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December 2015
25 December 2015
EVS Project 2015: Photo album
A photo album memento of the EVS project: “Whispering to wild horses : using holistic non-formal education to help children gain greater self control and awaken empathy” that took place between October 2014 and February 2016 and was financed by Erasmus Plus. Thank you to our…
21 December 2015
AMURT Calendar
AMURT UK have produced a 2016 calendar based on beautiful images taken in Burkina Faso and annotated by profound African proverbs.
16 December 2015
Erasmus plus project: "Children in Permaculture" - Asociatia Educatiei Neoumaniste
“Children in Permaculture” is a 3-year project funded through Erasmus+ Key Action 2: School Education. The partnership is across 5 countries: UK, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Italy.
11 December 2015
Argentina
Download Usha, the newsletter of Ananda Marga Women’s Welfare Department in Argentina:
10 December 2015
AMURT Annual Report and Appeal
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) is an international relief and development organization that draws on the principles of yoga to help people evolve. In particular, AMURT seeks to promote interconnectedness and compassion.
8 December 2015
Syrian refugee program in Lebanon
During the past two years, AMURTEL’s president, Denise Deshaies has been travelling to Lebanon to lead trainings in Neohumanist Education for the staff of a project serving the Syrian refugee children there. In less than a year, the AMURT Lebanon Child Friendly Space (CFS)…
7 December 2015
Nepal earthquake relief: teacher training
AMURTEL Romania participated in the fundraising to aid the immediate interventions after the earthquake in Nepal. Distributions of desperately needed items, including food, clothing, blankets and housing materials were the first stage of the intervention.
November 2015
24 November 2015
Ecological Awareness Workshop for Children
In our modern era, in which technology begins to attract little ones’ attention from their very first life experiences, how can we raise our children in full awareness of nature, so that they develop an authentic relationship with the natural world around them?
24 November 2015
Ecological Awareness Workshop for Children
In our modern era, when technology begins to attract little ones' attention from their very first life experiences, how can we raise our children in full awareness of nature, so that they develop an authentic relationship with the world around them.
20 November 2015
Fountain of Hope’s 8th Year!
This October, the Fountain of Hope opened its doors for a new school year! The project has been flourishing under the inspired leadership of Larisa Bratucu. In 2015 she has organized several community actions. The children were involved in the “National Week of…
20 November 2015
WWD Golden Jubilee video
I just made this video documentation of the WWD Golden Jubilee held in Ananda Nagar. My master, Shrii Shrii Anandamurtii founded a special section of Ananda Marga “WWD” standing for the Women’s Welfare Department in 1965 with the mission of promoting the all-round upliftment…
15 November 2015
News from anandamarga.org
11 November 2015
My experience volunteering in Panatau Romania
My experience as an EVS (European Voluntary Services) volunteer in AMURTEL Romania began in April this year. I left Portugal with a lot of enthusiasm because I really identified with the project “Whispering to wild horses” which has as main goal to help children through a…
8 November 2015
A practice in assembly lines
We had a huge turnout of volunteers today, nearly 75 people showing up to help out! Needless to say, there were a lot of opportunities to make new friends. The only difficulty when we get such a large turnout is that we may not have enough jobs for everyone to do. So, we ask…
October 2015
28 October 2015
The Role of the Artist in Society
Last night I gave a short speech at the RAWA (Renaissance Artists and Writers Association) Concert in Kolkata. The program was held in a packed auditorium at Science City. I spoke about RAWA, and its aim of liberating artists from the fetters of political repression and…
16 October 2015
Great opportunity for groups! Thanks to PSI
Groups are especially welcome at Food for All DC!
16 October 2015
Round table in Panatau
On October, 2015 AMURTEL organized a round table discussion with public authorities from the local council, the Department of Child Protection and our own representatives on the theme of Sub-contracting Social Services. Technically, the mechanism for public authorities to…
15 October 2015
Child Friendly Spaces in a hostile environment
In the white afternoon sun and dust, about a dozen children run through the barbed wire gate of the camp to one dirt hill after another, urging their plastic bag and stick kites into the air. Their numerous brothers and sisters stay behind with parents or the families living…
12 October 2015
Prout in Chile
Dada Maheshvarananda presented a series of Prout talks in Chile recently…
September 2015
25 September 2015
Workshop on Ecological Awareness for Children
In our modern era, in which technology begins attacting children’s attention from their earliest experiences, how can we support children to nurture and sustain an authentic relationship with the natural world? This was the subject that Professor Ruai Gregory from the Blue…
23 September 2015
Dance, theater and memories: video from the anniversary
Remembering 20 years of Familia AMURTEL!
