About Bhavana

Please visit Auroville's website for a contemplative writeup on Bhavana.

Bhavana Dee DeCew was born in New York. She studied at Northwestern University and New York University at Brooklyn, but prefers to say she studied at "the university of the road," travelling in Europe and overland to India.

She has been in Auroville since 1971, where she directs the Auroville Village Action Group (AVAG) which she founded in 1983. AVAG carries out development work in 76 villages in and around the Auroville area. She has also served on Auroville's Working Committee, the Entry Group and helps coordinate the Integral Learning Centre at Verite Community within Auroville.

She also enjoys conducting courses in Vipassana meditation.

Bhavana will be on tour in the USA from September through November of 2003.

For more information

Please visit the Auroville website to read more about the villages around Auroville, to read about Village Action, and to read more about Bhavana herself. You can also write village action at avag@auroville.org.in or contact AVIUSA.