Rod Hemsell
Rod Hemsell is an educator and author who lived in Auroville and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram from 1968 to 1983. During this time he also travelled widely and spoke about Auroville and Sri Aurobindo's philosophy at centers and universities in India, as well as publishing articles and essays.
In 1991 he founded the GAIA Learning Center in Crestone, Colorado, USA, and the GLOBE Charter School in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1995.
He gave a lecture and presentation on and participated in a panel on Auroville at the 1993 Parliament of the Worlds Religions in Chicago.
Since 1994 he has conducted annual Savitri Immersion workshops at the Sri Aurobindo Learning Center in Crestone. From 2007 to 2017 he has lectured on philosophy at the University of Human Unity in Auroville, India.
