Physiology and Health (B.A.)
What We Teach
The B.A. in Physiology and Health prepares its students to be health educators in the field of prevention of disease and promotion of health. Graduates will study how to prevent disease and promote health according to the Maharishi Consciousness-Based Approach to Health. The program includes the following areas of study:
- Discovery of the Veda and Vedic Literature in human physiology — study of the precise relationship between the structures and functions of human physiology and the fundamental structures of natural law contained in the Veda and Vedic Literature.
- Vedic anatomy and Vedic physiology — study of the expressions of the body’s inner intelligence (the 40 aspects of Veda and the Vedic Literature) with reference to the findings of 150 years of modern scientific research in physiology.
- Pulse diagnosis — learning to detect balance and imbalance in the body by feeling the pulse.
- Diet — study of diets that balance and nourish the physiology.
- Procedures for physiological purification.
- Development of Consciousness — practicing the Transcendental Meditationand TM-Sidhi programs to enliven the full creative potential of the student, to give direct experience of the field of intelligence, and to promote deep rest, release of stress, and a high level of mind-body coordination.
- Scientific foundations of health in biology, including livings systems, molecular and cell biology and human physiology.
- Training as patient educators — Students are trained as patient educators. They learn how to explain doctors’ recommendations to patients and to lecture about disease prevention and health promotion.
- Additional undergraduate study — Students who have not completed an undergraduate degree at the end of the foundations program will take additional courses in physiology and health and general education requirements.