BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:616@matagiri.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210701T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210705T120000 DTSTAMP:20210625T233342Z URL:https://matagiri.org/events/virtual-aum-2021/ SUMMARY:EVENTNAME - July 1\, 2021 - July 5\, 2021 - 9:00 pm - 12:00 pm - DESCRIPTION:\n\n \;\n\nPlease join us July 1st -July 5th for online sem inars and meetings to celebrate our international community and support th e Relief Efforts of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville.\n\n\n\nGloball y the US\, Europe and India are hopefully emerging from the pandemic while at the same time facing variants and large unprotected populations and re alizing that no one is safe until we’re all safe.\n\nAs we try to emerge from this time of introspection and reflection\, what have we learned and what lies ahead for us as individuals and institutions? This year’s vir tual All USA Meeting invites a diverse group of integral yoga scholars and workers to share their insights.\n\nREGISTER BY WRITING TO MATAGIRICENTER @GMAIL.COM\nSchedule\nThursday July 1st\n9 pm NY (6:30 am Fri the 2nd in A V)\nAuroville Update with Renu and Chali\n\nHas Auroville weathered the st orm? What did the stresses of covid reveal?\n\nBoth Renu and Chali have lo ng and deep involvement with Auroville and have both had a perch in the US A to look back from here. This will be an informal conversation to share s ome insights on the past year and to look ahead.\n\n\n\nFriday July 2nd\n1 0 am NY (7:30 pm AV)\nSwadharma is a flagship course of Auroville Campus I nitiative (ACI) running since 2016 re-imagining Auroville as a new type of international university. Manoj and Divyanshi will be presenting Swadharm a and the work of ACI and how they are adapting to the Covid challenge and emerging new possibilities.\n\n\n\n11 am NY (8:30 pm AV)\nMartha Orton\nR emembering and Offering\nThe brief phrase given to us by the Mother\, advi sing us to “Remember and offer\,” can be regarded as central to the pr actice of the integral yoga. This presentation will explore various aspect s of offering and its significance.\n\n\n\nNoon NY (9:30 pm AV)\nInternati onal Hangout\nAnyone can drop in to chat and catch up\n\n \;\n\n \ ;\n\n\n\nSaturday July 3rd\n9 to 9:30 am NY (6:30-7pm AV)\nYoga Stretch an d Relaxation\nwith Wendy Lines\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\n10 am NY (7:30pm in AV)\nRobert McDermott and Debashish Banerji\nRobert and Debashish have taught courses at the California Institute of Integral Studies of Integra l Studies such as: Sri Aurobindo and Modern Thought\, Wisdom Texts East an d West\, Krishna\, Buddha\, Christ\, and Sophia and presentations such as the Spiritual Mission of the California Institute of Integral Studies and Sri Aurobindo’s Legacy.\nTheir collaborative writing has included Veda a nd Logos: Rudolf Steiner and Sri Aurobindo\, Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo.\n\n \n\nNoon NY (9:30 pm AV)\nSantosh Krinsky\nSantosh Krinsky has been studyi ng Sri Aurobindo’s writings since 1971 and has a daily blog at http://sr iaurobindostudies.wordpress.com since 2009. He does a daily podcast at htt p://anchor.fm/santosh-krinsky He is author of 16 books of “Readings” i n Sri Aurobindo’s writings and is editor-in-chief at Lotus Press\, the p ublisher of the USA editions of the major writings of Sri Aurobindo. His p resentation will focus on the methodology and benefit of studying Sri Auro bindo’s writings on a systematic day-to-day basis through the blogging p rocess.”\n\n\n\n7 pm NY (4:30 am 4th July AV)\nLara Davis: Can Buildings Improve Local Ecologies?\nSummary: This presentation looks at Auroville's relevance to the world with respect to the use of earth as a building mat erial. How can we go beyond mitigating the environmental impact of buildin gs\, to focus on holistic co-design of the built environment and local eco logies?\n\nMIT Graduate Lara Davis spent 8 years at Auroville's Earth Inst itute and has worked on projects around India and internationally.\n\n\n\n 9 pm (6:30 am 4th July AV)\nIY Roundtable\nA drop-in discussion open to an yone about the basics of their path\, their own Notes Along the Way…\n\n  \;\n\n\n\nSunday July 4th\n8:30 am NY (6 pm IST)\nPranayama with JV\n Yoga session consisting of Yogic stretches\, Pranayama (Yogic breathing) a nd Deep Relaxation\n\n \;\n\n\n\n10 am NY (7:30 pm IST)\nDevdip Gangul i and Richard Hartz on China\nRichard Hartz joined the Sri Aurobindo Ashra m Archives in 1980 after studying philosophy and Indian languages at Yale and the University of Washington. Several years ago while writing his book \, The Clasp of Civilizations: Globalization and Religion in a Multicultur al World\, he became interested in the cultural and spiritual links betwee n India and China and began learning Chinese. While visiting China in 2019 \, he gave lectures on Sri Aurobindo and the New Confucian philosopher Mou Zongsang. More recently he wrote an article about Sri Aurobindo and the N eo-Confucian master Wang Yangming for the Beijing International Review of Education. His compilation of writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother tra nslated into Chinese by Hu Hsu (Xu Fancheng) is being prepared for publica tion in China.\n\nDevdip Ganguli grew up at the Sri Aurobindo Internationa l Centre of Education at Pondicherry (India)\, also known as the ‘Ashram School’. After completing his studies in 2004\, he joined the Sri Aurob indo Ashram. He has been teaching courses on Indian culture and on the soc ial and political thought of Sri Aurobindo to undergraduate students for t he last 17 years. He also assists the trustees of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in their administrative responsibilities.\n2 pm NY (11:30 pm IST)\nCollective Reading: The Mother\, the Story of Her Life by Georges Van Vrekhem\nThis group has been meeting every Sunday. We each read a page or so with occasi onal comments and discussion.\nDon Salmon\nSunday 5 pm (2:30 am July 5th i n AV)\nDon will be inviting people to look within and "see" if they can "f eel" the collective shift that is getting stronger and stronger by the day - to "see" the apparent disorder and chaos in the world simply as the dus t rising into the air as the Mother sweeps away the debris of the former a ge to allow the new Light to shine. He'll talk about how he sees his work\ , not so much to present Sri Aurobindo directly but rather\, to present th at much of the Integral Yoga as possible to those who are on the "cusp" of awakening - the many millions of people in the world who are being touche d by the new Consciousness but are not yet ready in their surface minds to open to it fully.\n\n \;\nMonday July 5th\n8 am (5:30 pm IST)\nAwaren ess Through the Body Session with Amir\nSpend some time observing\, scanni ng and going within.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n9:30 am NY (7 pm IST)\nAmeeta Mehra\nASPIRATION TOWARDS THE NEW CREATION\nThe Gnostic Centre’s work\n\ nhttps://gnostic.in/\n\n \;\n\n11 am NY (8:30 pm IST)\nGopika: Antarya mi - The Inner Witness\nAn Expressive Arts Session\n\nIn this global pande mic\, the world arrives at a pause and we have become witness to our selve s\, perhaps closer than before. What is it that you are noticing? Antaryam i ‘The Inner Witness’ is an experiment and an exploration in response to this question. It begins with mantra sounds from India to follow an int ermodal journey into harnessing your own inner voice as a witness and a cr eative player.\n\nKrishna and Julie's Musical Collaboration (pre-recorded) TBA\n\nREGISTER BY WRITING TO MATAGIRICENTER@GMAIL.COM CATEGORIES:AUM Conference,Special Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR