Yesterday, Suprabha Beckjord completed her 13th 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race finishing the distance in a time of 60 days+08:58:51.

She was the final finisher of this year’s event. Making 11 finishers out of the 13 starters. The race was won by Asprihanal Aalto.

The New York Sri Chinmoy Centre offer free meditation classes throughout the year. Recently, a new course was offered in Manhattan. Over 200 people attended the course which taught beginners the basics of meditation.

NY Manhattan - meditation class

My meditation Is my soul's Soundless sound-conversation With my Inner Pilot.

- Sri Chinmoy

Ashrita Furman of Queens, New York continues to set more Guinness World records as he enters the Record books for holding 100 simultaneous Guinness World records. Since his first successful record back in 1979, Ashrita has broken 237 official Guiness World Records.

A new version of the Sri Chinmoy Songs site has been developed. - www.srichinmoysongs.com

Sri Chinmoy composed over 20,000 songs during his lifetime. The website will be an online collection of the music scores, translations and audio recordings of the songs.

Members of the British, French and Irish Sri Chinmoy Centres met up in an old stately house on the outskirts of Dublin for a weekend of meditation, fun and music.

Four way tug of war with referee trying to get out of way

Activities included a two mile race, advertised by our Irish hosts as 'fast and downhill'. Well actually the first mile was fast and downhill, but the second mile led to a few slower times than usual....

Dublin photo

Despite, heavy rain during this summer, seven runners have already completed the epic 3100 Mile Race Self Transcendence Race. The race was won for the sixth time by flying Finn, Asprihanal Aalto in a time of 43 days+16:28:06

Asprihanal on finishing race - photo by Jowan

Recently, the World Harmony Run visited Iceland for a short run around the island. The World Harmony Run began on July 1st and finished on the 16th July in Reykjavík the capital of Iceland. The run passed through the great natural beauty of the island meeting many local people along the way.

Iceland World Harmony Run

World Service Plants is an international program encouraging the protection and improvement of the environment by restoring degraded ecosystems by planting native or indigenous tree species. The photo below is taken in France where members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre took part in a programme of planting trees.

World Service Trees

The Self Transcendence 3100 Mile Race is an epic feat of running and self transcendence around a small 0.5488 mile loop in Queens New York. These are a few photos taken from this years edition of the race.

Running towards the Sun: Photo by Arpan