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“It is action that makes a person great. Be great by your sádhaná, by your service and by your sacrifice.”
―Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
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Upcoming Retreat on the Island of Elba in Tuscany, Italy
October 1-5, 2025
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up coming retreats and events
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Finland, Oct.31 - Nov. 2
"In the Warmth of Love" Autumn Retreat
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Oregon, USA Jan. 9-11, 2026
Save the Date
registration coming soon
"Fill Your Cup" music retreat at Dharmalaya
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Join us for a monthly extended meditation program with unique offerings on the 1st Saturday of the month. This program is open to everyone. The program includes a short meditation and spiritual song as well as a new presentation or interactive event.
Upcoming Special Guest:
Story Telling with Anandam Perkins
October 4th 9:00 am Pacific
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Anandam (Albert) Perkins
Riveting, fun and sometimes shocking, Anandam shares stories of his spiritual adventures in pursuit of his goal to be with his Guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. Please join us as he shares a repertoire of curated stories for our entertainment and inspiration.
Anandam has been a devotee of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti for over fifty years. He has worked for Guru in Liverpool, Dublin, New York, San Francisco Bay Area and Eugene Oregon, and engaged in developing meditation centers along the way. He is a PROUTist, musician, artist and of course, storyteller.
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Thanks to the Herculean efforts of Ac. Gayatrii, Kirana and Ac. Anandam, Ananda Seva now has, not only our Dharmalaya songbook to share, but also audioclips of the songs!
If you find this useful and inspiring, please consider making a donation to Ananda Seva.
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Autumn Season is Vata Season
Ayurveda helps us move from season to season with wisdom and grace, supporting the whole system along the way.
We are moving from Pitta - the warm, dry season of summer, into Vatta - a cool, damper season. We go from heat, intensity and transformation into coolness, dryness and mobility.
One way to do this is to bring daily rhythm into our routine, which often naturally occurs. Vata thrives in having a similar schedule each day.
Focus on getting good rest, doing some gentle, slow movements and getting out in nature to help regulate the nervous system. Any kind of gentle rhythmic movement is great, including walking, rocking, tapping or swaying. Vata is made of air and ether and needs this calming and grounding to combat our society’s high stress, anxiety inducing environment. A regular meditation practice is always the best anecdote for any of the doshas!
Move from the cooling foods of summer to warm, nourishing options, like root vegetables, squashes, and cooked grains, which will bring nourishment. Using spices like ginger, cinnamon and cumin will help with warmth in the body and aid in digestion. As vata is a dry season, adding in more fats from ghee, olive oil and nuts will assist in keep your skin and tissues lubricated.
Hydration, as with any season, particularly, vata season, is key! Here is a guide for vata season, spices, tea recipes, milks, and sweeteners. https://piorliving.com/blogs/vata/vata-tea/
One last suggestion is to bring in the warmth and connection of good friends and family. Surround yourself with those that make you feel good and calm. Find ways to bring connection and beauty from the season together! Ayurveda is here to support the body, mind and spirit creating harmony and well-being.
Of course I did not forget a recipe for an autumn season kitchari!
Kitchari for Autumn Season
Wellness to each of you 🍂🍂🍂
Acharya Kaverii
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Ohio, USA
The Ananda Seva Ohio meditation group is led by Ac. Giriisha
The regular Saturday morning meditations in Ohio are on hold for the moment.
Ac. Giriisha has been supporting Dada Paratparananda and Didi Suprabha run their dharmacakra on Sundays at 8PM ET
Contact Ac. Giriisha for more info.
| | The Lotus House @ Dharmalaya is now open as a personal retreat space. If you'd like to book it, Contact Madhu | | |
Dharmachakra
(group meditation)
every Sunday
10:00am - Noon
at Dharmalaya
On the first Sunday of the month a zoom option is available.
Click here for more info and a link.
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1st Sunday of the Month Potluck Ananda Seva Eugene hosts a potluck after group meditation.
Next potluck: Oct. 5th
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New Seva Coordinator
The Dharmalaya community is blessed to have a new (returning) Seva Coordinator!
Sharanya (Sara Donaldson) has volunteered to support the Dharmalaya community with coordinating service projects. She held this position in the past and we are so excited for her return!
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Willamette Valley Listening Tour
Dharmalaya hosted the Willamette Valley Listening Tour for 4 days at the beginning of the month.. Ravi, Clare and Ammadevi were involved with the program and Ravi and Jitendra organized the Southern Willamette Valley section of the tour. Read more in the PROUT section below.
Click on the photo below for a video.
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Tuscany, Italy
Dayakar and Ac. Gurumurti conduct an open online meditation twice a month on Wednesday evenings. People from all over Italy attend. If you would like more information on how to join, email Ac. Gurumurti.
Ac. Gurumurti, along with Dayakar, Ac. Kaverii and Ac. Gayatri have been organizing the upcoming retreat on Elba.
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The Washington D.C. unit has a weekly dharmachakra online every Wednesday evening at 6:30 ET. Please contact Ac. Govinda for more information and the zoom link.
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Several members of the Prout Institute were active organizers and participants in the Willamette Valley Listening Tour, a collaborative effort to deepen relationships, support local regenerative efforts, and build stronger networks of action across the Valley.