21 September 2015
20 years dedicated to the Romanian children
This Saturday, Familia AMURTEL has celebrated 20 years of care and dedication to children of Romania It has been 20 years since the children from Familia AMURTEL have started a new life! They have been reunited this week-end! AMURTEL Romania arrived in 1992, and after…
21 September 2015
Medical Mission Sisters of Korogocho slum Interim Report on Great Health Naturally therapy.
Great Health Naturally studies Korogocho Project
14 September 2015
AMURTEL Romania – 20 years of activity
AMURTEL’s 20th Anniversary in Panatau! Join us to celebrate our 20th Anniversary in Panatau, Romania!
9 September 2015
AMURTEL’s Bio Garden awarded by UniCredit
On September 8, 2015, the AMURTEL Bio Garden was awarded the first place prize in the UniCredit “Your Choice” competition, which was organized through NESST, an important incubator of social enterprises in Romania. It was a satisfying recognition for the project team, in…
7 September 2015
AMURTEL organized Panatau’s first bicycle race
On September 5th, there was a festive atmosphere of excitement as children, teenagers and grownups from the Panatau community gathered to compete in their first ever bicycle race! Daniel Busuoic, a bicycle enthusiast and volunteer of AMURTEL helped Larisa Bratucu, the…
August 2015
30 August 2015
Korea
Ananda Marga was invited by the government of Jeon Nam province to participate in their Integrative Medicine Fair from 31 July to 6 August.
26 August 2015
Jammu and Kashmir Flood Relief
25 August 2015
Art Yogafest in Siberia
25 August 2015
News from anandamarga.org
12 August 2015
Neohumanist Education Training “Child Friendly Spaces” in Lebanon
In less than a year, the AMURT Lebanon Child Friendly Space (CFS) project has progressed considerably. Though it started out in a space that used to be a warehouse that was renovated above the original headquarters of AMURT, it has since shifted to Al-Mahaba School a large…
1 August 2015
Gurukula 25th Anniversary
In October 1990, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti launched Ananda Marga Gurukula, a global university and education movement founded on the principles of Neohumanism. A conference marking the anniversary was held in mid-July at the Prama Institute, near Asheville, North Carolina,…
1 August 2015
Monthly Ananda Nagar news for July, 2015
24 hours Akhanda kiirtan at Siddhi-Jeladi village
July 2015
27 July 2015
NEPAL doctor’s report
Here is an account from Dr. Fazila Lalani, an ER physican from NY, who volunteered with Amurt Amurtel in Nepal immediately after the earthquake there in May.
27 July 2015
A week in Haiti
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Haiti: it will break your heart and rebuild it in the same breath. This was my experience throughout our five day visit this spring. It is a place of poverty and scant opportunity, but also a home to strong, capable, caring people…
27 July 2015
Thailand Adventure
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Earlier this winter my two daughters and I found ourselves standing behind a rusty metal gate at the bottom of a steep dirt drive. After 3 days of travelling by planes, taxis, buses and finally motorbikes, we had finally arrived…
19 July 2015
Stone soup – with Nuno from Portugal
Nuno Dantas served as an EVS volunteer in Romania for nearly one year, spending about 6 months in the Gradinita Rasarit kindergarten in Bucharest. During that time, he learned how to teach small children a foreign language using holistic methods from Neohumanist Education. He…
13 July 2015
Benefit Concert – Aid to the victims of Nepal
The Nepal earthquake is the target of a global support effort aimed at rebuilding this country located in the Himalayas. AMURT in Portugal is part of this effort, having carried out, and will continue to carry out, fundraisers whose proceeds will go to the…
13 July 2015
Benefit Concert – Help for the Victims of Nepal
The Nepal earthquake is the object of a global support effort aimed at rebuilding this country in the Himalayas. AMURT in Portugal is part of this effort, having carried out, and continuing to carry out, fundraisers whose proceeds will go to the…
8 July 2015
International Yoga Day
Ananda Marga representatives meditating at Taipei National University during this year’s International Yoga Day.
