LEONARD PERLMUTTER YOUR CONSCIENCE:THE KEY TO UNLOCK LIMITLESS WISDOM AND CREATIVITY AND SOLVE ALL OF LIFE’S CHALLENGES _AMERICANMEDITATION.ORG

If you are struggling or unhappy in any aspect of your life, chances are you made a choice that wasn’t tuned 

into Your Conscience. We’ve all done it! Now, a brilliant new book by Leonard Perlmutter, Your 

Conscience: The Key to Unlock Limitless Wisdom and Creativity and Solve All of Life’s Challenges,

shows you how to give your conscience sway in your life so that ALL of your decisions support and guide 

you to act in your highest good, leading to a life of joy, love, peace and both personal and professional 

success. 

Leonard is one of the Western world’s pioneers in the introduction of meditation into the cultural firmament, 

having founded the American Meditation Institute (AMI) in Averill Park, New York in 1996. AMI’s courses

are now approved and accredited by the American Medical Association and the American Nurses 

Association. Leonard also serves as the author and editor of “Transformation,” the Journal of Meditation as 

Mind/Body Medicine. 

Leonard’s first book The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute’s Empowering 

Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life, is an encyclopedic guide to meditation and the 

Yoga Science that lies behind it. The book and its corresponding curriculum, taught by Leonard in his 

Foundations class, was enthusiastically endorsed by popular medical luminaries like Drs. Dean Ornish, 

Mehmet Oz and Larry Dossey.

Over the past twenty-five years, Leonard has served on the faculties of the New England Institute of 

Ayurvedic Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts and the International Himalayan Yoga Teachers Association 

in Calgary, Canada. He has studied in Rishikesh, India and is a direct disciple of Swami Rama of the 

Himalayas––the man who, in laboratory conditions at the Menninger Institute, demonstrated that blood 

pressure, heart rate and the autonomic nervous system can be voluntarily controlled. These research 

demonstrations have been one of the major cornerstones of the mind/body movement. 

Leonard has presented informative workshops on the benefits of meditation and Yoga Science at the M.D. 

Anderson Cancer Center, Kaiser Permanente, The Albany Medical College, The New York Times forum on 

Yoga Science, the Commonwealth Club of California, the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, the 

Washington University Medical School, the University of Colorado Medical School and the West Point

Association of Graduates.

Learn More

Books

• Your Conscience: The Key to Unlock Limitless Wisdom and Creativity and Solve All of Life’s 

Challenges by Leonard Perlmutter, with Jenness Cortez Perlmutter ($14.95)

• The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute’s Empowering Self-Care 

Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life by Leonard Perlmutter, with Jenness Cortez Perlmutter 

 (Second edition, $24.98)

• Both available from the American Meditation Institute at www.americanmeditation.org and on 

Amazon.com.

Institute/Classes

• Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2021, all classes taught at the American 

Meditation Institute have gone to the virtual Zoom platform. Classes are live and interactive with 

Leonard Perlmutter, providing the opportunity for students from around the world to participate from 

their own homes. Classes are recorded and links are made available to participants following each 

class. Please see the AMI website for the latest information and class schedule, or call us at the 

number below.

• American Meditation Institute

60 Garner Road

Averill Park, NY 12018

Phone: (518) 674-8714

• ami@americanmeditation.org

Free Weekly Guided Meditation and Satsang

• Every Sunday morning, Leonard Perlmutter leads a free 90 minute guide guided meditation and 

satsang (a practical, interactive discussion) using the Zoom virtual platform. Information and Zoom 

instructions are available at https://americanmeditation.org/sunday-meditation/

• The seated meditation practiced at AMI is known as mantra meditation. Participants will be asked to 

close their eyes and concentrate their silent attention on any name of the Divine Reality that they are 

most familiar and comfortable with. This ancient form of meditation is the basis for all modern 

meditation practices and offers innumerable benefits to practitioners.

Online/Video Courses
• Comprehensive Meditation and Easy-Gentle Yoga, 5 1/2 Hour Online Video Course: In this 40
segment video Leonard Perlmutter leads you through the entire curriculum contained in the revised
and expanded paperback edition of The Heart and Science of Yoga. This the perfect companion for
learning and practicing the world’s oldest and most effective holistic mind/body medicine.
http://americanmeditation.org/meditation-courses/
• Throughout the year Leonard presents numerous online distance-learning courses that stream
different aspects of The Heart and Science of Yoga curriculum in real time. Students around the
world regularly attend his popular “Yoga Psychology” online course in which he examines and
explains the perennial and practical psychology of the Bhagavad Gita scripture.
http://americanmeditation.org/meditation-courses/
Events
• The American Meditation Institute is committed to the health and safety of the students and
participants of its two beloved in-person annual special events. Until it is safe to gather in person,
the following regular events have been cancelled or reformatted to a virtual platform. Please see the
website for the latest details.
• Each July Leonard Perlmutter hosts his annual summer retreat at The American Meditation Institute
in Averill Park, New York. The curriculum presented at this four-day intensive is based on the
award-winning paperback book, The Heart and Science of Yoga.
http://americanmeditation.org/classes-events/
• Each year in late October Leonard Perlmutter and the AMI faculty present a five-day
comprehensive training for physicians and other healthcare providers at the Wyndhurst Manor &
Club at Miraval in Lenox, Massachusetts, based on the award-winning book, The Heart and
Science of Yoga. http://americanmeditation.org/classes-events/
Magazine
• Leonard Perlmutter is the author of Transformation, the quarterly journal of meditation as holistic
mind/body medicine. To subscribe, visit: http://americanmeditation.org/transformation-journal/
Social Networks
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