The Schooner Timberwind is a wonderful platform for

discovering the Chopra Center's Perfect Health Program. Developed by Doctors Deepak Chopra and David Simon. This program explores a new model of life which suggests that a human being is not a mere thinking machine, but rather a field of intelligence in constant exchange with the energy and information of its environment. It opens the whole world of Mind Body medicine and asks the question, "Who are you?"

rather than just, "What's wrong with you?"  In five sessions  we learn a new approach to gaining vibrant and joyful physical, mental, emotional and spiritual   well being.

     ~ Understand our unique mind body constitutions, the doshas and our current mind body state to help make conscious choices on our road to optimal health.

    ~ Nourish our mind and body by using food as medicine

    ~ Harmonize the natural rhythms and cycles of nature with our own internal rhythms to harness the energy and intelligence of the universe.

     ~ Use sound, touch, sight, taste and smell to balance, nourish and heal.

     ~ Process our experiences to heal our emotional body.

  Today, doctors are increasingly citing stress as a major contributing factor to most illnesses. Our bodies and minds react to it by shifting out of balance, which ultimately creates physical challenges and emotional turbulence that impact our lives at home, at work, and at play. In time, we can find ourselves in toxic relationships and non-nurishing patterns of eating, sleeping, and digestion. The PERFECT HEALTH program will help you identify the imbalances in your life, teach you how to correct them, and help you develop a nurturing daily routine. You will also learn to release emotions in a healthy way so that they don't build up in your physiology. Most importantly, as your stress is elimated, your mind and body begin to function with maximum effectiveness, creating health, vitality and happieness.

By practicing the techniques you learn in the Perfect Health program you will be able to: Reduce stress, Identify your mind-body personality, Improve your digestion and sleep patterns, Release emotional toxicity, Create optimal daily nutrition, and Lower your blood pressure.

 Perfect Health Cruise

The Chopra Center Ayurvedic LIfestyle Program is now offered aboard the Schooner Timberwind. In some form or another, we all seek Perfect Health - physically and emotionally. Chopra center co-founder and medical director, David Simon, M.D., has designed a beautiful five lesson course for achieving equilibrium of the mind and body. When our bodies and minds are in balance we can make nourishing choices, achieve the healing, and experience the change we seek.

Join us on a very special 6 day trip where we will explore the basic principles of Ayuyvedic, meditation, simple yoga, and our basic mind-body personalities, learn to choose the most nourishing food for you, experience rejuvenating techinques and acquire tools to practice conscious communication.

Live, eat, and breathe the Perfect Health Program for 6 days and 6 nights while you discover the possibilities for transformation. You will find all your meals prepared lovingly on a wood burning stove by Dawn Tassi, as well as a private cabin and your course materials.

Perfect Health Cruise information:

Board: Sunday, September 14, 2007 at 6pm

Return: Saturday, September 20, 2007, between 9am - 11am

Total cost (all inclusive):  $1,500 per person, a $500 deposit reserves your cabin

Your instructor:

  Dawn Tassi, RN -  Dawn is a registered nurse of fifteen years experience working with families, children and laboring women. She is a now a Chopra Center Certified Perfect Health instructor, passionate about bringing wellness to the whole family. In addition to her nursing career Dawn spends the summer months as a chef and co-owner of the Schooner Timberwind. For five years she has delighted in preparing healthy fresh food for passengers while immersing them in the magic of nature.

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Founders of the Chopra Center where Dawn recieved her training:

  Deepak Chopra - Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind-body-spirit medicine, Dr. Chopra continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health and healing. The author of more then 45 books in 25 languages with close to 30 million copies in print, Deepak is chanign the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness.

  David Simon - Dr. David Simon, a board certified neurologist is a pioneer in mind-body-spirit medicine. Since he co-founded The Chopra Center for Wellbeing with Deepak Chopra, M.D. in the early 1990's,  Dr. Simon has become on of the world's foremost authorities on the effective and appropriate use of holistic healthcare practices. He is also the author of several popular wellness books, and continues to develop programs dedicated to helping people consciously heal and transform their lives.