American Meditation Institute
Transformation The Journal of Yoga Science as Mind/Body Medicine January - March 2022
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“Every decision every human being has ever made, and ever will make, is made by the Conscience.” But that’s not the whole story! see p. 6 FOUNDATION COURSE to Optimize YOUR CONSCIENCE: Jan.11th see p.2
AMI Classes for January - March 2022
AMERICAN MEDITATION INSTITUTE’S
FOUNDATION COURSE TO OPTIMIZE YOUR CONSCIENCE
Developed & Taught by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) Expand Your Understanding & Appreciation of
How Your CONSCIENCE Can Work for You Every day you are expected to successfully balance all your personal, and professional responsibilities. In the process of doing so, you inevitably face many expectations and challenges. AMI’s Foundation Course will provide you 36 tools to easily transform the debilitating energy of stress, worry and burnout into positive healing energy and creativity––by employing the Super Conscious Wisdom of Your Conscience.
AMI’s FOUNDATION COURSE is Live and Interactive on ZOOM Endorsed by Dean Ornish MD, Bernie Siegel MD, Larry Dossey MD, Dr. Oz
THE FOUNDATION COURSE CURRICULUM is based on the award-winning book, The Heart and Science of Yoga ® and the new book YOUR CONSCIENCE
by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) Yoga Science & Philosophy–WEEK 1
Yoga Psychology & Ayurveda–WEEK 4
How to use the mind for the best choices How to create new, healthier habits Understanding pain as an agent for healing Increasing energy, will power & creativity Antidotes for worry, stress and depression
Coordinate the Four Functions of the Mind to access the power and Inner Wisdom of Your Conscience Use the power of NOW to build and heal relationships Ayurvedic Medicine & Nutrition for your health
AMI Meditation–WEEK 2
Yoga stretches to detox the lymph system and benefit your muscles, nerves, joints, glands & internal organs Physiological benefits of yoga postures
Systematic procedure for AMI Meditation Diminishing distractions with your Mantra Learning the one-minute meditation Building focus and fearlessness
Breathing Techniques–WEEK 3 Breath as Medicine How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease Three-part diaphragmatic breath 2
Easy-Gentle Yoga Exercises–WEEK 5
Mind/Body Self-Care Plan–WEEK 6 The healing power of prayer The practical benefits of contemplation Creating a therapeutic self-care plan for yourself Learning to budget your time Integrating spiritual beliefs into daily life
americanmeditation.org • Tel. (518) 674-8714
Taught by
Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) AMI’s Foundation Course was developed and is taught live on Zoom by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev). Leonard is a noted educator, philosopher, Yoga scientist and founder of The American Meditation Institute. He is the author of The Heart and Science of Yoga® and the mind/body medicine journal, Transformation. He is a direct disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas. Leonard’s lectures are enlivened by his inspiring enthusiasm, vast experience, humor and clear teaching style. He has taught at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The New York Times Yoga Forum, Kaiser-Permanente, numerous medical schools and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point.
Benefits of AMI’s FOUNDATION COURSE
In 2008, AMI conducted a retrospective case study of AMI’s FOUNDATION COURSE The findings included these positive, life-enhancing, health-promoting changes: • Significant reductions in stress and fear • Improved energy levels • Reduced cholesterol levels • Decreased anxiety and depression • Increased creative capacity • Diminished or extinguished • Lowered blood pressure • Diminishment of migraine headaches acute and chronic pain • Lowered heart rate • Decreased irritable bowel symptoms • Weight loss • Improved restorative sleep • Enhanced happiness and optimism • Increased breathing capacity
FOUNDATION COURSE
Medical Accreditation PHYSICIAN • PAs • NPs (18 CMEs) americanmeditation.org/physician-cme This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of Albany Medical College and The American Meditation Institute. Albany Medical College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Albany Medical College designates this Live activity for a maximum of 18 AMA TM PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Registration Includes: Lifelong support, a 20-minute digital Guided Meditation, a copy of The Physiology of Easy-Gentle Yoga, and a FREE subscription to AMI’s Transformation journal.
Health Insurance Coverage Call to discuss if your plan might cover this program
The Practical Guide You’ve Been Looking For! “This short book is long on wisdom. Highly recommended.” Dean Ornish MD “This book is a gift for humanity.” Bernie Siegel MD
AVAILABLE AT FINE BOOKSELLERS
UPCOMING CLASSES Live and Interactive
On ZOOM with
Leonard Perlmutter Founder of the American Meditation Institute
Jan 11-Feb 15
Tuesdays
6:30 -8:30pm ET, $695.
