Program schedule

Taos sunsetCheck-in for AUM 2014 will begin on Thursday afternoon, August 7, at the Kachina Lodge in Taos, NM. The conference will start that evening and end after lunch on Sunday, August 10.

The following is a tentative schedule for AUM 2014. (Schedule is subject to revision.)

For a general program overview, click here.

Thursday, August 7

2–5 PM Registration check-in
5:30 Opening music and introduction
6–7 Auromesa Ayurveda: Clearing channels for consciousness to blossom — Tizia O'Connor
7–8 Dinner
8–10 Gathering by the fire (reacquaint with old friends and meet new ones)



Camp fire

Friday, August 8

7:30–
8:15 AM
The Glorious Body: Conscious movement to begin the day — Mikael Spector
7–9 Breakfast
9:30–11 Intuition and Sri Aurobindo's intuitive mind, a workshop — Gordon Korstange
11 AM–
12:30 PM
Breakout options:

  • Creative writing — Gordon Korstange
  • Integral art — Tia Pleiman
  • The Glorious Body: Conscious movement — Mikael Spector
Writing workshopArt workshop
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:45–3:30 Break-out options:

  • Visit to Taos Pueblo
  • Free time art
  • Centers meeting
3:30 Chai break
3:45–5:45 The philosophy of religion and Savitri — Rod Hemsell
5:45–6:45 Commemoration for June Maher
6:45–7:45 Dinner
8:00
Odissi, East Indian classical dance performance — AuroTejas Hemsell

Tejas

Saturday, August 9

7:30–
8:15 AM
The Glorious Body: Conscious movement to begin the day — Mikael Spector
7–9 Breakfast
9–10 Van transport to Auromesa
10–11 The sadhana of sustainability: The life journey of system integration toward zero waste along a sunlit path on the evolutionary edge — B Sullivan
11–11:30 Chai break

Sustainability
11:30 AM–
12:30 PM
Sustainability through conscious building — Michael Reynolds
1–2:30 Lunch
2:30–3:30

Consciousness, community, and international development: Tracing the evolution of a personal calling into a global movement — Aviram Rozin

3:30–6 Breakout options:

  • Integral art — Tia Pleiman
  • Hike to the Rio Grande Gorge
  • Sound meditation
  • Labyrinth walking
5:45 Group photo
6:00 Vans back to Kachina Lodge
7–8 Dinner
8–9 The evolution of Integral Yoga in the USA — Julian Lines

Sunday, August 10

7:30–
8:15 AM

The Glorious Body: Conscious movement to begin the day — Mikael Spector

Glorious body

7–9 Breakfast
9:30–11 Closing panel
11–11:30 Closing music
11:45 AM–
1 PM
Lunch
12:30 PM Shuttle leaves to ABQ airport
5:30 Last shuttle leaves to ABQ airport


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