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Tim Brieske, M.D.

Medical Staff
Tim is a board-certified family physician, mind-body healing expert, and core member of the Chopra Center medical staff. With his characteristic compassion, wisdom, and lighthearted nature, he provides medical consultations for guests and patients and offers mind-body guidance at the center’s events. He also teaches the healing tools and techniques of Ayurveda and leads walking meditations in nature.

Before coming to the Chopra Center, Dr. Brieske was in medical practice for more than 13 years in southeast Alaska and rural Wisconsin, where he was able to experience and practice the full range of primary care and emergency medicine while developing and performing the skills necessary to care for people in all stages and transitions of life.

Tim Brieske, M.D.

Articles

ayurveda

Healing Through Nature

NamastéShhh, can you hear it?Can you hear the sound?I think I can.Wait. First I must thank my mind for weaving thoughts, emotion.Instantaneously transformed, feelings.Wait. First I must thank my int …

Tim Brieske, M.D.
Mind-body Health

Emotional Spring Cleaning

As a natural life force, emotions are intended to flow freely through our bodymind, then dissipate once we have fully experienced them and assimilated their valuable message. As we were growing up, ho …

Tim Brieske, M.D.
Mind-body Health

Choose Love

As far as we know, human beings are the only life forms on the planet with conscious awareness – the ability to know that we know and to be aware that we are aware. We’re able to perceive both our inn …

Tim Brieske, M.D.
Mind-body Health

The Wheel of Understanding

A young mother recently brought her two-year-old son to see me in the emergency department of a small rural hospital. He had been playing with a toy truck with small removable wheels. They were fun b …

Tim Brieske, M.D.
meditation

The Art of Grounding

From time to time we have the opportunity to speak publicly about something that is meaningful in our lives. In these moments, if we can find ways to ground ourselves and connect with our true self, w …

Tim Brieske, M.D.
Personal Growth

Surrendering Beyond the Comfort Zone

“To love is to move the soul of the house, to love is to fly without wings” ~ Mario QuintanaLove is the affect of connection—the emotional perception of the connecting forces of nature. It’s that fee …

Tim Brieske, M.D.