Whether you sign up for 2, 3, or 4 nights, the course will provide the experience of deep transcending and gentle and effective dissolution of stress. Special guest TM teachers will address the needs of our time for development, educational excellence, rehabilitation, peace and transformation.

Father Gabriel Mejia is a Catholic priest and a TM practitioner from Colombia. He is the founder of a network of over 40 rehabilitation centers throughout Colombia, Fundación Hogares Claret (Claret Homes Foundation), which provides sanctuary for displaced street children by taking in anyone who needs help. Father Mejia has helped over 45,000 young people get off the streets and away from drugs and crime, transforming their lives by facilitating the teaching of TM and the TM-Sidhi program. He will join our retreat via Zoom.

Ron Ringsrud, is a TM Governor and Director of Clayhands, a non-profit in both California and Colombia. Mr. Ringsrud has built meditation halls for the children in Father Mejia's centers. He will interpret and comment on his experience teaching TM in Colombia with Father Gabriel Mejia.

Dr. David Orme-Johnson, renowned researcher and founding faculty member at Maharishi International University, will be co-leading the retreat, discussing Maharishi's greatest contributions, with a focus on group technology of TM for transforming society (see Global Impact of the Maharishi Effect from 1974 to 2017: Theory and Research, David W. Orme-Johnson & Lee Fergusson).

Dr. Rhoda Orme-Johnson, a founding MIU faculty member, professor, and chair of the department of literature and languages at MIU, has published scholarly papers connecting ancient and modern Vedic Science to literature in a volume called The Flow of Consciousness -Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on Literature and Language (MUM Press, 2010). Rhoda will share some poetry during our retreat.