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Perfect Health. Perfect Week.
By Marie Hanson

I arrived at La Costa Resort on a Sunday afternoon in full anticipation of beginning the Perfect Health program. I checked into my room – spacious and comfortable – with an outdoor patio looking into a blooming spring flowered courtyard with a fountain, the sound of the gentle waters soothing my slightly overworking mind. What would the week be like? Who else would be there? What was in store for me physically, emotionally . . . spiritually? I gulped in some air . . . breathed deeply, calming my monkey mind, and walked over to the Chopra Center.

The front desk staff of the Chopra Center never tired of greeting me all week and tending to my every need or question, and were always smiling. They are incomparable. Everyone I met (doctors, nurses, support staff, therapists, teachers) welcomed me, put me at ease, and assisted me in every way. I told everyone I was in Heaven. The staff, my guardian angels, were there ensuring my every need was met, oftentimes before I even know I had one.

The first morning our Perfect Health group of eleven women bravely embarked on a life-changing, turning-point experience. I watched these ten strangers laugh, cry, break bread, learn, teach, and share with one another deeply, undoubtedly under the influence of God. The power of healing was and continues to be nothing less than miraculous. We now call ourselves “The Women of Wonder” (WOW for short!) and continue to hold one another in love, light , and high esteem through email and phone support.

So if you are like me, and know there is a better way to live your life more fully and are courageous enough to go to Heaven for six days, go. Indulge yourself in the Love of the Chopra Center. I still enjoy sharing my memories with friends, telling them about the “arduous” schedule of body/mind treats: twice daily meditation, twice daily yoga, twice daily body work, twice daily classes. This program offers a fresh start, a tune-up or recommitment to how you are choosing to live your life. Perfect Health. Perfect Week. Perfect Life.

To learn more about the Perfect Health program, please call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information

Perfect Health Details

If you are coping with physical illness, emotional upset, chronic pain, job burnout, work-life imbalance, or relationship stress, the Perfect Health program will help you heal. For more than 15 years, thousands of Perfect Health guests from around the world have experienced profound healing at this transformational six-day program.

Developed by the Chopra Center’s co-founders, Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., Perfect Health is the only holistic healing program in the world that combines a renowned medical staff, the powerful detoxification and cleansing process known as panchakarma, and daily classes in meditation, ayurveda, and yoga.

Attendees in Dharma Room

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Each day you will receive nurturing mind-body healing therapies and authentic ayurvedic massage treatments, while the Chopra Center’s master educators guide you in the proven steps for restoring health and emotional freedom.

Whether you are at a crossroads in your life, facing a challenging illness, or struggling with a stressful situation, the Perfect Health program will help you release your stress and heal. After just a few days in our loving care, you will return home with a renewed sense of purpose, a toolkit of healing behaviors, and an empowered new perspective on your life.

The Perfect Health program takes place each week at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California, and is limited to 24 guests to ensure the most personal and intimate experience.

Early bird discounts are available!

To learn more about Perfect Health and mind-body wellness, please call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information

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What is the Perfect Health program?
Who can benefit from Perfect Health?
What happens at Perfect Health?
What is included?
Where can I stay?

Perfect Health

What is the Perfect Health program?
Perfect Health is a week-long healing process offered each week at the Chopra Center, located in the beautiful coastal town of Carlsbad, California. Deepak Chopra, M.D., and David Simon, M.D., created the Perfect Health program to help you experience relief from your physical pain and the emotional turbulence that often accompanies it.

The Perfect Health program is based on the principles presented in Dr. Chopra’s best-selling book Perfect Health, a practical guide to mind-body healing and the practices of ayurveda – the 5,000-year-old medical system that originated in India.

Each day at Perfect Health, you will experience a customized ayurvedic massage treatment in the loving hands of our Healing Arts Masters, as well as classes in Primordial Sound Meditation, ayurveda, stress management, and other mind-body healing practices. The day begins and ends with group meditations and sessions in the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga.

The cornerstone of the Perfect Health program is panchakarma, a powerful ayurvedic cleansing process that helps the body release accumulated toxins and stress. You will receive daily panchakarma therapies to restore your natural state of balance and calm. Each treatment is tailored to your unique mind-body constitution, using specific essential oils and natural herbs to purify and nurture you at the deepest cellular level.

Another vital aspect of the Perfect Health experience is a one-on-one mind-body consultation with a member of our medical staff, who will make specific recommendations and help you chart a course for creating balance and health in your daily life.

Who can benefit from Perfect Health?
The Perfect Health program provides immediate and long-term benefits to anyone seeking improved health and vitality, including those coping with:

 

  • Physical or emotional pain
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Chronic pain and fibromyalgia
  • Job burnout and career stress
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) or other digestive problems
  • Body image and weight issues
  • Cancer and chemotherapy
  • Grief and loss

What happens at the Perfect Health program?
Your Perfect Health experience begins on Monday morning with a welcome session where you will meet the Chopra Center educators and massage therapists who will be working with you throughout the week. You will experience your first ayurvedic massage treatment and begin the panchakarma cleansing process. Your first class will be an introduction to Primordial Sound Meditation, followed by a special one-on-one session where you will be given your personal mantra. The evening concludes with a group meditation practice and a gentle hatha-style yoga class that will bring you into a state of deep relaxation before you return to your room and drift off to sleep.

