Occupying a beautiful seven acre beachfront compound approximately 5 km north of Pondicherry, The Quiet Healing Center is Auroville's alternative health care facility.

The land was previously owned by a family with close ties to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and in years past The Mother occasionally visited the site. She is said to have remarked that a powerful healing energy was concentrated there and to have given general indications about the organization of a healing centre that could be developed.

Many years later, in the mid 1980's, one of The Mother's former secretaries was inspired to help realize this vision. Funds were raised, the land acquired for Auroville and construction began. The Quiet Healing Center opened in February 1997.

The healing work at Quiet is based on the understanding that man is first and foremost a spiritual being seeking to express its truth through the instrumentality of the mental, vital and physical nature. Disharmonies occur as the more or less ignorant instruments deform the energies trying to manifest through them and it is these disharmonies which manifest as disease. The various (non-invasive) therapies offered at Quiet all seek, in one way or another, to address the patient on the energetic level. Each therapy (and therapist) honors and strives to work in harmony with the body's own deep wisdom, each recognizes itself as a humble tool of the inner spirit who is ultimately the only healer.

Classes in hatha yoga (based on the Iyengar system) are offered on an on-going basis at Quiet and workshops, seminars and conferences in areas relevant to healing or to the transition to the new evolutionary cycle heralded by the work of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother are organized as opportunities arise.

Guest houses with aesthetically pleasing, comfortably appointed double rooms are available for those wishing to stay at Quiet while taking therapy.