The Enlightened Sentencing Project; Transcendental Stress Management for Rehabilitation




Home Welcome Topics Materials Available Certification Non-profit Status __________ Home About us Research Experiences Endorse- ments Newsletters Links Orders Donations Thanks Contact us __________ Read an address by Hon. Judge Henry E. Autrey to US Probation and Parole Officers here. __________ See our Power Point slide presentation on TESP Ongoing Research __________ The Endorsements page includes remarks from Senator the Hon. Rita Days of the Missouri Senate, and from four judges on the TESP program. ________ A book on "The Enlightened Sentencing Project - 1997 to 2007", is available upon request. __________ We train US Probation and Parole Officers in the Transcendental Stress Management® program __________	TESP- an Alternative Sentencing Program utilizing the Transcendental Stress Management® (TSM) program for Offender Rehabilitation Farrokh K. Anklesaria Barrister-at-Law Founder and Executive Director of TESP Ruffina F. Anklesaria, M.A. TESP Director and Project Manager Dear Visitors: *Welcome* Welcome to the homepage of The Enlightened Sentencing Project (TESP). We are offering a consciousness-based approach to criminal rehabilitation. We use the Transcendental Stress Management program and proven programs for stress reduction, including neuro-muscular integration exercises (yoga) and neuro-respiratory techniques. (If you are interested in learning the Transcendental Stress Management program for your own benefit, and are not an offender, click here.) We hope that our website will serve as a resource for those of you in search of an alternative sentencing program that is highly effective. Several judges in St Louis, Missouri, and one in Illinois, have sentenced probationers and parolees to the course of instruction offered by The Enlightened Sentencing Project, as a condition of their probation. The graduates from our program report a remarkable transformation in their lives, and their stories can be read under Experiences. They are moving and inspiring. Anecdotal evidence is complemented by ongoing research on participants in the TESP program. Psychological tests are administered pre and post-participation. A study is being undertaken to gauge the long-term results of the program as far as it affects recidivism rates. See a slide presentation on our Ongoing Research. Our website provides Endorsements of our program from Senator the Hon. Rita Heard Days of the Missouri Legislature, several judges, probation and parole officers and from the probationers themselves. You are invited to watch a 10-minute videotape of Hon. Judge David C. Mason addressing TESP graduates on 12 9 09, here: Top Topics Other topics featured on our website are: A Bulletin Board. Newsletters. Acknowledgements of those who have contributed to the success of the TESP. Information on how to contact us. Top *Materials available* We are also pleased to offer a wide range of materials on our program, which you can order from our website - videotapes, information packages, and a book of experiences of our graduates. Top *Certified by Experience and Results* Farrokh and Ruffina Anklesaria have both been trained by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as teachers of the Transcendental Meditation® (TM) program. Farrokh was specially trained by Maharishi to introduce the program to the judiciary and to implement it in correctional settings. Together, Farrokh and Ruffina have over 50 years of full-time teaching experience and have instructed thousands of people in stress management meditation. All Instructors of The Enlightened Sentencing Project and the Transcendental Stress Management program, like Farrokh and Ruffina, are certified by their experience and proven results. See the Experiences of probationers who have taken the course with our instructors and the many benefits they enjoy. Top *Non-profit status* The Enlightened Sentencing Project is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization and you can view our Certificate of Incorporation and our Tax Exempt Certificate here. We welcome donations of any amount to continue our Mission. Please give to a worthy cause! We hope you find what you're looking for on our website! Contact us directly if you feel we can be of assistance to you. Farrokh & Ruffina F. Anklesaria TESP Directors Top Quote It should not be a function of psychology to remind a man that his past was miserable, or that his surroundings and circumstances were unfavorable, or that his associations were depressing and discouraging, or that there was a lack of love and harmony with those near to him. To remind anyone of such things will only result in lowering his consciousness. It should be considered criminal to tell anyone that his individual life is based on the inefficient and degenerate influence of his past environment. The psychological influence of such depressing information is demoralizing, and the inner core of the heart becomes twisted by it. Maharishi -Science of Being, and Art of Living, Pg. 264 __________ Quote corroborated by Probationer Keith M. "When you sit around talking about drugs all day, you keep talking about you did this and you did that, when you was [sic] on drugs, you're bringing yourself down, you ain't picking yourself up. And you keep on talking about it and you keep on playing with it in your mind. It ain't gonna be long before you go out and use it again! We know what the drugs do to us. Give us something in place of the drugs. ...I'm trying to get OFF drugs! It didn't make no (sic) sense" 2-8-05 Top	Press Articles __________ Missouri Lawyers Weekly of Feb 1, 10 _________ Over 25 articles were carried in newspapers and online on the TESP, from 12 9 09 - 1 31 10. See the Links to read about us in the St Louis Post Dispatch The Washington Post , The American Bar Association Journal , National Corrections Oversight Organization, African News Journal, India Times, Sentencing Law and Policy, and many others. __________ TESP gains Government recognition TESP is recognized by the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission (MOSAC). It is one of only four alternative sentencing programs recommended on the MOSAC website. You can view a saved copy of that web page here. __________ TESP is listed under the National Institute of Corrections in its Corrections Library online. You can view a saved copy of that web page here. USA.gov > U.S. Dept. of Justice > Bureau of Prisons > National Institute of Corrections > __________ We hold Orientation meetings once every six weeks for offenders sentenced by the courts in in St Louis. __________ We accept clients referred to us by their Probation and Parole Officers __________ The Liaison Officer between the Dept. of Probation & Parole, St Louis, and TESP is Mr. Bill Montgomery, M.A., LPC, CCJP, PPO II Contact him here. _________

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