[Panchakarma]  Wow... I guess I would sum it up as I arrived here as a caterpillar and through your care and knowledge and kindness, I'm leaving as a butterfly.  Thank you for setting the real woman inside me free!   I DO feel rejuvenated!!  Logistically though - I'm really happy that you have all the details worked out:  food delivery, LookOut Inn, schedule, supplies for treatments, printed instructions, etc.  That all made the experience stress-free.  ~ J.W., Panchakarma Patient, May 2009

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I am really impressed with the teamwork at LifeSpa:  the all-around friendliness and loving caring, the grounded calm treatments, and efficient use of the space at LifeSpa. ~ C.S., Panchakarma Patient, May 2009

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After reading about LifeSpa's Panchakarma in Yoga Journal I was clear it was something I would do as soon as possible.  I had high expectations, and those expectations were met in all ways, and exceeded in others.  The commitment to the integrity and discipline of the PK practice was evident in every step of the process, starting from the inquiry, registration and treatment process.  The commitment level of the "practitioners (for lack of another word) was evident, whether it was in their uniformed, consistent delivery of the treatment or their amazing heartfelt care demonstrated on all levels, most notably through the loving power of their touch. 

I was particularly happy to work with Dr. Douillard and to hear a number of times of instances where he chose integrity of the process vs. mass appeal.  In today's world of mass "enlightenment", knowing that a leader / teacher / guide is absolutely committed to maintaining the integrity of the process is refreshing.

I loved being cared for by the staff … on all levels.  The acceptance, no matter how seemingly trivial or mundane my requests, they served me with the utmost care and attention. 

On a more general note I want to thank each and every one of you for the great experience.  I am sitting on the plane - a rather bumpy ride I might add - and I remain relaxed and grounded.  I also notice the tension in my stomach wondering what this re-entry will be like.  But, I have a newfound acceptance for what is … built on a stronger sense of awareness.  Thank you for how you support me and others to be … whole.  What a gift!

~ T.B., Panchakarma Patient, April 2009

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My panchakarma at LifeSpa allowed me to quiet myself and dive in.  My body and soul have been cleansed.  :-)  I had some treatments that truly helped me with some issues I have been experiencing - especially with my sinuses.  I am very peaceful and refreshed. 

The therapists were amazing!  They truly cared about me and wanted to make sure I got the most from my treatments.  They connected with me and cared about my well-being.  The individual time with Dr. Douillard was so helpful.  He is so compassionate and down to earth.  He really helped me to understand some concepts I was struggling with.  Tauna and Jessica were awesome at answering questions!  So pleasant! 

Bless your whole team!  What a gift this has been for me!
~A.C., Panchakarma Patient, March 2009

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[Panchakarma] Deep self-nurturing with self-inquiry and reaching a state of cellular quiet are not usual activities of our daily life, and it is with profound gratitude and compassion that I gave myself this opportunity for healing my body, mind and emotions through panchakarma.  Far more than a luxury, this time of healing work was intensely mindful, lovingly given and received, and cleared my cells of damaging unneeded and un-usueful toxins.  I have an enormous opportunity now to carry this new way of thinking and behaving towards myself into fruition.  I can now build on a strong foundation.

The solitude... the mindful activities on my mat and at LifeSpa.  The treatments were amazing and sacred time for me.  I loved the oils!! And I like the effect I am feeling from this work - calmer, clearer, stronger, more confident in my ability to stay well and connected to my higher self.  I've felt the closest to my natural state on a cellular level than ever before.  Thank you very much.  Me ke aloha.

I had everything I needed and more at the LookOut Inn.  Caretakers were friendly, courteous, helpful and respectful of the healing work I was doing.  The room was fabulous and helped bring me deeper into my experience with the comfort, magic and warmth of a fireplace.  The staff at LifeSpa were beautiful light beings, competent and deeply respectful of their clients and their work environment.  I felt cared about and blessed.

~RSC, Panchakarma Patient, March 2009

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I am a yoga teacher specifically for athletes.  I read your book [Body, Mind, and Sport], it took me 9 months to read it because I did not want to miss a word.....it is brilliant.  I have employed many of your principals into my teaching.  I tell every athlete I work with to read your book and encourage them to read my summary.  I currently work with 5 professional teams in the New York area..."

