Integral Yoga Study Groups in USA


Alabama

Auburn Sri Aurobindo Study Circle
163 Windsor Circle, Auburn, AL 36832

 
Contact:
Bill Flick,  334-826-7950
email:  bflick@auburn.edu
Description:
Meetings every other Sunday at 3:00 pm to study the works of Sri Aurobindo or The Mother. We listen to Mother's music, discuss the reading, and end with a meditation. We also have a small library of Sri Aurobindo and Mother's books.



California

East Bay Integral Yoga Study Circle

Pinole, CA 94564

Contact:

Paul Molinari
510-222-5229
pjmolinari@usa.net
Description:
This group has been meeting since 1981 and began as a separate entity after M.P. Pandit's return to India after having been a visiting scholar at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
We've read many of the works by Sri Aurobindo and Mother and are currently reading The Synthesis of Yoga.
Our group meetings are in Pinole, CA, on the third Sunday of every month between the hours of 10:00am and noon. We occasionally gather for luncheons and have special meetings for Darshan days.

Future plans:
Our strategy is to understand the principles and vision of Integral Yoga and put these into our daily practice.

La Mesa (San Diego) Study Group

4251 Woodland Drive
La Mesa, CA 91941

Contact:

Prapanna Smith
619-465-4269
prapanna@earthlink.net
Description:
Our group meets every Thursday evening from 7:30 to 9:00. We are currently reading Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. The reading is followed by discussion and a meditation.

Sacramento Study Group
Sacramento CA 95816
USA

Contact:
David Hutchinson
dbhutchinson@ucdavis.edu
Description:
The study group meets on Thursday evenings at present. We read from a text of Sri Aurobindo or Mother and discuss the text. Each meeting begins and ends with a short silent meditation.

San Diego Study Group

Contact:
Chitta or Shila Goswami
18910-3 Caminito Cantilena, San Diego, CA 92128
858-487-5623
shilagoswami@yahoo.com
Description:
The group meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Rancho Barnardo area. We take up various texts of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother for study and close our meetings with a group meditation. Please call to confirm day and time.

San Francisco Study Group

Contact:
Jan Stein, (415) 751-1307
Description:
A "Synthesis of Yoga" study group meets on alternate Thursdays, 12:15-1:15 p.m.

Sri Aurobindo Study Group (Silicon Valley)

Contact:
 Bhavi Saklecha
  45990 Tissiack Place
  Fremont Ca 94531
  Phone: (510)-770-1111
  Email: bhavi.ca@gmail.com

Kalpana Patel
1347 Castlemont Avenue, #2
San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: 408 866 7395
Cell: 408 314 9168
 Email: kalpupatel@hotmail.com
 

Description:
 We meet regularly three times a week. On Monday evenings at 8:00 pm in San Jose where we are reading Sri Aurobindo's "The Life Divine." During and after the reading sessions, we are open to questions and discussion. On Wednesday evenings at 8:00 pm we meet in San Jose to read Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. (We do not have discussions on this evening). Sessions are usually preceded by meditation with Mother's organ music or with Sunil-da's music and concluded with a brief meditation. On Sunday evenings we meet in Fremont at 7:00pm where we read the Mother's "Questions and Answers." The study groups are followed by a dinner of bread and "dal".

We also meet on Sunday mornings for group basketball from 8:00-10:00am in Santa Clara. (Junction of San Thomas Expressway and Cabrillo, school yard basket ball court)
 
Every third Saturday we carpool to the Lodi Ashram for the monthly Collective Yoga retreat. Every fourth Saturday we try to have a hike in one of the many trails around the Bay Area. On Darshan days we gather for meditation at 6:00 am in San Jose. Visiting members from Sri Aurobindo centers are welcome to stay at our homes.

