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The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort

By Bonnie Neely

The Chopra Center, famous more than a decade for its healing therapies, has recently moved to new headquarters, occupying a building at the The La Costa Resort & Spa and The Chopra Center

The La Costa Resort & Spa and The Chopra Center

La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, CA. About thirty miles North of San Diego, the tranquil setting is the perfect enhancement for the practices of inner peace, which visitors to The Chopra Center learn for healthy living, integrating body, mind, and spirit.

Driving into the La Costa complex you enter a verdant landscape of green grassy expanses, punctuated with bright-colored floral borders, tropical bushes and trees, and beautiful tile fountains flowing melodiously, all creating the dramatic set for immaculate, Spanish-style, white adobe buildings with brilliant orange tiled roofs. The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort & Spa

The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort & Spa

Happy laughter, cheery bird-song, and gurgling water are the sounds you hear in this exquisite refuge. Perfect, because you come here to learn how to take peace back into your busy life.

When I first signed up for the Soul of Healing program at The Chopra Center I wondered if I would be the only well person attending. Many come here to learn better self-care with the goal of curing a long-standing, or newly-diagnosed, or life-threatening illness.

Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon, founders of the center, are highly acclaimed, world-renowned medical doctors, authors, and lecturers. Dr. Chopra is an Internist and Endocrinologist, with medical training in the United States at the famous Mayo Clinic and also a specialist in the ancient healing arts of India, Aryuvedic Herbal Therapies. Dr. Simon, who first studied anthropology, is an Internist and a Neurologist. Dr. Simon served as Chief of Staff and Medical Director of the Neurological Rehabilitation Center and Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at Sharp Cabrillo Hospital, an affiliate of the Sharp HealthCare system, the largest in Southern California. He is a member of the clinical faculty of The University of California Department of Neurosciences and supervises medical students rotating through The Chopra Center.and the former chief of San Diego University Medical Center. Long-time friends through their mutual interest in yoga and transcendental meditation, the physicians combined their expertise in forming The Institute of Mind-Body Medicine and Human Potential at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, California. Later they opened The Chopra Center in La Jolla, and now it is relocated in Carlsbad, CA.

Although The Chopra Center offers many different courses and healing therapies, The “Soul of Healing,” which could be stated as the “health of healing,” is the fundamental course for people suffering from illness and for healthy people wishing to attend extensive courses of study or train as teachers of the Chopra methods of Aryuvedic healing practices.

Our Day at the Chopra Center began with lessons in Primordial Sound Meditation, using specific mantras (repetition of specific meaningless syllables) to learn how to quiet the mind's chatter. We shed our shoes in reverence and each hugged a brightly colored, hand-woven blanket around us as we settled into our peaceful Self, breathing deeply and gently aware of the soft music or gentle bells tinkling faintly. No better setting can be found to practice going within to experience deep silence. This is the foundation of all the Chopra Center healing practices. With a commitment of thirty minutes meditation morning and evening, anyone can learn to reach deep within to experience Universal Wisdom, to reunite body, mind, and spirit, to experience peace. David Greenspan, the Chopra Center
La Costa REsort & Spa

David Greenspan, the Chopra Center
La Costa REsort & Spa

David Greenspan, the laid-back and soft-spoken Chief Operating Officer of the Chopra Center, warmly led these sessions, answered our questions about meditation, and taught the daily lesson from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Dr. Chopra.

Next order of the day was our Gentle Yoga class. The stretching and stimulating movements toned us and helped us to listen to our body's intelligence and work on problem areas while increasing our circulation and overall well-being.

Dr. David Simon at The Chopra Center
La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, CA

Throughout the week each of us had private consultations with Dr. Simon about our individual health issues. His expert knowledge and amazingly insightful and intuitive analysis of each medical history gave each person assurance and good instructions for promoting health, wholeness, and well-being in body, mind, and spirit.

