AVI USA BLOG

THE AVI USA BLOG

The AVI USA Blog brings you updates from Auroville, our partners and projects, and our own AVI USA developments. Check back in frequently for new articles.

Auroville Today’s New Website & Free Article

To celebrate the launch of Auroville Today's new website, we are collaborating to bring you the latest Auroville news for the next few months. AVI USA readers will have first

Auroville Today Headline Article, April 2023

UTSAV -A Mixed Use Experimental Building Complex | Interview with Mona, lead architect.

President’s Letter

Every day I’m working on practical matters elated to AVI USA’s mission. I work on financial reports and bookkeeping, on revisions to the website, and on reviewing applications and reports

Haridas Choudhuri and Integral Yoga

With Debashish Banerjee. A course at the California Institute for Integral Studies

AVI USA’s Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Training

The  Volunteer Retention and Recruitment Workshop opened the discussion about developing an initiative by attracting enthusiastic, and potentially longterm volunteers. Finding and keeping volunteers within a growing project brings new

AVI USA and IDRF

Several months ago, AVI USA Director of Development, Binah Thillairajah, reached out to a sister nonprofit, IDRF, the India Development and Relief Fund, to jumpstart an AVI USA- IDRF collaboration

ATB at Madhuban Ashram

This March, Amir, a certified Awareness Through the Body trainer, led workshops at the Delhi and Madhuban Sri Aurobindo Ashrams. AVI USA board member Julian Lines was there to bring

Doug Grimes

Around a year ago Doug Grimes called me to discuss creating a bequest to support AVI USA’s work. He had been studying and teaching yoga since the 1970s. He had

AVI USA Donor Development Training

On Monday, February 10th, AVI USA held a Donor Development Training in Auroville. The training was designed for AVI USA’s partners & projects leaders in Auroville, to discuss, create and collaborate

Tholkaappia Poonga

A welcome oasis of green, far removed from the metropolis' daily hustle, in the happy company of pelicans and mangroves:

India’s Watercolors

India, who did the water color paintings, is just 19 and is living here, in Auroville, with her Italian parents, brothers and sisters.It is Emmanuele (the cartoonist) who intr...

Auroville Youth Choir

The Auroville Youth choir has been under the leadership of conductor Nuria Casanova since 1995. The choir had a remarkable performace recently so we reached out to Nuria to fi...

Boston Garden Party

Join AVI USA for afternoon tea in the garden, in Boston, MA, September 3 at 4PM, at Maya and Terry Balle's residence. We will meet and talk to Sriman Kota, the founder of t...

Honoring Sri Aurobindo – The Visionary Who Inspired Auroville

Auroville is a crystallization of Sri Aurobindo’s vision, and it has been offered space to grow on the soil of India. <...

Auroville Dog Shelter!

Auroville Dog Shelter is holding a fundraising campaign for new housing for the beloved dogs. Find out more here 🧡

Sri Aurobindo Film

Saturday August 19, we will screen Olivier Barot's first documentary, Sri Aurobindo & The Earth's Future, with an introduction by the director. Join us on Zoom to learn ab...

Agni Nakshatra

Summer in Auroville, Agni Nakshatra, the Hot Season, was an invitation to slow down our days, pursue quieter activities, and find a spot to contemplate and rest.  Nature...

Ricky Kej & Svaram

3x Grammy winner Ricky Kej generously offered the original material of the title track of his Award-Winning Album ‘Wonders of Life’ that he co-produced with the legendary ...