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
The Endangered Crafts Mela is a unique project which revives traditional cultural fabrication techniques, emphasizing technical creativity and ingenuity in ch...
Pongal is a festival of abundance celebrated by Tamil people throughout Southeast Asia, both in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. It typically falls in the middle of...
Every Soul Is Unique is a co-creative musical play, performed by 70 children from the Auroville area, including children from outreach programs and ...
Watch the Concert at the Seeds of Unity Festival at Solitude Farm. Krishna McKenzie's band Emergence will be joined by special music guests on December 23. Watch the Livestr...
Conversations with Adil Writer
Adil Writer will join us on a filmed tour of his ceramic studio in Aurovill...
Aurosugan followed his passion, becoming the founder of Aurokiya Eye Care Center, bringing preventative eye care and blindness preventio...
Dr.Venkataswamy and the Eye Care Revolution in India
Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy, known as ‘Dr V.’ was the founder Aravind Eye Hospitals, and a disciple of <a href...