| New Healing Centre begins functioning in Edayanchavadi |
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| Written by Kathy |
| Saturday, 27 December 2008 14:01 |
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After four months of lovingly restoring this 800 year old building, the Edayanchavadi Healing Centre, Thamarai's second project, was born in November 2008. It is an educational and treatment centre for the promotion of natural healing and sustaining and reviving healing techniques native of Tamil Nadu. The building and grounds were clear and clean by a voluntary team of villagers and residents and guest of Auroville and renovations was overseen by members of the Saral youth group. Selma, a Norwegian guest to Auroville volunteered to beautify the building by painting wall murals that has helped to give the centre a sacred and welcoming feel. There was much local curiosity during this time and people began to be drawn to wander in and sample the atmosphere.Muthu Kumari, a local women and resident of Auroville community manages the centre that provides educational classes in health care, yoga and well being. Children from the local school come for daily classes and regular classes are held for women and youth groups. The centre is a synergy of many energies, Parvati from Pitchandikulam medicinal forest provides a weekly herbal clinic and educational class in herbal collection and medicinal preparation, Satyamurthy teaches a children's class on ecology and wellbeing. Muthu Kumari provides consultations, yoga instruction health and hygiene classes each day. In January the centre hopes to provide Ayurvedic medical consultations, massage and various healing treatments. In February, our friends from Langara college arrive to do integrated healing workshops and treatments with villages. The centre is offered as a space to bring health, healing, self empowerment and to further fostering of co-development between Edayanchavadi village and Auroville. We watch and co-create with much interested how this project wants to emerge and develop.
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