Enrollment for Perfect Health Teacher Training ends March 28th!

If you want to enroll for this 2012 teacher training, connect with me at 760-494-1657.

Did You Know?

I am a Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga Teacher!!


If you have questions about the process connect with me at 760-494-1657.

Namaste!~

21 Day Meditation Link

So excited for our 21 Day Meditation Challenge this Spring. To register click here!

Teacher Spotlight: Jeff Skorman & Marcia Hudson, M.D.

Jeff Skorman is originally from Clevelend, grew up in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Palm Springs. He graduated from Chapman University with a B.A. in Social Sciences and a second degree in Chemical Dependency Counseling. Jeff is a Certified Dual Diagnosis Counselor, a Certified Addictions Treatment Counselor and a member of the California Association of Drug and Alcohol Counselors.

In 2006 he was certified as a Perfect Health Instructor from the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Carlsbad, California. He became a certified as a Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor in 2007 and as an Ayurvedic Lifestyles Instructor in 2008. He was certified in Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga instruction in 2009.

Jeff has worked as a counselor in the Addictions and Mental Health field for 18 years. He currently teaches Yoga Meditation weekly at the Braille Institute and Yoga Meditation and Ayurveda at a cancer center.

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Marcia grew up in San Diego, California. She attended the University of California, Riverside for two years after high school, and then received an A.A. degree in computer science from Coleman College. She worked as a computer programmer and systems analyst for seven years. While she enjoyed a successful career in the computer field, Marcia felt that her purpose in life lay in a different direction.

She returned to school to pursue a career in medicine and completed a B.A. degree in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received an M.D. degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her internship and residency were done at the University of Texas, Houston in psychiatry, and she is board certified in psychiatry. Since residency, Marcia has been practicing psychiatry with the under-served, chronically mentally ill in the Coachella Valley, California.

Throughout her life Marcia has been interested in the role that the mind, stress, lifestyle, and spirituality play in creating health and in the disease process. Along with her husband, she began taking seminars at the Chopra Center to learn about Ayurvedic medicine, and completed the Chopra Center Perfect Health certification in April, 2007. Marcia promotes an Ayurvedic lifestyle as a healthy complement to traditional medicine.

To connect with these amazing teachers click here!

Yoga Teacher Training Starts this Week at The Chopra Center!!

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga teacher training certification is a Yoga Alliance 200-hour compliant program developed by Drs. Deepak Chopra and David Simon, and directed by Professor Claire Diab. This practice integrates 5,000 year-old Vedic wisdom with modern yogic interpretations, creating a daily yoga practice to help you unite body, mind, and spirit. Based on Deepak Chopra and David Simon's book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga, this beautiful practice blends meditation, pranayama, yoga philosophy, sun salutations, and asana development to bring you into alignment with the magnificent rhythms of the cosmos.

This consciousness-based yoga teacher training begins with experiencing higher states of consciousness at Seduction of Spirit and mind-body healing at Journey into Healing. Your personal practice continues to deepen with regular connection through webinars and teleconferences and a powerful home study process that concludes with two interactive certification weeks at the Chopra Center (Part A and Part B).

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga teacher training certification infuses your practice with spirit while bringing the seven laws into action each day. Every class plays a crucial role in yoga's path to unity and wholeness, while providing you with a wealth of meditation techniques, mantras, breathing exercises, and yoga poses.

"Enhancing flexibility and releasing stress are as noble a purpose for performing yoga as the awakening of spirituality. This is the great gift of yoga - it serves and nourishes us at every level of our being and spontaneously contributes to greater well being in all domains of life. Yoga will help you discover gifts within yourself that have remained unopened since your childhood - gifts of peace, harmony, laughter, and love." The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga by Drs. Deepak Chopra & David Simon

Whether you are new on the path of yoga and self-discovery or you are looking to deepen your existing practice, becoming a certified yoga teacher will take your practice and your understanding of the true principles of yoga and conscious living to the next level.