Beginning September 2nd, this two-weeks long community-powered tour traveled across Oregon’s Willamette Valley—visiting organic farms, alternative schools, pond installations, green building sites, community gardens, eco-villages, and ecological learning centers. The Tour also featured presentations on regenerative education, natural building, bioregional financing, and progressive energy systems, with several of the presentations by members of the Prout Institute. For four of the days, the Tour group was based at Dharmalaya.
The tour highlighted people and projects that are working to restore the land and heal our relationship with it—and each other.
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PROUT Topics on Crisis and Transition Substack
The Prout Crisis and Transition Substack now gets about 9000 opens each month. Our performance stats are excellent. But more remarkable is our article content. Week after week, we introduce Prout concepts, presenting them as powerful solutions to the crises of our time. It is a positive approach and an uplifting approach.
We take readers deep into Prout. Even most Proutists aren’t fluent in the Prout concepts that our readers encounter. Read the latest article here.
If you don’t already follow Crisis and Transition, start doing so now. If you know aware people whom you’d like to expose to Prout, send them the Substack’s link. If you have thoughts about the articles, submit comments and start a discussion. If you like an article, click the like button. If you participate in other Substack communities, make referrals to Crisis and Transition. If you have capacity, become a paid subscriber. Engage. This project is succeeding in getting Prout ideas disseminated.
https://crisistransition.substack.com/
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Publications:
Four new edition publications on
the social philosophy of P.R. Sarkar are available now.
Click on the photos for more info.
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Recurring Ananda Seva Activities
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Weekday Morning Kiirtan & Meditaiton
Every weekday morning
at 7:35 am PT
Ac. Gayatri and others lead kiirtan, meditation, kaoshikii and a morning check-in to connect and support each other on our spiritual journeys.
Full Dharmachakra on Thursdays
Join by Zoom
passcode: Baba
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West Coast Dharmachakra
Join us for our weekly Sunday morning group meditation. This event is free and open to everyone. The program includes singing uplifting songs, yogic dance, chanting, meditation, a discourse, and group discussion.
The first Sunday of the month program is followed by a sattvic vegetarian potluck..
more info here.
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Baba’s Philosophy
Study Group
The monthly Philosophy Study Group convenes on the first Thursday of the month at 4:00 PM ET, (1:00 PM PT)
The group usually discusses one of Baba’s books or one of the excellent books which combine Baba’s Yogic Philosophy with Biographical material.
The meeting usually begins with a brief kiirtan, and a few minutes of meditation, then delves into the passage for the day.
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Click on the photo above to see what is happening in Finland.
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NEW ON TEACHABLE
opportunities to learn at your own pace and time
Transformation Education Teachable site gives you the opportunity to take on-demand courses at your own pace. We now have 19 classes up on the platform covering a variety of topics.
Featured Class this Month:
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Neohumanism and Planetary Transformation
This 4-part course focuses on the role of neohumanism as a guide for navigating the upheavals of the planetary transformation we are currently experiencing.
It explores the facets of neohumanism as a critical lens for discerning division and exploitation, and for envisioning a world based on life, love, and liberation for all beings. It considers significant social problems such as economic inequality, racism, patriarchy, imperialism, ecological destruction, and disenchantment as opportunities for intervention, transformation, and redirection along pathways that cultivate equality, healing, cooperation, justice, balance, and fulfilment.
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Art for Service & Blessedness
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"The artists or writers, before holding their brush or pen, should look around and assess the direction in which society is moving and the basic causes of its weakness. What are the “isms” that have supplied impetus to evil ideals? It is not enough to look around; they may also have to take a firm stand against the apparently irresistible forces of destruction.."
– Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
Abhimata, The Opinion
Artistic expression has always been integral to human evolution. The artists spark the imagination and pave the way for new ideas to flourish. Can you imagine a revolution with no songs to rally the people? The energy stirring beneath the earth now calls us to connect with that Divine Source and draw inspiration to birth a new society. How will you use your creative energy to support that flow?
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Wings on the Story - Karin & Anandam Perkins and Genevieve Mason
The story of the song by Kirana
I was laying awake one night thinking about the state of the world and what we could possibly do to help. I thought of all the difficult and negative stories in the news and how this weighs on us. Years ago I read a memoir of a woman who'd been abandoned as a child, and who had had an extremely difficult life. As an adult, she looked back on it all and saw how it had shaped her into who she now was. She saw a spiritual 'thread' weaving through her life. In this way, she changed the story of her life from one of deprivation and hurt to a journey that strengthened her and gave her empathy and purpose. I thought, we need to put wings on our stories so they can lift us up. I started writing in the dark, and this became the song, Wings on the Story.
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Lyrics
Wings on the Story
Day by day through our lives, change is on its way.
We hold tight then we’re releasing, every season turns,
What’s forgotten is relearned.
Day by day through our lives, patterns are revealed.
Many threads make a weaving, songs that we sing,
Colors that we bring.
Chorus:
Put wings on the story, it’s there in your heart.
Working together we all hold a part.
Put wings on the story, rise like a dove.
Lifting together, murmuration of love.
Day by day through our lives, the unseen guides our way.
Fireflies in the forest shimmer in the dark,
Alight heart to heart.
Chorus
Day by day through our lives, others deeply known
Call out across the chasm, echo and proclaim
Your – true – name.
Chorus
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