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
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
Auroville is meant to be a laboratory for human evolutionary change on all levels of human existence, physical, vital, emotional, mental and spiritual. Auroville is going to...
R.Meenakshi, a Tamil Poet of Auroville
"I was a born poet! Before I could read or write I used to make up poems and recite and throw them around in my head. Ever since I have been in Auroville I have lived in this ...
The Auroville Dog Shelter is the new iteration of Auroville’s central dog care service. It is taking over duties from previous groups and starting afresh....
Sunny’s Bras for Girls Project
It was with this certainty that I woke in early November, 2022 with the idea of collecting bras to take around the globe. Hear me out before you think me crazy…bras were ...
Aurovilians and guests gather in the Amphitheater before dawn on February 28 every year. The Bonfire is lit and recordings of the Mother reading the Auroville Charter and othe...
The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, 1878-1973, is the creative force behind the birth of Auroville. Every year, during the fourth week of February, Auroville celebrat...
Auroville welcomed the world-renowned mantra artist Krishna Das on February 12th, 2023. Krishna Das' live chanting event in Auroville's Matrimandir Amphithea...