teach the Ayurvedic lifestyle course based on this book called Perfect Health.
Subsequent books have turned toward larger spiritual questions. In "How to Know God" (2000) and "The Book of Secrets" (2004) an argument is made for an all-pervasive intelligence that unites every living thing rather than the traditional Western concept of God as a person, "a venerable white male sitting on a throne in the sky." Chopra sees God as a projection of human awareness who becomes more expansive and universal as individual consciousness expands.
In 2006, his book "Life After Death: The Burden of Proof" extends personal consciousness beyond the "artificial boundary that separates the living from the departed." Assessing the seven varieties of the afterlife espoused in world religions, Chopra offers the startling proposal that a person's awareness in the present shapes existence after death; that is, the afterlife is created uniquely for each of us by our present level of consciousness.
In 2005 Chopra became a staunch advocate for disarmament and international peace in "Peace Is the Way," where he argues that a "critical mass" of people who band together in their spiritual world view can defeat the age-old "addiction to war" that continues to create mass suffering. In the same regard he became president of a broad-based organization, Alliance For a New Humanity, that seeks to form "peace cells" around the world and to foster such related goals as environmental healing and sustainable economies in developing nations.
Dr. Chopra serves as the Director of Education at The Chopra Center, where his mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust as he and his colleagues conduct public seminars and workshops and provide training for health care professionals around the world.
The Chopra Center offers training programs in mind body medicine (Journey into Healing). The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has granted continuing medical education credits for this program, which satisfies requirements for the American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award.
Honorariums:
Deepak Chopra's popularity as an international presenter and keynote speaker is exemplified in an impressive list of honorariums. As the keynote speaker, he appeared at the inauguration of the State of the World Forum, hosted by Mikhail Gorbachev and the Peace and Human Progress Foundation, founded by the former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace prizewinner Oscar Arias.
Esquire Magazine designated him as one of the top ten motivational speakers in the country; and in 1995, he joined the distinguished company of President Nelson Mandela, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, Tom Peters and Garrison Keillor as a recipient of the Toastmasters International Top Five Outstanding Speakers award.
He participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 1997. Chopra has been a keynote speaker at several academic institutions including Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management.
Dr. Chopra is the recipient of the Einstein Award through Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with the American Journal of Psychotherapy. Along with Nobel Peace Laureates Oscar Arias, Betty Williams and others, Deepak Chopra is a founding director of and President of the Alliance For a New Humanity. The Alliance for a New Humanity is committed to creating a critical mass of consciousness in the world for social justice, economical freedom, ecological balance and conflict resolution.
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