In 1990, he proved that, using certain breathing techniques while doing vigorous exercise, you could achieve the same nervous-system and brain-wave calm found in deep meditation. Breathing is the key. We only use about 20% of our respiratory potential and about 10% of our brain power. He calls his simple formula the Hurricane Effect. The bigger the eye of the hurricane, the bigger the calm in the center. The more powerful the winds, the more productive we can be. In other words, stress is found in the winds of the hurricane, where most people live. John Douillard believes he can teach how to live and breath in the eye of the hurricane, how to establish a nervous-system calm in even the most stressful situations. Situations that normally push us over the edge can be shaken off like water off a duck's back.
He believes his ideas are also proved in the research lab that never changes: Mother Nature. Using an annual cycle, She's been feeding us for tens of thousands of years. It takes a year to meet our nutritional needs. We naturally store protein and fat in the winter, cleanse ourselves with low-fat foods in the spring, and get high-carbohydrate fruits and vegetables in the summer.
Exercise can become something that makes us feel good while doing it and even better afterwards. If it feels good, we'll do it. We get the best results when we go with the flow of nature. You can lose weight and eat more real food by listening to nature's intelligence that waits silently inside you.
He will take us step by step through a routine of life, including diet
and exercise, based on an Ayurvedic health map, but translated into an
American way of life. He will use this same formula to show how natural
it is to live in the eye of the hurricane and how to take this calm into
any situation or activity. This natural way of life could be the most important
spiritual and health tools you will encounter.
John Douillard is a chiropractor, a Ph.D., an Ayurvedic physician trained in India, one of the foremost experts in Ayurveda in North America, and the first to integrate this ancient knowledge with modern approaches to exercise and fitness. He has given over 35,000 Ayurvedic consultations, certified over 2000 medical doctors in Ayurvedic medicine. A former professional triathlete, he co-directed Deepak Chopra's Ayurvedic center for eight years, recorded a six-cassette audio course called Invincible Athletics-Awakening the Athlete in Everyone and wrote Body, Mind, and Sport, which has sold 40,000 copies in seven languages, and The 3-Season Diet. He has been director of player development for the New Jersey Nets and consultant to many of the worlds top Olympic and chanpionship athletes. We are honored to welcome his return to Rowe.
"I have been on John Douillard's program for eight months now, and never have I felt better. I still work hard, but I let my body dictate the pace. As a result, I feel good, look good, and everything about me is balanced-the emotional, mental, and physical are working in balance." - Martina Navratilova
"Dr. John Douillard's teachings can change your life as they have done-for me and thousands of others-of all ages!" - Billie Jean King