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Healing Centre

Occupying a beautiful seven acre beachfront compound approximately five kilometers north of Pondicherry, the Quiet Healing Centre is Auroville's main alternative health care facility. 

The land was previously owned by a family with close ties to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and in years past the Mother occasionally visited the site. She is said to have remarked that a powerful healing energy was concentrated there. Many years later, one of the Mother's former secretaries was moved to help realize this vision. Funds were raised, the land acquired for Auroville, and construction of facilities begun. The Quiet Healing Centre opened in February, 1997.

The healing work at Quiet is based on the understanding that man is first and foremost a spiritual being seeking to express its truth through the instrumentality of the mental, vital, and physical nature. Disharmonies occur as the more or less ignorant instruments deform the the energies trying to manifest through them, and it is these disharmonies which we recognize as disease. The various (non-invasive) therapies offered at Quiet all seek, in one way or another, to address the patient's difficulties on an energetic level which is, indeed, the only level from which real healing can proceed. Each therapy honors and strives to work in harmony with the body's own deep wisdom. Each therapist recognizes himself as a humble tool of the indwelling Spirit who is, ultimately, the only Healer.

The therapies presently available at Quiet include:

Classes in Hatha yoga (Iyengar system) are offered on an on-going basis and intensive, ten day workshops in traditional Thai massage are also offered frequently. Seminars and conferences in areas relevant to health and healing or to the transition to the new evolutionary cycle heralded by the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are organised as opportunities arise.

Two guest houses with a total of thirteen aesthetically pleasing and comfortably appointed double rooms are available for those wishing to stay at Quiet while taking therapy. The Quiet kitchen prepares three delicious, vegetarian meals per day under rigorously hygienic conditions.

Advisable at all times, reservations are essential for those wishing to stay at Quiet during the month of August and from (approximately) mid December through mid April.

Since 1998, the Quiet Healing Centre has periodically conducted 'healing retreats'. A Quiet Healing Retreat is a highly structured, ten day residential programme in which a combination of intensive group work and individual therapy enables the participant to experience himself in new ways. The aim is to bring the participant into contact with that deeper part of his being from which well his own healing energies and to equip him with the knowledge and techniques whereby that contact may be maintained after he leaves the programme.

Quiet ‘healing retreats’ are presently offered only by pre-arrangement with groups which undertake to  provide all the participants to the programme: a group size of ten to fourteen people seems to be ideal.  

For further information:

phone: +91 413 622329 or 622646
e-mail: quiet@auroville.org.in

or write to:

The Director
Quiet Healing Centre,
Auroville 605101,
India

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