Sri Aurobindo and The Mother are not named among our founders. One does not found an institution upon a living Light — one only takes shelter in it. They are the consciousness we follow and the source of all that is attempted here. The Foundation is simply our offering laid at their feet.
Poet, philosopher, and seer, he gave the vision of a divine life upon earth and the Integral Yoga by which the whole of our nature may be transformed. His writings remain the ground beneath everything we practise.
His spiritual collaborator, who embodied that vision in the world and shaped the life of practice for nearly fifty years — the force and the tenderness through which an ideal became a living, daily work.
We belong to a living stream that flows from Pondicherry into the world. These are the wellsprings we return to, and the current we hope, in our small way, to carry forward.
A vast body of philosophy, poetry, and guidance that remains the source and standard of the practice.
The community where the yoga is lived in the midst of ordinary work and daily life.
The Mother's living experiment in human unity, still growing today around its golden centre.
A vision may be eternal, but a Foundation must be built by human hands — registered, organised, tended, and carried forward day by day. Two came together to give this one its form, and to hold it faithfully to the Light it serves.
Joined in service
A co-founder of the Foundation, Sheakhar gives it his steady stewardship — holding its governance, its resources, and its day-to-day working in careful order, so that the practice may go on undisturbed.
A co-founder of the Foundation, Aditi shapes the life of its programmes — the workshops, retreats, and study — and the spirit of care in which each person who comes is received and gently guided.
Between them they hold the two halves of a single task — one tends the structure, the other tends the soul of the work — and together they keep the lamp burning and the door open to all who come.
The founders' shared intentionThe door this Foundation keeps open is meant for you. Reach out to begin, or read the vision that guides the whole of the work.