Activities

Among the Center’s activities are collective studies, meditations, aesthetic events, public discourses, and weekend retreats.

Each Sunday evening at 7, the Center holds a collective study, satsang, focusing on the practice of the Integral Yoga. The prelude to our meeting is the Mother's music and Sanskrit chants, followed by a presentation touching on the salient features of the evening's material, with questions and answers. The evening is capped with collective meditation. We have worked recently with The Yoga of Divine Works, the Mother’s Conversations, some of her Questions and Answers series, and are in a lengthy study of Essays on the Gita.

Satsang 24th July 2011 (57.3MB)

Satsang 31st July 2011 (44.5MB)

Satsang 14th August 2011 (61MB)

All are welcome to join us for meditation. We offer two daily sessions at the Center, the first from 6 to 6.30 in the morning, the second from 5.30 to 6 in the evening. At the end of the evening meditation, we read two pages aloud from Sri Aurobindo's great epic, Savitri.

To enhance and offer context to the Integral Yoga, once a month on a Thursday evening, we offer a public talk on aspects of the Indian spiritual tradition. Over the years, these have included the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, the Tantric tradition, Vedanta, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, and Indian mythology. Collective meditation concludes these evenings. A scattering of the themes addressed include “Towards a Music of the Soul,” “Great Stories of Spiritual India,” “The Psychology of the Sutras,” “Yoga: Many Paths to Oneness,” “Myth and Mantra in the Upanishads,” and “Gorakhnath, Lord of Yogis.” Next we turn to the Vedantic and Tantric traditions.

From time to time, the Center sponsors weekend retreats which focus on aspects of spiritual practice. These retreats have been held both locally and afar, in Seattle, New York, San Diego, Auburn, and Magnolia Springs, Alabama. A few of the themes covered over the years include “The Soul Afire,” “From Death to Life: An Awareness Weekend,” “Women, Power, and Yoga,” “Beyond Suffering,” “Building a Community of Consciousness,” “Ensouling the Personality,” ”Understanding World Events from the Inside Out,” “The Practice of Peace,” and ”Power in the Practice: The Technique of Tapasya.”

The Center occasionally offers the viewing of significant films dealing with the growth of consciousness. For all events, the public is welcome to attend without charge.