Changing the Angle of the Mind
This is a test. You’ve been stuck at home for three months. You haven’t been able to go out to concerts, to the pool or to the mall (depending on where you live). You can’t travel, and you can’t visit…
Protected: Virtual Programs
We have developed a number of online programs to bring the Salt Spring Centre experience to you at home. We hope you’ll join one of our exciting new programs.
A message to the community
Dear community:We write to express our solidarity with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and to acknowledge the harm that black, indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) experience in our country as a result of systemic racism. This occurs at the…
News from the Centre – June 2020
If the only prayer you say in your life is thank you, that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart Dear friends, I hope you are all doing well, and finding ways to stay connected and enjoy the beauty of nature during…
Staying home, staying safe with Usha
How has this coronavirus affected your life? Firstly – not very much change because I have been living contentedly in unintended self-isolation! But the new coronavirus has affected my life in that others have reached out to offer me help,…
Mathew Bentley’s story
Here I am, programs coordinator at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga during COVID-19. What a bizarre time to be at the Centre; well, what a bizarre time to be anywhere right now. My wife, Kris Cox, and I came…
Five-Time Canadian Olympic Medalist’s Daughter Discovers Science of Health in Ayurveda
This interview has appeared in Soft Power, and is being re-published here with permission from Girija and the author Aparna Sridhar. Girija Edwards, an Ayurveda Educator in Canada is very proud of her late father Dr Philip Aron Edwards, who…
My Opening to Yoga Ceremony
by Raven Mahavir Hume By the time I came into the Satsang and met Babaji I had been excelling for over a decade in the practices of Hatha Yoga, but ultimately I had become a fervent Jnana Yogi. I had taken a…
News from the Centre – May 2020
When the heart gets softer by being closer to God, one begins to feel love everywhere. Animals, trees, plants, people, and a blade of grass all shower love. I wish you deep, deep in love of God. I wish you to…
Time Out with Kris Cox
Often, interviews begin by setting the scene: perhaps the interviewer has arrived early, and describes her surroundings – a cozy cafe, a park bench, a hotel lobby – before the arrival of the subject. This also invites you in as…