Savitri Bhavan

Doing Deeper Body Work in the Light of Savitri’s mantric verses and Huta’s paintingswith Arul Dev - On Saturday’s, January 18th , Febraury 8th and 22nd  2025,    4:00 - 5:00pm, in the Sangam Hall of Savitri Bhavan – All are welcome

What is Deeper Body Work?

This is a labour of love to gently shift our body’s habits and to turn it to be a servitor of the Divine. Our body has a sponging nature, and it absorbs emotions, energies, feelings and even thoughts of others, from the environments we are a part of and stores all its experiences within its cells. We wish to reverse this habit. Mother’s practice within the cells was that the cells themselves were turning upwards and offering themselves to The Lord. We too wish to do this practice and wait for the Divine’s action and Grace. This allows us to be practitioners in the work of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, who continue Their transformational work, in Their subtle bodies, in current time.

Deeper Body Work constitutes of tiny practices that are direct, simple, subtle and experiential. These are done within the body’s sensations, energies, vibrations, movements, emotions and thoughts. The aspiration is also to discover pure substance which is present in the ‘core’ of every cell of our body. Pure substance is where the entanglements absorbed from the world are least and the capacity to directly connect to the Divine and receive the Divine Qualities are the highest.

Source

The Spirit and the Matter have many points of union. We can explore this within our physical and subtle body. To connect our body to the Divine and do our inner practices many Sources have been given in Integral Yoga. The mantric words of Savitri can be read by keeping our connection within the substance of our body and receiving the Divine’s action that acts through Their words. With practice we can connect and wait within our body and whole being for the waves of Divine action to act and settle within. For body work, an actual connection to Divine Consciousness in real time is needed. Huta’s paintings comes as a great aid for this. When we learn to concentrate and be with the painting’s consciousness certain dimensions of Divine Source Consciousness opens Itself to us. 

About Facilitator

Arul Dev has been sharing his inner work through his books ‘Into Great Depth of Your Being’ and ‘The Flame Within’. Post his engineering graduation, for 30 years he has been in the field of training, coaching, inner development, integral education and human resources consulting. In Integral Yoga his deep research is deeper body practices in the light of Mother’s Agenda, Savitri and other works of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. He practices and shares inner work with others for the transformation of entanglements in the body at the level of sensations, energy, emotions, thoughts and memories. The aspiration is to be fully aware of our body in all its cells and open its substance to connect to Divine Qualities, being in a fully receptive state.

Film

Mondays 4pm in the Sangam Hall

February 3: Meditations on Savitri, Book 5 – The Book of Love, Canto 1-3

In a new act of the drama of the world, the united Two begin a greater age.

Duration: 32min.

February 10: Interview with Sri Kireet Joshi in 2013

Kireet Joshi shares his experiences of regular meetings with The Mother from 18.5.1969 until 8.3.1973 in an interview by Christine.

Duration: 43min.

February 17: The One Whom We Adore as The Mother

An audio-visual presentation by the Sri Aurobindo Archives on The Mother’s life from childhood onwards, her trainings, her meeting with Sri Aurobindo and the creation of the Ashram and Auroville. 

Duration: 63min.

February 24: Building Matrimandir – Labour of Love 1971-2008

The Matrimandir is the soul of Auroville; the documentary shows the dedicated work and construction.

Duration: 52min.