In the week that follows, each day begins and ends with sessions in the Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga (all levels) and a group meditation held in the serenity of our meditation room, which has absorbed the peaceful vibrations of thousands of meditators over the years. You will receive an individual schedule for your daily ayurvedic massage treatments and panchakarma therapy – as well as for your one-on-one mind-body medical consultation.

All instruction take place in the Chopra Center’s beautiful Dharma room, where you can make yourself comfortable in a seat, backjack, or nestled on the floor with an abundant supply of soft blankets. Fresh fruit, light snacks, and herbal tea are available throughout the day. In this relaxed group setting, our master certified instructors will teach you the fundamentals of living an ayurvedic lifestyle, including:

  • Identifying your mind-body constitution (dosha)
  • Healing yourself through the power of the five senses
  • Food as medicine and eating to balance your dosha
  • Emotional healing
  • A customized balancing routine
  • Training in the wisdom of natural herbs
  • Lessons in communicating effectively and compassionately
  • The keys to turning your intentions into good choices for health and wellbeing

The final day of the Perfect Health program is a devoted to rejuvenation and self-nourishment. At this point, you've released an enormous amount of physical and emotional toxicity, and are beginning the ayurvedic process known as rasayana – a Sanskrit term that means "that which nourishes." You will be pampered with a restorative Ayurvedic massage treatment and continue to replenish your body with herbs, natural foods, meditation, and yoga. Your Perfect Health experience concludes with a special closing ceremony and meditation.

What is included?
The Perfect Health program includes:

Whether you are at a crossroads in your life, facing a health challenge, or struggling with stress, the Perfect Health program will help you heal.

Where can I stay?
The Chopra Center has arranged preferred rates for our guests at La Costa Resort & Spa and at the Dream Hotel in New York City. In addition, we have relationships with other local area hotels that can offer you discounted stays. For a list of local accommodations, click here

To learn more about Perfect Health, please call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information

 

Perfect Health Comments

Perfect Health Guests

"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

 

"It has been 8 months now since I spent a week with the Chopra family in Carlsbad ― eight months of meditation, improved diet, some yoga (I start and stop), and a continuous increase of magic in my life. I may sometimes slip on the diet and exercise, but I do not compromise on the meditation. It is my salvation and part of the sacred manner in which I start and end each day. I wanted to thank you for your teachings and your support. I have come to accept those 'intrusive' thoughts as 'things I can come back to later' as I usher them along and reclaim the stillness. There is so much in that silent space, nothing and everything. Namaste."
—M.J.

"It helped me find the joy I lost this last year while ill."
—Shawn

"I was in physical and emotional pain when I came to the Chopra Center. I am leaving with a new sense of self, a new perspective on life, and a calm in my soul that I felt only as a child. Thank you."
—Karen G.

“I loved every second of this experience. This is the most healing time I’ve had in my adult life. God bless all of you!”
—Vikram J.

"I walked into the Chopra Center not knowing what to expect. My body was telling me I needed a change. After participating in the Perfect Health Program, I walked out a brand-new me ― mentally, physically, and spiritually. I continue my growth, daily. I highly recommend The Chopra Center to help guide those seeking a higher sense of wellbeing."
—Gerrie M.

To learn more about the Perfect Health program, please call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information

Perfect Health Dates & Locations

The Perfect Health program is offered exclusively at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California. If you have any questions about dates and availability, please call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information.

May

11–16
18–23
25–30

June

15–20
22–27
28–July 3 (Sunday – Friday)

July

13–18
20–25
27–Aug 1

August

3–8
10–15 (special Perfect Weight program)
17–22 (special Moving Beyond Chronic Pain program)
August 31–Sept 5
August 31–Sept 9 (special 10-day Panchakarma program)

September

14–19
21–26

October

5–10
12–17
19–24

November

2–7
9–14
23–28
30-Dec 5

December

7–12 (special Perfect Weight program)
14–19

Download program dates here

To learn more about the Perfect Health program, please call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information

Perfect Health Pricing

Six-Day Perfect Health Program
$2,675: 6-month advanced enrollment
$2,875: 90-day advanced enrollment
$3,075: 60-day advanced enrollment
$3,275: 30-day advanced enrollment
$3,575: Standard Tuition

Ten-Day Perfect Health Program
$4,775: 90-day advanced enrollment
$4,975: 60-day advanced enrollment
$5,175: 30-day advanced enrollment
$5,375: Standard Tuition

Ask about companion pricing. Registration includes daily ayurvedic spa treatments and two ayurvedic lunches. Transportation and accommodations are not included in the pricing above.

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Exclusively at The Chopra Center & Spa @ Dream, NYC:

3-day Perfect Health Rasayana
$1,775: Standard Tuition
Chopra Center & Spa @ Dream, NYC

Ask about companion savings and speak with a program consultant about adding a few days to extend your experience! Call us today― space is limited!

Call 888.736.6895 or click here to request more information

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