Our 2012 season is underway and we are busy seeding, tilling, planning and dreaming of the delicious season ahead of us. Our farm team thus far is made up of Jack Teng and Emily Adam. Jack comes to us from an intensive SOIL apprenticeship on Vancouver Island, and Emily comes to us from the Linnaea ...read more
Shankar’s March update
Greetings: As a misty early morning rain falls in the Blackburn valley, there’s a quiet hum of activity around the Centre. All the full-season staff are now here setting up for the early programs. There are new faces and new roles, and a strong sense of purpose. Jack Teng and Emily Adam are managing the ...read more
Founding Member Feature: Janaki Polden
Yoga on the Road In London, while working as a nurse, I started taking yoga classes in 1973 with my boyfriend Rod. In the spring, we set out ‘across the pond’ on our travels – the World Tour. Lots of people our age were ‘on the road’ to India, N. America, South-East Asia, Australia, Mexico, ...read more
Babaji’s Guidelines for Self-Development
All spiritual traditions have a code of behaviour that aspirants are advised to follow. We are all familiar with the ten commandments of Christianity and Judaism. Likewise, the first two limbs of ashtanga yoga spell out the behavioural disciplines that are advised for those who wish to follow the path of yoga. Even secular societies ...read more
The Work Returns
The Work Returns to the Salt Spring Centre April 13-15, 2012 After practicing meditation and yoga for decades, I am still amazed at the multitude of thoughts that arise in my mind, and at how disruptive they can be when they remain unquestioned. I was drawn to attend Caitlin and Kim’s workshop after reading Stephen ...read more
Shankar’s February update
The year 2011 was significant for the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga with the centennial celebration of the main house and thirty years of its use for our Centre. It has been an extraordinary period. In an era when many spiritual and healing centres were much talked about and a far smaller number actually started, ...read more
Founding Member Feature: Sri Nivas
I first met Babaji in 1974 at the ‘Spruce Street House’ in Vancouver where a number of Babaji’s students were living. Ma Renu, the woman who had sponsored Babaji to come to North America, had brought him to Vancouver and dropped him off as she was going to visit friends on Salt Spring Island. I ...read more
Shiva Ratri 2012
Join us at the Centre on February 19-20, 2012 for Shiva Ratri, an all-night vigil of chanting and prayer. The celebration begins in the morning with the making of 1008 clay lingams, representing sahasrara chakra, the lotus of a thousand petals. An all-night ritual begins at 7pm and is our collective sadhana and offering. In ...read more
Shankar’s December update
Greetings: Déjà vu. The power went out just hours before guests arrived for the last Yoga Getaway of 2011. Last year’s final program, the KY celebration in November, was blessed with a heavy snowfall and power outage just after everyone arrived. With the help of our old generator we powered all essential services, and the ...read more
Appeal for your support
Dear Friends, Greetings of the season to you all! As we reflect on the blessings of 2011 and the year draws to a close we are making an appeal for your help in two of our important endeavours. First, we are making an appeal for your contributions to the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga. The work ...read more
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