Best, G.L., February 2009

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[Panchakarma] So amazingly healing! This work of Dr. John’s I have been following since ’97.  As a PhD psychologist it is rare that this kind of work opens the emotional heart of matters and allows the depth and courage to let go of places the spirit is stuck.  Dr. John is so able to contain the emotions and work with the fear of matters in a divine and masterful way.  He is therapist, friend, coach, and wise warrior spirit guide.  He assisted me in making a shift on the soul level I have been working on since I was 14.

I loved the fact that the emotional heart stuff is addressed and that Dr. John is comfortable and embraces this aspect and that the staff is able to embrace the emotional depth as well.  The encouragement of silence even at the center.  The safe sacred space you all create.  The loving presence of all here.  Diann was an absolute angel of light.

~M.S., Panchakarma  Patient, February 2009

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[Panchakarma] Pretty amazing and intense.  Easy, effortless yet one of the difficult weeks I have ever experienced.  I feel clean - body and thoughts.  Clarity is bliss.  Breath is clean.  What an unexpected journey.  Unpredictable and real yet familiar and satisfying.  I liked the concern and kindness of the staff, the quiet and gentleness of all the treatments, and learning and doing yoga - never enjoyed it before this week.

~D.S., Panchakarma Patient, January 2009

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[Panchakarma] From my 1st phone call to Tauna to my last meeting with John, everyone was helpful, kind, skilled and welcoming.  It was an experience that has changed me for the best...  This was the answer I had been searching for.  I finally feel I am on the right path.  Thank you!  I liked most John's amazing ability to say exactly what I needed to hear and Time with myself.  I usually am always doing something and never am alone with me.  It was insightful and I think I like her!"
~MEA, December 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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"I'm a personal trainer and graduate student at Harvard University who has applied your Body, Mind and Sport principles to my own training over the past three years. I have found them very helpful in my recovery from pneumonia -- for example, three years ago I could accomplish only one set of leg extensions with 30 pounds; I now regularly do reps on the squat press with 500+ and am minimally fatigued the next day."
~  J.L., December 2008, Customer

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[Panchakarma] Amazing! Magical! Fantastic!  I only wish that my life journey had taken me here sooner.  I found the whole experience profoundly moving and transformative, with elements I can take with me for everyday life.  Such peace, such clarity, such love fills my body to overflowing!  Thank you for such an inspiring experience. 

I liked the opportunity to explore my inner self in a peaceful environment, the luxurious treatments and all of the wonderful helpful and loving staff.

~ GVR, December 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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[Panchakarma]   "My Dear One,  Thank you deeply for caring for me....  This week gave way for many blossoms to open... some still in a bud quietly waiting, some well on their way, and a few wide open gloriously shouting their new song!
I leave LifeSpa and the Warriors of Love with a deep know Spirit constantly invites me to be me!
I am filled with gratitude for the help and support in accepting those divine invitations.
With love and a cup of laughter," ~ S.K., November, 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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Dear John,

As I sit in peace to thank you for a transformational week of Panchakarma I must also comment on your stupendous chiropractic/body work technique of A.R.T.  A stream of energy has opened up and I felt release in my neck, shoulders and hips.  My head has more mobility and clarity.  So you can be assured I'll be taking full advantage of releasing these jaw muscles which I know house much of my emotional pain. 

Panchakarma has opened many doors into my own personal growth and into my life as a health counselor.  I will continue to practice the life of Ayurveda ... I appreciate your wisdom and extreme patience you bring to your practice.  I feel your sincerity to share your journey with everyone you encounter.  So best wishes to you John and many thanks for your healing gift to this world.  Your gift is creating an infinite ripple effect! 

~Lots of Love, Lynda,

October 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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I did the Ayurveda Weight Loss program and Detox program from your [Gaiam Ayurveda for Weight Loss] DVD and my weight has gone down from 115lbs to 104.2lbs. I am in the phase 3 which is fast from lunch time to the next morning. I started on August 29, 2008…”

~T.S. Sept 21, 2008

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Tauna, Stacy & Office Staff, Thank you for all the calls, emails, materials, etc.  As an admin person, I know you are the backbone that supports everything - and you do it was sweet spirits.  It is appreciated!  many Blessings, VK, September 2008, Panchakarma Patient

[Panchakarma] Calming to mind, body and spirit.  All the staff were friendly, competent and caring.  Attention to detail was appreciated.  Good amount of downtime for contemplation, journaling, yoga, breathing and meditation.  As well as not having to wait in between treatments.  I liked the feeling of being emptied and filled at the same time.  I feel terrific!  Looking forward to seeing the benefits of these days take hold and grow in wellness for my mind, body and spirit.

