NEWS ARCHIVE

hills Chandra will be running the event Walking Home (17-26 Sep): one to nine days of silent walking, meditation and sharing across the Brecon Beacons Mountain range and ending at the small Y Fâl community at his mountain farmhouse just outside Abergavenny. Check his website for more details...

Video Rashid writes: "In July BBC4 did a programme on modern fatherhood, the third in a series called "A Century of Fatherhood", men talking about their experiences as parents. As you will see i am one of those interviewed and the film somehow includes archive footage of me taking sannyas and other scenes from Poona 1! It is a very unjudgemental film and was very highly rated in the press. Watch video (only in UK)...

Amitabh Amitabh went on a trekking tour to Bhutan after he had read in OSHOinUK Mutribo's article about how he came to run tours in the Himalayas. Read Amitabh's story and see his photos of the tour...

Osho, India and Me book cover Krishna Prem's book Osho, India and Me, about which we wrote, a few months ago, in our article about forthcoming publications by sannyasin, is now available. Read the flyer and see where to buy it...

London Meditation logo London Meditation will be very active this summer with monthly One Day Introductory Meditation Courses, Summer Practice Groups, and more. They book out quickly! london-meditation.co.uk

Osho Meditation Bristol Osho Meditation Bristol offers monthly meditation days with Osho Active Meditations. Also the Dynamic, run by Pyasa, is held every Monday eve. in Crifton. See our events calendar for details...

flower with drops Nikhila sent us a photo of Yatro representing the UK at the Meditation Resort in Pune with an accompanying letter. OshoinUK liked the spontaneity of Nikhila’s email so we decided to publish it more or less as she wrote it. Read the letter

Glastonbury tor Managala has recently made her way back to her home country after 30 years. She found it filled with sunshine and many sannyasin friends. Read the story...

dancers on Croydon Hall lawn The Spring Celebration at Croydon Hall in Somerset was held on 15-18 April. Read Yatro’s article. It includes many interviews of participants and lots of photos. More...

Ankur The School of Awareness (SofA) was launched on 20 April with a terrific party. The founder, Ankur, also known as the meditation facilitator at Synchronicity in London, tells us all about it. Read the article....

Mutribo Mutribo, in his article entitled Bhutan: the Land of the Thunder Dragon, tells us the story of how he started giving tours in Bhutan. Read the article and see the stunning photographs he took there...

a pile of books Books in the Pipeline: From here and there we have heard of a surprising number of books about to appear in 2010. Most of them are written by UK sannyasins about Osho, sannyas or their work that has been inspired by being with Osho. More..

road On the Move: Seems like now is the time for sannyasins to do many things and go to many places! Amazing what people get up to or what happens to them!! We report on all kinds of bits and pieces of news. More...

black winged lovebird couple A Break in the usual Pattern: After making a bit of a speciality of photographing birds in India, Samarpan decided to break the pattern and go to Ethiopia - famous for its birds – instead. The birds here are amongst the most colourful in the world. Have a look..

Croydon Hall under the snow Other Bits of Gossip: of a none-travelling variety. Just a few gossips about Osho and Centres and literary connections and a few quotes in honour of the 19th January - reaffirming Osho’s place in our hearts. More...

Buddha Osho Vipassana Retreat: Leela and Anahato decided to organise a Vipassana Retreat over the New Year weekend, mainly for the community. But suddenly they found the phones ringing and people wanting to come to it and actually booking! In the end about twenty people came to silently welcome in the new decade. More...

Shankara A Big Change for Shankara: Shanks has been a kind of fixture at Croydon Hall for a very long time. From electronic failures to fire alarms to curtain rods and the sewage farm Shanks deals with them all! More...

A Somerset Reunion: editor and web designer of OSHOinUK finally met in person for the first time since they started working together for this website. Just shows what you can do in cyperspace! The fact that they had been friends before, and for many years, might have helped the easy data flow between Somerset and Scotland. More...

A Cyberspace Reunion: The welcome team on the Ranch, the so-called ‘Twinkies’, unexpectedly came together in cyberspace, exchanging photos and gossip! Two of them live in the UK. More...

Yatro, just back from the Osho Summer Celebration at Croydon Hall in Somerset, writes: "Despite the large numbers, the feeling of the whole event to me was of simplicity. Led by the team who live and work at Croydon Hall and many helpers, everything flowed with ease and remarkable efficiency." Read her article...

Michaela, from Austria, has been working at Croydon Hall for the past few months. She recently experienced an Osho Summer Celebration for the first time. This is what she has says about it......

When Deva Premal and Miten sang and played in Wells Cathedral, a wave of light and celebration washed through the hallowed building, touching the hearts of a thousand who had gathered from all over the South East. More...

The news that Croydon Hall has been sold gave us a sense of un-ease, until we heard from Shruti, who remains the General Manager, how the spirit of Osho – in this holistic venue and its community – will be supported by the new owners. Read Shruti’s letter...

A Thanksgiving Celebration 2008 was held on Sunday Nov 23rd at the Buckland in the Moor Village Hall, some 3 miles from Ashburton in South Devon. It brought together about 70 friends from Torquay to Exeter, Totnes to Ashburton, and Taunton to Minehead. More...

On an Osho Greek Odyssey by Yatro. Holographic Transomatic Mandala Self-Healing Intensive with Swami Devageet. More...

This summer saw many Osho festivals and events in the UK – but few of us older adults knew of the K.I.D.S. Reunion which took place in Cornwall at the end of August. More...

At the end of August Osho Leela, in Dorset, held The Ultimate Celebration Festival. A couple of hundred people attended and a great time was had by all. See the photos of the sannyas celebration. More...

A late summer event in the UK was the return of Ma Dharm Jyoti who facilitated three events here, one at Croydon Hall and two in London. (June 2008) More...

Dharm Jyoti rocks the UK The first event was a five-day group at Croydon Hall called The Art of Living and Dying. The second event was a day of meditation at the Osho Sambodhi Centre. (September 2008) More...

The 10th anniversary of Croydon Hall was celebrated with a fun-filled, but meditative long weekend in July. Big changes in the community: Kanta and Shantidas have left and Shruti, Sarita (French) and Leela now form the administrative team.

It is good to remember that the origin of the Guru Purnima celebration is based on the Hindu tradition of visiting one’s Master on the day of the full moon to show our respect and devotion. More...

Leela Ma Prem Leela, one of the first UK sannyasins and the therapist whom Osho asked to set up the Mystic Rose, will be conducting a Mystic Rose and a No-Mind Group, as well as trainings in these meditative therapies, near Dharmsala in 2010. More...

Mimi Goldman (University of Oregon) and Osho’s Commune

Rashid Sw Deva Rashid Maxwell was invited to speak about the experience of living in Osho’s commune. A seminar on ‘Intentional Communities’ had been arranged by the Emeritus Professor of the Anthropology Department of one of UK’s leading Universities. (May 2009) Here is a clip of part of it...

Veena welcomed Mimi Goldman, Professor of Religious and Social Studies at the University of Oregon to her home in Somerset. In November last year she discovered the book: Controversial New Religions to which Mimi contributed a chapter about Osho and in particular on Rajneeshpuram. (April 2008)

Doing the rounds of the sannyas internet network is a very interesting account of Osho and the sannyas movement – from the beginning to the present day – from a book called Controversial New Religions recently published by Oxford University Press. The chapter on Osho, entitled: ‘When Leaders Dissolve: Considering Controversy and Stagnation in the Osho Rajneesh Movement’, is written by Marion S. Goldman, a professor at the University of Oregon. (November 2007)

How Zen came to the East

Bodhidharma Cave Veena visited Bodhidharma’s Cave during her travels in China. Her dream was to visit the cave where Bodhidharma sat for nine years and then introduced Zen Buddhism to China and the world. More...

A Journey to the Zen Source is a story by Veena, our editor, about her recent visit to the stunningly beautiful Song Mountain in China. The trip was inspired by the BBC documentary ’Extreme Pilgrim’ which traced the origin of Zen Buddhism, showing the cave where Bodhidharma meditated for 9 years, and how it is practiced today in the San Huang Zhai Monastery. More...

Pankaja’s story of her visit to the Song Mountain (with Veena) from the point of view of her great love: Tai Chi and how touched she was by the ’meditation through movement’ that she saw. Also her amazing walks up the high mountain. More...

Osho, Zen, Dao, China and Meditation: by chance Veena came across an intriguing website where Osho’s references in his discourses to China – people and places – have been mapped. ‘Dao Sites in China’ shows beautiful photos of the Hangu Pass near Lingbao, Henan Province. More... to find out more.

Departures

Neera Neera’a send-off was on Friday 17th April 2009 in Devon. Contributions by Sammoda for the video, Rashid for the text and Mike for the photos. Read Yatro’s profile of Neera and how she became a singer; and Punya’ article: How would apple blossoms sound? (March/April 2009) More...

Pagalo’s Death Celebration was held on the 12th of August in London. Yoga Christopher writes: "It was amazing! More than 150 people attended. It was a wonderful get-together, a real celebration!" (August 2008) More...

Travel Logs

Samarpan tells us of his recent trip to India to oversee the printing of his second book of exquisite bird photographs. He also visited Oshodham in Delhi and the Resort in Pune. More...

Niten visits the Ranch in Oregon, where many of us lived as part of Osho’s commune in the years between 1981 and 1986. His vivid writing compells us to pass it on to you – a lesson in how to live in the present while remembering the past. More...

Sannyasins in the World

NICE approved Mindfulness (MBCT): after being asked by NHS directors in Brighton how to create a world-class healthcare service, Vivek wrote a paper proposing a course which runs as a sandwich between Osho Dynamic and Kundalini. Read more on More...

Ramana Dancers

Ramana Dancers from India came for a visit to the UK. Read Pankaja’s article where she tells us how she was able to help save 15 Indian orphan dancers from the heart breaking disappointment of having their dance tour to the UK cancelled. More...

Devopama was able to invite the dancers to perform at his nursing home. about the More....