Dr. Chopra, for instance, is opening several Chopra Centers at spas and resorts around the country for spiritual and holistic healing.

(For information regarding The Chopra Center for Well Being, call 888-424-6772 or visit the Web site at www.chopra.com.)

Systems Health is offered through the Chopra Center with Deepak Chopra, a holistic health/New Age guru and perhaps the most famous of America's alternative medicine practitioners.

At the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, Calif., doctor appointments typically last an hour and a half, with physicians and patients talking about everything from sleep patterns to relationships to bowel movements.

For their part, officials at the Chopra Center in La Jolla view the decision to be a partner with Memorial as a natural extension of their work.

Candles are scented with jasmine and cardamom, as prescribed by the Chopra Center, to "arouse sexual energies."

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In 1996, Chopra and neurologist David Simon founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, which incorporated Ayurveda in its regimen.

This form of meditation is now taught at the Chopra Center and by certified instructors who receive their training through Chopra Center University.

Most of his trips have been organized by travel operators, but his latest tour to India is organized by the author's California-based Chopra Center for Well Being.