Much appreciation, V.W., September 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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 After reading John's paper The Psycho-Physiology of Stress I could see John knew what he was talking about but really I'd heard some of it before and as good as it all sounded didn't believe any of it was really possible for me to experience.  I mean come on - "eliminate stress from one's life, free the body of disease, put the Supreme Self in the driver's seat and hand over the reins, Feel you can use your life for what it was intended, Self Realization...."  Yeah, right!  Heard that before.  What seemed impossible to me on Day One become a living reality for me by Day 7.

The Self Inquiry for me was the missing piece.  I understand it is the combination of all the parts of the program that brings about this amazing shift within but they were as if setting the state for this very simple noticing of the truth of myself, my T4rue Nature, became clear to me.  The Self Inquiry along with John's laser like focus that guided and supported me in this dawning.  Diann was amazing in this regard as well.  I feel like I've come out of some dream that was so limited and constricted and feel so completely different and actually ready to embrace life again. 

Thank you from my heart for this extraordinary journey home to myself! 

I very much appreciated the silence in the treatment room.  It seemed to give permission I was needing to really let go and Be Still.  The team is wonderfully respectful and in sync with the transformative process that is occurring, putting so much attention and caring into every action they perform of the procedures. 

Ayurveda is for me a powerful and complete program and offers what I have been longing for myself but did not know that it actually works!  John's particular packaging of this ancient knowledge suits my time and culture and feels like he has brought something ancient and true forward for us now; in the way it was originally intended to be practiced.

~E.L., Panchakarma Patient, September 2008

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Hi John,

My friends loved your talk and are asking me all kinds of questions.   One has already stopped snacking and is eating a big lunch not at her 

computer.   Just from one 2 hour class and your keynote talk.   I  think people are really interested in Ayurvedic ways, I know I am.   It is common sense that we never had.   Thank-you for your knowledge  and easy delivery of this information.  When information is spoken from the heart it is fun to listen to and retain.

~ Cynthia

June 2008, Kripalu Student 

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Thank you so much for creating those new videos [GAIAM DVDs on Detox, Stress Relief and Weight Loss] !!!  I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner in Southern California.  I am creating a website.  I am going to give your videos as a set for a wedding present.  I think they are so perfect for people who don't know about Ayurveda and for people who have some knowledge.   Thanks again, ~ C.M., Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, June 2008

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Dear Dr. Douillard, I read with great interest your ‘perfect health for kids’ (have a baby of 9 months) as well as your ‘body, mind and sport’.  It is the first time I see ayurveda presented to the western audience in such a clear, inviting and compassionate way. It was a wonderful read! Thanks a lot. Sincerely, ~ N.M. , July 2008

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John,  I picked up your book [The 3-Season Diet] at Kripalu 3 weeks ago and have been working with the concept in 3 seasons of eating bigger lunches, with lots of veggies/protein/fruit, smaller dinners, etc....I've never felt so good! I have way more energy, ability to concentrate, no sugar crash at 4:00pm...I LOVE IT…!  ...thanks a million for writing that book! Changed my life....  Best regards, M., May 2008

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Thank you, John!  Guess what? I went to my NP and got tested. I said test me again because I feel like the virus has served its purpose and now I can release it. Four days later I called for the results and everything was NEGATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She had never seen that before and doesn't know how to explain it. Have you had that happen before?  I was f@#%ing ecstatic! I feel like a born again woman. I had done rain drop therapy and visualization from Adam the Dreamhealer but I don't think it was until after the panchakarma and herbs when my energy came back (oh yeah, it's come back full force and I am again so f#$%ing excited!) that I felt my body had performed a miracle. :) Sure enough it has. So thank you and your staff so much. 

With all of the hope that has been instilled in me, I would like to share it. I am calling Tauna to make an appointment for a three way phone consult with one of my clients….  Let's see what we can do for her! I did Bikram yoga tonight and kept thinking how right it is for me to study Ayurveda. I desire strongly to get studying!!!

