Musicians from the Sri Chinmoy Centre have been taking part in a concert tour across the Netherlands, France and the British Isles.

The Songs of the Soul concerts feature a range of musical interpretations from the music of Sri Chinmoy.

A classic 9 box CD - Aspiration-Cry, is available on Radio Sri Chinmoy, the CDs contain a variety of recordings by Sri Chinmoy from vocal to flute.

The Australasian leg of the World Harmony Run began on 13 October in Christchurch New Zealand and is currently passing through New Zealand before crossing over into Australia.

Sri Chinmoy taught the practice of concentration and meditation could be applied to any field of life. A new video - ' Surfing Monk' shows how a few students of Sri Chinmoy incorporated their love of surfing into their search for enlightenment.

Ocean Monk Trailer from Ocean Monk.com

The video has been selected as an official film for the New York surf film festival and features Kelly Slater, Jack Johnson, Titus Kinimaka and Sri Chinmoy.

Sri Chinmoy writes that "...Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth..." (1)

Recently, the Governor of New York, David Paterson, quoted three short poems on hope during the 9/11 memorial service of 2010. The poems and  video are available here. - Poems on Hope

Between April and August, the US World Harmony Run, travelled through  all 50 US  states meeting people from all walks of life, spreading a message of goodwill, peace and harmony.

A picture from the Run on the last day. From - Closing ceremony of WHR 2010

A few selected photos from a recent Songs of the Soul concert in New York, celebrating the music of Sri Chinmoy.

The Grand finale - The international music group, Gandharva Loka comprising students of Sri Chinmoy.

This summer, two members of the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team successfully completed  swimming across the English Channel. Since Vasanti Niemz and Adhiratha Keefe completed the first swims in 1985, the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team have now completed a total of 41 solo swims, with Karteek Clarke of Scotland making most successful swims (10).

A few years after arriving in the US in 1964,  Sri Chinmoy moved to the New York suburb of Jamaica, Queens. Throughout his frequent international travels, Sri Chinmoy made his home in a quiet street of this suburb of New York for over three decades. Over the years, many students of Sri Chinmoy, from the US and all corners of the world, moved to the area to set up enterprises and be closer to their spiritual teacher. This has helped the area to be one of the most multicultural and multi-ethnic areas in the US.

As part of the Sri Chinmoy Poetry Festival, August 2010, an international team of individuals helped set a new Guinness World Record for translating a poem by Sri Chinmoy into the most number of languages (146).