Depuis 2 ans et demi une equipe de passionnes explore, a Auroville, cette dicipline nee avec le troisieme millenaire sur le continent americain. Damien nous presente cette nouveaute entre Yoga, Cirque et Massage Thai. Le tandem franco-americain Damien et Mark apres un long travail de decryptage a partir de livres et videos, accede a une maitrise qui leur permet d'offrir maintenant la possibilite de pratiquer cette activite a Auroville au centre Arka les dimanche 8h-10h et mardi/jeudi 7h-9h, Louise a Windara farm samedi 15-17h. Ready to fly? Read more

Following is the recording of session with Russian Singing Bells on African Land in International Zone - the land appointed for the Africa House / Pavilion of African Culture. After short introduction of bells by Vera and Ashesh to the participants, the whole session, which purpose was meditation for peace and unity, has developed and grown into its own special harmonious melody. Of course recordings are many times merely the pale reflection,  in which so often we cannot feel the special energy present in interaction at the time. Read more

February is almost here, and that month carries important dates for Auroville. As it is custom for this month Loretta prepares exhibition with the chosen topic on The Mother and Sri Aurobindo at Savitri Bhavan. This year we will dwell in the Mother's Yoga. Beside the exhibition of paragraphs from Agenda on the topic there will be five talks supporting it, along with two volumes of 900 pages and audio CD on 3 Mother's talks in English on the topic of Yoga. The talks will start on 26th of January , continually every Saturday at %.30pm.

Unity Gathering 12.12.12. at Matrimandir Unity Garden last night started with offerings and young children's unfolding movement dressed in rainbow colored costumes. Some acrobatics accepted joyfully by the gathered community was followed with Aloe and Arthur singing Imagine (John Lennon). While small candles were lithe community slowly moved toward the Banyan tree to offer light for our Unity.The  Russian Bells resonated at the area interwove children voices, steps, prayers, thoughts ... Read more

Yesterday the community caught a glimpse of all that was the Auroville Festival: City for Transformation, held at the India International Centre in New Dehli, from 14-21 September. Yesterday, most of the participants again expressed the great joy they had to be part of the festival, and as Aster Patel mentioned at the beginning, all throughout the event, from the day one of organizing until the closing tea ceremony, there was a tremendous feeling of grace. Video clips and images brought the festival back to life in front of our eyes. Read more

At the Auroville Festival - City for Transformation at India International Centre in New Delhi we have recorded the voices of young Delhi who turn our for the Sunday talk series and evening writers forum on day three of the Auroville Festival. The recordings include the curator of TEDx Delhi who came to try and convince some of the Auroville speakers to come back to Delhi to present at the TED talk event later this year. Read more

In this phone recording from Dehli from the Auroville Festival - City for Transformation at India International Centre we are featuring Sebastian and Sumeet with some after thoughts on the whole event, or at least the part which is behind us with the many different talks, round tables and discussions. As Sebastian emphasizes Auroville can communicate and should communicate with larger public and this festival has proven the capacity of being proactive in dialog. Sumeet sees a real value in the festival if there is a follow up. Read more

For the conclusion of "active" part of the Auroville Festival at India International Center, Dehli Aurelio, Anu and Marco share with us some glimpses, experiences. In all, the whole event was warmly received by broader public, with positive feedback and huge interest in projects of Auroville because they are bringing totally different attitude, different way to perceive the world by doing and that model has practical implications. Auroville it is something which has to grow in freedom, has to nurture its own autonomy with the responsibility Read more

Third and last day for talks and round tables of Auroville Festival-City for Transformation at Indian International Centre in New Dehli, and in this piece we are featuring Vimal. Vimal, graphic designer and author of the coffee table book "Creative Expressions" shares with us bits and pieces of his impressions on the festival. In the afternoon he will present his book along with Marco on Auroville Film Festival and Pierre Legrand with Writing in Colour.Morning talks were again very well received by audience, which actively interacted afterwards Read more

In this late night phone recording we are featuring Suryagandhi's impressions on the Auroville Festival - City for Transformation at India International Centre in New Dehli. As she has pointed out we still got lot to learn, and share. Since she is actively involved in the project of Integral Health, she will be talking on it tomorrow along with Dr.Sumeet Kumar and Dr.Jacques Verre. Suryagandhi, while working at the reception desk for the festival, also noticed that audience is very much interested in interaction on many levels. Read more