Thanks and Love, Sara

February 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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Namaste John,

I miss you all already! I am flying to Florida this morning for another of our Teacher Training weekends. I feel good, and I lost 3 pounds during the Panchakarma, so we have about 22 more to go. Still releasing some mucus and feeling like apana-girl, but it all is good.

Really, I want to say thank you. I feel like I have been looking for this deep work for quite some time, and I am very happy to have found it with you. I feel so internally quiet, and it is different than the quiet of my regular meditation or my meditations with Ma. It feels like cellular quiet, like my body is being addressed in a sacred way that had been missing before.

So thank you. Truly, deeply, fully, thank you.

Sadaka pitta, sadaka pitta, sadaka pitta, my new mantra. You have my heart. Love, Jaya

February 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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Dear John,

This week of Panchakarma has been an incredible week!

All the years of practicing yoga and meditation has surfaced a lot of “stuff” that has already been dissolved from the power of the silence and the power of Love.  Thus, it seems that more focus was given to listening to be shown how ego has operated and kept me stuck.  Having this time with no demands, no stress – just to quietly observe my thoughts has been so helpful.  It has brought to a greater awareness the insidious monkey mind.  How it keeps us captured and will go in any direction to win our attention.

I needed this time to myself to tend to myself in humble surrender.  Much has come to the surface to be considered and released at every level of my being.  Yes, the heart has been opened more fully.  Compassion flows for a world held in the prison of their own minds.  With compassion there is understanding and with understanding, there is Love

My heart is filled and overflowing with gratitude for this experience.  I feel better than I’ve felt for years.  I feel cleansed from the inside out and from head to toe.

It has left me empty to be filled with all that the Spiritual Universe offers so abundantly every moment.

Having the time with you was important to fully experience the PK.  Every moment together was a precious gift filled with knowledge and an expansion of awareness.  You added a depth of Consciousness to complete the PK experience.

I leave with a physical sensation of an opened heart space, knowing a world of dualistic thinking awaits me for the challenge.  But the ”reins have been passed to the driver of the chariot.”  The relationship with the Supreme Self has been nurtured and deepened – ready to stand firm in knowing the Truth and the power of a still Mind.

So thank you dear friend.  You are an amazing gift to the world.  In the understanding of Oneness we know that a step of transformation for one individual touches all mankind and lifts the collective awareness of all.

With much love and gratitude, Namaste, Susan
February 2008,  Panchakarma Patient

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Dear Dr John –

Thank you for the wonderful class at Mount Madonna Institute last weekend.  I think you really helped a lot of us pull together some theoretical, intellectual bits of data into a coherent, heart-felt whole.  The weekend certainly affirmed my decision to leave my safe, techno-nerd job and move onto the path that my heart told me was my destiny.

Once again, thank you for being such a caring teacher and thoroughly wonderful human being.  Looking forward to our next meeting.

Peace & happiness,  Amy

November 2007, Student

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Dear John,

I took your Anxiety and Depression class the other day at the Yoga Journal Conference.  I just have to thank you.  It was such an enjoyable day, and I LOVE your approach to diet. 

I have a deep interest in nutrition, and I have always struggled with the rigidity of even the doshic specific diet (especially since I am dealing with different Doshas in my family).  I have bought your book [The 3-Season Diet] and it makes so much sense to me.  It explains why I don’t like to eat salads in the winter and crave warmer, heavier foods.  I am all about living as nature intended, and I feel that your 3-Season Diet is perfectly logically and achievable.  

On another note, I am seriously thinking about becoming an Ayurvedic practitioner.  I hope to have the opportunity to study and learn from you some day.   

Have a wonderful day, Shelley

September 2007, Attendee at Yoga Journal Conference

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John –

I just wanted to thank you again for an amazing week of Panchakarma. It was everything I wanted and more - I don't know how it could have been any better.

Being around you is truly inspirational and I have a much deeper appreciation of Ayurveda just from this brief experience. I also really appreciate your heartfelt insights throughout the week. What you said about my heart after reading my pulse was dead on - I was taken aback - your depth in insight as well as knowledge is truly fantastic. Thank you also for allowing me to sit in on your conference call and other recordings.

It was a real treat for me to get a chance to deepen my understanding of   Ayurveda and learn more of what you're about.

