Dr. John Douillard

Dr. John Douillard, a chiropractor and Ayurvedic practitioner, has been teaching Ayurveda for around forty years. He was once a professional athlete and later worked with the New Jersey Nets basketball team, overseeing player development as its director. His first book, Body, Mind, and Sport, described an approach to exercise based on ease, nasal breathing and body type. In Boulder, Colorado, he founded LifeSpa, which runs an Ayurvedic clinic and publishes his weekly videos and articles.

He brings classical Ayurvedic ideas together with modern research, teaching the doshas and emotional body types, routines for each day and season, pranayama and nasal breathing, abhyanga (Ayurvedic self-massage), yoga and meditation. Much of this he shares freely on YouTube and on his podcast, Ayurveda Meets Modern Science. He has written seven books, The Encyclopedia of Ayurvedic Massage among them, and teaches self-paced courses in Ayurveda on The Shift Network.