As a Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga certified teacher, you will be able to set up, market, and teach classes in a manner and frequency that works with your schedule (subject to a few basic guidelines). Chopra Center University will provide ongoing training, marketing support, and business development. You will also receive guidance through teleconferences, webinars, newsletters, and access to our international referral service. In addition, certified instructors receive substantial discounts on all Chopra Center events, workshops, programs, and products.

Upon completion of this program, you will be qualified to teach Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga classes throughout the world. You will become part of the Chopra Center's global network of certified instructors.

Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher Training This Week

Congrats to all our Summer 2011 PSM Grads!!

To learn more about The Chopra Center University click here!

Perfect Health at The Chopra Center!

Perfect Health is a 6- or 10-day healing immersion that combines a renowned medical staff, a time-tested detoxification and cleansing process known as panchakarma, and intimate, daily classes in meditation, Ayurveda, and yoga.

The Perfect Health program’s unique approach is based on the powerful principles of Ayurveda, India’s 5,000-year-old healing system. Ayurveda focuses on the whole person – the mind, body, and spirit – seeking to correct the imbalances that cause distress and, ultimately, disease. In contrast with conventional medicine, Ayurveda defines health not just as the absence of illness or symptoms, but as a state of higher consciousness that allow us to experience greater energy, creativity, wellbeing, and happiness in our daily lives.


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"I would like to like to say a big ‘Thank You' to the therapists and doctors of the Chopra Center for successfully getting me back to work! As a 54-year-old computer guy, I’d been through a tough time, with months of 20-hour workdays. I was unable to continue using a computer mouse due to the pain and increasingly limited mobility from overwork of my right hand and elbow. A similar work crunch a few years ago had already left me with a damaged left hand and elbow, so in addition to the discomfort, I was faced with being physically unable to do my job."

"My doctor prescribed a painkiller, but although it dulled the pain and let me sleep, did nothing for my mobility. For New Years my wife checked us into the Chopra Center for the Perfect Health Panchakarma program for a general health and de-stress break – not actually for my hand problems. Still, after the first day's treatment the pain had largely gone from my right hand, and by the end of the program I had pain-free mobility in both hands and elbows."

"I felt the excellent massage therapy helped the most, but this is a balanced program and it may well be the combination of treatments that made it so effective for me. The therapies are certainly powerful, pleasant, and healing, and the therapists are very caring, giving people."
—Howard Proops

Learn more about Perfect Health here!

Teacher Spotlight: Claire Diab

Claire Diab

Claire Diab is founder of The American Yoga Academy and is an internationally renowned Yoga Therapist and Fitness Specialist with more than 18 years of experience. In addition, she is currently adjunct Professor of Asian Studies at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. For more than 10 years,she has taught and designed yoga programs for Dr. Chopra at more than ten Seduction of Spirit and Journey to the Boundless seminars, including those at Oxford University, England, Geneva, Switzerland and Goa, India. She lectures nationwide on "Zen & Yoga: The Art of Living."

Claire, currently the Director of the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga program, is also a certified Chopra Center instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation, and Seven Laws of Engaging Spirit in the Workplace. Her teaching of Mind/Body Integration in the business environment has provided real-world solutions for corporations such as Dunn & Bradstreet, Honeywell, AT&T, MSNBC, CNBC and Exxon.

Journey Into Healing In Asheville This Week!

Journey into Healing is the Chopra Center’s most profound mind-body healing workshop, a five-day immersion that integrates modern Western medicine with Eastern healing arts, teaching you how to assist your body in healing itself.

Join us for this rare opportunity to expand your understanding of the power of self-care, guided by a panel of world-renowned experts as they lead you on an exploration of ancient wisdom and the newest discoveries in self-healing. Discover your mind-body personality type through a unique analysis based upon ayurvedic principles and learn other powerful tools to awaken the natural wellness within you.

Join us for Journey Into Healing at The Chopra Center: September 21–25, 2011: Carlsbad, California

To learn more about Journey Into Healing, click here!

Passport Sale - Extended! - Call Me for More Info!