Sandra

April 2007, Panchakarma Patient

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Hey John,

I just wanted to say it was good to see you and that it was a great class. It was the best pulse assessment class I have had and I have had a number of them from various teachers. I am still not sure of how much more you get from pulse versus intake or accuracy of a diagnosis separate from intake, but you have provided me with more depth in the pulse than I previously had.

I also really appreciate your counsel to people about allowing oneself to be taken advantage of. This is also one of my mantras as well; not to the level of being a sucker for punishment but to be extremely tolerant and self-sacrificing to those we love. Not a lot of people express such ideas so I wanted to thank you for this as well.

I wish you well in your family and work. Hopefully, our paths will cross sooner than later.

In the meantime, stay well and have a great holiday season - Roy

November 2007, Student

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Thank you John...

I was at INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION school this past weekend where you spoke. I was enormously inspired by your talk, seasonal way of eating and Ayurveda dosha discussion. I can’t wait to learn more. I am devouring the 3 seasons book and intend to have a consultation with you.

Thank you for coming to IIN!!  Peg

December 2007, Student

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Thanks John,

 Thanks, too, for your great health care and advice, I feel like 2008 will be a healthier year for me because of the great Panchakarma.

Many blessings to you and your family for the Holidays.

Nancy

December 2007, Panchakarma Patient

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Hi John:

I hope this finds you well.

First, of course, I wanted to send gratitude your way for my moving week with you and your team.   It was what I needed and wanted and I've returned to NY with refreshed energy, a deeper sense of how I want to move through the world, and clearer and more balanced focus for what's at hand.   I'm committed to doing panchakarma every year!

I've integrated a morning practice of meditation and self massage that's wonderful….  I've actually shed some pounds effortlessly by not eating after 7 at night and scaling back to 2 meals a day.

Warmly, Park

October 2007, Panchakarma Patient

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To the ladies that assisted me! 

I didn’t feel the need to write people’s names down or document everything; which is a first!  So please forgive the fact that I don’t reference you by name.  I believe it was Christina I talked to the first time; but I am not sure who it was the second. Hello again!  I was one of the people who reported pills being broken upon receipt. I just wanted to write you to show my appreciation for the professionalism of the company and the overall respect that flowed towards another human being who had a life mishap occur.

Thank you for your gift that I just rec’d in the mail!!  I will definitely will be able to make a sound judgment with at least two months supply to try  :)  I also appreciate the ‘little happies’ [skin care samples] I found in the boxes with each shipment!  They are a good way for me to try something before I buy it and very unexpected!  I am very impressed on the way they make my face feel.  I am sure I will be ordering something else soon. 

I am reading Dr. Doulliard’s The 3 Season Diet book and I am just soaking it in; I plan on attending his conference in March.  I moved here to learn more about Ayurveda to help myself and am very excited about trying the Anxiety-Free pill!  I also see panchakarma in my near future!  :)  I am very interested in the philosophy and mindset that Ayurveda brings to light in each person individually.  Because of that, I definitely will return again for guidance through this life process I have begun.  And I will also recommend your establishment and educational avenues to anyone that will listen and accept it for what it is the Science of Life.

~Namaste~ Rachel

January 2008, Customer

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Dear John,

Thank you so much for your wonderful classes last weekend at Mount Madonna Institute.  Your approach to pulse assessment was inspiring, and you have an amazing knack for covering a lot of information clearly as well as applying it.  The stories you told really made the material real, and digestible. You really hit the nail on the head and opened the hearts and minds of the students who were able to experience a deeper level of connection to themselves, others, and to Ayurveda. 

Your spirituality, love of Ayurveda and deep sense of connection and truth communicated clearly to our students. They were blessed to be taught by you.

I look forward to your next time.

Warmly, Cynthia

November 2007, Student

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Dear Dr. Douillard,

You have been in my thoughts and prayers every single day, every time I use my fingers, I remember how much you helped me, and I pray for you and ask God to bless you.

The trigger (little) finger that you fixed is doing well. I have had "no worth" mentioning problem with it although I have to be careful. The other two coming after it -- that had started the trigger finger business when you saw me, are  better, sometimes nonexistent. Maybe only in the morning are they really trigger fingers. So I am doing ok.