The Chopra Center Library, available to us during our free time, gave us a quiet place to watch a lecture video or read from hundreds of selections while we awaited our own individual treatments, therapies, or consultations. The time I looked forward to the most was the Aryuvedic Massage each day. What an incredible experience of total relaxation, meditative moments, and bliss! We could elect to receive each day a 60 or 90 minute massage by one or two expertly trained professionals

La Costa Spa and Resort, Carlsbad California

in the serene therapy rooms of either the Chopra Center or the La Costa Spa . I never knew there were so many different types of massages, each with sesame oil (or other vegetable oil if anyone is allergic to sesame) and aromatic essences to help balance your body. These were not deep tissue massages but gentle skin massages. Drs. Chopra and Simon emphasized that the skin is the most perfect pharmacy, giving us exactly what we need at the time and in the perfect doses we need it. When we emerged from these incredible sessions we were aglow and felt as if we were floating through the rest of the day! Whenever the massage was in the La Costa Spa we could stay to partake of the pool, waterfall, sauna, whirlpool, or whatever we wished to do at that gorgeous Spa.

For lunch each day we enjoyed a hearty, beautifully presented, and tasty vegetarian delight. We “carnivores” never knew vegetarian eating could be so delicious and satisfying. We were served in the dining room of La Costa Resort, where we saw celebrities and famous sports participants who were at the resort for golf or tennis events. La Costa is known as one of the ten best Spa Resorts in the World.

Afternoon lectures by Drs. Chopra and Simon are stimulating, inspiring, and deeply informative as you learn the basics of healthful living and connecting body, mind, and spirit for total healing and wholeness. We found it fascinating that Nature has packaged our foods in six primary tastes and seven colors, as if building in instructions for healthy eating. For perfect nutrition and perfect health we need food from each group daily. If you have that familiar experience of going into the kitchen and “grazing” to satisfy an undefined craving, it is because you have missed one of these flavors or colors and your body needs it. We learned that the best way to promote optimum health is to eat fresh foods and herbs prepared daily with love and eaten quietly, with appreciation.

The Chopra Center teaching stresses that total healing cannot occur until one seeks connection with the Creative Source of the Universe…God. The reality of the One Creative Source, God, has now in Quantum physics been proved beyond scientific doubt.

Nearly four centuries ago, the famous French scientist Rene Descartes asked the Catholic leaders for permission to dissect and study unclaimed bodies that were presented for burial in the pauper's grave. The Church reluctantly granted permission with the stipulation that whatever Descartes found within the body, he could never claim to find the soul or spirit…that was the realm of the Church, not Science. From that time forward the Divine was denied and abandoned by the scientific world, and Science was set on a separate course. However, in the mid 1900's Einstein set out to prove the existence of one Creative Force (God) by mathematical formula. He died before completing this work. It was not until the 1980's that two other scientists were able to prove the formula Einstein was developing and won the Nobel Prize for proving through Quantum Physics the reality of One Creative Source of the Universe and everything which has existed. So, for the first time in nearly four centuries, the pure scientist can make reference to “God.”

Drs. Chopra and Simon have dedicated their practice and life to educating other physicians and patients about this reality in a thoroughly scientifically-grounded way by their teaching and their practice of Body-Mind, holistic medicine. They show how and why modern Western medicine is beginning to recognize ancient Wisdom and acknowledge that treating only the body will never create perfect health, and pills are just a cover up of symptoms, unable to address the root cause of an illness, which always begins with negative experiences and emotions absorbed at the cellular level.

In addition to the therapies and teaching at The Chopra Center, Deepak and David have written numerous books and lecture worldwide in order to accomplish their monumental task, directed by Spirit, of creating wholeness in as many people as possible. Only when individuals are whole can the world community also heal, ending war, terrorism, and environmental abuse. Then Planet Earth will be able to return to wholeness. These two brilliant scientists and their staff of dedicated men and women have found their life fulfillment in helping raise the consciousness of a significant number of people on earth to create the "critical mass" necessary to change and save the entire earth and all its people.

To learn more about The Chopra Center work and programs, to order books, herbal products Click Here.

