When I Met Radha Didi
I met Radha didi on one of my field visits. She must have been in her late sixties and she was very beautiful. She was in one of those brothels where you find young girls only and when we first...
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Voices from the field — writings on inner transformation, gift ecology, collective coherence, and the quiet experiments that ripple outward.
Connected Deeply - Within & Without
On a misty Friday morning, when the Sun was playing hide and seek, 43 of us came together for a three-day Head, Hand and Heart retreat at Sughad. Both the participants and volunteers...
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Small Acts With Great Love
Atul currently works in a school, as part of Teach For India and has been sharing some amazing school stories during our Laddership Circle. While we pondered upon how the collective can be greater...
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Art And Its Infinite Possibilities
Every moment is a possibility from the tangent of life, and each moment turns up like a dew drop to the present situation. Yet another evening at heArt circle helps me bring back my areas of...
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Surrendering To The Emergence
This weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with Shri. Babulal Gandhi, a living legend. Babulalji, now 90 years old ,has had the good fortune to be a part of the Bhoodan movement...
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Life Is Indeed A Song To Sing…
[Rahul Hasija volunteered for the first time at a recent Moved By Love retreat and shares his heart-warming reflections and insights post three days of serving with love.] As little Reva would...
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Unfolding Stories Of Service And Transformation
Two Sundays ago, 22 friends in Vadodara gathered at Rachana and Ashish's warm and welcoming retreat space which is ttheir lovelyhome to share a beautiful day together in the field of...
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This Month's Moved By Love Newsletter ...
This month's Moved by Love newsletter weaves together stories of serving from the heart --Cooking and serving a warm meal with love and joy for a group of unknown people; stepping into a space of not...
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Here Comes The Rain: Two Laddership Circles!
"Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better" - Albert Einstein There is no better teacher than nature. When we align ourselves with its myriad ways, we witness the...
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Another HeArt Circle Lights Up Mumbai :)
We all got together for yet another HeArt Circle, after a month's break, with many kids and teenagers as participants with us. Each week, a space of sharing love and joy is co-created. It has...
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Holding Questions On Why To Hold Questions :)
[We had a very interesting call this morning, on fragmentation and wholeness in our weekly Awakin Dialogues call. It inspired me to write these notes.] "So then the million dollar question is:...
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Whirling In Turkey
Last weekend, Khush and I were invited to anchor a wedding ceremony for two very dear friends, Marian and Aslinur, who hosted Awakin Istanbul in 2016. Beautiful 3 hour ceremony, with offerings from...
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Retreat In Bhatwada Village
For the last three years, we have been running a computer center in a nearby village of Bhatwada. Originally we had a small minimum price (of Rs. 200) but we soon moved it to gift. Villager...
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Feeling The Flow Of Grace: One-day MBL Retreat In
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us. – Anne Lamott All of us have felt the power of that...
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Unexpected Kindness And Grace - One Day MBL Retreat In
Can you believe that 40 people met as unknowns one morning and felt like a family the same evening? Believe it or not, that’s what happened at a recent one-day retreat in Mumbai, on April 30,...
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I Just Happened To Be Cc'd ...
I just happened to be cc'd on a beautiful note written to Khush by a retreat participant - (who's mother had participated in the April retreat!) - that totally made my day! These moments...
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Morphine Patch
Recently Po was admitted to hospital for kidney stone pain. As there was no special room available and admission was required he was given a sharing room with one more patient. This was an old lady...
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The Power Of Perspective
In this moving TEDx talk, Preethi Sreenivasan talks about the power of perspective, the unconditional love of her parents, her near death experiences leading to fearlessness and discovering purpose...
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Field Of Possibilities-- MBL Laddership Circle.
What does it mean to lead with Inner Transformation? With this fundamental seed question, we kick started a pilot MBL Laddership Circle to serve the local community in India. Of course, there is no...
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How A Gandhi Kurta Touched A US Senator :)
[Last time Ari was local, he shared about a t-shirt. Now, it is his kurta that is creating ripples. :) A sweet note from him below that was captured across the ServiceSpace...
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Smiles At Simran's School
As some of you may know, Deven and I have been exploring ways to spread smiles in our daughter Simran's school in Auroville. Earlier this week, her teacher reached out and asked if we could do...
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