So just wanted to thank you again and tell you how much my son, Ali, and I appreciate what you have done for me.

Best wishes to you and your family, and we will be seeing you sometime soon -- who knows?!!

Maryam

August 2003, Chiropractic and Ayurveda Patient

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Dr. Douillard,

I was in the KSA 2 class … and you have been a real inspiration to me.  I hear your words every time I do my own workshops and respectfully quote your beautiful analogies.  Your books have helped so many of my friends and family.

Thank you for your generous heart, Surinda.

January 2008, Attendee at Kripalu

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Dear John,

I'm personally, and many students at IIN, want to thank you of your informative and interest provoking lecture at IIN this past weekend. I was not very familiar with Ajurvedic Medicine and now feel I would like to learn more.

I have been battling the emotional and physical effects of being at the sight of "9/11" Tragedy and still work in the World Trade Center area.  I want to explore your teachings and these ancient, but gentle therapies.

Just looking into your face I felt calmness, gentleness, goodness and saw the "healing power" in you that is  just radiating from you...  I used to work in the field Allopathic Medicine and that is how I learned not to trust them absolutely!  Too many mistakes are done by doctors and medical professionals who think of themselves as; "God's gift to earth." - They only treat the symptoms and not the cause of diseases .

Wishing you and your family good health, happiness, and long life to spread the joy to all mankind!

Warm Regards, Judith

January 2007, Student at Integrative Institute of Nutrition

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Hi John,

I just wanted to say thanks for the opportunity to observe your practice this week.  I look

forward to working with you in the future.  I believe you are a gifted teacher and physician with a special purpose in Ayurveda. 

Bart

January 2008, Intern at LifeSpa

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I am currently living in New York City and am attending IIN.  I saw you speak some weeks ago, where you made a huge, beautiful impression on our class as a whole.  Hands down, your talk  has been one of the best we have had so far in the school, and I have  many who agree with me on that.  I read The 3 Season Diet, and have started to apply ayurvedic principles to many of my daily habits.   Through this, I am finding new sources of calm, power and stability in my life.  The steady blood sugar levels and steady stream of energy has filtered through all aspects of living, and I honestly feel wonderful.

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 Hey John!, 

 Just got back from IIN week end in Manhattan.  I have been using Ayervedic herbs, botanicals for over 20 yrs but never understood how the 'types'/ foods to eat blended until your spellbinding lecture !

I want to live with you :-)  I could help with the kids( I'm a mom of seven and have 14 'grands')  -well, maybe not that extreme but sure wish I could just hop over to your spa.  You made up for the previous day's R.D.'s typical hospital/ FDA / AMA "healthy diets" lecture. I have been an RN for 50 yrs  What has been and continues to be the most deficient, dead food diets on the planet ?- of course, hospital "food". She conveniently avoided discussing "pure looking" (deadly) seed oils that are the inflammation starters, grains that must be SOAKED  to lessen phytic acid, and aspartame and its ilk that we can't condemn- "jury still out" nonsense. 

Could you feel our excitement hearing such vital, courageous, loving, life-affirming, information presented by a healthy, happy specimen of real abundant life? The highest praise is measured by the length of lines to BR after discussion over. No one wanted to miss a minute. Like kids squirming when deep into something exciting and fun- "don't move anything till I get back "

Congratulations to a fellow 'parent of many'.  Read your book last night till eyes rebelled- not the Ayurveda way but I have no discipline when I am on info overload—bring it on.  Thanks for filling in my blanks and affirming why I have always loved  that way of life and gentle healing.   

"Warmly," - I am a fire sign :-)  Angela 

December 2007, Student at Integrative Institute of Nutrition

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Hi -

I met Dr. Douillard at the Yoga Journal Conference in Estes Park, Colorado a few weeks ago. I took his class on Ayurveda and Exercise. At the end of the class I told him that I was preparing for a 10 mile race and was having so much trouble breathing and that his technique changed my whole outlook. I'm writing to tell him the results of my race.

Though I hadn't trained for the race (since I got so discouraged with my training - I'm not a runner at all), I decided to use the race to experiment with the breathing described in Body, Mind and Sport. The first 4 miles I did a run/walk with this method and kept a good 12 minute mile pace! I was amazed. I never once needed my inhaler. Back in June I attempted a 5k, only to be winded and asthmatic by the end. So this was a huge improvement!