I wanted to extend this special rate to anyone who is ready for their next step with The Chopra Center. The special rates are good till May 30, 2011. Please call me at 760.494.1657 for details and rates. Check out our programs here!

Perfect Health Teacher Training This Week!

Perfect Health Teacher Training

The Perfect Health course offers a five-step exploration of mind body medicine and ayurveda. The course is designed for the general public who have had little or no previous understanding of these concepts. Each of the five lessons includes instruction in practical approaches of mind-body medicine that participants can begin using in their daily lives.

Introducing Tim Brieske, M.D. to The Chopra Center!

Dr. Tim Brieske is a board-certified family physician, mind-body healing expert, and core member of the Chopra Center medical staff. With his characteristic compassion, wisdom, and lighthearted nature, he provides medical consultations for guests and patients and offers mind-body guidance at the Center’s events and programs. He also teaches the healing tools and techniques of Ayurveda and leads walking meditations in nature.

Before coming to the Center, Dr. Brieske was in medical practice for more than 13 years in Southeast Alaska and rural Wisconsin, where he was able to experience and practice the full range of primary care and emergency medicine while developing and performing the skills necessary to care for people in all stages and transitions of life.

In working with patients, Dr. Brieske combines the wisdom of traditional healings arts – including Ayurveda – with modern medicine. “Ayurveda teaches that our natural state is balance and health, and that illness is the result of imbalances or stresses that disrupt this equilibrium. I have found my dharma or purpose in life is helping people restore their balance and experience greater levels of happiness, purpose, and optimal health,” he said.

Dr. Brieske’s path to becoming a doctor began with service as a medic in the military. He then completed an undergraduate degree in biochemistry, geology, and bacteriology, reflecting his love of nature and a strong desire to understand how the world works. Continuing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. Enjoying all aspects of medical care, he completed residency training and board certification in Family Medicine at Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California.

Walking long distances is a passion that allows Dr. Brieske the continued evolution and development of a meditative and contemplative practice. He enjoys and regularly practices meditation and yoga. He is a certified instructor of Perfect Health and is currently completing his certification as a Primordial Sound Meditation teacher. He is on the Chopra Center University Teachers’ Path for certification as a Vedic Master.

“Fully recognizing and appreciating our divine ability to participate in the enjoyment and understanding of this existence allows us the opportunity to discover, manifest, and promote balance as a means toward optimal health,” he said.

As a family physician, Dr. Brieske has a wide range of expertise in many areas of health and wellbeing, including the treatment of:

• Heart disease
• Addiction
• Depression and anxiety
• High cholesterol and blood pressure
• Men’s health issues
• Diabetes
• Cancer
• Stress-related illness
• Lung disease
• Skin problems
• And many other health concerns

Teacher Spotlight: Karen Whynott

Karen Whynott has been a meditator since 1987, and has been drawn to and has studied many energy based therapies. She is a registered Acupressure Massage Therapist, a certified Reiki Master/Teacher and is certified in advanced techniques in Quantum-Touch® practicing these therapies at White Point Ocean Spa since 2000. Since the spring of 2007, she has been studying with Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in California. Karen is Chopra certified in Primordial Sound Meditation and Perfect Health Ayurveda she is on the Vedic Master teachers’ path through Chopra Center University.

Karen is excited about sharing meditation and the ancient principles of Ayurveda which she teaches in retreat weekends at White Point Beach Resort, in Nova Scotia.

Contact Karen by email : karenwhynott@choprateachers.com or telephone 902 354 5793.

Weekend Within Highlights!

Program Consultants: Emily Gray, Gabrielle Forleo, Nicole Bondurant & Libby Carstenson
Team Chopra: Sara Harvey, Erin Riehle, Nicole Bondurant, Rae Marie Jaeger, Michael McShane, Gabrielle Forleo, Megan Monahan, Deirdre Murphy, Emily Gray & Libby Carstenson


Weekend Within was so amazing! We laughed, we cried, we even did ZUMBA!~ It was such an honor to have Deepak, David Simon and Davidji leads us on this inspirational journey!

