Oprah Winfrey & Deepak Chopra Launch 10th Meditation Experience

Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra have announced the tenth, and newest, "Oprah & Deepak 21-Day Meditation Experience" titled "Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit," open for registration today at Oprah.com/meditation. Embracing the themes of personal fulfillment, restoration, recovery and healing, this all-new, free, 21-Day Meditation Experience, beginning on Monday, March 21, will help participants transform the way they look and feel about themselves. Simultaneously, it aims to help alleviate stress and revitalize from within. From body image and weight loss to relationships and emotional and spiritual well being, this experience will rebalance the attitudes, habits and beliefs that hold us back and create the space for new perspectives that lead to holistic, positive change.

This meditation experience launches on the heels of Oprah's groundbreaking partnership with Weight Watchers to inspire people to lead healthier and more fulfilling lives.

"I have learned that weight can affect more than just our physical being, it takes on all kinds of different meaning in our lives," said Oprah Winfrey. "This meditation will help us recognize what we are really hungry for and help us move down the path to harmony within ourselves."

"Our 21-Day Meditation Experience is not only about shedding physical weight but also emotional baggage," said Deepak Chopra. "People put food in their bodies frequently when they really need to nourish themselves emotionally and spiritually. It is my BELIEF that this Meditation Experience will make people feel lighter at all levels: body, mind, and spirit."

"Shedding the Weight: Mind, Body and Spirit," led by Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra, offers a 20-minute audio meditation each day and a series of thought-provoking reflection questions designed to anchor the teachings with a centering thought and mantra. Through a private, interactive journal feature, meditators are able to record and view their progress, giving them an invaluable picture of their personal growth and development. The meditations are easily accessible from a tablet, computer, or the mobile companion app available in iTunes or Google Play.

Originally launched in 2013, the "Oprah & Deepak 21-Day Meditation Experience" now features a catalogue of ten different programs with over 5.1 million participants from over 200 hundred countries around the globe.

Below is an overview of what participants can expect throughout this experience:

Week One: Discovering What Hunger Means - Better Ways to Be Fulfilled
Week One will focus on expanding your awareness of unmet needs and the burdens that need to be shed. Through meditation, we'll allow the mind-body system to restore itself to balance automatically.
Shedding any kind of weight, physical or mental, is not possible without knowing where it came from. Self-awareness is the key.

Week Two: The Path to Natural Balance - Restoration, Recovery and Healing
Week Two is about restoration, healing and recovery. The burdens we carry around are not so-called "dead weight;" they have become part of our attitudes, habits, beliefs, and behaviors. When those go out of balance, the natural mechanisms that restore balance can become overwhelmed. Meditation can help alleviate the mental and spiritual clutter, and promote the healing and balance restoration that in turn, encourages the body to likewise, shed the excess weight it has been holding onto.

Week Three: Completing the Transformation - Themes for a New Life
The third week focuses on holistic change and creating something new in the space where old narratives used to hold you back. We tend to choose themes for our personal narrative on a daily basis: winner or loser; victim or perpetrator; beautiful or ugly; lovable or unlovable, powerful or powerless. Living one's best life means choosing and living out the positive themes, and during this week we will establish and reinforce positive themes of healing, love, lightness, and self-empowerment.

About Oprah & Deepak's 21-Day Meditation Experience
"Oprah & Deepak's 21-Day Meditation Experience" is a powerful guide of daily audio meditations voiced by Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra, co-produced by Harpo Studios and The Chopra Center, and inspired by popular OWN programs, connecting members of its core community to the benefits of regularly practiced meditation. Select meditation series have been distributed in Hallmark Gold Crown stores nationwide and introduced at Omni Hotels & Resorts as part of their commitment to wellness. Via a 21-Day Mobile Companion App, the meditations are easily accessible from a mobile phone or tablet and available for download in iTunes and Google Play stores. Over 5.1 million people from hundreds of countries around the globe have participated in past meditations, which include nine series in total: Perfect Health, Miraculous Relationships, Desire and Destiny, Finding Your Flow, Expanding Your Happiness, Energy of Attraction: Manifesting Your Best Life, Manifesting True Success, Manifesting Grace through Gratitude and Become What You Believe. Registration for the meditations are available for free, online at Oprah.com/meditation.

About Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Deepak Chopra, M.D., F.A.C.P., Chairman of the Board of The Chopra Foundation and Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and global and personal transformation. The Chopra Center for Wellbeing holds sought-after workshops and retreats, including programs such as Perfect Health, Seduction of Spirit, and Journey Into Healing. Dr. Chopra has authored more than 80 books, published in more than 43 languages, including 22 New York Times best-sellers. Two of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993) and The Spiritual Laws of Success (1995) have been recognized on The Books of The Century Bestsellers List. With medical training in internal medicine and endocrinology, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Additionally, Dr. Deepak Chopra also serves as Co-Founder of Jiyo, an Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and of Columbia Business School, Columbia University; Assistant Clinical Professor in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego; Health Sciences Faculty at Disney Imagineering; and a Senior Scientist at the Gallup organization. TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine." The World Post and The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Dr. Chopra #40 influential thinker in world and #1 in Medicine.

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