I finished the 10 mile race, compromised by blisters on my feet, but never by my lung capacity. I'm a big fan of the closed mouth breathing technique and I wanted to express my thanks to Dr Douillard. I'm looking forward to actually enjoying a running practice in the future!

Sincerely, Alison

October 2007, Attendee at Yoga Journal Conference and reader of Body, Mind and Sport.

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Dear Diann, Cathy, Sarah and Linda [Panchakarma Therapists],

Thank you for the tremendous amount of love, support and peace you offered me this week.  I am so impressed by the work you do and the great balance of professionalism and compassion that you bring to it.  You are true healers.  I feel blessed to have found myself in your hands.

With appreciation and Love, Amy
February 2008, Panchakarma Patient

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just wanted to pass a message on to john.  i listened to his lecture a year ago in NYC at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. he was by far the most interesting speaker.  he introduced me to ayurvedic medicine and i'm so eager to learn more.

i listened to his cd's of his lecture (3) over and over.

just wanted to thank him and tell him how he has inspired me.  hopefully someday i'll visit his clinic.

warmly~andrea

February 2008, Student at Integrative Institute of Nutrition

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Hi Dr. Douillard,

Thank you sooo much for recommending the Turmeric Plus and the Cold-Cough remedies.  They’re working!!!  As an educator on the Oregon coast for 7 years, this is the first fall/winter I haven’t been sick and the 1^st time in 2 years that I haven’t had symptoms of asthma or needed an inhaler.  Hallelujah!

The only other thing I’ve been taking is a daily dose of bee pollen.  My immune system seems strong, in spite of the rainy grey weather.

Hope to see you in Colorado next summer.

Blessings and Peace, Lily
January 2008, Patient

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"So, I finally met with my first post-internship client a few days ago and it went great!  She has been a regular client of mine for the last year and this time the consultation was so much more connected.  I felt like what was going on with her was so much more clear than ever before and I knew how to address it!  It was so exciting for me.  I didn't think I would, but I actually drew the "picture" for her and she understood better than ever what her body was telling her. 

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It was such a pleasure getting to know you better as a teacher, doctor, and as a human being.  Mostly I am writing to tell you that I am so grateful for you as my teacher and for the opportunity of the internship.

It has made such a difference in how I understand ayurveda and apply it and I feel like it is enabling me to more effectively apply the knowledge I gained in school (without dogma).  I feel that this experience has been invaluable to me and am interested in more training as I feel that there is so much more to be learned and experienced with your approach to ayurveda."

Thank you, John, for all of your loving support, guidance, and compassion.

 R.F., Intern -June 2007

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"I came to see you in September 2006 seeking ayurvedic treatment. I was experiencing a relapse of severe chronic ulcerative colitis that has been troubling me since 1981. Previous ayurvedic treatments with numerous herbs had helped but did not completely resolve the problem. There have been frequent relapses. It is only five months since I began to be under your care. With very few herbs, my health has recovered to a point that I feel I have never enjoyed as far back as I can remember in my adult life. I honestly do not know how to thank you." 

  Feb. 2007

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"Having had 15 years in the health and fitness industry in Australia, specializing in exercise performance and massage, it seemed natural to be journeying to LifeSpa to learn and experience Ayurveda integrated with modern lifestyle and practiced with incredible insight, care and professionalism. LifeSpa had everything I needed - Panchakarma with Kate, Cathy and Rebecca; Ayurvedic consultations with Dr. Douillard; courses in Ayurvedic massage and exercise; practical and very effective teachings in Dr. Douillard's books and tapes; and the highest quality herb and skin care range. Thank you to all at LifeSpa for such a powerfully fulfilling experience in the eye of the hurricane. It has taken me to a whole new level of understanding, and my intention is to uphold these high standards in my life and practice."

Nov. 2004

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"I just want to take a moment to thank you for the very enlightening seminar you gave to our team. I could really tell that the players were impressed and motivated by you, and the subject of reducing the stress of athletics. As you know, your breathing techniques may be one of the most important that I have come across in a long time. By adjusting the breathing of my athletes, I can reduce fatigue and stress, and increase athletic performance. Your input with a professional team can certainly give that edge that everyone looks for."
Assistant Coach, NJ Nets, Mar. 2001