Teacher Spotlight: Maggie Grueskin

Maggie Grueskin, RYT / Perfect Health Instructor
Maggie is the founder and director at Ekam, having received multiple teaching certificates, primarily though The Temple of Kriya Yoga in Chicago, Lex Gillian in Houston, and most recently through The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, CA. Her teachings are influenced in large part by Paramhansa Yogananda, Gary Kraftsow and Deepak Chopra. She is a 200 hr Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance and a Perfect Health Instructor through The Chopra Center. Maggie created Ekam Yoga Center, to be a community-based mind/body/spirit wellness center, where people can gather in peace, heal and nurture themselves, and spread love and compassion everywhere.

Ekam Yoga Center
7036-B FM 1960 Rd East
Atascocita, TX 77346

Telephone: (281) 358-9642


E-mail: peace@ekamyoga.com

Teacher Spotlight: Sukhdeep Brar

Certified in 2010 as a Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher, Sukhdeep Brar shares her teachings and talents with the Brampton community, near Toronto, Canada. Sukhdeep also owns Brampton Skin Care Academy.

Contact Sukhdeep at sukhdeep@bramptonskincare.com or at 905-453-3566.

Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher Training This Week

Primordial Sound Meditation Teacher Training

Primordial Sound Meditation is a time-tested meditation technique dating back thousands of years to the ancient Vedic traditions of India. As a certified instructor, you will have the knowledge and skills to teach Primordial Sound Meditation, the most powerful tool we have for direct contact with Spirit and rediscovering our unique essential nature. Drs. Chopra and Simon have revived this ancient process and made it available in a format that can be easily learned by everyone.

To learn more click here.

Ayurvedic Consultant Training Program This Week!

Chopra Center University is dedicated to providing the highest quality training, continuing education, and research in the fields of Ayurveda, meditation, and yoga.

Chopra Center University trains students to become the practitioners, teachers, and lifestyle consultants of the 21st century – students dedicated to wholeness and the understanding of physical, emotional, and spiritual balance and their integration.

The Chopra Center–certified ayurvedic consultants will be trained to identify areas of disharmony between a client’s lifestyle behaviors, mind-body constitution, and their extended body (environment). Certified consultants will also be trained to understand how a client’s disharmony relates to the client's reported illness, reported diagnosis, or reported imbalance and will develop a program of care based on the teachings of the ACT program – to help re-establish harmony and support their clients on their journey to wholeness and optimal health.

The Chopra Center Ayurvedic Consultant Training Program is the only East-West curriculum offering an integrative approach that combines Ayurveda with modern medical science – embracing both conventional and holistic perspectives. The program’s curriculum is based on the mind-body healing approach developed by Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon, M.D. A valuable component of the training is an intensive, interactive online program created by the Chopra Center in collaboration with Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), a renowned ayurvedic scholar, teacher, and founder of the American Institute of Vedic Studies. This comprehensive online program delves into a wealth of ayurvedic knowledge. In addition, the customized curriculum includes a week-long intensive at the Chopra Center, where students will attend daily classes and experience practical, hands-on training led by the founders of the ACT program.

For more information click here.

Connect with a Chopra Center Teacher!

Our certified meditation instructors have the knowledge and skills to teach Primordial Sound Meditation, the most powerful tool we have for experiencing the profound peace and expanded awareness that lies beyond the mind’s noisy thought traffic.

Our Chopra Center–certified instructors complete a rigorous two-part training program designed by Deepak Chopra and David Simon, where they learn the true principles of yoga and conscious living. When you take a Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga class, your teacher will help you infuse your practice with spirit and bring the Seven Laws into action in your daily life.

The Perfect Health course offers a five-step exploration of mind-body medicine and Ayurveda. The course is designed for the general public who have had little or no previous understanding of these concepts. Each of the five lessons includes instruction in the practical tools and techniques of mind-body medicine that participants can immediately begin using in their daily lives.

To connect with a teacher in your area, click here.

Perfect Health Teacher Training This Week!

Congratulations to our Perfect Health Teachers who graduate this week!!