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Providing Instruction in the
Transcendental Stress Management® Program
Dear Visitors: Welcome to our home page! We hope our website will provide you with the information you require and inspire you to give us a call to learn more about the Transcendental Stress Management® program. We also offer instruction in other holistic health strategies that complement the practice of TSM meditation - Hatha Yoga Asanas (gentle physical exercises), and Pranayama (effortless breathing exercises). Farrokh & Ruffina
Our Logo, Symbol of What We Teach The TSMO logo, an archer drawing his arrow back a few inches to shoot forward most dynamically to hit the target, symbolizes the beautiful Vedic expression contained in the Bhagavad-Gita II.48, "Yogastah kuru karmani" The translation is: "Established in Being, Perform Action". Like the archer, we are advised to perform one small action first, pull the arrow back on the bow, take the mind back to its source in deep meditation, to guarantee success in our activity, to reach our goal, to hit the target. That one action, of collecting the mind, allowing it to settle down in deep meditation to its own true nature, is the essence of Yoga. That place that it comes to, deep within, is the Source of Thought, the Home of All the Laws of Nature. The experience is totally restful for the mind and for the body and produces all the health benefits referred to on this website. This is the experience of our own inner "Being", our own unbounded nature. The symbolism contained in our logo is therefore simple. Meditate first then perform action. After you have established your mind in its own blissful Self, everything else becomes more enjoyable and beneficial. All success is guaranteed. Health improves, the mind unfolds its full potential, our social behavior improves and we become peaceful units of society, radiating health and wholeness to everyone. The Sun in our logo represents the greater goal of Enlightenment. Regular practice of the TSM meditation removes stresses and strains in the nervous system and allows the inner light of pure knowledge to awaken within. We live life at its 200% value - 100% enjoying outer activity and 100% inner life. We live life in harmony with natural law. The TSM program is rooted in the Vedic tradition in India. All the Vedic literature exhorts man to seek perfection within. The beautiful phrase, "Yogastah Kuru Karmani", "Established in Being Perform Action", taken from the Bhagavad Gita, and represented by the archer whose target is the Sun (symbolizing Knowledge for Enlightenment), fully captures our work.
We have a combined experience of over sixty years teaching meditation and conducting successful Transcendental Stress Management courses around the world. Farrokh is a Barrister-at-Law who has spent many years traveling with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation® program. Farrokh represented Maharishi to nine Heads of State and Heads of Government around the world. Maharishi specially trained him to conduct programs in the field of rehabilitation of prisoners and offenders. This he has done successfully in penal institutions all around the world. His most well-known project was conducted in the West African country of Senegal, where 12,000 prisoners were instructed in meditation, at the invitation of the government. This project was made into a documentary and a book was written on it. Farrokh has personally instructed over 4,000 persons in meditation and implemented projects around the world for the instruction of over 35,000 inmates, offenders and staff members in the field of criminal rehabilitation. (Read Farrokh's full biodata here). Ruffina's background is in diplomacy. She has an M.A. in International Affairs from Washington University in St Louis, and an Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Management (graduate level) from the same university. She became an instructor in the Transcendental Meditation program in 1978. She has taught hundreds of people to meditate since then, including the Mother Superior of the Carmelite nuns in Trinidad and Tobago, the First Lady of one Caribbean country, and scores of students in the Philippines, at the invitation of the government there. In 1999, she joined Farrokh in St Louis to run The Enlightened Sentencing Project (TESP), a non-profit 501 c 3 organization, teaching the TSM program to offenders sent by the courts, as its Project Manager. Ruffina is also a poet, author and publisher. Her first book of poetry is "Kavita - Poems of Light and Communion." She has established and runs her own publishing company, "Golden Light Books LLC." We are both grateful to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for training us as teachers of the Transcendental Meditation program. We are, however, not associated with the national TM organization. We teach the Transcendental Stress Management program under our own organization, the TSMO LLC, founded in 2006. We have both worked in many countries teaching meditation and stress management courses. Our work has been featured on TV and radio and in many newspapers around the world. We were featured on March 8, 2006, in The Riverfront Times of St Louis in an article entitled "Peace and Punishment."
The Transcendental Stress Management Program We teach the Transcendental Stress Management Program, consisting primarily of instruction in the TSM meditation and follow-up classes. Read more details about the TSM program here. We offer a 10-lesson Certificate Training Program
for Probation and Parole Officers in the TSM program, and for
Members of the Armed Services and Protective Services. Probation
and Parole Officers and Members of the Armed Services and Protective
Services are in very stressful occupations. It is vital that they
take care of their health if they hope to be on the job and live as long
as the rest of the population. Our training program is conducted at
our facilities in St Louis or can be conducted in-house at your office if
you have the facilities we require. We have many graduates in St
Louis from this program and we encourage you to have your Human Resource
Department contact us for details. We also provide instruction in Hatha Yoga postures, gentle physical exercises and postures that tone up the body, rejuvenate the organs and release stresses, and in Pranayama, natural breathing exercises that settle the mind and body. These are offered as an adjunct to the practice of the TSM meditation.
The tradition of Vedic Masters from which the TSM program comes is an authentic one. One of the most brilliant spiritual lights from this Vedic tradition was Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (1870-1953), Maharishi's Master. You can read more about Guru Dev's life here.
Who can benefit from the Transcendental Stress Management program
For freedom from stress and knowledge for enlightenment, call us at 314 521 4390 to arrange to attend a free introductory lecture. See our address and other contact details here.
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