We feature Anu talking on her impressions of second day of the AV Festival - City for Transformation at the India International Centre in New Dehli, revealing some details on the event. She has noticed from audience lot of curiosity about all the different projects, further seen vibrant, vivid engagement with the topic through interesting discussions. Dr.Karan Singh who started and concluded the day in between mentioned that it is time that not only out world discover Auroville, but also for Auroville to discover that is the world out there Read more

The second day of Auroville Festival at India International Centre in Dehli has started with inaugural sessions on the covering theme Auroville City for Transformation,and Aster Patel shares with us some details in this phone recording at the spot. As she mentioned all speakers (Dr. Karan Singh, Smt, Ambika Soni, Dr. Kapila Vatsayayan, Srhi Sili Sorabjee and Mr, Shigeru Aoyagi) spoke of Auroville very warmly. The Auroville Round Table was extremely powerful since participants shared their own experiences in transforming process in AV. Read more

The Auroville Festival - City for Transformation in indian International Centre in New Dehli has finally opened its doors today after many months of careful preparations with welcoming address by Dr. Karan Singh. Bridget, Joss, Jyoti, Wendy and Deepti shares with us first impressions, first feeling of the whole event, which is very special for its size, complexity of addressing talks and round tables, and the largest number of art pieces out of Auroville at the same time. Read more

How can art and communication can contribute to human unity in Auroville? "For me it was a blessing to come to Auroville and find here planted seeds which are echo for my search. As a musician and multimedia producer I feel an enormous receptivity to art in the city of the future. My joy was even greater when I came to know that the aim of Auroville is to achieve human unity. In this context how art and communication can contribute to it?" Andrea, Nuria and Aryamani interviewed by Sebastian. Read more

After visiting Turkey and Central Europe with workshops on Integral Yoga - workshops Vera and Ashesh talked with us about their recent experiences. For past three years at Savitri Bhavan in International Zone Ashesh is giving lectures - workshops on Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, and The Mother with Vera assistance. As Ashesh says this is a very enjoyable experience to him because people who attend workshops always come with the attention to learn, and they respond from their depths when they hear The Mother, Sri Aurobindo words Read more

Although Michael Miovic, a psychiatrist and longtime student of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother has spent hours to explore the subject of Yoga, it took a personal experience: to be struck with the chakras (or jewel earth centres) presence. He had a deep experience of the Earth consciousness and the quality of American land which is described as Muladhara chakra. Since then he is amazed by the topic, the revelations of spiritual anatomy of the world. But also aware that for human unity to come we must appreciate and accept the differences. Read more

Aswapati and Sri Aurobindo in Savitri : The book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in which the levels of the World Stair are described, contains one of the great revelations of Savitri. It is of prime importance to realize that the Traveller, named Aswapati, is Sri Aurobindo himself writing from his experience. Savitri is given to us to participate and grow in its reality. If thought of as the poetic experiences of a mythical or legendary figure, the experience of sharing in Sri Aurobindo’s mantric evocations might become removed from us.

The walls of reality: shedding our evolutionary impediments : Seeing the world from inside out, normally we humans are not aware that our perceptions of Reality are not direct, and therefore not really real, because we are enclosed within the deforming walls of the evolutionary species to which we belong. This existential way of being became critically important in the experiments of quantum physics, where Reality remains indefinable and only the interaction of the scientific instruments with Reality can be interpreted.

‘Philosophy had become too much a thing of abstractions, a seeking for abstract truths in a world of ideas and words rather than what it should be, a discovery of the real reality of things.’ (Sri Aurobindo) True philosophy in the East, but originally also in the West, was indeed a search for mental truth but at the same time for ways to apply such truth to life. Essentially the true philosopher is a yogi and the yogi a philosopher.