2 July 2015
Nepal earthquake fundraising dinner and concert a success
July 2015. AMURT NZ has successfully raised $2,200 for earthquake relief efforts in Nepal. A fundraising vegetarian dinner followed by music, raffles and auctions was held in St. Columba Hall, Grey Lynn, Auckland, with about 120 people attending.
June 2015
24 June 2015
Learning Italian through yoga and songs
Article by Giorgia Garbuio, Rasarit Kindergarten volunteer
22 June 2015
International Yoga Day
International Yoga Day was celebrated by margiis around the world, as in here at Denpasar, Bali…
8 June 2015
Feeding the Homeless in Los Angeles
The homeless feeding program in LA, which currently feeds around 2,000 people a month, was started in 1983 by Delia Parvati Javier, affectionately known as Mama D. Originally from the Philippines, Delia was a charismatic person who came to Los Angeles to work in the film and…
May 2015
20 May 2015
Prout Comes to Korea
In South Korea, I just finished a 10-day speaking tour of nine cities with Dada Cittarainjanananda, who translated this book and my previous Prout book into Korean. We spoke in Seoul, Wanju, Seosan, Hongseong, Daejeon, Busan, Masan, Gwangju and Iksan. The trip was sponsored…
17 May 2015
AMURT NZ relief work featured in local NZ newspapers
AMURT NZ raised at least $1800 NZD for our teams working on the ground in Nepal. The funds comprise of $900 from a Nelson fundraiser, $200 from Auckland, $340 from margii donations around the country and $360 from AMURT NZ funds.
April 2015
28 April 2015
AMURT Disaster Relief in Nepal
AMURT (Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team) has been working in close cooperation with the armed forces of Nepal to bring much-needed aid to remote rural areas after the recent earthquake.
27 April 2015
Assistance for the Nepal earthquake
Last Saturday, April 25, in Kathmandu, Nepal, the earthquake that struck the historic city has so far claimed 3,300 lives.
27 April 2015
Assistência ao terramoto no Nepal
No passado sábado 25 de Abril em Kathmandu no Nepal o terramoto que assolou a histórica cidade vitimou até agora 3,300 pessoas.
27 April 2015
Earthquake Assistance in Nepal
Last Saturday, April 25, in Kathmandu, Nepal, the earthquake that struck the historic city has so far claimed more than 6000 lives.
21 April 2015
Thanks to Goulston & Storrs for their generous donation
We recently received a check for almost $800 from the employees at the law firm Goulston & Storrs.
19 April 2015
AMURT Haiti 2015 Update
The ongoing activities of AMURT-Haiti continue full speed with several new programs joining the wide scope of long-term initiatives.
16 April 2015
News from anandamarga.org
8 April 2015
Taiwan Service Tour of India
4 April 2015
KGNU Radio Interview
On April 2, 2015 PRIVEN Volunteer Sélène Viallard and I gave a one-hour interview about Prout and Venezuela via telephone from Caracas on independent community radio station KGNU in Boulder, Colorado, USA. The show was “It’s The Economy”, with brilliant host Liz Lane. At this…
March 2015
31 March 2015
Volunteering – A Way of Life for All of Us
The educators at Rasarit Kindergarten have the role of forming in children a taste for activities that do their souls good and from which others also benefit. Few people still know how to offer kindness to those around them. To have a beautiful life…
23 March 2015
Friendship – The Way to Overcome Prejudice
For vulnerable children, accentuated social distance means isolation, marginalization, abuse, the inhibition of the healthy development of their skills and abilities and, thus, the violation of their fundamental rights.
14 March 2015
Armed Forces Training
Ananda Marga acaryas have been teaching yoga and meditation to the Indian Army in Coimbitore, Tamil Nadu, India.
