Yvonne Artaud (

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, 1924 -

Pondicherry Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...

, 5 August 2009) was a French educator, ethnologist, psychologist and artist, and was the aide of the thinker and philosopher Medhananda. She was a disciple of

Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...

and

Mirra Alfassa Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother, was a spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and ...

. She became an educator at the International Centre of Education and as an artist, she painted many canvases and wrote poems and plays. Her works are currently stored at the Identity Research Institute in

, which she founded in 1978 with Medhanada. From 1963 she invested in research on the psychology of self-awareness, particularly among pre-school children of South India. She was the author of numerous studies on animal psychology and education of young children and was the creator of many methods of teaching and learning, such as ''Aurograms'', a symbolic language to be used as a means of self-expression and communication for very young children from different language backgrounds.

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