For Dr. Chopra's Questions and Answers and Daily Meditations, Click Here

To Receive a free subscription to the Chopra Center Newsletter Nemaste, Click Here

For information on the new global organization, Alliance for the New Humanity, for holistic healing of the Earth and its communities and promoting peace, Click Here

To learn more about La Costa Resort & Spa, please click here:

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	FREE travel e-zine of travel adventures Send this Page to a Friend Flag of California The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort By Bonnie Neely The Chopra Center, famous more than a decade for its healing therapies, has recently moved to new headquarters, occupying a building at the La Costa Resort in Carlsbad, CA. About thirty miles North of San Diego, the tranquil setting is the perfect enhancement for the practices of inner peace, which visitors to The Chopra Center learn for healthy living, integrating body, mind, and spirit. Driving into the La Costa complex you enter a verdant landscape of green grassy expanses, punctuated with bright-colored floral borders, tropical bushes and trees, and beautiful tile fountains flowing melodiously, all creating the dramatic set for immaculate, Spanish-style, white adobe buildings with brilliant orange tiled roofs. Happy laughter, cheery bird-song, and gurgling water are the sounds you hear in this exquisite refuge. Perfect, because you come here to learn how to take peace back into your busy life. When I first signed up for the Soul of Healing program at The Chopra Center I wondered if I would be the only well person attending. Many come here to learn better self-care with the goal of curing a long-standing, or newly-diagnosed, or life-threatening illness. Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon, founders of the center, are highly acclaimed, world-renowned medical doctors, authors, and lecturers. Dr. Chopra is an Internist and Endocrinologist, with medical training in the United States at the famous Mayo Clinic and also a specialist in the ancient healing arts of India, Aryuvedic Herbal Therapies. Dr. Simon, who first studied anthropology, is an Internist and a Neurologist. Dr. Simon served as Chief of Staff and Medical Director of the Neurological Rehabilitation Center and Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory at Sharp Cabrillo Hospital, an affiliate of the Sharp HealthCare system, the largest in Southern California. He is a member of the clinical faculty of The University of California Department of Neurosciences and supervises medical students rotating through The Chopra Center.and the former chief of San Diego University Medical Center. Long-time friends through their mutual interest in yoga and transcendental meditation, the physicians combined their expertise in forming The Institute of Mind-Body Medicine and Human Potential at Sharp HealthCare in San Diego, California. Later they opened The Chopra Center in La Jolla, and now it is relocated in Carlsbad, CA. Although The Chopra Center offers many different courses and healing therapies, The “Soul of Healing,” which could be stated as the “health of healing,” is the fundamental course for people suffering from illness and for healthy people wishing to attend extensive courses of study or train as teachers of the Chopra methods of Aryuvedic healing practices. Our Day at the Chopra Center began with lessons in Primordial Sound Meditation, using specific mantras (repetition of specific meaningless syllables) to learn how to quiet the mind's chatter. We shed our shoes in reverence and each hugged a brightly colored, hand-woven blanket around us as we settled into our peaceful Self, breathing deeply and gently aware of the soft music or gentle bells tinkling faintly. No better setting can be found to practice going within to experience deep silence. This is the foundation of all the Chopra Center healing practices. With a commitment of thirty minutes meditation morning and evening, anyone can learn to reach deep within to experience Universal Wisdom, to reunite body, mind, and spirit, to experience peace. David Greenspan, the laid-back and soft-spoken Chief Operating Officer of the Chopra Center, warmly led these sessions, answered our questions about meditation, and taught the daily lesson from The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Dr. Chopra. Next order of the day was our Gentle Yoga class. The stretching and stimulating movements toned us and helped us to listen to our body's intelligence and work on problem areas while increasing our circulation and overall well-being. Throughout the week each of us had private consultations with Dr. Simon about our individual health issues. His expert knowledge and amazingly insightful and intuitive analysis of each medical history gave each person assurance and good instructions for promoting health, wholeness, and well-being in body, mind, and spirit. The Chopra Center Library, available to us during our free time, gave us a quiet place to watch a lecture video or read from hundreds of selections while we awaited our own individual treatments, therapies, or consultations. The time I looked forward to the most was the Aryuvedic Massage each day. What an incredible experience of total relaxation, meditative moments, and