Transcendental Meditation movement
The Transcendental Meditation movement (TM) are programs and organizations that promote the Transcendental Meditation technique founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India in the 1950s. The organization was estimated to have 900,000 participants in 1977, a million by the 1980s, and 5 million in more recent years.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement
Transcendental Meditation center in Hanover, Germany
Students in Peru classroom practicing the TM technique
Maharishi Centre for Educational Excellence
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new religious movement and as non-religious. He became known as Maharishi and Yogi as an adult.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1978
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967 in The Netherlands at Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)
Left to right: Michael Cooper, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Shepard Sherbell and Brian Jones; sitting: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Concertgebouw Amsterdam, 1967)
The Maharishi's headquarters in Seelisberg, Switzerland