The Heart and Science of Yoga® for Everyday Living
More Than Meditation. A Complete Curriculum for the Art of Living.
The AMI Meditation Foundation Course for Life™ is more than a meditation program—it’s a time-tested, clinically proven curriculum designed to support your entire journey through life. Whether you’re facing stress, burnout, illness, uncertainty, or simply a longing for greater clarity and peace, this course offers practical tools grounded in ancient yogic wisdom and modern science.
“Don’t leave the most important part of your life—
your mind, your purpose, your peace—to guesswork!”
Learn how to access an ever-present inner reservoir of energy, intuition, and resilience—and build a steady foundation for physical health, emotional balance, spiritual understanding, and awakened living.
It’s not just a course in meditation—it’s a foundation for how to live.
Ram Lev
(Leonard Perlmutter)
Scientifically Proven Wellness Strategies to Increase Your Happiness, Make Your a Better Healthcare Provider and Help Your Patients Heal
- Relieve and prevent stress and burnout
- Promote optimal health and resilience
- Bring back your joy in the practice of medicine
- Increase compassion and effectiveness in patient care
- Increase personal and professional fulfillment
Who Can Benefit From This Course
- Physicians
- NPs and PAs
- Lifestyle, Functional, Integrative Medicine Practitioners
- Residents/ Fellows
- Healthcare Executives
“My appeal to every caregiver would be to love yourself. Express the same compassion to yourself, as you would for those you care for. And look in the mirror and ask yourself: ‘Are you happy?’ ‘Are you thriving?’ And if not, why is that? The AMI Foundation Course is news to use! It is the antidote to so many of our day-to-day challenges.” — MARK PETTUS MD
What Will You Learn in the AMI Foundation Course?
Rediscover your Love of Medicine & Life!
AMI Meditation® Foundation Course — 18 CMEs
Taught Continually since 1996 • For Mind, Body and Spirit
6 Week Course
$1,195 Physician, PA, NP
Tuesdays @ 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
November 10 – December 15
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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.
The term “Yoga Science” describes the AMI FOUNDATION COURSE. This curriculum was developed and is taught at AMI by educator, philosopher and scientist Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev). It is a holistic program that incorporates Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine, AMI Meditation, Meditation-in-Action, Easy-Gentle Hatha Yoga, breathing practices, Ayurveda, philosophy, and psychology. Each weekly lecture combines the best of ancient Eastern wisdom with the practicality of modern Western medical science.
Two Complementary Forms of AMI Meditation®
At AMI, meditation does not end when we rise from our meditation seat. The Foundation Course teaches two complementary forms of practice.
Seated Silent Meditation provides a formal setting in which students develop and refine practical skills including one-pointed attention, witnessing, detachment, discrimination, and greater awareness of habitual mental and emotional patterns.
Meditation-in-Action is the application of those same skills throughout everyday relationships and responsibilities. Students learn to pause before reacting habitually, consult their own Inner Wisdom, and use the Bridge of Yoga to translate that wisdom into appropriate thought, word, and action.
Together, these two forms of meditation transform Yoga Science from an activity practiced only at a particular time and place into a practical discipline that can be employed throughout the day.
Carrying the Bridge of Yoga Into Everyday Life
Every relationship presents information, energy, and an opportunity for choice.
Yoga means union. It represents a bridge between inner wisdom and outer actions. When your outer actions (thoughts, words and deeds) are based on your inner wisdom, you are always led for your highest and greatest good. There is no cause for worry.
The Bridge of Yoga provides students with a practical framework for creating greater space between stimulus and response, recognizing habitual reactions before acting upon them, accessing the discriminative faculty of the Conscience (buddhi), and translating Inner Wisdom into skillful outer action.
Through repeated experimentation, students learn to recognize the difference between the preya—that which may offer immediate pleasure, comfort, or gratification—and the shreya—that which serves their highest and greatest good.
Every time Inner Wisdom is successfully carried across the Bridge of Yoga into outer action, the student practices a sense of balance and union.
In this way, every relationship becomes part of the curriculum.
Change Your Mind, Change Your Experience
Yoga Science begins with an understanding of the Four Functions of the Mind, as described in the book YOUR CONSCIENCE by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev). When you understand how your mind works, you can build new habits that lead to spiritual awakening, better health and more joy. You have unlimited wisdom and creativity at your core. To access these Divine gifts, you just need a few tools that will train the voices of the Ego, the Senses, and the Unconscious Mind to honor the Super Conscious Wisdom of your Conscience. Leonard shares his vast insights in every session of his AMI Foundation Course, and then supports you as you begin to employ this wisdom in your daily life.
You’ll learn holistic wellness strategies grounded in scientifically proven results that can make you a happier person and a better healthcare provider. You’ll have more inner peace and greater harmony in your work and home life.
You’ll also discover key lifestyle strategies that can help your patients heal from chronic disease, thereby significantly reducing health care costs.
Leonard will offer you easy-to-learn practices that work synergistically within the stress system to reduce inflammation and allostatic load while working toward establishing homeostasis.
Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) Presents The Science of Yoga:
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 Yogaand 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.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the AMI Foundation Course, participants will be able to:
- Discuss history of Yoga Science and Meditation
- Interpret/discuss characteristics of Self – body, mind and spirit
- Apply knowledge to make critical choices in critical situations
- Share practical methodology for meditation with patients
- Demonstrate how the use of mantra in meditation and daily life helps in the healing process (for themselves and their patients)
- Observe interrelatedness between breath and mind
- Demonstrate how breath effects physical, mental and emotional well-being
- Identify and demonstrate how the mind functions optimally to alleviate stress and physical, mental and emotional dis-ease
- Discuss benefits of Easy Gentle Yoga exercises to improve mental and physical health
- Discuss practical nutritional and lifestyle guidelines to be used personally and professionally
- Analyze strategies for detaching oneself from harmful mental habits using yoga practices of meditation-in-action, contemplation and discrimination
- Incorporate course curriculum into daily life – personally and professionally
U.S. Physician Accreditation
This activity has been 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 PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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