Founding Member Feature: Mayana Williamson
When I saw the blue poster, I knew my life was about to change. It announced Dharma Sara’s first Yoga Centre on 4th Avenue in Vancouver, and when I read it I thought, “That place is going to save my…
Meet our YTT Grads: Laura Harris (Pt 2)
Laura has generously made available excerpts from the diary she kept while attending the 2012 sessions of our 200 hour yoga teacher training. Part 1 was published last month, and Part 2 is published below. Diary of a yogi in…
Asana of the month: Viparita Karani
Viparita Karani (legs-up-the-wall pose) Viparita = inverted, reversed; Karani = doing, making Viparita Karani is a wonderful yoga posture and a favourite of mine, one that I share with students any time of the year. This asana is particularly refreshing in the…
Meet our YTT Grads: Laura Harris
Laura has generously made available excerpts from the diary she kept while attending the 2012 sessions of YTT. Part 1 is published below, and you can read Part 2 here. Diary of a yogi in training – Part 1 July…
Founding Member Feature: Rajani Rock
My grandmother was a full-blood Apache Indian. Although I knew little about her, I deeply appreciated her ritual ways and the love she showed my own mother. Our home in Ottawa included my parents, 3 brothers, 1 sister and myself.…
Continuing Beginners
Yoga programs at the Centre are designed for anyone who wants to learn and practice, at whatever level. Some people are new to yoga and others have been practicing for years. Many are in the middle: They started practicing years…
Accepting the Present is Happiness
What would it take for you to be happy? What do you think you need? Living in this culture, it’s very easy to get caught in thinking, “I need…” or “if only I had…, then I’d be content”. We get…
Founding Member Feature: Ramanand Chlopan
I grew up in a family of nine – my parents and six kids, 4 girls, two boys. I was third in the lineup. We were raised in a Roman Catholic family (although my father was Eastern Orthodox and had…
How to Live from The Yellow Book, the sayings of Baba Hari Dass
When someone asked Babaji a question about the right way to live, he said, by lessening our demand, adding that demand increases desires and desires make demand, which creates dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction makes pain. I don’t say cut your demands altogether. There…
There is No Doer – The Story of the Rock
Ramesh Balsekar An ordinary human being would not usually begin anything unless he has a motive, an end to fulfil, and the means with which to achieve that end. But for the jnani living his life spontaneously, having already lost…