The Blossom Like A Flower programme, hosted by NAMAH on the auspicious occasion of just before Sri Aurobindo’s birthday, explored the many dimensions of blossoming in life, understood as the Swadharma of each soul. Held as a two-day hybrid event (August 13–14, 2025), it featured dynamic sessions with diverse facilitators, offering rich perspectives, experiential practices, and reflective discussions on living with openness and turning towards the inner sun. The central theme echoed the Mother’s teaching: Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.

James Anderson's session on, Beautify Your Life revealed the gentle emergence of the psychic being as the soul's light, which, when awakened, fills life with a quiet joy and clarity. The path involves continuous purification through remember-and-offer, complete self-giving and surrender to the Mother within our hearts and invoking an inner flame of aspiration. This leads to an immediate shift in consciousness that can be integrated into daily, open-eyed awareness.

Dr. Subhashree Savadamuthu's Blossoming in Surrender highlighted the illusion of control, urging us to recognise that breathing is happening rather than I am breathing, revealing the body's inherent Divine intelligence. The session emphasised the art of waiting and showering love on the sacred body, leading to the profound realisation that I am not actually the doer of any of it.

Dr. Monica Gulati's The Unassuming Flowering introduced the powerful image of humans as upside-down flowers, drawing sustenance from Divine consciousness above while flowering on Earth. She outlined the three fundamental realisations of Integral Yoga: psychicisation, spiritualisation, and supramentalisation as the foundation for all other life aspects. A key practice involved integrating inner experiences into open-eyed awareness and reframing challenges like global suffering as calls to make prayer primary.

Arul Dev's Substance of Flowers – an Inspiration for Our Progress focused on flowers as mediums for inner connection and transformation, emphasising making a direct, sensorial contact with the flower's substance rather than with its mental label. The practice involved entering the flower's aspiration and establishing a dual connection between awareness within the flower and the consciousness above, linking it to the depth of one's own body.

Dr. Uma Narayanan's Connecting Within – Exploring the Richness of Our Being guided participants to steady the inner connection by journeying to the heart centre to discover the Divine spark and deeper aspiration. The session emphasised opening to Divine grace, working with specific qualities, and transforming life contexts by operating from this deeper inner station rather than surface-patterns.

Dr. Aditi Kaul's Living Within: An Inside-Out Approach delved into confronting inner impurities and the paradox of spiritual ego that blocks spontaneous self-giving. She presented the Mother's five-petalled flower of Psychological Self-Perfection (sincerity, faith, devotion, aspiration, surrender) as foundational, highlighting the need to nurture the inner silent voice and to align with light rather than fighting darkness.

Dr. Alok Pandey's Psychological Perfection revealed flowers as a key to the Divine's script embedded in matter, teaching that authentic growth moves from within to outward. He stressed the indispensable necessity of discovering one's psychic being (Swadharma) and cultivating the five attitudes for psychological perfection: aspiration, faith, devotion, surrender, and sincerity, along with perseverance, patience, and endurance for the long spiritual journey.

Ankita Sharma's The Art of Melting into the Divine presented Divine union as humanity's destiny, achievable through a dance of grace and self-effort. She emphasised the need for scientific rigour and subtle observation in spiritual practice, urging precise aspiration, and offering the fragmented "I"s (multiple identities) for transformation as depicted in the vision of a golden wall separating inner and outer being.

Shweta Rajurkar's Our Cells are Blossoming Towards the Mother's Light instilled a foundational certitude in the Mother's embrace, teaching the sacred art of waiting like Nandi. The session focused on the body as a sacred ground for spiritual experience, emphasising dynamic stillness, conscious blinking, and cellular awakening through a dual awareness of the vastness above and below.

Dr. Gitanjali J. Angmo's We’re Golden Sunflowers Inside established the sunflower as a powerful symbol of unwavering aspiration, rejection of shadows and complete surrender to the Divine. She highlighted the psychic being's heliotropism, golden radiance of pure joy, and simultaneous rootedness and rising, further noting that Integral Yoga is a collective aspiration for supramental manifestation, aligning three suns for transformation.

Finally, Dr. Soumitra Basu's The Stories Flowers Tell revealed that flowers act as mirrors of consciousness and spiritual receptivity. He shared the development and efficacy of flower remedies based on Mother's spiritual significances. When prepared with Ganga water, they address both subtle psychological states and concrete physical conditions through their essence and vibration alone, illustrating their power through various case-studies and emphasising patience in treatment.

The host and facilitators actively encouraged all participants, both in person and online to share their experiences, reflections and questions, enriching the breadth and depth of the collective exploration over the two days. Along with their own experiential insights, the facilitators also drew upon the profound words of Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, and the Vedic scriptures.

In conclusion, the programme provided a comprehensive framework for spiritual development within Integral Yoga, guiding participants toward an authentic, conscious and integrated life. It underscored that human evolution is a profound and ongoing journey, mirroring the effortless, radiant blossoming of a flower.

Feedback

“Each session gave good learning tips to understand and practice on path of Integral Yoga, taking Flowers as a metaphor.”

“I received numerous insights during the session which left a lasting inspiration in several parts of my being. I find these insights creating space for more light of the Mother to come inside my being and see and act in certain circumstances with greater clarity.”

“All the sessions were quite helpful in deepening into the subject.”

“Conducive to learning.”

“The Divine Presence was felt throughout the session. The resource persons helped to broaden my understanding of the discussed topics.”

“I was very deeply moved by each speaker as if each person spoke to a different part of my being.”

“Many practical approaches to spiritualise my daily life experience as well as to progress towards the collective yoga.”

“The workshops as a whole provided a wonderful journey through my inner being to awake unknown depths.”

“The sessions wonderfully threaded teachings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, giving them clearer understanding and fuller embodiment.”

“In each of the speaker I could feel an immense devotion towards the Mother and Sri Aurobindo which emanated the beautiful fragrance around.”

“It did help me to find a new courage and perseverance on the path.”

“The atmosphere was very generous and authentic as the speakers spread their vast knowledge and experience in a beautifully sincere way.”