Chopra Center Overview
Fulfilling a lifelong dream of creating a center which focuses on enhancing health and nourishing the human spirit, Deepak Chopra, M.D. and David Simon M.D. opened The Chopra Center For Wellbeing in 1996 in San Diego. Since that time Deepak Chopra, David Simon, and the Chopra Center Staff call the San Diego Chopra Center home. Located in the midst of the world famous La Costa Resort & Spa, the Chopra Center is an ideal place to heal, recharge and re-connect with your soul.
The Chopra Center for Wellbeing brings together the talents of a number of professionals in the conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine fields. This expert team creates an environment that embodies the essence of healing, and under Dr. Simon's direction,
provides alternative medicine consultations, therapeutic body treatments, health workshops, meditation instruction, hospital program development, and corporate training courses. The emphasis at the Center is on providing guidance to help individuals promote their own longevity, human potential and success, while increasing personal balance, happiness, and fulfillment.
We love visitors. Browse the Center's bookstore, drop in for a yoga class, learn meditation, nurture yourself with an Ayurvedic spa treatment, explore your soul with a mind-body medical consultation or register for one of the Center's weekly healing programs such as Perfect Health or Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra.
The Chopra Center offers a variety of educational programs, spa treatments, and stress management techniques designed to nurture the body, mind and spirit.
Chopra Center Mission Statement
The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort and Spa boldly explores new frontiers in the expansion of human consciousness through programs, products, and services for the integration of mind, body, spirit and
environment in healthcare,education,business and personal development.
We believe by honoring creative transformation above all else we will create abundance for ourselves and our environment.
Our programs, products and services reflect the inspiration and creativity of our founders, Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon.
We pursue strategic alliances to expand current markets and create new opportunities.
We maintain a supportive work environment that fosters the creativity that makes us unique.
Organizational Purpose
We Believe there is meaning and purpose in life and all knowledge comes from within.
We also believe there is an intimate connection between mind, body and spirit as well as between the individual and the environment.
By understanding and using these connections each of us can bring greater health, happiness and well being into our lives.
We Are Committed to learning and sharing knowledge with people to help enhance their lives.
We demonstrate this commitment through our message, which is to heal, to love, to transform, and to serve.
To Heal we show others how to open their awareness to the infinite possibilities for understanding and renewal.
To Love we accept people as they are and provide them with inspiration and support as we share our knowledge and programs.
To Transform
we help others to experience the balance and integration of mind, body and spirit, and we provide support and guidance while they incorporate these principles into their daily lives.
We Share a vision of higher states of consciousness and embrace the path of enlightenment.
To Serve we approach each day with an open mind and an open heart and continually strive to better understand ourselves and others.
Chopra Center History
The Genesis
Formerly Chief of Staff at Boston Regional Medical Center, Dr. Chopra built a successful endocrinology practice in the 1980's. His teaching affiliations included Tufts University and Boston University Schools of Medicine. It was then that Dr. Chopra realized the potential in Western medicine for the establishment of a new life-giving paradigm, one that encompassed the fundamental principle that perfect health is more than just the absence of disease. He began to envision a medical system based upon the premise that health is a lively state of balance and integration of body, mind and spirit. Dr. Chopra began melding Western medicine with modern theories of quantum physics and the timeless wisdom of ancient cultures. Today Dr. Chopra is known worldwide for his published works including 35 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles published on every continent, and in dozens of languages.
A Dream Fulfilled
Dr. Chopra teamed up with Dr. David Simon, a renowned Ayurvedic physician and board-certified neurologist, in founding the first Chopra Center for Wellbeing in La Jolla, California in 1996. The Center fulfilled both doctors’ dream of creating a place that focused on enhancing health and nourishing the human spirit. The Center offered a wide variety of individual and group programs in body mind spirit medicine and personal development, integrating the best of Western medicine and natural Ayurvedic healing traditions to provide an innovative approach to health and the fulfillment of human potential.
A New Beginning
In May 2002, Drs. Chopra and Simon moved The Chopra Center for Wellbeing to the La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California, to provide a full retreat with exceptional accommodations and beautiful grounds for relaxation and meditation. Chopra Center guests also enjoy golf, tennis and Chopra Center cuisine at restaurants on the La Costa campus. Dr. Simon took the role of The Chopra Center’s medical director and CEO in 2004.
Other Chopra Center Locations
The Chopra Center will be expanding its presence nationally and internationally by opening sister Chopra Center & Spas, that will offer Ayurvedic body treatments, Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga and Primordial Sound Meditation instruction. In addition, Drs. Chopra and Simon will tour the centers, teaching a selection of the seminars taught at the main Center at La Costa Resort & Spa.
New York at Dream Hotel opened in November 2005. The new facility features a deluxe spa with Chopra Center signature Ayurvedic treatments coupled with deluxe accommodations in the heart of New York City. Another Chopra Center in development is the Rocky Mountain Chopra
Center at the Westin Hotel in Westminster Colorado. Talks are also underway for additional Chopra Centers in London and Northern California.
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