FOUNDATION COURSE
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Developed and Taught by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
AMI MEDITATION® provides a practical, proprietary curriculum that will bring joy and fulfillment back into your life! You’ll learn how to easily transform burnout, stress, worry, anger, and sadness into energy, creativity and will power by employing the Super Conscious Wisdom of Your Conscience. And as you practice what you learn, you’ll successfully balance all your personal and professional responsibilities.
is derived from 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
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
AMI Meditation® W EEK 2
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
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Yoga Psychology & Ayurveda–WEEK 4
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
Easy-Gentle Yoga Exercises WEEK 5 Yoga stretches to detox the lymph system and benefit your muscles, nerves, joints, glands & internal organs
Physiological benefits of yoga postures
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
A MI MEDITATION® FOUND ATION COURSE – Live on ZOOM
Endorsed by Dean Ornish MD, Bernie Siegel MD, Larry Dossey MD
MI’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.
MARK PETTUS MD, LEAD CLINICAL STUDY
LIVE on ZOOM • Sundays 9:30-11:00am ET with Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness AmericanMeditation.org/sunday
DEC 6 - JAN 10: AMI MEDITATION® see p. 2-3 Tues. Nights, 6:30 -8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
DEC 8 & 15: YOGA SCIENCE LAB® see p. 4 Thurs. Nights, 6:30-8:30 PM ET (2 wks) Live on ZOOM
DEC 10 & 17: ADVANCED TANTRIC HEALING see p. 5 Saturdays, 1:30-3:30 PM ET (2 wks) Live on ZOOM
DEC 25: JESUS’ SECRET YEARS IN INDIA see p. 8 Sunday, 9:30-11:30 AM ET Live on ZOOM JANUARY 2023
JAN 8 & 15: YOUR CONSCIENCE WEBINARS see p. 5-7 Sun Nights, 7:30 -8:30 PM ET Live on ZOOM
JAN 17 - FEB 21: AMI MEDITATION see p. 2-3 Tues Nights, 6:30 -8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
JAN 2 FEB 6: GITA/ YOGA PSYCHOLOGY see p. 4 Mon. Nights, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM
Level II: In the AMI Meditation® 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 tech niques 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 relation ships. As you have already learned, to experi ence real freedom you must be centered in the present moment, know who you are, and follow your Inner Wisdom. The Yoga Science Lab can help you achieve that freedom!
THURSDAYS, 6:30PM - 8:30 PM ET, $75. DEC 8 & 15 (2 WKS) LIVE ON ZOOM
American Meditation Institute
December, 2022 • Vol. XXVI No. 2 ©2022 PO Box 430, Averill Park, NY 12018 americanmeditation.org \ Tel. (518) 674-8714 ami@americanmeditation.org
AMI is a tax exempt, non-profit 501(c) 3 educational organization. Donations are fully tax deductible.
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, tools, meaning, courage and confidence you need. Each week Leonard and Jenness will teach you how to reduce stress, enhance your health and creative abilities, while offering you a fresh, positive perspective on all your family and business relationships. This course pro vides the practical blueprint necessary to resolve all of life’s challenges.
MONDAYS, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET, $150. (6 WKS) JAN 2 - FEB 6; FEB 13 - MAR 20 LIVE ON ZOOM
JAN. 8 It’s Not What You Think It Is JAN. 15 How to Use It: Everywhere, Every Day
FREE: OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: In observance of the 4th Annual National Conscience Month, AMI offers 2 FREE WEBINARS. With helpful PowerPoints to increase your understanding and confidence, each hour-long program will demystify how YOUR CONSCIENCE really functions, and how to optimize its use in every relationship. Following each webinar, attendees will be encouraged to create easy-to-do exper iments in their own lives. These important webinars will teach everyone present how to awaken their personal creativity and intuitive wisdom to solve all of life’s challenges.
SUNDAYS, 7:30 - 8:30PM ET FREE JAN 8 & 15 LIVE ON ZOOM
LEVEL II: This advanced 2-week course provides important instruction on the subtle energy heal ing of Tantra, a system of powerfully effective tools for self-care and stress management. Each week you will be taught new skills that reduce the effects of stress, illness and physical exhaustion by purifying the mind and body. These deeply therapeutic practices minimize tension, facilitate energy flow, calm and train the mind, awaken creativity, enhance memory and retard the aging and disease processes by boosting the body’s innate healing wisdom. This course will provide complete instruction in the practices of yoga nidra, shitali karana, shavayatra, and tantric visualization
SATURDAYS, 1:30 - 3:30PM ET $125 (2 WKS) DEC 10 & 17 LIVE ON ZOOM
This class is open to the general public and recommended for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
American Meditation Institute
The Lifestyle Medicine journal, has published The American Meditation Institute’s new peer-reviewed medical study which finds a regular practice of AMI Meditation® and its allied disciplines significantly reduces burnout and stress symptoms in physicians while enhancing their levels of compassion satisfaction.
Newly published research from the American Medical Association shows how the COVID-19 pandemic magnified longstanding issues that have accelerated the U.S. physician burnout rate. At the end of 2021, nearly 63% of physicians reported symptoms of burnout, up from 38% in 2020. Research
shows that large-scale change is needed to address the physician burnout crisis.
The AMI Meditation® comprehensive proprietary curriculum has now been proven to bring more ease and less effort to the com plex navigation of daily life. Having taught as a faculty member of The American Meditation Institute, and as a student of its teachings for many years, I can offer firsthand experiential affirmation of the power of the unique curriculum developed by AMI founder Leonard Perlmutter to transform an individual’s interpretation and response to the disorder of modern times.
It has long been a goal of Leonard’s to
subject the AMI Meditation® to a peerreviewed study, and now that goal has been realized. From 2017 through 2020, a total of 21 healthcare providers who attended the annual AMI Meditation® holistic mind/body medicine conferences, participated in and completed this prospective study. Having been taught the mantra-based A MI Meditation® curriculum, in addition to receiving abundant tools and support, these health care professionals were followed for 6 months.
Using validated measurement tools to evaluate burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction scores, nearly all participants demonstrated significant improvements in all measures at three and six months of study follow up. These were statistically significant findings.
We are in the midst of an epidemic of behavioral health challenges. People in all walks of life are experiencing burnout, stress, anxiety, emotional trauma, and sadness in our culture. As pervasive and concerning as
these trends are, the prevalence is even more significant in all health care professionals. Numerous research studies affirm the magni tude of this reality and the need to develop practical mind/body resiliency strategies. This historic AMI Meditation® research study has been peer-reviewed and has been accepted for publication by Lifestyle Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The study can be reviewed and down loaded at http://doi.org/10.1002/lim2.72
Dr. Pettus is a board certified internist and nephrologist, Director of Medical Education and Population Health at Berkshire Health Systems, a member of the AMI Department of Medical Education, and Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Medical School.
Dr. Netter is a retired anesthesiologist, and Chair Emeritus of the AMI Department of Medical Education.
