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Human birth is not an accident. Each of us has been born to accomplish a purpose. The transformative goal is Enlightenment—the expansion of our spiritual awareness that enables us to recognize our unicity with the Supreme Reality, and to serve Its eternal wisdom as a loving instrument in every relationship.

The six-week AMI Foundation Course developed and taught by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev), founder of the American Meditation Institute, will give you the practical, scientific means to know Enlightenment and to joyfully fulfill the purpose of your life.

AMI Foundation Course:
A Scientific Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment

Sundays at 6:30pm ET | A Life-Changing Self-Care Program for Everyone

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What is the AMI Foundation Course?

The AMI FOUNDATION COURSE is a practical, scientific and spiritual approach to life. It is the only such program offered today.

For thousands of years, countless women and men have developed methods to optimize their minds and bodies and nurture spiritual awareness—with the goal of achieving happiness and fulfillment in their lifetimes. It presents practical, modern day interpretations of time-tested scientific wisdom contained in the world’s oldest spiritual and meditation tradition.

This course will provide a comprehensive set of daily self-care practices to:

  • Immediately reduce stress
  • Maintain and enhance your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health
  • Enhance your problem-solving abilities
  • Honor emotional and spiritual needs
  • Nurture loving relationships
  • Find inner peace, happiness and security

Course Components

  • An educational body of knowledge for health & healing
  • History, philosophy and benefits of meditation
  • How to use the mind to make the best choices
  • How to access the “super-conscious” mind
  • Understanding pain as an agent for healing
  • The transformative power of sacrifice
  • Increasing energy, will power and creativity
  • The power of desire and attention
  • Creative actions rather than reactionary responses
  • Antidotes for worry, stress and depression
  • Systematic procedure for AMI MEDITATION
  • How to diminish distractions
  • Training one-pointed attention for creativity
  • The one-minute meditation
  • Using AMI MEDITATION skills throughout the day
  • Mantra Science: World’s greatest mantras and how to use thoughts and mantra in the healing process
  • How mantra vibrations promote health
  • Three sets of Easy-Gentle Yoga stretches & exercises
  • Understanding the physiology/anatomy of Easy-Gentle Yoga
  • The meaning of prana (life force)
  • How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease
  • Diaphragmatic breathing for pulmonary health
  • Complete (three-part) yogic breath
  • Yogic postures for healthy breathing
  • Alternate nostril breathing for energy & psychological balance
  • How the mind functions for optimal health
  • Managing thoughts, desires and emotions
  • How to experience freedom from fear
  • The power of the present moment
  • Channeling the four primitive urges
  • Anatomy of your real being
  • Building and healing relationships
  • Introduction to Ayurveda
  • The practical benefit of contemplation
  • Creating a personal therapeutic care plan
  • Learning to budget your time
  • Integrating spiritual beliefs
  • The healing power of prayer
  • How to keep a meditation practice going and working for you

About Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Leonard (Ram Lev) is an American spiritual teacher, a direct disciple of medical pioneer Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and a living link to the world’s oldest health and wisdom spiritual tradition. A noted educator, philosopher and Yoga Scientist, Leonard is the founder of the American Meditation Institute, developer the AMI Foundation Course curriculum, and originator of National Conscience Month. He is the author of the award-winning books The Heart and Science of Yoga and YOUR CONSCIENCE, and the Mind/Body/Spirit Journal, Transformation. A rare and gifted teacher, Leonard’s writings and classes are enlivened by his inspiring enthusiasm, vast experience, wisdom, humor and a clear, practical teaching style. Leonard has presented courses at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, numerous medical colleges, Kaiser Permanente, the Commonwealth Club of California, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and The New York Times Yoga Forum with Dean Ornish MD.

Girl on Hill Spiritual Awakening
The Purpose of Life:  Enlightenment
by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Of course, not everything in life happens exactly the way we wanted or planned, but the very thoughts of disappointment and frustration that arise can bring us two invaluable virtues: patience and determination. If these two powers are faithfully nurtured and cultivated, they can expand one’s spiritual awareness, and eventually lead to the fulfillment of your life’s true purpose. 

In fact, every human being is born with all the means and resources necessary to attain the goal. And each spiritual aspirant can learn how to use their resources skillfully and efficiently. On everyone’s journey to Self-realization, the power of thought is the practical tool by which one can distinguish what ought to be done from what ought not to be done. Through the moment-by-moment power of thought, one increasingly comes to know the nature of the Supreme, the purpose of life, and the ever-present means to achieve it. As seekers of Truth earnestly contemplate who they are, from where they have come, what selfless service is being asked of them, and ultimately, where they will go when the body is no more, it is this reliable power of thought that can expand their spiritual awareness—until they awaken to the resolution of all the mysteries of life.

The stream of all life may change its course, it may be manifest or unmanifest, but it never stops. It keeps flowing until it merges and becomes one with the ocean of pure, Supreme Consciousness. Traveling in the eternal stream of life, each of us has already known innumerable life states. The stream of life is filled with lessons to be learned through one’s countless births and deaths.

The only way to become free of that cycle is to begin examining life from a higher perspective; a higher consciousness. For that spiritual work, the individual seeker must humbly employ the gifts of discrimination, willpower, and Divine inspiration—gifts that expand the currently limited perspectives of the Ego, Senses and Unconscious functions of the mind.

To go beyond the rounds of birth and death, one must acknowledge the transitory nature of the sense objects of the world, and contemplate the limited nature of the satisfactions derived from them. No doubt, sense objects can be a source of joy for human beings, but much of that joy exists in the seeking, and not the attainment of them. Once the desire for them is fulfilled, the Ego, Senses and Unconscious portions of the mind soon become bored and dissatisfied again, and begin a new search for other objects.

Understanding the ever-changing nature of worldly objects and the tendencies of the senses and mind can help spiritual seekers refine and deepen their perceptions, and hasten their awakening. Then equanimity and freedom arise in the heart. The wisdom born of such experiences inspires spiritual aspirants to change the course of their lives, and they begin exploring the real possibility of a full awakening to lasting peace and happiness—in this lifetime.

Throughout this ongoing process, priorities and lifestyle choices undergo many changes. In response to the growing power of the seeker’s enhanced discriminative decision-making, spiritual desires begin to consume all lesser desires and loosen the mind’s attachments to old, painful thoughts, speech, and actions. And it is through this expanding inner purification and heightened spiritual awareness that the earnest aspirant awakens to an enlightened state of being—all by Divine Grace.

Excellent! The course has changed my life. I know that I am just beginning this new journey but I am already seeing positive changes and look forward to the future.

 — KELLEY APPLE

Amazingly helpful, informative, and well executed. It has been the most thought provoking course I have ever taken.

— MEREDITH C.

Taking the course with my wife deepened our connection.  We realized that there is no cap on how good things can be.  I’ve gained a path that will continue to guide my entire life.

— NEAL MARTIN

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November 3 – December 8

AMI Meditation - A Scientific Journey for Spiritual Awakening

Sundays at 6:30pm ET | A Life-Changing Self-Care Program for Everyone

Girl thinking. "A stumbling block today can become a stepping stone tomorrow." Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

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