COMPREHENSIVE MEDITATION:
The Heart and Science of Yoga™
Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
LEVEL I: AMI's acclaimed six-week course teaches you how to apply meditation principles to every situation. This complete "self-care health program" includes all the Beginner's Meditation material plus breathing techniques, nutrition counseling, easy-gentle yoga exercises, instruction on how to make the best possible choices and lifelong support for your meditation practice. It provides you all the tools you'll need to ease stress, reduce pain, boost your immune system, heal relationships, enhance your problem solving ability, find inner peace, happiness and security.
| A retrospective case study of former Heart and Science of Yoga™ students
recently found these positive, reproducible, long-term health-promoting changes: |
• Lowered blood pressure
• Lowered heart rate
• Reduced cholesterol levels
• Weight loss
• Increased breathing capacity | • Increased exercise capacity
• Improved restorative sleep
• Improved energy levels
• Increased creative capacity
• Diminished migraines | • Reduced stress and fear
• Eliminated irritable bowel
• Enhanced happiness/optimism
• Diminished or extinguished
acute and chronic pain |
The Heart and Science of Yoga™ Curriculum is Endorsed by
Mehmet Oz MD, Dean Ornish MD, Bernie Seigel MD, Larry Dossey MD
| | WEEK 1: YOGA SCIENCE
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
WEEK 2: MEDITATION
Systematic procedure for meditation
How to diminish distractions
Learning the 1-minute meditation
Building focus, fearlessness, and strength
WEEK 3: BREATHING TECHNIQUES
Breath as Medicine
How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease
Complete (three-part) yogic breath | WEEK 4: PSYCHOLOGY & AYURVEDA
How the mind supports optimal health
The power of the present moment
Building and healing relationships
Introduction to Ayurveda
WEEK 5: EASY-GENTLE YOGA
Yoga stretches and exercises for:
muscles, joints, glands and internal organs
Physiological benefits of Hatha Yoga
WEEK 6: MIND/BODY CARE PLAN
The healing power of prayer
The practical benefit of contemplation
Creating a therapeutic care plan
Learning to budget your time
Integrating spiritual beliefs |
Registration includes:
Lifelong support for your meditation practice, a Guided Meditation CD, a subscription to "Transformation" AMI's journal of Meditation as Mind/Body Medicine and Physiology of Easy-Gentle Yoga.
Required texts:
The Heart and Science of Yoga, by Leonard Perlmutter
The Art of Joyful Living, by Swami Rama.
Recommended text:
Essence of the Upanishads, by Eknath Easwaran.
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, 6:30 - 9:00pm (six weeks)
AMI - 60 Garner Road, Averill Park NY
May 8 - June 12, 2013
General Public - $475
RNs - $575
Physicians, Residents, Fellows, PAs, NPs - $775 July 10 - August 14, 2013
General Public - $475
RNs - $575
Physicians, Residents, Fellows, PAs, NPs - $775 10% DISCOUNT for AMI Members will be applied at final checkout.
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PHYSICIAN ACCREDITATION (15 CMEs)
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through joint sponsorship 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 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
NURSING ACCREDITATION (15 Contact Hours)
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialling Center's Commission on Accreditation.
DISCLOSURE POLICY
The American Meditation Institute (AMI) adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards and Policies. It is AMI's policy that those in a position to influence the content of a CME activity (such as planners, faculty, authors and reviewers) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data presented.