Deepak Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California, and is acknowledged as one of the master teachers of Easternphilosophy in the Western world.
It is only recently I have realized that this Swami was in fact one of India's most influential spiritual teachers - the first to package easternphilosophy for the West.
The winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, Shen creates dances that incorporate visual and storytelling elements from the theatre, Chinese opera, Easternphilosophy and traditional and contemporary visual art and sculpture.