We are proud to announce the MAOM Champions of Change March-April 2022 who have been empowering students and their wellbeing through the Mastery Over The Mind (MAOM) initiative coordinated by Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies.

The champions of the change program identified and recognizes Dr.Aswathy Alangode , of the Amrita School of Biotechnology (Amritapuri campus), Dr.Balachandar S, Shri Manoj Kumar CG, Shri Ranganadhan Nadadhur, Dr.Sriram Ananthanarayanan of our Directorate of Corporate & Industry Relations (CIR, Amritapuri campus), Dr.Mangalam Ramananthan , Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences (Amritapuri campus), Dr. S V B K V Gupta (Amritapuri campus), Shri Pavan Kumar SN (Bengaluru campus), Shri Sivakumar PG (Coimbatore campus) of Amrita Darshanam – International Center For Spiritual Studies, Dr. Vivek Menon of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, from the school of computing (Amritapuri campus), Prof. Sethuraman Rao of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amritapuri campus), Dr.Narmadha M.P. of Amrita School of Pharmacy (Kochi campus), Dr.Parthasarathy Srinivasan of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (Chennai campus).

Mastery Over the Mind (MAOM) is a University-wide initiative at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for stress management, good health, and well-being of all students, faculty members, and staff. With roots in Indian culture, this course and program are part of our efforts for sustainable stress reduction (UN SDG-3) and give an introduction to immediate and long-term benefits of ancient tradition-based stress reduction methods. The MAOM program equips every attendee to manage stressful emotions and anxiety facilitating inner peace and harmony. Based on a meditation technique offered by our Chancellor and world-renowned humanitarian and spiritual leader, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma), Mastery Over Mind Program is offered free for all members of the #AMRITA family.

Amrita’s Champions of Change were selected among our staff and faculty members who conducted several sessions over the weeks of March-April 2022 equipping attendees to manage stressful emotions and anxiety through sustainable and traditional stress reduction techniques as part of MAOM program.