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High School Senior Jiya Patil Wins 2024 National Conscience Month Scholarship Essay Contest
AVERILL PARK, NY, February 13, 2024 — The American Meditation Institute (AMI) proudly announces that Jiya Patil of Pleasanton, California is the winner of the 5th Annual National Conscience Month Essay Contest. For her creativity, this year’s honoree will receive a $2,000 scholarship toward higher education for describing her personal rewarding experiences of using her Conscience as her decision-making guide.
In her award-winning entry, Ms. Patil, a senior at the Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California, writes about how she overcame persistent emotional challenges to finally use the Conscience to determine her thoughts, words and deeds: “My mind races to more examples of how we exploit opportunities to help ourselves, ignoring how it may affect others: cheating on tests to keep up with the class, deforesting trees to expand agriculture, overfishing to maintain eating habits, etc . . . I hope to let my Conscience guide me away from engaging with this tragedy. By choosing not to feed into it, I might ensure […]
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Physicians to Receive World’s Oldest Holistic Mind/Body Medicine In a Modern, Clinically-Proven Curriculum That Reduces Burnout and Stress and Increases Compassion
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CME Physicians Conference Alumni to “Pay It Forward” by Creating a Yoga Science Syllabus for Health Care Providers Facing Burnout
Physician alumni of the American Meditation Institute (AMI) who have learned to successfully integrate Yoga Science techniques into their own personal and professional lives will gather at the 12th annual Heart and Science of Yoga […]
“Afternoon of Life” CME Medical Conference to Benefit Older and Retiring Healthcare Providers as They Address Unique Stresses of Physical and Emotional Challenges
The American Meditation Institute (AMI) announced today that its upcoming 12th annual Heart and Science of Yoga Conference October 17-21, 2023 at the Equinox Resort and Spa in Manchester, Vermont will address the unique physical and emotional […]
Nine Yoga Scientist-Physicians To Teach Medical Colleagues Practices to Transform Their Burnout, Stress and Depression Into Creativity, Compassion and Optimism
A panel of nine distinguished physicians, who have successfully integrated the principles and tools of Yoga Science into their medical practices and home life, will share their experiences at the American Meditation Institute’s 12th annual Heart and Science […]
Unprecedented Medical Breakthrough: An Evidence-Based Solution That Can Dramatically Reduce the Catastrophic Epidemic of Physician Burnout and Stress
In the face of an alarming 53% burnout rate among the medical community, the American Meditation Institute (AMI) announced today that its proprietary training in Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body Medicine, which has now been proven by a peer […]
Renee Goodemote MD: AMI’s Yoga Science Conference Taught Me How to Alleviate Burnout, Be More Skillful with My Patients and Kind to Myself
Renee Goodemote MD will share with other healthcare providers how they too can rediscover their love of medicine and life by attending the American Meditation Institute’s 12th annual Heart and Science of Yoga CME Conference October 17-21, 2023 at […]
Physicians to Learn How to Use the Ancient Chakra System as a Modern Diagnostic Tool to Help Heal the Body and Relieve Pain and Burnout
Curriculum developer and faculty director Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev), and Jenness Cortez Perlmutter will present an important lecture on “The Ancient Chakra System as a Diagnostic […]
Sir William Osler MD, “Father of Modern Medicine,” Inspires 12th Annual Physicians CME Conference on Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body Medicine
Sir William Osler MD (1849-1919), one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, and acclaimed as the “Father of Modern Medicine,” provides the philosophical […]
Peer Reviewed Clinical Study Finds AMI Meditation Reduces Burnout and Stress While Increasing Compassion
By Mark Pettus, MD
Pioneering Research
In 1949, Dr. Hans Selye, a Hungarian-Canadian physician, was runner-up for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering research in the understanding and biologic mechanisms of the human stress response. It was Selye who first […]
Reimagining Medicine: Physician Panelists Will Discuss Their Positive Experiences of Applying Yoga Science to Reduce Their Burnout and Help Heal Their Patients
A panel of nine distinguished physicians will discuss how they successfully integrated the principles and tools of Yoga Science into their professional medical practices and personal home […]
Anthony Santilli MD: Practicing AMI’s Conference Curriculum Transformed My Burnout Crisis into a Renewed Love of Medicine and Greater Creativity
Anthony Santilli, MD will share “My Burnout Story” with medical colleagues at the American Meditation Institute’s 12th annual Heart and Science of […]