Morning Yoga for 50 Plus: May 1 – 29
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Wednesday Mornings: May 1 - 29 (Drop-ins welcome: $15) Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, [...]
Yoga Psychology: May 6 – June 17
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesYOGA PSYCHOLOGY: The Bhagavad Gita’s Mind/Body Connection & Perennial Wisdom Monday Evenings, May 6 - June 17 (excluding May 27) Chapter 3 Presented by Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 53 percent of all illness is attributable to lifestyle choice. This in-depth Bhagavad Gita study will deepen your understanding of how skillful actions and wise choices can effect your entire well-being. The Bhagavad Gita is a practical spiritual handbook for Self-Realization and daily life that teaches you how to be creative and confident in every circumstance. It describes two paths in life — an [...]
The Compassionate Buddha
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesTHE COMPASSIONATE BUDDHA: The Healing Power of Thoughts Saturday Afternoon: May 11, 2019 Presented by Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: The Compassionate Buddha is one of our most practical teachers of mind/body medicine. From the very first line of the Dhammapada—“our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think”—the Buddha explains what leads to joy and health and what leads to dis-ease and sorrow. Then he explains how to take our lives into our own hands. Without esoterica or metaphysics, without appeal to anything superhuman, the Compassionate Buddha encourages us to experiment with our [...]
AMI MEDITATION: May 28 – July 2
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesAMI MEDITATION THE FOUNDATION COURSE OF YOGA SCIENCE The Heart and Science of Yoga® • Complete Self-Care Preview of AMI MEDITATION Course Tuesday evenings, 6:30 - 9:00pm May 28 - July 2 Presented by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev), AMI Founder AMI MEDITATION teaches the essential principles and tools of Yoga Science to empower you to relieve stress and burnout, reduce pain, boost your immune system, heal relationships, enhance your problem solving ability, deepen your spiritual journey, and find inner peace, happiness and security. View Full Course Information Required Reading [...]
Morning Yoga for 50 Plus: June 5 – 26
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Wednesday Mornings: June 5 - 26 (Drop-ins welcome: $15) Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, [...]
Yoga Science Lab
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesYOGA SCIENCE LAB: How to Practice Meditation-in-Action Presented by Valerie Chakedis, Bob Iwaniec DC, Doreen Howe, Mary Holloway MT and André Tremblay Thursday evenings • June 6 & 13, 2019 • 6:30 - 8:30pm LEVEL II: In this new, interactive workshop you’ll take all the tools and knowledge you learned in the AMI Meditation course and put them into practice by conducting your own “Meditation-in-Action” experiments. Using a game board to facilitate learning, you’ll discover how easy, rewarding and fun this process can be. This is a supportive environment where you’ll receive continual, positive feedback from [...]
Movie & Satsang: “Fences”
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesMOVIE & SATSANG - JUNE 20, 2019 Thursday night, 6:30 – 8:30pm AMI – 60 Garner Road, Averill Park NY AMI presents entertaining and thought-provoking films reflecting practical Yoga Science. Each Thursday night program begins at 6:30pm with a movie and philosophical discussion (satsang). A group meditation will conclude the evening. $10 per person All reservations must be received no later than the Tuesday before the event. “FENCES” starring Denzel Washington, Viola Davis & Stephen Henderson A sanitation worker in 1950's Pittsburgh, who once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, suffers in his role as a father [...]
Sacred Journey: July 1 – August 5
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesSACRED JOURNEY: Living Purposefully & Dying Gracefully Monday Evenings: July 1 - August 5 Presented by Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: To understand the purpose of life, we must try to understand the relationship between life and death. The two are partners––each providing a context for the other. Death is not the end, but merely a pause in an eternal journey. When both birth and death are understood and accepted as parts of the human journey, then the fear of death subsides and life can be lived more fully and joyfully. Based on the ancient Katha Upanishad, [...]
Morning Yoga for 50 Plus: July 3 – 31
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Wednesday Mornings: July 3 - 31 (Drop-ins welcome: $15) Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, [...]
Guru Purnima
American Meditation Institute 60 Garner Road, Averill Park, NY, United StatesFull Moon Fire Ceremony and Sitar Concert Celebrating the bountiful blessings of the Light of Guru We cordially invite all seekers of the Truth on the path of fire and light to join us to celebrate and rejoice in the wisdom and blessings of the sages. Guru Purnima is the occasion when students revisit their teachers to rejuvenate their sadhana (spiritual practice) and to receive inspiration and further instruction on their spiritual journey. As part of this year’s celebration, internationally renowned sitarist, Veena Chandra will present an inspiring sitar concert. The annual Guru Purnima celebration honors the concept of Guru, the universal force of light that [...]