The Heart and Science of Yoga® for Everyday Living
More Than Meditation. A Complete Curriculum for the Art of Living.
The 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)
Who Can Benefit From This Course?
- Anyone experiencing stress, uncertainty, or burnout
- Health professionals seeking Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit
- Spiritual seekers desiring a practical framework for Enlightenment
- Individuals ready to transform unhelpful habits and live from their highest potential
- Professionals and caregivers seeking sustainable self-care and mental clarity
- Students of yoga, meditation, or Ayurveda looking to deepen their understanding
- Leaders and changemakers striving to lead with wisdom and purpose
- Anyone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their inner peace and wisdom
- People navigating life transitions—career change, retirement, grief, or new beginnings
- Those seeking a comprehensive, science-backed approach to daily spiritual practice
The Foundation Course for Life™
Taught Continually since 1996 • For Mind, Body and Spirit
6 Week Course
$795 General Public | $1,195 Physician, PA, NP
Tuesdays @ 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
November 10 – December 15
Looking Ahead?
New Course Dates Coming Soon
What is the FOUNDATION COURSE FOR LIFE™?
THE FOUNDATION COURSE FOR LIFE™ is a practical, scientific and spiritual approach to everyday living and relationships. This curriculum supports your health, your relationships, your career, and your spiritual journey.
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. This course 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 FOUNDATION COURSE FOR LIFE™. 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 Yoga, Mind Function Optimization, Breath as Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga Philosophy, and Psychology.
Learn How to Find Peace, Happiness & Fulfillment
In modern life, you are expected to balance personal and professional responsibilities as you face many expectations and challenges. The Foundation Course for Life™ provides a scientific spiritual perspective and teaches you to transform the debilitating energy associated with the stress and pressure we all encounter in life.
Since 2009, The Foundation Course for Life™ has been accredited by the American Medical Association for continuing medical education credits, a status awarded only to those educational programs that meet the highest standards of professional review.
The skills taught in The Foundation Course for Life™ are essential survival skills. You’ll learn a comprehensive set of daily self-care practices to immediately help you reduce stress and enhance your short and long-term physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health and well being. By using the tools you receive, you can:
- Identify and manage challenges that lead to stress, burnout or interpersonal difficulties
- Enhance your problem-solving abilities
- Achieve a healthier, more spiritual balance in life by learning to actualize your intuitive Super Conscious Wisdom
- Strengthen physical health, including boosting your immune system and reducing pain
- Honor emotional and spiritual needs
- Nurture loving relationships, including those with yourself
- Deepen and revitalize your spiritual journey
- Find inner peace, happiness, purpose and security
What is THE FOUNDATION COURSE FOR LIFE™?
THE FOUNDATION COURSE FOR LIFE™ is a practical, scientific and spiritual approach to everyday living and relationships. This curriculum supports your health, your relationships, your career, and your spiritual journey.
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. This course 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 FOUNDATION COURSE FOR LIFE™. 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 Yoga, Mind Function Optimization, Breath as Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga Philosophy, and Psychology.
Learn How to Find Peace, Happiness & Fulfillment
In modern life, you are expected to balance personal and professional responsibilities as you face many expectations and challenges. The Foundation Course for Life™ provides a scientific spiritual perspective and teaches you to transform the debilitating energy associated with the stress and pressure we all encounter in life.
Since 2009, The Foundation Course for Life™ has been accredited by the American Medical Association for continuing medical education credits, a status awarded only to those educational programs that meet the highest standards of professional review.
The skills taught in The Foundation Course for Life™ are essential survival skills. You’ll learn a comprehensive set of daily self-care practices to immediately help you reduce stress and enhance your short and long-term physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health and well being. By using the tools you receive, you can:
- Identify and manage challenges that lead to stress, burnout or interpersonal difficulties
- Enhance your problem-solving abilities
- Achieve a healthier, more spiritual balance in life by learning to actualize your intuitive Super Conscious Wisdom
- Strengthen physical health, including boosting your immune system and reducing pain
- Honor emotional and spiritual needs
- Nurture loving relationships, including those with yourself
- Deepen and revitalize your spiritual journey
- Find inner peace, happiness, purpose and security
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.
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.
Meet Ram Lev (Leonard Perlmutter)
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 of The 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.
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 better 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 already within you. Leonard shares his vast insights in every session of his Foundation Course for Life™, and then supports you as you begin to employ this wisdom in your daily life.
Kind thoughts from previous participants —
Take the Path to a Happier, Heathier Life in Six Weeks
Each class is part lecture and part practicum. You will receive information on how your mind works as well as simple, easy to use practices to help you build new habits that will lead to improved physical, mental and emotional health and spiritual well-being. Explore the curriculum —
RECEIVE “THE SCIENTIFIC FORMULA FOR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS”
By attending the The Foundation Course for Life™, you will learn how to use the scientific formula D = E + W + C in your daily life. This formula will enable you to transform the contracting and debilitating power of FEAR, WORRY, ANGER and SELF-WILLED DESIRE into positive and expansive reserves of HEALING ENERGY, WILL POWER AND CREATIVITY!
Take the Path to a Happier, Heathier Life in Six Weeks
Each class is part lecture and part practicum. You will receive information on how your mind works as well as simple, easy to use practices to help you build new habits that will lead to improved physical, mental and emotional health and spiritual well-being. Explore the curriculum —
RECEIVE “THE SCIENTIFIC FORMULA FOR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS”
By attending the The Foundation Course for Life™, you will learn how to use the scientific formula D = E + W + C in your daily life. This formula will enable you to transform the contracting and debilitating power of FEAR, WORRY, ANGER and SELF-WILLED DESIRE into positive and expansive reserves of HEALING ENERGY, WILL POWER AND CREATIVITY!
Learn more about our Six-Week Program
Hear What Participants are Saying About This Scientific Spiritual Approach and The Positive Results They Experienced
Participants who completed The Foundation Course for Life™ reported many life-enhancing changes, including:
Hear What Participants are Saying About This Scientific Spiritual Approach and The Positive Results They Experienced
Participants who completed The Foundation Course for Life™ reported many life-enhancing changes, including:
The Foundation Course for Life™
Taught Continually since 1996 • For Mind, Body and Spirit
6 Week Course
$795 General Public | $1,195 Physician, PA, NP
Tuesdays @ 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
November 10 – December 15
Looking Ahead?
New Course Dates Coming Soon
REGISTRATION
Registration includes:
- Lifetime support for your well-being
- FREE Guided AMI Meditationdigital recording
- FREE access to “Transformation” AMI’s Journal of Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine
- FREE informative guidebook on the Physiology of Easy-Gentle Yoga
Required texts: (purchased separately)
The Heart and Science of Yoga®, by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
Your Conscience, by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
Recommended texts:
- The Art of Joyful Living, by Swami Rama
- Essence of the Upanishads, by Eknath Easwaran
REFUND POLICY
Cancellation notification must be received three days prior to the first class for a refund to be granted. No refunds will be given after this date. A 5% administrative fee will be deducted from all refunds.
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.