Jayalakshmi P, Vandana Balakrishnan and Anand Sadasivan
Amrita School of Medicine, Kochi
Integrated Amrita Meditation (IAM) is a unique practice, harmonizing yoga, and
meditation, to bring about an integration of body, mind, and breath converging to a state
of serene tranquility. This article portrays the results of a research probing the reciprocity
between IAM regimen’s yogic postures, visualization, focused breathing, and inner
peace of female school teachers. A cross-sectional online survey was undertaken via a
Google form, to acquire primary data using standardized questionnaire for analysis, using
SPSS. This probe examined the level of satisfaction of 53 schoolteachers influenced
by the main features of IAM, using Pearson correlation analysis. In addition, the study
investigated the school teachers’ perceptions of the relevance of IAM on their spiritual
as well as environmental well-being, with regard to age and body mass index (BMI).This
investigation showed a strong correlation among variables related to various dimensions
of IAM routines. Besides, the research demonstrated a moderate response rate, based
on the quartile values of all the items in the standardized questionnaire, on the 5 point-
Likert scale. Interestingly, the perception scores were found to differ significantly by the
BMI, rather than the age factor of school teachers. This investigation exemplified how
school teachers in educational settings embraced the IAM introspective discipline, to
preserve a sense of self-respect and reverence for the environment. The study, exhibiting
positive implications for educators, underscored the benign outcomesof IAM practices
that need to be sponsored in the educational sector, to comprehensively harness the
innate dormant potential in school teachers.