Feb 19-Mar 26
(6 WKS)
Saturdays
1:30-3:30pm ET, $695. (6 WKS) Required Texts available at AMI Bookstore: The Heart and Science of Yoga ® Your Conscience Physicians $995; PAs, NPs: $895
New Year’s Resolution
EXPERIMENTS Using YOUR CONSCIENCE
FREE Live Webinar With Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) Thurs. January 6th from 7-8pm ET
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americanmeditation.org • Tel. (518) 674-8714
CALENDAR FREE: EVERY SUNDAY GUIDED MEDITATION & SATSANG
THE CHAKRA SYSTEM Balancing Subtle Body Energies Leonard (Ram Lev) and Jenness Perlmutter
The Chakra System is a psychological and physiological diagnostic tool to help heal the mind and body. Crown HAMSA
Brow SO HUM
LIVE on ZOOM • Sundays 9:30-11:00am ET with Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness
Throat HUM (HOOM)
JANUARY 2022 JAN 2: JESUS’ SECRET YEARS IN INDIA see p. 7
Upward Pull of Divine Nature
LINK IS ON THE WEBSITE HOME PAGE Heart YAM (YUM)
Sunday, 9:30 - 11:00 AM ET Live on ZOOM
JAN 6: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION WEBINAR see p. 3
Navel, Solar Plexus RAM
JAN 11 - FEB 15: AMI MEDITATION see p. 2-3 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
JAN 15 & 22: YOGA SCIENCE LAB
see p. 5 Saturdays, 10:30AM-12:30PM ET (2 wks) Live on ZOOM
Downward Pull of Animal Nature
Thursday, 7:00 - 8:00 PM ET Live on ZOOM
Genital VAM (WUM)
Root LAM (LUM)
JAN 24 - FEB 28: GITA/YOGA PSYCHOLOGY see p. 5 Mondays, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
FEBRUARY 2022 FEB 19 - MAR 26: AMI MEDITATION see p. 2-3 Saturdays, 1:30-3:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
MARCH 2022 MAR 7 - MAR 21: CHAKRAS AS DIAGNOSTIC TOOL see p. 4 Mondays, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET (3 wks) Live on ZOOM
MAR 28 - MAY 2: GITA/YOGA PSYCHOLOGY see p. 5 Mondays, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
American Meditation Institute
Bringing Yoga Science to Life
January - March, 2022 • Vol. XXV No. 2 ©2022 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY 12018
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LEVEL II: The power to attain our own perfect health lies within each of us. It is simply a matter of attaining the necessary knowledge, and then cultivating our determination and will to employ the knowledge we have learned. This three-week course provides a detailed understanding of the meaning, anatomy, psychology and function of the ancient yogic chakra system. By learning to balance the chakras through the advanced mind/body medicine practices taught each week, you can increase your vitality and power of concentration, and rediscover your inner source of physical and mental health and well being. MONDAYS, 6:30 - 8:30PM ET, $195 (3 WKS) MAR 7 - 21
High School Seniors! National Conscience Month
$2,000. Scholarship Essay Contest ConscienceMonth.org or 518.674.8714 for details
AMI Classes for January - March 2022
Ne w ! YOGA SCIENCE LAB How to Practice Meditation-in-Action Valerie Chakedis, Mary Holloway MT
YOGA PSYCHOLOGY BHAGAVAD GITA STUDY
Prerequisite: AMI’s Foundation Course
Leonard (Ram Lev) and Jenness Perlmutter
LEVEL II: In AMI’s Foundation Course, you learned that your thoughts are your most valuable asset. The Yoga Science Lab will help you examine your thoughts and expand your ability to focus your attention. The techniques learned in seated AMI Meditation are applied in every duty and responsibility throughout the day. This process is called Meditation-in-Action. As you experiment with the Truth reflected by your Conscience, you’ll develop decision-making skills that will enhance your confidence in all relationships. As you have already learned, to experience real freedom you must be centered in the present moment, know who you are, and follow your Inner Wisdom. Yoga Science Lab can help you achieve that freedom!
LEVEL II: In continuous six week installments this course presents the profound teachings of the Bhagavad Gita as a handbook on the science of life and the art of living. If you are seeking a manual or guide for the supreme task of living a fulfilling and purposeful life in the world today, this ongoing study will provide you the practical wisdom, meaning, courage and confidence you need. Each week Leonard and Jenness will teach you how to reduce stress and confidently enhance your health and creative abilities, while offering you a fresh, positive perspective on all your family and business relationships. As with all Zoom classes, you can attend this course from your own home or anywhere in the world.