bliss! We could elect to receive each day a 60 or 90 minute massage by one or two expertly trained professionals in the serene therapy rooms of either the Chopra Center or the La Costa Spa . I never knew there were so many different types of massages, each with sesame oil (or other vegetable oil if anyone is allergic to sesame) and aromatic essences to help balance your body. These were not deep tissue massages but gentle skin massages. Drs. Chopra and Simon emphasized that the skin is the most perfect pharmacy, giving us exactly what we need at the time and in the perfect doses we need it. When we emerged from these incredible sessions we were aglow and felt as if we were floating through the rest of the day! Whenever the massage was in the La Costa Spa we could stay to partake of the pool, waterfall, sauna, whirlpool, or whatever we wished to do at that gorgeous Spa. For lunch each day we enjoyed a hearty, beautifully presented, and tasty vegetarian delight. We “carnivores” never knew vegetarian eating could be so delicious and satisfying. We were served in the dining room of La Costa Resort, where we saw celebrities and famous sports participants who were at the resort for golf or tennis events. La Costa is known as one of the ten best Spa Resorts in the World. Afternoon lectures by Drs. Chopra and Simon are stimulating, inspiring, and deeply informative as you learn the basics of healthful living and connecting body, mind, and spirit for total healing and wholeness. We found it fascinating that Nature has packaged our foods in six primary tastes and seven colors, as if building in instructions for healthy eating. For perfect nutrition and perfect health we need food from each group daily. If you have that familiar experience of going into the kitchen and “grazing” to satisfy an undefined craving, it is because you have missed one of these flavors or colors and your body needs it. We learned that the best way to promote optimum health is to eat fresh foods and herbs prepared daily with love and eaten quietly, with appreciation. The Chopra Center teaching stresses that total healing cannot occur until one seeks connection with the Creative Source of the Universe…God. The reality of the One Creative Source, God, has now in Quantum physics been proved beyond scientific doubt. Nearly four centuries ago, the famous French scientist Rene Descartes asked the Catholic leaders for permission to dissect and study unclaimed bodies that were presented for burial in the pauper's grave. The Church reluctantly granted permission with the stipulation that whatever Descartes found within the body, he could never claim to find the soul or spirit…that was the realm of the Church, not Science. From that time forward the Divine was denied and abandoned by the scientific world, and Science was set on a separate course. However, in the mid 1900's Einstein set out to prove the existence of one Creative Force (God) by mathematical formula. He died before completing this work. It was not until the 1980's that two other scientists were able to prove the formula Einstein was developing and won the Nobel Prize for proving through Quantum Physics the reality of One Creative Source of the Universe and everything which has existed. So, for the first time in nearly four centuries, the pure scientist can make reference to “God.” Drs. Chopra and Simon have dedicated their practice and life to educating other physicians and patients about this reality in a thoroughly scientifically-grounded way by their teaching and their practice of Body-Mind, holistic medicine. They show how and why modern Western medicine is beginning to recognize ancient Wisdom and acknowledge that treating only the body will never create perfect health, and pills are just a cover up of symptoms, unable to address the root cause of an illness, which always begins with negative experiences and emotions absorbed at the cellular level. In addition to the therapies and teaching at The Chopra Center, Deepak and David have written numerous books and lecture worldwide in order to accomplish their monumental task, directed by Spirit, of creating wholeness in as many people as possible. Only when individuals are whole can the world community also heal, ending war, terrorism, and environmental abuse. Then Planet Earth will be able to return to wholeness. These two brilliant scientists and their staff of dedicated men and women have found their life fulfillment in helping raise the consciousness of a significant number of people on earth to create the "critical mass" necessary to change and save the entire earth and all its people. To learn more about The Chopra Center work and programs, to order books, herbal products Click Here. For Dr. Chopra's Questions and Answers and Daily Meditations, Click Here To Receive a free subscription to the Chopra Center Newsletter Nemaste, Click Here For information on the new global organization, Alliance for the New Humanity, for holistic healing of the Earth and its communities and promoting peace, Click Here To learn more about La Costa Resort & Spa, please click here: Subscribe FREE Real Travel Adventures Web Magazine Thanks for visiting us! Add to Bookmarks \ _____________________ Home Previous Page Next Page ________________________ If any links don't work PLEASE NOTIFY US.