A Long and Mindful Road
Q&A with Soorya Ray Resels Why did you choose Salt Spring for your yoga teacher training, having already spent 20 years in India with your teacher? You might find it interesting to hear how I came to yoga teacher…
November Newsletter, 2021
Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love and for the second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire.~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Hello friends, As you will…
Asana of the Month: Warrior II
Konasana VI / Virabhadrasana B by Kathryn ‘YogaKat’ Kusyszyn I love this pose for the challenges it offers. This pose demands strength and at the same time, it creates a sense of expansiveness. Being rooted in the present, looking to…
Remembering our Innate Goodness
We came into this world pure. If you spend time with any newborn baby, you can see they live only in the present moment. A baby may cry when she has physical discomfort - hunger, wet diaper, etc - but…
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Covid-19 Update
The Salt Spring Centre of Yoga supports public classes, gatherings, workshops, and retreats, and is a registered non-profit organization. As the Centre resumes in-person programming, we continue to align our practices with the COVID-19 Provincial Health Orders (PHO) set out…
Coexistence
As a long-time nature lover and organic farmer, I can almost always be found a mere walk or a bike ride away from forests or protected areas that foster biodiversity. While working in the garden at the Salt Spring Centre…
Stoking The Fire: Spice Up Your Autumn Meals
Ayurveda places great emphasis on agni, the fire principle, which manifests in the body in overall warmth and in the power of digestion (physical, mental and emotional), as well as in our vision, in our blood and skin. When our…
October Newsletter, 2021
Inhaling Deeply & Embracing the Dark “This is life. It includes pleasure, pain, good, bad, happiness, depression, etc. There can’t be day without night. So don’t expect that you or anyone else will alway be happy. Stand in the world…
Low and Slow for Fall
As the expansive heat and light of summer ebbs to chill golden, the Fall rhythms of family and work life resume in equal measure. I imagine this transitional time like the opposing forces of a rising tide at a river’s…