Colorado

Sri Aurobindo Circle of Boulder

Contact:
Lynda Lester,
4264 Greenbriar Bl.
Boulder, CO 80305
303-497-1285 (day)
303-543-9964 (eve)
email: lester@ucar.edu
Description:
The Sri Aurobindo Circle of Boulder dates back to 1974. Madhusudan Reddy from Hyderabad, Prabhat Poddar of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and Madas from the Sri Aurobindo Center for Progress in Los Angeles were invited to Boulder to participate in the World Invocation Day Conference, for which Lynda Lester was a primary organizer and Muriel Spanier a volunteer. On June 4, Dr. Reddy gave an inspiring talk on Integral Yoga at Nancy Spanier's home to a group of interested seekers. After the talk, attendees decided to form the Boulder Sri Aurobindo Circle as a "point of light" for Sri Aurobindo's vision in Boulder.

Some informal meetings were held that summer and the following spring, after which the group became inactive. Its work was carried on by Muriel and Joe Spanier who, after going back to Matagiri for a short while, returned to Boulder in 1976 to found Sri Aurobindo's Action Center(SAAC). They were joined the next year by Larry Tepper. Lynda Lester, who'd spent six years with Madas and the Sri Aurobindo Center for Progress, returned to Boulder in 1980 and maintained close ties with SAAC for the duration of its existence. SAAC was active from 1976 through the early 1990s, holding regular meditations, offering booksales, hosting visitors, and promoting Auroville. After Muriel passed away in 1993, the center closed. On August 15, 1995, Lynda resurrected the Boulder Sri Aurobindo Circle.

The group meets monthly to meditate, read excerpts from Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's works, and discuss Integral Yoga. The group has celebrated Darshans and spiritual holidays, offered a "music and consciousness" work-shop, hosted a guest speaker on Sri Aurobindo, and shown videos on Auroville. A subgroup meets regularly for a more detailed examination of yoga practice in daily life. Books are available for purchase, and occasional presentations on Integral Yoga are given to the wider Boulder community. Group members are part of a larger sangha that includes followers of other paths who come together on various occasions. As part of the broader Aurobindonian community, various individuals in the group have helped produce the Integral Yoga journal "Collaboration," served on the board of the Sri Aurobindo Association and Auroville International USA, attended AUM conferences, participated in the Integral Yoga Mailing List (http://iy.collaboration.org), and visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville.
Future plans:
Possible future activities include developing a stronger study group, offering more presentations in the Boulder area on Integral Yoga, and collaborating with other centers on weekend yoga intensives.
How you can help:
Donation: A data projector (of the InFocus type) would be helpful for giving presentations on the Integral Yoga to other Integral Yoga centers and the general spiritual community.
Karma yoga: Anyone who does editing, proofreading, or layout would be welcome to help produce the journal "Collaboration"!
Travel funds for weekend yoga intensives would be helpful.

Georgia

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Study Group

Contact:
Ariel Browne
Phone: 770-662-6881
email:  arielb@mindspring.com
Description:
For devotees and those who are interested in Integral yoga: we meditate, share readings from the writings, listen to Mother's music and have discussion. Everyone is welcome. We also hold Darshan Gatherings, and there are ongoing workshops, support groups, research seminars in cellular evolution, classes and open house meetings sponsored by Aur-ientation Integral Healing Center.

Illinois

Sri Aurobindo Study Circle

4324 Hammersmith Ln.
Glenview, IL 60025


Contact:
Ramesh & Jayshri Pandya
630-871-9813
Lakshman & Hansa Sehgal
email: lhsehgal@aol.com
Description:
We meet on the first Sunday of the month from 3:00pm to 5:00pm and discuss the chapter that everyone has read in preparation from the book, Essays on the Gita. We also meet on the closest Sunday to the Darshan days from 3:00pm to 9:00pm, when we gather for a reading, meditation, devotional music and potluck prasad dinner. We rotate and meet at different residences, so please call to confirm address.

Massachusetts

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's Study

108 Kilmarnock St.
Apt. 102
Boston, MA 02215
USA
Contact:
Mary "Angel" Finn, (617) 262-6390
jaschlorholtz@hotmail.com
Description:
Founded 40 years ago by the late Eugene "Mickey" Finn as an informal group reading Savitri and meditating. Mickey's wife, Mary "Angel" Finn has kept the Center going at her residence with the help of faithful devotees. We offer Darshan services, weekly Wednesday night meditations, explanation of the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and special organized functions.