11 March 2015
Malta
The Sunrise Centre continues its after-school and holiday learning program. Read the latest news from the center here.
11 March 2015
It looks like Prout is getting established in Uttarakhand!
It looks like Prout is getting established in Uttarakhand!
11 March 2015
Ghana and Burkina Faso
Our TBAs (Traditional Birth Attendants) currently cover 33 villages. AMURT has distributed 1 ton of millet in the flood-affected area of Bangeldaye. A watershed management program was initiated to collect surface water and keep the rainwater from running off without…
11 March 2015
Nigeria
Three health centers have been opened in Ebonyi State of Nigeria: Ephenium Health Center, Omege Health Center, and Offia Oji Health Center. In Abakaliki Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, AMURT has started working on water and sanitation programs. In August we signed an…
11 March 2015
AMURT (Ananda Marga Univesal Relief Team)
AMURT (Ananda Marga Univesal Relief Team) has being carrying out a drought disaster relief operation in Kenya known as Samburo Community Assistance Project (SCAP). This video documents some aspects of the operation:
11 March 2015
Abha Light Foundation
Abha Light Foundation in Nairobi has made a big difference to many lives in Kenya through homeopathic clinics and a school:
11 March 2015
Taiwan
The Ananda Marga women’s and children’s center in Meinong continues to grow and thrive:
11 March 2015
Japan
Following the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and 10-meter high tsunami that hit northeastern Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011, AMURT & AMURTEL worked in the coastal towns of Sendai, Tamajo, Shichigahama and Tagajo, serving the elderly by clearing their houses and providing…
10 March 2015
Baan Dada Children’s Home, Thailand
Baan Dada is an Ananda Marga children’s home on the Thai-Burmese border. It started in 1994 in an effort to protect the growing number of orphaned and disadvantaged children in the area. Many refugees and migrant families moved to this area due to poverty, disease and…
10 March 2015
Vietnam
Vietnam, with its 90 million inhabitants, is developing a vibrant yoga scene and about 80 percent of the yoga centers in Hanoi are run by Ananda Marga or AM related centers. Needless to say there is a high demand for qualified yoga teachers. In August Dada Shankarsanananda…
10 March 2015
Laos
Download the latest edition of Sunshine Laos, the newsletter of the Sunshine School in Laos:
10 March 2015
Support Children in Schools and Orphanages Around India
You can help by becoming a volunteer, sponsoring a child, helping to sell greeting cards, making a donation or organizing a fundraising event.
10 March 2015
Yoga Wellness Center at Ananda Nagar
The new Ananda Marga Yoga Wellness Center has opened!
10 March 2015
India and Nepal Spiritual Adventure Tour
Some images from the latest India and Nepal tour…
10 March 2015
Uttarakhand, India
In June 2013, the Indian state of Uttarakhand and the surrounding areas received heavy rainfall. The amount was about 375% more rainfall than during a normal monsoon. This caused the melting of Chorabari Glacier and in turn the Mandakini River overflowed, heavily flooding the…
10 March 2015
Ananda Nagar, Rarh, India
Ananda Nagar is a unique rural development project. Located in one of the poorest and most backward areas of India, Purulia district in West Bengal, the area around Ananda Nagar is inhabited by indigent tribal villagers and exemplifies most of the problems which rural people…
10 March 2015
Taiwan Service Tour
10 March 2015
The Forgotten People of Rarh
10 March 2015
Homeopathic Clinic
As I looked over his shoulder, he wrote the name of the patient in the daily log in sequential order. This patient’s number was 539,916. That’s right: five hundred thirty nine thousand, nine hundred sixteen. The next patient (number 539,917) was sitting on the bench to the…
10 March 2015
AMURT Relief at Ananda Nagar
Dada Ramananda continues to hold AMURT medical, mass feeding and clothe distribution programmes at Ananda Nagar, West Bengal, on a regular basis.
7 March 2015
Sweden
7 March 2015
Portugal
In August 2014 an incredible group of 53 volunteers repeated an adventure that started in 1998, selling vegetarian food at music festivals in Portugal: Andanças Festival and simultaneously at the Boom Festival. Funds were raised for the development of Ananda Kalyani Master…
7 March 2015
Prout Convention
In the beautiful Danish countryside, 170 people attended the 2014 Global Prout Convention at Ananda Gaorii Master Unit, Vig, Denmark.
