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Boston Region Ananda Marga Retreat

 

At Earthdance in Plainfield, Massachussets around 70 participants gathered for the fall retreat of Ananda Marga in New York Sector.

The retreat is organized with a spring and fall edition. It runs for a weekend with a very well proven formula that makes every time a success in terms of participation, inspiration, quality of the workshops and, of course, best vegetarian organic food.

 

Retreats in Ananda Marga are always unique. In this one held in the Master Unit located in the Quebec region of Canada the highlight was the participation of the entire community living inside the Master Unit. Ac. Phanisananda's good cooking, gardening and public relations skills have created a pole of attraction in this remote rural area. Several families have relocated on the land adiacent to the Ananda Marga property finding themselves bonded with common ideas of cooperatives and vegetarianism.

"During the karma yoga time we constructed two drive ways and we fostered a greater bond for more living development," Ac. Vimaleshananda said. Radhanath and Lilian living in an authentic mongolian yurt were among the participants. Patrick built several straw bale houses on the same land originally owned by Ananda Marga. They have a vision to make a young progressive community working toward change for the whole area.

San Francisco has seen an influx of margiis recently and had the houseblessings to prove it.

Sister Cetana, originally from Taiwan, moved from Boulder, Co. to attend school at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, Calif. On Sept. 13 Cetana had a houseblessing performed by Didi Ananda Lalita. It was well-attended.

Sister Radha, from North Carolina also had a houseblessing the same weekend. On Sept. 14, her seven-month anniversary of moving to the Bay Area, she had her houseblessing. Sixteen people and two kids attended the event -- people were crammed into her one-bedroom apartment near Union Square. In addition, Radha started a dharmachakra in San Francisco, by Baba's grace, so the SF margiis don't have to commute to other parts of the Bay Area for their weekly satsaunga.

NEW JAGRTI IN WASHINGTON D.C.

Ananda Marga and AMURT have moved into a new jagrti on Rockville, a suburb of Washington, DC. Please note the new address and phone number, and come and visit us when you are in the area.

2502 Lindley Terrace
Rockville, MD 20850
3017387122
3017387123 (fax)

Best,

Vishvarupananda
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Harold Whitman
 

GUATEMALA RETREAT

About 20 margiis attended a weekend retreat at Guatemala City. The
program started on Friday, January 9th with evening Dharma Cakra and
dinner. On Saturday there were classes on Microvita by Didi Ananda
Mamata and Spiritual Philosophy by Dada Rainjitananda. The Sunday
morning program started with a 3-hour Akhanda Kiirtan and a class about
PROUT. The participants appreciated very much the class and requested
another seminar only on PROUT philosophy which is being organized for
the last weekend of January. Everyone appreciated the good food
prepared by Didi Ananda Mamata.

“Yoga - a way of life” workshop (http://www.rajadhirajayoga.net/funasia-free-yoga-workshop-richardson-tx) was organized at Funasia on Dec. 13. Ananda Marga Yoga Society and Funasia organized a one day free workshop. The workshop covered all the aspects of daily life of spiritual aspirants: Meditation, Asanas, Kiirtan, Song, Dance and Food. The objective of this workshop was to generate awareness about the benefits of practicing yoga in our daily life.

The workshop began with spiritual music with Kamal on guitar and Ashish on the microphone. Then the stage was set for Ananda Marga’s monk Aca'rya Shubhacetana'nanda Avadhuta to start his presentation on “Yoga Anatomy”

Emily C. Carr was volunteering in our school AMSAI in Haiti which is directed by
Dada Gopalakrsnananda. The library is physically
one room in our school and although it seems a little thing it might
become a good project as in Haiti as it seems there is no public
library at all.

More than 500 women from villages throughout Communse Anse Rouge gathered in the village of La Source Chaude to celebrate women's day with AMURT-Haiti and its affiliated women's organization AMURTEL (together referred to as AMURT/EL).

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