FSN's Chris Marianetti spent the month of July 2009 living, working, teaching and studying at the Ashram Paryavarn Vidhyalaya School (APV) in the northern Indian Himalayan region of Uttarakhand. The project was directed by Marc Alongi and Anand Dwivedi and sponsored by the Himalayan Mindful Learning Project. 

FSN's initial goal was to setup a small sustainable recording studio at the school and to introduce APV teachers, Naresh Bhai and Mohan Panwar Singh, to various music composition and production elements. Combining field recordings captured at the school and surrounding towns, studio recordings of tabla, harmonium, flute, and mouth percussion, and Anand Dwivedi’s discussions on meditation and education, we created what could be described as both a half an hour long dynamic guide to meditation, as well as a sonic portrait of the life and world of the ashram.