auroville

A visit to Auroville - the Dream and its Manifestation A township devoted to an experiment in human unity What is special about this tour?

We offer Value Based excursion in which we touch the following themes:      

Deep Ecology Permaculture Organic farming Alternative energy Integral Education Social enterprises and innovation

What is special about Auroville?

Intercultural dialogue today is of the essence.

Auroville is a platform where dialogue and culture lead to a shared understanding among people from all over the world. It is a unique experiment on human unity.

WHY is this relevant and for WHOM? This tour is designed for people whose interest is in discovering and experiencing new horizons.

Auroville is a place of innovative practical solutions addressing the pressing needs of our world: education, ecology, urban planning, social challenges and values. You will meet people who have dedicated their life to progress in these fields and come to know their enterprises.

An itinerary for one day in Auroville 08:00 Starting from Chennai 11:00 Coming to Auroville Tea & refreshments in the forest near visitor center We will sit in a shady cool quiet forest landscape to observe silence and nature. This will be a time to get to know the participants and their field of interests.

12:00 Auroville’s exhibition and products.

13:00 Lunch at Hindus valley 14:00 International zone: Indian pavilion, American pavilion and Tibetan pavilion 15:00 Workshop of Awareness through the body and Yoga Nidra at Unity pavilion

16:00 Organic farming food consciousness at Windarra farm 17:30 A Guided music session - jam session 18:00 Back to Chennai

Second day 18:30 Atithi Griha guest house 19:30 Dinner at Tanto 20:30 Optional - Visit to an Aurovilian house were we meet informally for discussion about community life/ Sri Aurobindo philosophy/ education/ green work 07:00 Yoga class 08:15 Break fast 08:45 Matrimandir 10:00 a tour in one or two of Auroville social enterprises at your choice

Well paper – Women Empowerment through Local Livelihood and development of products made of recycled materials. http://wellpaper.org/

Auroville's EcoService manages solid waste for the international township of Auroville. An EcoService team collects waste from households, communities, guest houses, restaurants and units, and another team processes it at a sorting shed in Kottakarai. Waste is then either sold to recycling dealers, or landfilled at the Auroville landfill. http://www.eco-service.in/

Earth institutes - to build with earth on a large scale, while respecting Nature and realize architecture full of light, suppleness, simplicity, imagination and beauty with a heavy and formless mud. http://www.earth-auroville.com/ Upasana - we are a design studio located in Auroville. Our field of work ranges from design and manufacturing of garments using rich palette of traditional Indian textiles, design consultancy, education and social development. http://www.upasana.in/

Svaram - a technical and sociological research component to bring together Indian traditional music with contemporary world music culture. vocational training opportunities for the unemployed youth around the villages of Auroville.

Experimenting in the field of creating new musical instruments that should be accessible to everybody, independent of talent or predisposition, directly bringing the joy of music into one's hands and heart. http://roots.svaram.org/project.html Or many other project according to your field of interest 12:00 Lunch at the Solar kitchen – the hart of Auroville community 14:00 - 15:00 free time for informal interaction 15:00 - 17:00 Quiet healing center retreats massage …

17:00 - 18:00 Closing session - sharing and reflection

Another option is to dedicate a day on a specific theme 

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forestation: 99.98% of the tropical dry evergreen forest was cut down, in the last 42 years Auroville is doing reforestation on our land, seedlings are collected for all over India and sometimes from overseas. 3.5 million Trees were planted creating a living bank of genes. but to bring the resilient and fauna back we need the collaboration of the hall bioregion. On that level we are involved in water harvesting and management educational programs, documentation and practice of healing traditions organic Farming: a visit to different farms were innovative methods are used to and green technology Integral Education: Auroville education started with a paradox when the first school of Auroville was named Last School by the Mother. The other names given by her were not less destabilizing.

Written in a sequence, they present themselves as Last School, After School, Super School, No School. Creatively thought-provoking, they suggest that the education schools aim at will be found in an exceeding of the present school-formula. They suggests also, when put in relation with the second article of the Auroville Charter, that schools can be exceeded when the whole city becomes a vast campus of unending education and constant progress. a visit to auroville’s schools - centers of research on educations. Inspires by sri Aurobindo and the mother New methods are been implied and examined.

The vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother: a series of lectures on the life and legacy of sri Aurobindo and the mother.

City planning, green architecture and greed technology: a meeting with the town planers looking into the challenging aspects of urban research and implementation of solutions of waste, energy transportation housing, industry culture aspects and more

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ATB started in July 1992 in the schools Auroville as a program to help children increase their capacity for attention, concentration, and relaxation, and to enhance their ability for self awareness and their sense of responsibility. Nowadays it is offered to adults as well as children.

Sustainable tourism We attempts to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate income, employment, and the conservation of local ecosystems. We aim to bring consciousness and responsible tourism that is both ecologically and culturally sensitive.

There for our tours and activities have minimal impact on the environment and culture of the host community. On the other hand we encourage interaction between the local community and the outside guests usually by engaging the outsiders with a hands on activity with school children playing a game, discussion with woman’s groups or work in the field The purpose of these tours is to create a process which meets the needs of the present guest\volunteer and host communities whilst protecting and enhancing needs in the future