Loretta was already excited before departing on her trip to Columbia to give workshops at AuroMira, Ashram above Villa de Lleyva . After her return she stopped at the radio with eyes even fuller of all the impressions; sharing with us amazing coincidences, and what truthful aspiration can bring. We can feel what it is like to be in the mountains of Columbia. We can experience the real aspirations of the women in AuroMira, dedicated to the teachings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and the aspirations of the people who came to the workshops.. Read more

On the 5th of May N&N announced an open talk by Sraddhalu at SAWCHU, but the Working Committee canceled the talk about the controversy surrounding  Peter Heehs book on Sri Aurobindo. Columbia University Press released it in 2008. Controversy followed. We talked with Loretta about the ban, about the book, about Peter Heehs, about Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The Mother said that "in peace and harmony the eternal manifests. The first thing that you have to base everything upon is harmony. When there is disharmony things don't work." Read more

This year Loretta was invited by Auromira Ashram in Columbia to give lectures on Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. The ashram was created in 2003 only for furthering the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The founder of Auromira was Maria, assisted by Swami Brahmdev, who, inspired by Sri Aurobindo, had founded Aurovalley Ashram in UP state.. Loretta will open her talks with the thought - what is so important about Sri Aurobindo and The Mother that you should want to know what they say Read more

If one tries to understand what really awaits us with the first sacred music festival Kabir, stumbles upon something that is not reachable by words, it is something that will need to be experienced on our own. For sure for three days the next weekend of 6th, 7th and 8th of April we will be busy with it. In the mornings and afternoons they will screen films on Kabir, which could give us the key to the beginning of understanding. Evenings full of different musicians and artist, and since the group is big it will be hard to avoid them in all. Read more

Auroville will be richer from this year on also for the first sacred music festival - Kabir, which will happen on 6th, 7th and 8th of April. Moghan, one of the Auroville Performing Arts Group member, and one of the organizers talks with us on the festival itself and shortly about Kabir, a mystic poet, who was beyond any religion but had a beautiful mystic experience being one with the Divine. The poetry and music itself is very touchy, simple and speaks directly to the heart. It is joyful as the meeting with the spirit of Divine should be. Read more

Building and maintaining a healthy voice, creating consciousness for the spoken word, strengthen the body and voice, enhancing communication skills - this is what Vocal Yoga is all about. In Acceptance, one of the Auroville Communities, international Vocal Yoga experts exchange their knowledge, do vocal research and share their knowledge by giving classes. Listen to the experts Clare (US), Caroline (F), Simone (IT) and Helene (RU) and to the different exercises recorded in French, Russian, Italian and English. Read more

On Thursday, 48 Aurovilians and visitors came together to Sve-Dame, wanting to experience the benefits of laughter yoga. Fif, a certified laughter yoga teacher from Canada has come to Auroville to spread the art of laughter yoga. Together with Hamish, her husband, and Dariya, an Aurovillian, she wants to make people explore this unusual type of yoga. She’s giving us an interview about the philosophy behind laughter yoga, its history and benefits. What is laughter yoga good for? How do the participants feel about the session? Read more

Talking about Anu's book 'The God Enchanter' so recently published, as well as other recited excerpts, the question came up while at Bharat Nivas on humanity, hardly to be avoided. According to Sri Aurobindo, transition takes place when every man recognizes his sacred state. Tolerance for one another, deeper recognition of the other as equally sacred should take place in little shifts in our attitude individually. In search for human unity we still tend to look for an external mechanism, where growth in consciousness to take place. Read more

Dr. Rekha Tandon, an Indian Classical dancer, presented an often forgotten similarity between yoga and dance, especially classical Indian, where both are exploratory forms in which we work through matter to find the spirit. As in yoga, the Indian classical dance poses are much about balancing the body, the spinal chord, and so the chakras. And as in the yogic chakra system, by practicing the Indian classical dance forms, a person can truly begin to experience the transition from matter to spirit.

..."But the hour is often terrible, of fire and whirlwind and the tempest, a threading of the winepress of the feed of God..." says Sri Aurobindo on the Hour of God which Loretta quote in our interview or reflections on recent cyclone Thane raging over Auroville and nearby villages. And as she says that when something happens that hurts you, and it hurts you much, you stop and ask, although the Hour of God is not physical thing but it does crush down something inside of us. The bottom line is LOVE, which made and manifest the Universe. Read more

Dr Elizabeth Ursic has been visiting Auroville during the month of January as a visiting scholar in residence and hosted an interactive session on Friday 13th January at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies, Bharat Nivas on the Divine Feminine. During this session, Elizabeth shared her latest research describing 3 Christian communities in the USA that have adopted a contemporary approach to prayer and worship by bringing the feminine to the forefront, sometimes generating controversy among the more conservative members of their faith. Read more