7 March 2015
Ireland
Dada Maheshvarananda met President Michael D. Higgins of Ireland at Áras an Uachtaráin, the president’s official residence, in Dublin on 12 February, after President Higgins read Dada’s book After Capitalism and invited him to meet.
7 March 2015
Chile
Ananda Marga Chile continues to run its yoga instructor courses as intensives during the summer, and throughout the year as well. They have become well recognised in Chile for their spiritual depth and non-commercial flavour. Costs are kept to a minimum in order to give a…
7 March 2015
New Zealand
Our awesome kiirtan group was performed at the VoSe festival in February 2014. Groups such as Shakti, Amma, Sahaja Yoga, Hari Krishna and Sufis as well as Ananda Marga performed kiirtan on the Willow stage as part of the multi-faith akhanda kiirtan. Our Ananda Marga kiirtan…
7 March 2015
White Skin Black Spirit
Acarya Narada Muni recently produced a documentary telling the story of a white-skinned Aboriginal woman discovering her roots. The documentary was aired on Australian TV ABC’s Message Stick program.
7 March 2015
Guatemala
Didi Ananda Tapomaya conducted a course on Neohumanist Education in Guatemala for the teachers of the Limonada school. She is pictured here with one of the students receiving an award.
7 March 2015
Mexico
A program for the promotion of adolescent health held at the Auditorium Cuernavaca introduced 1,000 young people from various institutions around the city to natural health techniques.
7 March 2015
Talks, Retreats and Social service
Dada Nabhaniilananda appeared at TEDx Upper East Side, and more recently gave a presentation on meditation at Facebook HQ in Silicon Valley and a keynote address at the 2014 CISCO distributors conference in Arizona.
7 March 2015
Prison Yoga Program
AMURT runs prison programs in a variety of places. We teach inmates yoga and meditation, and help them get their lives together so they can tolerate prison better, and when they get out they stay out.
7 March 2015
Economic Democracy Conference
Presenting Prout at the Economic Democracy Conference by Dada Maheshvarananda
7 March 2015
Occupy Wall Street
Thousands of demonstrators protested social injustice at Wall Street and other locations in New York City as part of the Occupy movement. The now late Dada Pranakrsnananda meditated on the Brooklyn Bridge and was carried away when police came to arrest the protestors. Photos…
7 March 2015
Rurapuk Project in Peru
Rurapuk means “people who help each other” in Quechua, the language of the ancient Incas. The Rurapuk Project is run by AMURTEL in Lima, Peru. It is located in an area of Lima called Paraiso Alto, which is in a zone of extreme poverty. In Paraiso Alto there is no running water…
February 2015
January 2015
16 January 2015
Santa visits a Roma Community
The new project “You Too – Come and participate” – to reduce poverty among Roma and other ethnic groups, began with a magical Santa Claus event on 23 December 2014. Volunteers from the three partner organizations -AMURT, AMURTEL and PEN – helped create a festive, memorable…
16 January 2015
Training in Persona Dolls Method in Bucharest
In this way, these issues can be discussed in a reassuring way without uncomfortably targeting a particular child. The dolls were made by an organization by single mothers in a program run by the organization “ASCIS”
15 January 2015
"Meditation, the Gateway to Our Inner Universe" with Didi Ananda Devapriya
Watch the special Christmas edition of the show "Dialogues Between Mind and Heart," titled "Meditation, the Gateway to Our Inner Universe." With the participation of seven distinguished guests: Ananda Devapriya, Cătălin Iriciuc, Liliana Stanciu, Oana Raluca Badea, Marius Octavian…
9 January 2015
Morningstar Center invited on 6 TV!
Watch the special Christmas edition of the show “Dialogues Between Mind and Heart,” titled: “Meditation, the Gateway to Our Inner Universe.” With the participation of seven distinguished guests: Ananda Devapriya, Cătălin Iriciuc, Liliana Stanciu, Oana Raluca Badea, Marius Octavian…
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