These programs include the TM-Sidhi program, Maharishi Ayurveda and Maharishi Sthapatya Veda.

Maharishi Ayurveda is an alternative system of health care that aims to restore balance in the physiology, eliminate impurities, and awaken the body's natural healing mechanisms.

Maharishi Sthapatya Veda is a system of architectural and planning principles based on " ancient Sanskrit texts " The movement also operates numerous schools and universities, offers monastic programs called Mother Divine and Thousand Headed Purusha, operates health centers such as The Raj and Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center, assorted businesses such as Maharishi Ayurveda Products International and several TM-centered communities.

** Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, based on Ayurveda

Following an earthquake in Armenia, the Maharishi trained Russian TM teachers and set up a Maharishi Ayurveda training center in the Urals region.

Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health ( MVAH ) ( also known as Maharishi Ayurveda and Maharishi Vedic Medicine ) was founded internationally in the mid 1980s by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who developed the Transcendental Meditation technique ( TM ).

Distinct from traditional Ayurveda, Maharishi Ayurveda ( MAV ) emphasizes the role of consciousness, gives importance to positive emotions, and supports being in tune with the natural rhythms of the body.

A 2008 study published in JAMA reported that two of the 19 Maharishi Ayurveda products tested contained heavy metals.

In Alternative Medicine and Ethics, Stephen Barrett describes 20 components to Maharishi Ayurveda:

According to Kenneth Pelletier, " Insofar as Ayurveda constitutes an integrated orientation to healthy physical, mental, and spiritual practices, as it does in the Maharishi Ayur-Ved system, it would seem to be conducive to good health and spiritual well-being.

Andrew Weil writes that, in India, Ayurveda is an inexpensive alternative to allopathic medicine available to all people, while Maharishi Ayurveda is expensive.

The Raj, a Maharishi Ayurveda health spa in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa.

Maharishi Ayurvedic herbal products are manufactured and distributed by several companies, including: Maharishi Ayurveda Products Pvt.

Maharishi Ayurveda Products International ( MAPI ) of Colorado Springs sells more than 400 products and in 2000, was said to be the largest Ayurvedic company in North America, with reported sales of $ 20 million in 1999.

Two Maharishi Ayurveda Products International Inc. USA ( MAPI ) products, " Vital Lady " and " Worry Free " were found to have detectable levels of lead, but seventeen other MAPI products tested had no detectable levels of lead, mercury, or arsenic.

JAMA editors claimed that Chopra and his co-authors had financial interests in " Maharishi Vedic Medicine " products and services.

On realizing that Maharishi had hit him with his foot, Lord asked him, “ Maharishi, are you hurt in your foot?

* August 27 – The Beatles, in Bangor, Wales, with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, are informed of the death of their manager Brian Epstein, and they return to London at once.

The birth name, birth date, and caste of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi are not known with certainty, in part because of the tradition of ascetics and monks to renounce family connections.

" She quotes the Maharishi as saying ," Our primitive conditions here are not good enough for Westerners ; however, once they get into the bliss of good meditation, all else will be unimportant.

The major gotras that trace descent from sages are: Shri Vatsya, Kanva, Jamadagni, Bhrigu, Bharadvâja, Kaundinya, Gautama Maharishi, Sandilya, Bhrigu, Vashista, Parāshara, Atryasa, Harithasa, Kashyapa, and Agastya gotra.

Maharishi University of Management emphasizes " natural health " and students are encouraged to maintain a regular schedule of academic work, rest, meals, and exercise.

Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health seeks to reconnect physiological functioning with the body's inner intelligence by reducing and eliminating impurities and imbalances that are said to be the cause of disease.

According to the Maharishi Open University web site archive, there are Maharishi Ayurveda spas and health centers around the world, including two in the United States, three in Germany, two in Switzerland and one in Yugoslovia.

Additional therapies generally undertaken in association with Maharishi Panchakarma are Maharishi Gandharva Veda music therapy and aromatherapy.

Typical Maharishi Panchakarma treatments take 2 hours per day, over the course of 3 to 14 days, and are recommended several times per year as ideal, usually in conjunction with the change of seasons.

The Maharishi and experts in MAV, working with Vedic and Western scholars, have developed, marketed, and researched a variety of botanical preparations that are based on restored ancient Ayurvedic recipes.

The terms Transcendental Meditation, TM-Sidhi, Yogic Flying, Maharishi Vedic Vibration Technology, Maharishi Ayur-Veda, Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health, Maharishi Sthapatya Veda, Maharishi Purusha, Maharishi Ayur-Veda College, Maharishi Yoga, Maharishi Gandharva Veda and Vedic Sound Therapy, Mother Divine, Ideal Girls School, 24 Hour Bliss, Spiritual University of America, Breath of Serenity, Vedic Science, Vastu Vidya, Time Zone Capital, Council of Supreme Intelligence, and Prevention Wing of the Military are some of the registered or common law trademarks licensed to Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation.

The Transcendental Meditation movement ( also referred to as Transcendental Meditation ( TM ), " Maharishi's worldwide movement ", and the Transcendental Meditation organization ) is a world-wide organization, sometimes characterised as a neo-Hindu new religious movement, and also as non-religious, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 1950s.

Maharishi Patanjali the major compiler of yogic traditions is also considered to be an incarnation of the great Shesha.

Maharishi Bhrigu () was one of the seven great sages, the Saptarshis, in ancient India, one of the many Prajapatis ( the facilitators of Creation ) created by Brahma ( The God of Creation ), the first compiler of predictive astrology, and also the author of Bhrigu Samhita, the astrological ( Jyotish ) classic written during the Vedic period, Treta yuga.

Maharishi Bhrigu was also present there.

In 1971 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( January 12, 1918 – February 5, 2008 ) introduced Transcendental Meditation ( also known as TM ) at a former popular resort called Hobergs.

Best known representatives include Maha MahaRishi Paranjothiar ( Kundalini Yoga ), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( Transcendental Meditation ), Sai Baba, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Balyogeshwar ( also known as " Guru Maharaj Ji ", " Maharaji ", and " Prem Rawat ") ( Divine Light Mission ), and Rajneesh ( Sannyasis ).

It was also then that he was first publicly known with the name " Maharishi " an honorific title meaning " great sage " after receiving the title from " Indian Pundits ".

This was also the year in which the Maharishi trained Henry Nyburg to be the first Transcendental Meditation teacher in Europe.

The Maharishi toured cities in Europe, Asia, North America and India in 1963, and also addressed ministers of the Indian Parliament.

At that time, the Maharishi also began approaching the business community via an organisation called the American Foundation for SCI ( AFSCI ), whose objective was to eliminate stress for business professionals.

More modern proponents such as the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi have also tried to correlate recent developments from quantum physics and consciousness research with Hindu concepts.

Maharishi Vedic Astrology ( also known as Maharishi Jyotish ) is said to address planetary influences on individual health.

The Raam is also in use in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa.

The Transcendental Meditation movement ( also referred to as Transcendental Meditation ( TM ), " Maharishi's worldwide movement ", and the Transcendental Meditation organization ) is a term or phrase that refers to the programs and organizations connected to the Transcendental Meditation technique, which was developed and or introduced by the founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Maharishi Sthapatya Veda is a system of architectural and planning principles based on " ancient Sanskrit texts " The movement also operates numerous schools and universities, offers monastic programs called Mother Divine and Thousand Headed Purusha, operates health centers such as The Raj and Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center, assorted businesses such as Maharishi Ayurveda Products International and several TM-centered communities.