At the same time, T follicular regulatory (Tfr) cells interact with B cells and inhibit antibody responses.
In this reaction, T follicular helper (Tfh) cells interact with B cells to stimulate antibody responses. The vast majority of antibody responses originate from a highly organized process called the germinal center reaction. By understanding these pathways, therapeutics can be developed that can optimize vaccine responses and treat systemic autoimmunity. Therefore, the immune system has developed intricate regulatory machinery to ensure that antibody responses are both appropriate and tightly controlled. However, dysregulation of antibody responses can result in systemic autoimmunity. Antibodies clear harmful pathogens and mediate protection elicited by vaccination. We were challenged to look deep within ourselves to learn more about who we are as individuals.Research in the Sage Lab focuses on understanding how the immune system regulates B cell responses and antibody production. As one student wrote in a recent evaluation, “The class has been eye opening. We become a community of explorers seeking greater meaning in all expressions of life, from walking down the street to aspiring for human greatness. With my students I explore different aspects of the Yoga lifestyle either from the vantage point of the mind ( Yoga and the Meaning of Life) or the body ( Theology of the Yoga Body). I also teach two classes as adjunct faculty at George Washington University in Washington, DC. It has been a privilege to spread the ancient teachings of the wise sages to diverse peoples, knowing that they provide such useful tools for fulfillment in daily living and transformation of consciousness.
I have rubbed shoulders with people of all religions and skin-colors, celebrating the beauty of the human family.Īs senior faculty member of the Ananda Marga Yoga Teacher Training School I have trained over 300 aspiring teachers worldwide in Brazil, Syria, USA, Ghana and Denmark. I have been arrested, threatened at gunpoint and feted as a hero. I have stepped foot in over 60 countries, visiting presidential palaces and village huts. As international coordinator of the charitable organization AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team), I have traveled extensively setting up and evaluating grass-roots development projects. Since then I have used my time for spiritual teaching and global service, trying my best to live up to the high ideals of my guiding guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.
I returned to the East in 1981, this time to train as a yoga monk for a year at the Ananda Marga Training Center in Nepal, and the right to my spiritual name, Vishvarupananda. Meditation has been the most significant activity of my life, providing me with an inner source of nourishment and a broadening perspective.Īfter attending Aston Polytechnic and spending time in France as an English teacher and meditation center director, I decided to plunge more deeply into spiritual life. In that mystifying land I learned meditation and began my introspective journey. I decided to go to India and see for myself, embarking upon an adventurous overland trip soon after completing secondary school. The author talks about barely believable stories of gurus being in two places at the same time, of reading people’s minds like a book, and so on. Since then I have been seeking out the “deep.” Soon after my bus epiphany I came across a book written by the Indian sage Paramahansa Yogananda called Autobiography of a Yogi. I was gazing out at the busy streets wondering: “Is that all there is to life: a predictable and repetitive march from cradle to grave? There has to be something deeper.” My current journey in life started on the top deck of a London bus in 1972.
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