| Dr.
John C. Peterson
Dr.
Peterson is a board certified Family Practice MD practicing in Muncie, Indiana.
He graduated in biology from Grinnel College, Iowa, in 1970 and attended medical
school at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He finished his Family Practice
residency at Ball Memorial Hospital in 1977 and started practicing medicine that
year in Muncie.
He has been interested in the Vedic tradition since learning the Transcendental
Meditation® technique in 1972. He completed the first Maharishi Ayur-Veda®
Physicians Training program in 1985 and has studied extensively in this country
with many great Ayur-Vedic physicians, including Dr. Triguna and Dr. Raju.
Vicki
Peterson
Vicki
met John in a “Future of Man” interdisciplinary seminar at Grinnell College their
senior year. She received her BA with honors in biology and did three years of
research in molecular genetics at the University of Iowa Zoology Department while
he was in medical school.
Vicki has instructed over 500 people in the Transcendental
Meditation technique since her teacher training course in La Antilla Spain in
1973. She studied Maharishi Ayurveda in India with His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi and Balraj Maharishi in 1986 and 1988. She’s been an Ayurvedic patient educator
since taking the first Ayurveda course taught at Maharishi International University
in January of 1984.
An experienced lecturer on the TM program and Maharishi
Ayur-veda, Vicki writes alternative medicine articles for Indiana’s Branches magazine.
She has attended many health professional conferences in Maharishi Ayurveda, including
a two week Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health course in Albuquerque, New Mexico
in 1999
Vicki is a re-certified teacher of the Transcendental Meditation
program and loves helping teach TM to sixth grade girls at the Nataki Talibah
Schoolhouse of Detroit several times a year.
The Petersons have maintained
a Maharishi Ayur-Veda consultation service since 1984 and use the principles of
Ayur-Veda in their daily life. They have three grown children who also enjoy Ayur-Veda.
Sarah
Lyttle
Sarah
Lyttle began managing the Ayurveda office for Dr. John and Vicki Peterson in 1985.
She took on the job of patient educator in 2005 after receiving her BA in Health
Education from Ball State University in 2004. She is currently working on a Masters
in Gerontology at the Fischer Institute for Wellness at Ball State.
Sarah
began practicing Yoga 30 years ago, when she was pregnant with her first child.
She has taught yoga for 15 years, using an eclectic style with an Iyengar base.
Since 1999, she’s taught yoga at the Ball State Recreation Department and at the
Center for Vital Aging since 2001. She has also taught yoga for patients at the
Ball Memorial Hospital Cancer Center and for the staff at Planned Parenthood,
Comprehensive Mental Health and Medial Consultants.
Since 2001 Sarah teaches
visual art and yoga for children with special needs, ages 9 months to 25 years
old, as a teaching artist with Very Special Arts of Indiana. She visits local
public schools with Kids on the Block, a puppet-based teaching program about children
with disabilities. Sarah is certified in Newborn massage, Yoga for the Special
Child and Laughing Yoga | |
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