SATURDAYS, 10:30AM -12:30 PM ET, $75. JAN 15 & 22 (2 WKS) LIVE ON ZOOM
MONDAYS, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET, $150. (6 WKS) JAN 24 - FEB 28; MAR 28 - MAY 2 LIVE ON ZOOM
Available on ZOOM
The American Meditation Institute’s
25th Annual Appeal–2022 We Need Your Help to Reach our Goal of $150,000
Call: (518) 674-8714 Online: americanmeditation.org/annual-appeal
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Your Conscience is the Decision-Maker But it Must Have the Support of its Three Amigos to be Unerringly Wise An excerpt from the new book YOUR CONSCIENCE
By Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) Your Conscience is the only Function of the Mind that has the power to decide. When you understand and employ this Truth, it will become a profoundly positive influence in determining the kind of life you live. This teaching means that every decision you have ever made, or that you will ever make, has and will be made by your Conscience. That’s right. Throughout your entire lifetime, every choice you make is always authored by your Conscience. The body itself cannot act unless and until it’s empowered by the Conscience. The other Functions of the Mind: the Ego, Senses and Unconscious Mind (the “Three Amigos”) possess the power to advise, but never to decide. Contemplate that for a moment. Simply possessing this knowledge can prove to be your source of tremendous creativity and influence in the world! 6
But here’s the rub. Since you, and most of your fellow citizens, were never taught to regularly coordinate all Four Functions of the Mind, the ability of your Conscience to reflect your Super Conscious Wisdom is presently compromised. For instance, during the mind’s decision-making process, the finer aspects of the Conscience can be overwhelmed by the relatively loud and insistent voices of the Ego, Senses and Unconscious Mind. In that challenging situation, the Conscience will still decide what to do and what not to do (since it’s the only mind function that has that capacity), but its decisions will be based on the loudest, and possibly faulty, input. However, each time you consciously enlist the Conscience to guide your decisions and cultivate the cooperation of the Ego, Senses and Unconscious Mind, you
will gain increased access to your Inner Wisdom. This is the wisdom that will flawlessly guide your thoughts, words and deeds, preparing you to be skillful in every relationship and circumstance. The great tragedy of our times is that so many of us do not understand the “why” or the “how” of coordinating the Four Functions of the Mind. This is not a moral failing. It is simply a failure of education. We are neither aware of the enormous value nor the straightforward process of training our mind and living our life guided by the Conscience. As a result, billions of people worldwide unwittingly embrace lifestyle choices that eventually injure health, impair peace of mind, inflict suffering on others, limit possibilities, and eventually threaten the very integrity of society and the Earth––all because we were never trained to use our mind in ways that can profoundly benefit us personally, and humanity as a whole. Contrast this bleak picture with the quiet revolution that took place in India thousands of years ago. During that time, certain women and men who deeply desired a more rewarding life prayerfully listened to this Gayatri Mantra every day: “O, Inner Dweller, Divine Mother, my heart is enveloped in darkness. I pray You will remove the darkness from my vision, and bring the
illumination of Supreme Truth by awakening, strengthening and purifying the mind’s Conscience so that I can skillfully discriminate between passing pleasure and perennial joy.” We would do well to listen to that same mantra today! To effectively manage the daily avalanche of information you face, and to solve all your urgent challenges, you need only learn to maximize the competence of your most powerful instrument––your mind. When you coordinate all Four Functions of the Mind, the Conscience can reliably reflect your own Super Conscious Wisdom and motivate you to think, speak and act much more creatively than ever before. With your Conscience as your guide you can act, not as a limited and habituated individual, but as a vital instrument of the One all-encompassing Supreme Intelligence. You will come to understand your true purpose and begin living each day to fulfill it. And you will immediately begin to discover the creativity and will power that is required to solve all of your challenges. This transformational process is not fiction. It is a practical, scientific, and reproducible methodology for attaining the summum bonum—the highest and ultimate good of life. For further information: YourConscience.org
Jesus the Christ, on the power of Your Conscience
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
Gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas
Jesus’ Secret Life in India Guided Meditation & Jesus’ Teachings of Yoga Science
With Leonard and Jenness Perlmutter
Sunday, January 2, 2022 • 9:30-11:00am ET ON ZOOM: americanmeditation.org/jesusindia 7
American Meditation Institute Bringing Yoga Science to Life Tel. 518.674.8714 • 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY 12018
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Don’t Forget
January
2021 National Conscience Month
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