On March 5, 2005, there was a book signing event at the Center. Anie Nunnally introduced her newly published book of interviews with twelve senior disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, titled The Golden Path.   more »

On Sunday, April 3, the Center inaugurated its regular Tai Chi classes in the mystic Yang style taught by Tai Chi master, Ramon Gonzales.   more »

On April 23 and 24, 2005, Debashish Banerji of the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles offered a presentation on "Visions of Future Societies" and engaged in a dialog on "An Improved Tomorrow" with Paolo Soleri at Arcosanti, the future-oriented community combining architecture and ecology started by architect-philosopher Paolo Soleri. The talk was a prelude to the dialog, where Paolo Soleri's atheistic conscious evolutionism was engaged counteractively with the interventionist evolutionism of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.   more »

On May 1, 2005, the Center celebrated its 52nd birthday with a concert of Indian Classical music performed by slide guitar (mohan Veena) maestro, Pandit Viswa Mohan Bhatt. Pandit Bhatt was accompanied on tabla by Shri Subhen Chatterjee, lomg-time friend of the Center.   more »

For the second Sunday of February, we went for a walk to the Escondido Canyon in the Santa Monica mountains. The walk was led by Komal Rao. The other participants were Seetarama, Debashish, Sangi and Lalita. Sangi took the photos.   more »

On November 20, 2005, we observed the Siddhi day of Sri Aurobindo with readings, chanting, singing and meditation. An altar was set up for the occassion and a deep peace and intense consciousness descended during the meeting.   more »

The second day of Jerry Schwartz' yoga of money workshop.   more »

Jerry Schwartz, treasurer of the oundation for World Education (FWE) visited the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles on May 1 and 2, 2004 to offer a workshop on Money and Spirituality. Jerry's intuiotive insights into money as a form of energy and consciousness opened up a new direction of yoga as outlined by Sri Aurobindo in Chapter IV of The Mother.   more »

Mira Nakashima, daughter of George Nakashima, Japanese-American woodworker and on-site architect for Golconde, visited the Sri Aurobindo Center of Los Angeles on September 14, 2004. During this visit, She shared her reminiscences of her father through a slide show and DVD presentation and also presented a delightful western classical flute performance along with Anie Nunnally on piano.   more »

February 2005: Contours of Modernity was an exhibition of contemporay Indian Art curated by Debashish Banerji and Nalini Rao and held at the Founder's Hall of SOKA University in Aliso Viejo, CA. from Feb.1- April 1 2005. The exhibition featured works from the 1970's to the present by twenty leading artists from India and of Indian origin. The first of its kind in Southern California, the artists whose works were displayed here included celebrated founders of modern Indian art younger leading contemporaries and diasporic artists.   more »

On April 12, 2004, the Center presented a sitar duet concert featuring sitar maestro Pandit Manilal Nag and his daughter Mita Nag at the Yoga Center at Redondo Beach.   more »

On Sunday, June 12, 2004, members of EWCC-LA went for the second Sunday of the month walk to the Solstice Canyon national recreation area in the Santa Monica mountains. The participants were Komal, Mahesh, Dorian, Melinda, Connie, Ara (a poet friend of Komal's), Larry Buckler, Keka and Debashish. The walk was facilitated by Komal   more »

Dale Chihuly is among the most famous of contemporary sculptors, who has transformed the medium of glass into a major art form. An exhibition of Chihuly's sculpture was held at the Pepperdine University and we went as a group to view in in February 2005. The exhibition showcased a number of series of Chihuly's works made by him through the years. Sangi took the photographs.   more »