Michael Yankaus

About Michael Yankaus

Current: Consciousness Based Education Representative, India; Former Director of the Silicon Valley Transcendental Meditation Center, Mountain View; affiliated with the Heart & Vascular Associates Medical Center, and South Asian Heart Center, Mt. View, California, 20••••23. Experience: 50+ years of teaching experience with the TM program, in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Michael co-directed Transcendental Meditation Centers in Berkeley, Palo Alto, San Diego, Santa Ana, and Santa Cruz California; Tempe, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Antrim, New Hampshire; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Lexington, Kentucky. Helped establish a sq. ft. TM & Ayurveda facility on the expansion campus of the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Former Managing Director and Patient Educator at the Chicago Center for Chronic Disease, Illinois, specializing in Ayurveda Health programs with Dr. Richard Averbach. Helped establish a Maharishi Vedic University, in Indore, India. Specially appointed as a Regional Lecturer for the TM program in the SF Bay Area, teaching TM courses through Stanford University; Stanford Research Institue; SF State University; UC, Berkeley; SJ State University; Sonoma State University; and UC, Santa Cruz. Degrees: M.A. Education, Maharishi University of Management, Iowa, 1981 B.S.C.I, Maharishi European Research University, Switzerland, 1977 Certified TM & Maharishi Yoga Instructor, Rishikesh, Himalayas, India, 1970. Certified Maharishi Ayurveda Health Educator, Holland, 1992. Maharishi Award Recipient, Maharishi International University, 2020 Professional Background: Former Design Professional at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s International Administrative Center, Seelisberg, Switzerland. Responsibilities included design and production of TM related educational and promotional publications. Former Art Director of O’Neill Inc, Santa Cruz; an internationally recognized surfing and action sport company with licensees in Europe, Australia, Japan, and Brazil. He has won numerous Western Art Directors Club graphic design awards, including a Print Magazine Annual Casebook Award for exhibition design; and a Book of the Year Award for a book published in Austria featuring his photo journalism.

Experience

1. Director

   Transcendental Meditation

   May 2008 — Present

   Certified Transcendental Meditation technique instructor, Maharishi Yoga instructor, Maharishi Ayurveda health educator. Affiliated with the Heart & Vascular Associates Medical Center, Dr. Cesar Molina; formerly affiliated Transcendental Meditation Instructor with the South Asian Heart Center, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA.

Education

• Maharishi International University

  Master's degree, Education

• Maharishi International University

  MA, Education

• Academy of Art University

  Graphic design, drawing

• Maharishi European Research University, Switzerland

  BS, Philosophy

• California College of the Arts

  Painting, sculpture