Agni Yoga Community
Portrait of Helena Roerich, 1937, Svetoslav Roerich
Agni Yoga
The Agni Yoga Society (AgniYoga.org) was founded in 1920 by Nicholas Roerich and his wife, Helena. It is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in 1944 under the laws of the State of New York and is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and membership dues.
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Nicholas Roerich
Nicholas Roerich Museum (Roerich.org). The mission of the Nicholas Roerich Museum is essentially a narrow one: to make available to the public the full range of Roerich’s accomplishments. These, however, are not narrow; they cover the realms of art, science, spirituality, peacemaking, and more. Because Roerich’s activities ranged widely, so do the Museum’s.
Banner of Peace
Casa de la Pax Cultura (House of Pax Culture) (www.casadelapaxcultura.com.ar) is a non-profit civil association. It was founded in Santa Fe City, Argentina, on the March 15, 2011. Its aim can be found in the words of Mahatma Gandhi “You should be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As a Humanity, we deserve and are able to build a better world where each of us, just for being a part of the human race, can develop all of our potentialities and gifts, and serve and give the best of ourselves.”
– Estela Tustanovsky, Co-founder and President of Casa de la Pax Cultura
To do so, Casa de la Pax Cultura offers various activities to spread the Banner of Peace, the Roerich Pact, the International Day of Peace, and pacific strategies for solving and preventing conflicts. They offer conferences in schools, meetings, seminars and workshops for students, educators, and the public in general, and organize solidary campaigns. Casa de la Pax Cultura also takes part in public and private events, radio/TV programs, and helps institutions that require their participation.
New World: New Worldview, Spirituality, and Culture (nowimir.ru) is dedicated to the basics of Living Ethics, spiritual asceticism, philosophy of the future, self-improvement. It also contains original poems and prose (authors of the art works), articles on art, paintings by artists-cosmists, notes, audio, and other materials. “Let’s say briefly what the essence of our tasks and aspirations is: we have helped Culture.” (N. K. Roerich)
And We Do Not Fear, 1922, N. K. Roerich
Other websites related to Agni Yoga and the Roerichs
Brazil
Roerich Institute of Peace and Culture of Brazil (https://roerich.org.br/), also called simply “PAX CULTURA,” is a non-profit, private law civil association. Our educational, cultural, artistic, scientific, and philanthropic nature has as its fundamental purpose the reduction of violence through Education for Peace programs through Culture, Art, and Living Ethics, in addition to developing actions to protect and preserve the Cultural and Natural Heritage. We believe in the importance of a comprehensive education involving arts, values, ethics, and aesthetics, in the search for a culture that is not only existential but essential, in an integrality that will impel us to the task of building PEACE.
Community is a common place for everyone, living in communion and fraternity. It is a group, of variable size, made up of people who occupy geographically defined territories and are united by the same cultural and historical heritage, with the purpose of interacting and preserving these cultural roots. It is a very intimate form of association, a highly integrated group in which members are linked to one another by bonds of sympathy, cooperation, and mutual respect.
Based on these principles of unity and the general good, the Roerich Institute of Peace and Culture of Brazil, with the purpose and objectives defined in the Bylaws, responsible for disseminating the Roerich cultural legacy in Brazil, decided to create the AGNI YOGA COMMUNITY FOR THE LANGUAGE COUNTRIES program PORTUGUESA to expand its work in order to unite our brothers from Portuguese-speaking countries through cultural cooperation, fostering Peace, expanding the perception of beauty, and access to the teaching of Living Ethics. The idea is to bring together students, supporters, and all those interested in learning about Agni Yoga.
Russia
The Siberian Roerich Society (SibRO) (sibro.ru) is an interregional public, cultural, and educational organization, which was registered in 1991. Its goal is to study and disseminate the Roerich heritage and implement the Living Ethics Teaching in life. SibRO conducts exhibitions and excursions, concerts, conferences, and educational activities both at its own sites and on the road in cooperation with friendly organizations.
The founder and Honorary Chairman of SibRO is Natalia Dmitrievna Spirina, a well-known Roerich scholar, poet and prose writer, and cultural and public figure. She is also a student of Boris Nikolayevich Abramov. The director of SibRO is Olga Olhovaya. Her article on the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York can be found at https://sibro.ru/friends/ny.php.
Since 2007, the Siberian Roerich Society has implemented several large projects, including the Museum of N. K. Roerich in Novosibirsk and the Memorial House-Museum of N. K. Roerich in the village of Verkh-Uymon (Altai Republic, Russia). In Novosibirsk, on the territory of the Roerich Museum, an arch “Bell of Peace” and a Memorial Chapel dedicated to the Saint Sergius of Radonezh were built.
Currently, a new exhibition hall is being built in Verkh-Uymon on the territory of the Memorial House-Museum of N. K. Roerich. The construction progress can be seen on the page “I want to help”: https://sibro.ru/dari-dobro/.
SibRO offers children special educational programs and museum tours. To learn more about the educational activities SibRO provides for children, go to https://sibro.ru/children.
