New connections in Europe!

Hari Om!

Integral Europe is growing and flourishing - hooray! Jai Gurudev!

We have several new member countries joining the European Council - so we are very happy and delighted to welcome the following new countries and their representatives - thank you all so very much.

We are also delighted to say that new avenues of communication are opening up between the European Sangha and the Ashram in America.

The Ashram has been undergoing a complete review and reorganisation which has been overseen and designed by an outside consultant, and it is now almost in place.

Within the original plan, once everything in the US was set up, there was a timescale for an outreach to the international Sangha and new channels of communication to be set up.

The reorganisation may take up to a year to complete and both the Ashram and IY Europe think that is too long to wait, so I am speaking with Euro Reps and will be meeting with two senior swamis in the next few weeks to discuss the best way for us to have clear and easeful communication.

So in case you've been wondering what's going on, don't worry! Your Euro Co-ordinator is busy working together with you and with the Ashram. Watch this space for more news!

So here are our New Members:

Austria (Narayani Bianca Westreicher), Czech Republic (Chinmayi Niegsch), Denmark (Jessica Gorre-Borja), Finland (Prasanna Paula Jooga), Greece (Linda Vincent), Holland (Chandra van Altveer), Iceland (Martha Ernstsdottir), Norway (Hillevi Larsson) and Switzerland (Jaya Palma).

And the existing members of the Council are:

Belgium (Ramakrishna de Meester), France (Ambika Berthias), Germany (Highkey Meyer), Gibraltar (Nalanie Chellaram), Italy (Parvathi Faini), Portugal (Divyajyothi Kalmbach), Spain (Kirana Lee Stover), U.K. (Lalitha Williams) and the European Co-ordinator is Rev. Padma Priya.

The newly increased and enhanced European Council will be meeting later this year in November in Portugal. So if you have any concerns or news to share that you would like your Euro Representative to take to the meeting, just let them know as soon as possible so that it can be added to the Agenda.

If you don't have an email address for your Euro Rep, please contact Rev. Padma on revpadma@gmail.com and she will put you in touch.

Thank you all for your Light and Love and your beautiful service in sharing the teachings of our beloved Sri Gurudev. Om Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi.