Current officers of the Sri Aurobindo Association |
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Lynda Lester, president: Lynda edited the Integral Yoga journal Collaboration for 10 years and gives frequent presentations on yoga to groups and centers around the U.S. She helped organize the 1988 and 2008 All USA Meeting (AUM) and is a member of the AUM Continuity Committee. She has also served on the board of Auroville International USA. Formerly a writer/editor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where she managed print and web communications on scientific computing, Lynda now lives in Lodi, California. There she pursues various writing projects and participates in the extended Integral Yoga community of Lodi and the Bay Area. |
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John Robert Cornell, sectretary: John Robert found Home when he met Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1980 by the grace of a spiritual teacher named Elena DeJoya in California. He made his first pilgrimage to Pondicherry in 1994 with his wife Karen. During later trips he fell in love with Auroville and spent two years living there (2006–2008). He is haunted by light and by the veil of the Divine in the American landscape. His compelling interests are writing, Integral Yoga, and the search for the American soul and the American yoga. He and Karen make their residence in a small town in the California foothills. |
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Kalpana Patel, treasurer: Kalpana went to school at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education in Pondicherry, India, and has been an active board member of the Sri Aurobindo Association since 1998. She helped organize AUM 1998 in Aptos, California, and was a principal organizer of AUM 2001 in Redwood City, California. She has also hosted a weekly Sri Aurobindo study group and been a regular participant in monthly retreats at Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham. Kalpana lives in San Jose, where she works as office manager at Tata Elxsi Limited. |
