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Events at US Centers

2024 marks Auroville International USA’s 50th anniversary as a nonprofit organization. The gathering of friends working and dreaming of an Auroville of limitless possibilities received their official nonprofit designation from the state of California on April 5, 1974. The single moving force behind AVI USA was June Maher, a radiant being inspired by the Mother’s … Read more

The Pulaha Fellowship provides young individuals, who share this wish, the opportunity to regenerate forests, restore watersheds, and live in a community committed to transforming forests to their indigenous fullness. Jean Luc Pulaha was a free spirit and lover of nature. There was nothing he enjoyed more than walking in forests, climbing mountains, or being … Read more

We are writing to you from WasteLess. We are Chandrah and Ribhu, siblings who grew up together in the barren Auroville of the 80s and 90s. With the freedom of exploration and playing in the red soil canyons, which turned into wild streams every monsoon. We saw how new seedlings sprouted and grew, attracting life … Read more

John Mandeen, came to Pondicherry from California, in October 1968 as a young man of 24 and was accepted by the Mother as an Ashramite. He helped set up the first screen printing workshop in the Ashram Press. All birthday cards with the Mother’s symbol in those days were screen printed there besides book covers.

In February 2024, AVI USA supported Martin and the Sanskrit Research Institute, SRI, in hosting the 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium. We reconnected with Martin to hear more about his story as well as his impressions of the event. 

Promoting Ayurveda: the knowledge of life | An Interview with Ayurvedic Dr. Be