1924 – 2024: 100 years of the Roerichs in Darjeeling and Sikkim

1935 – 2025: 90 years of the ROERICH PACT for Peace through Culture

For 20 years, the Community of Living Ethics has been promoting the projects and activities of Agni Yoga at Crookety House, where Elena Roerich spent the last years of her life, and the activities of the Good Will Centre in Darjeeling, collaborating with the Indian Trusts that support them.

Our Mission:

  • To intensify and radiate from this center of Fiery energy the magnet of Agni Yoga, the message of Living Ethics, the testimony of the life and work of the Roerichs, and especially the work of the great Cosmic Consciousness of Elena, which is revealing itself ever more.
  • To collaborate with other groups, in the understanding and dissemination of the energy of Goodwill, as Love in action in Humanity and among the Kingdoms of Nature, through educational and cultural activities.

2023 ended with the celebration of the arrival of the Roerichs in Darjeeling in December 1923, with a great exhibition, held at the HMI, the Himalayan Mountainering Institute. “Messages from the Great Mountains – 100 years of Roerich in Darjeeling” and with a meeting with the collaborators of the Goodwill Center who proposed the theme and common thread of the activities for 2024:

CREATIVITY: THE ART OF FINDING YOUR TRUE SELF

What is creativity without self-perfection?

(Agni Yoga – Heart, 75)

We ask ourselves:

  • How can we develop and express our Creativity?
  • What is my true Self?
  • What are the qualities that support Creativity…

Intelligence, Thought, Intuition, Imagination, Will, Energy, Love…. and what more?

In human creativity thought is the impeller of each step, both in small and in great. The significance of thought is most powerful! (Infinity II, 348)

Creativeness can enter life only when all levers are impelled toward shifting. (Hierarchy, 246)

The Sensitive Group who coordinates the educational activities at Crookety House will develop the thread with the title: Creativity – the art of expressing your true talents

In addition to various local and international events on significant dates for our Spiritual Teachings (see programme), this year we are expanding the possibility of visiting Crookety for short stays of study, retreat and service, both for individuals and groups.

For information and advanced booking: segreteria.viaggio.india@gmail.com.

  • Our Team:

  • Fiorenza Bortolotti, Coordinator

  • Marina Bernardi, Himalayan Centre of Agni Yoga, Crookety House, Kalimpong

  • Ursula Raab, Darjeeling Goodwill Centre

2024-2025 Activities

2024 Events and Seminars

  • October Sun 6th Messages from the Great Mountains
    in the life, art and research of Nicholas Roerich, 150 years after his birth.
    Exhibition and presentation, with Fiorenza Bortolotti
    Crookety House

  • November Mon 11th – Sat 16th International Gathering for Scorpio Full Moon (in English)
    Workshop with Steve Nation and Barbara Valocore – Intuition in Service & Lifebridge Foundation (USA) and the Himalayan Centre of Agni Yoga
    Crookety House & Darjeeling Goodwill Centre, India

    Scorpio Full Moon November 16th, 2.00 a.m.


  • November Fri 15th – Sun 17th XV Darjeeling Goodwill Week
    CREATIVITY – THE ART OF FINDING YOUR TRUE SELF
    Darjeeling Goodwill Centre

  • December Sat 14th CRE-ACTIVITY
    A day of creative art with Crookety’s children and the Kalimpong schools, with the Rotary Club of Kalimpong

2025 Events and Seminars

  • January Wed 1st Creativity: The Art of Finding Your True Self
    Let’s start the New Year creatively
    Himalayan Centre of Agni Yoga – Crookety House

  • February – Wed 12 The Mother of Agni Yoga:
    Anniversary of Helena Roerich

    Agni Yoga Himalayan Center – Crookety

  • March – Mon 24 The Day of Living Ethics
    Agni Yoga Himalayan Center – Crookety

  • April Sun 13th – Tuesday 15th World Culture Day
    The Celebration of the Roerich Pact: 90 years of Creativity and Culture
    Darjeeling Goodwill Centre

  • May Sat. 10 – Wed.14 Wesak Celebration
    The Light of 2025: As Above, so below
    Himalayan Center of Agni Yoga, Crookety – Darjeeling Goodwill Centre

  • May Wednesday 1st – Thursday 15th Cardiac Coherence Retreat

    The all-embracing Heart, the One Heart knows the Infinite. (Fiery World III. 178)”

    Favoured by the precious atmosphere of Crookety, we will prepare and experience the celebration of Wesak, accompanying it with a Cardiac Coherence Retreat, leading us in contact with some of the most magnetic places in India, to create a platform of hearts for the energy of the full moon of Taurus.

    Inspired by Agni Yoga, in the silence of the Peaks, we will work activating the Joy and Lightness of the heart for a broader and deeper opportunity for Service.

For any information about Crookety House, the Darjeeling Goodwill Centre and individual and group stays and retreats, please write to: