Owen Blake grew up in Fairfield and attended Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment for grades 8-12. Although several universities offered him basketball scholarships, he decided to enroll at MIU and continue with Consciousness-Based education. He graduated with a BA in Media and Communications in 2012 and then stayed at MIU to work in Admissions for a year.
Two books detailing the growth of spirituality and enlightenment via the Transcendental Meditation technique have recently been published.
Mohan Gurubatham, Maharishi International University Adjunct Professor, has received international acclaim for his higher order thinking model, which he calls an “active higher order thinking learning model enhanced by Transcendental Meditation for the far transfer of knowledge and skills.”
Higher Order Thinking
Higher order thinking with far transfer is the ability for a student to make sense of and use academic information outside of the classroom. Lower order thinking, on the other hand, is the merely the ability to recall facts. Educators have traditionally found that higher order thinking...
Even as yoga becomes popular in the West, India is losing touch with its own tradition — a direction that new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi intends to reverse.
Tal Ron grew up in Hararit, a tiny village in the mountains of northern Israel where residents practice the Transcendental Meditation® program. Tal has practiced the TM® technique since early childhood and always dreamt of becoming a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation program and coming to MIU.
MIU student Maggie Robinson learned the TM® technique at 19, and four years later she became a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation® technique. Had she known about MIU at the time, she would have become a student. That was about 40 years ago. Now, a mother of three and a grandmother of five, Maggie decided it’s better late than never. Last summer, she and her husband Rhett sold their four-acre pesticide-free farm in Pennsylvania and enrolled at MIU.
According to an NBC News report, reduced school violence and suspension, improved academic performance and attendance, reduced anxiety and stress, and increased self-esteem and happiness are just a few of the striking results the Quiet Time program has achieved in some of San Francisco’s most stressful schools since the program’s 2007 launch.
Puki, a 2009 graduate of the MIU Media and Communications program, works for the David Lynch Foundation in one of the most exciting cities in the U.S. She’s currently working in L.A. and is about to move to New York City in a few months.
At Maharishi International University (MIU), students come from all around the world to learn from the best of the best about health and how to improve it through the ancient system of Maharishi AyurVeda.
Undergraduate Physiology and Health students study with top-notch Maharishi AyurVedic professors, MDs, and Vaidyas with decades of experience, and then put that knowledge to work in a practicum class in the local Integrative Wellness Center.
One thing that such students learn is Maharishi AyurVedic pulse diagnosis, which is a powerful tool for learning about...
