Welcome to SAIEN Blog

Dear Reader,


SAIEN is an evolving outcome of a collective aspiration of several centres to create a global platform as an offering and homage to Sri Aurobindo in his 150th anniversary year. Today, 15th of September, we inaugurate the SAIEN BLOG where each participating member/centre can contribute to the current topic/theme online. This Blog is a space to share insights into the Practice of Integral Yoga in daily life. It is a space for all Seekers to share and reflect upon their journey and practice.


Should you wish to contribute to the Blog, email us at integralnetwork150@gmail.com with a few details about yourself and what theme you would like to introduce. For details about SAIEN, visit https://integraledu.in.


I invite you to actively participate to make this a truly living and inspiring collective space.


Ameeta Mehra

Convenor

SAIEN



"True collaboration is a non-egoistic union of all personal efforts
to express and realise the Divine's Will."

The Mother

Location: India

Comments

  1. Don17 September 2022 at 21:54


    Congratulations, Ameeta, and to everyone at SAIEN for this wonderful, inspiring endeavor. I’ve longed for many years to see devotees of the Yoga have an online meeting place like this. Much gratitude to you for all the hard work of putting this together.

    May we all learn more and more, every moment of the day and night, to step back into that innermost Silence and Bliss, and may the Light from that more and more irradiate every movement of our minds, lives and bodies.

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  2. Anuradha19 September 2022 at 11:18

    I look forward to this Blog as a rich and diverse resource for practising Integral Yoga in everyday moments of life and deepening the consciousness. Thanks.

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  3. Anuradha Agrawal30 September 2022 at 09:48

    I am happy to see, as put out by Ameeta in her welcoming post, the Blog becoming an active space. This morning I was struck by how the different posts from different authors are seamlessly complimenting each other! It is worth re-reading Radhe's post on Holistic Self-development after reading Divya's post on Three Tips... each kind of explains or furthers the other. Santosh's post on Chanting starts taking us into specific tools. Lovely! And all this without any conscious coordination : ) Let's have a greater richness from the wonderful practice of all involved in this amazing network.

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