News & Notes - Auroville

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Teaching opportunity at Aikiyam School
Dear Ones,
We of Aikiyam School (located in New Creation) would like
to continue offering our students the opportunity to learn the
Hindi language. Since July they have been practicing reading and
writing, as well as learning songs in Hindi, with a volunteer who
is now leaving. The schedule would be Monday through Friday for
one hour in the afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. If you know
Hindi and would enjoy sharing your knowledge with young
people, we would love to hear from you.
If you are interested and available for this teaching opportunity,
please contact us at aikiyamschool@auroville.org.in, or by phone
at 2622358.
Thank you, Aikiyam Support Group with Shankar, Principal
Extras for theatre play,
This year Auroville is organizing a theatre play written by Sri
Aurobindo: “The Viziers of Bassora”.
Aryamani, the play director, is looking for volunteers to play in
some scenes where we need a crowd of people as extra/walk on
(no text or very short text).
If you are interested please come and meet us any day in the
Bharat Nivas Auditorium (back entrance) by 7 pm (except Friday,
we go to Unity Pavilion).
Saturdays 7 pm Bharat Nivas are for special rehearsals with
crowds of Volunteers, please come we need a lot of people!
The play will be performed on 14 th ,15th and 16th of Dec.
Thank you, Theatre Group”
A U R O V I L L E R A D I O
Hello dear listeners,
We hope that you have enjoyed the week that has just passed as much as we have. At AurovilleRadio we have covered
general meetings on important issues, such as conflict resolution, but also had our spirits lifted through fire, music and
light. Further, you can listen to Deepanam school students talk about their work on an Auroville mobility survey. Click
the links hereunder, or visit the website itself, and Enjoy!
Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo (Arts &
Culture 25/11/2013)
I have rendered a few poems from the book Collected Poems of
Sri Aurobindo and I am having a great time discovering the multifaceted
grandeur of Sri Aurobindo's poetic genius. I am
interested in sharing with the listeners my voice-adventure of
trying to feel and render the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. -[English, 6
Minutes]
Participation, Piano Recital (News 24/11/2013)
Discoveries of Fire, a Fire and Light performance at the Visitor
Centre, is postponed to Friday the 29th at 8pm. On Saturday
November 30th, between 10am to 4pm at Unity Pavilion in
International Zone, we are all invited to Residents' Assembly
Decision Making Event, where the proposal "Participatory
Working Groups" and the connected selection process are works
in progress. -[English, 10 Minutes]
Amayama (Arts & Culture 23/11/2013)
Malu, Joem and Sebastian, making up the heart of Amayama
band, performed last night, with guests, at the Sri Aurobindo
Auditorium, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in
International Zone. It was a great evening of dance and joy! -
[English, 67 Minutes]
Fire, Light, Music (News 20/11/2013)
On Saturday and Sunday "Discoveries of Fire" will be performed
by 11 Auroville Youth, at 8pm, Visitor Centre. Written by the
youth themselves, the performance, through spinning of fire and
light, tells the tale of the voyage of fire throughout the history
of humanity. -[English, 9 Minutes]
You can listen to all of the programs and more on www.aurovilleradio.org. All the recordings are also available on CD or ready to be copied
on your memory stick at the AurovilleRadio premises. We are based in the Town Hall complex, just opposite to the Financial Services. For
more info call 0413-2623331 or email contact@aurovilleradio.org
H E A L T H
Homeostasis, immune system: the miracle (part2)
It is not the disease that makes us sick
If our system of defense and homeostasis are not respected, our
organism will not be able to defend itself against external
attacks (pollution, accidents, microorganisms...) or internal
disturbances such as cell degeneration - the cause of cancer -,
and will fall sick.
Micro-organisms are part of the environment that contains them
(air, soil, water, skin, foods, animals, infected individuals) and
the majority of them are non-pathogenic, they cause no disease
in normal circumstances. (The virus of rabies and the plague
bacillus are rare examples of “always” pathogens for humans)
They only become pathogenic if: - Too big concentration of
micro-organisms (lack of hygiene)
- Directly access deep tissue (example: a deep wound)
- Low immune system +++
A healthy person is a patient who is unaware
If we look a bit closer, we are never in a state of perfect
balance, our homeostasis is continually in process of adjustment
to the actions of the everyday and our body is constantly in
search of equilibrium. It is in a permanent state of nearimbalance.
When the extent of this imbalance is moderate and
stable, we can say that we are in good health.
This state of imbalance concerns us first. Since it concerns our
own body and our live, we are responsible, responsible for its
strengths and weaknesses. However, we are not the only factor
that causes this imbalance; it is inherent in the movement of
life, its imperfections, to maneuver errors, we shouldn't feel
guilty about it, it will not help, only responsible.
Let’s take our health in our hands
It is crucial to participate in our health, consciously and
voluntarily.
It is for us to re-learn the simple and natural gestures to
unblock, clean and invigorate our body on a daily basis. It is
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