Nebraska

Gyanamritam

Contact:
Sudhir Kalra
Phone: 402-492-9385
skalra@oppd.com
Description:
We are a study group meeting once a week in one of the participant's residence. Though we do not read exclusively the works of Sri Aurobindo, we are studying the Essays on the Gita.

New Mexico

Albuquerque Study Circle of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

We meet on Sundays from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Ayurvedic Institute (Albuquerque). The programs will include devotional music, meditation, reading from Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
Contact:
D.P. Soni, aurostudy@aol.com

New York

 

Manhattan Study Circle of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother

Contact:

Amrita Sandhu
(917) 836-4008
mira.auro@gmail.com

Rohini Verma
(212) 517-4692
verma_rohini@yahoo.com

Description:


We meet weekly on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm. We start with a 30 minute meditation to Mother's organ music or New Year Music and proceed to a reading from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. We are currently reading Letters on Yoga I. We have completed Emergence of the Psychic by A.S. Dalal and Sri Aurobindo's The Mother. We end each meeting with a reading from Savitri. We rotate and meet at different residences, so please call to confirm address.


Texas

Sri Aurobindo Study Group of El Paso

Contact:
Charles Elerick
915-833-9422
E-mail: celerick@utep.edu
Description:
We meet weekly during the academic year on Mondays at 7:30 pm. We start with a reading from the Gita or an Upanishad, discussing it in the light of the Integral Yoga, and proceed to a reading from the work of Sri Aurobindo or the Mother. We end each meeting with a meditation. The study group plans to start a general interest, introductory study session series for those in the community who may wish to learn about the Integral Yoga, and is in contact with members of the Indian and Yoga groups in El Paso who may become involved in this broader effort. Suggestions are invited regarding materials and readings that are especially appropriate for those who are starting to explore the Yoga.

Sri Aurobindo Study Circle of Houston

Contact:
 
Radhakrishna
Ph. 281-992-0045
rgkrishna815@hotmail.com
 
Cyril Frevlov
Ph. 832-721-2079
E-mail : cyrilf@earthlink.net
 
Description:
Sri Aurobindo Study Circle of Houston was started in August 1991. Since then the study circle has been engaged in the activities of study and contemplation of the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and participated in various activities. Current activities include group meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays for reading and discussion from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother with brief meditation in the beginning and at the end. Retreats with a larger group from Houston and neighboring areas are held at someone's residence or at a picnic place, where a theme in Integral Yoga is picked up by the participants, and relevant excerpts from the writings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are read and discussed with a potluck dinner at the end. Special meetings are also held on Darshan Days, and whenever visitors come from within USA or from abroad. A small collection of the writings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo are available. Please let us know if someone visiting Houston from within USA or from abroad; we will be happy to host them.

Sri Aurobindo Circle (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex)

2625 Timberhaven Drive
Flowermound, TX 75028
USA
Contact:
Sangeet Aurovatsa or Kunjal Patel, (972) 829 3161
E-mail: sangeet15@gmail.com
Description:
Started in 1995. Meet periodically for group meditation, reading from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and occasional viewing of videos produced from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

Washington

Seattle Sri Aurobindo Circle

Contact:
Diane Thome
3514 NE 187th St
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

Diane Thome: 206-365-2386
Karen Litfin:206-524-4440
Description:
The group was founded in July of 1996 for the purpose of studying the works of Sri Aurobindo and Mother, encouraging members in their sadhana, and meeting regularly for meditation. Study groups are held every Tuesday evening in Seattle. In addition, there are monthly meetings for special studies, the observance of Darshan days, and weekend retreats in the spring and fall. Inquiries are welcome.

Wisconsin

Burlington Sri Aurobindo Circle

Contact:
David Mitchell
Description:
Meetings every Sunday at 7:30pm. Meditations daily at 6:00am.


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