The fall season often brings a flurry of activity – whether sending kids back to school, settling back into a post-summer routine, or getting the garden ready for winter. Ayurveda defines autumn as “Vata” season – and Vata is all…
Following their highly successful Ayurveda & Yoga Retreat at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga in June, Farah Nazarali and Muneera Wallace are hosting a second retreat at the Centre from November 11 – 13, 2022. What makes their retreats…
Photo by: Fernando García Vicario What do you get when you cross a farmer and a dancer? At the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga, you get the Centre’s Farm Coordinator, Mélisanne Loiselle-Gascon! This fall, Mélisanne will be offering the…
You are welcome here whether you are new to meditation, familiar with it, or practiced. As some people have expressed to me: “It’s good to have a structure to drop into to support you (the being).” And that is meditation. …
For an update on the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga’s status in 2023, visit: “Message from the DSSS President” (Dec. 8, 2022) “2023 Centre Operations Plan Summary” (Jan. 31, 2023) Originally published on June 29, 2022 Learn more about the…
The Centre recently received a very generous memorial grant called the Joshua Bell-Altizer Grant to be directed for Yoga Teacher Training. We are so grateful to these anonymous and compassionate donors and friends of Joshua; keeping his dream and the…
By Courtenay Cullen And, just like that, spring has arrived on Salt Spring. If you’re like us here at the Centre, then it’s hard to overstate just how much of a relief it is to see life begin anew this…
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. ~ The Talmud Dear…
by Courtenay Cullen Amita Kuttner DISCLAIMER: The Salt Spring Centre of Yoga has no official political affiliations. The views expressed in the interview below are those of the author. The aim is to inform our readership of something incredible that…
Reviewed by Kenzie Pattillo In Yoke, Jessamyn Stanley offers us a lens through which to view Yoga in a way rarely made available by mainstream means. This book has served to remind me that I teach Yoga with plenty of…