My Journey Inward
Who am I and how did I get here? These questions are always percolating with different answers arising in me all the time. My easy answer today is I am nothing and I am everything, and I got here by…
News from the Centre – June 2019
Accept yourself, accept others and accept the world. You will see everything is full of love and love is God. ~ Baba Hari Dass Dear friends, Salt Spring Island is beautiful and green, the garden is growing, and the centre…
Summer Stories and Satsang
I can perfectly recall the feeling I had when I found the Salt Spring Centre online. It was as though someone had slapped a neon sign on the screen in front of me, blinking “Hey you – this is the…
Fish Pose/Matsyasana
Fish Pose is a beautiful, soothing backbend pose, starting from reclining position. It can be done with a bolster, or a folded blanket, as a calming restorative pose. It is a pose that can help to refresh and renew your…
News from the Centre – May 2019
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. ~ A. A. Milne Dear friends, We’re happy to welcome you to life at the centre in the lovely month…
Hanumān Jayantī
by Yogeshwar Humphrey On Thursday, April 18th a small group of intrepid Hanumān bhaktas gathered at the Centre to celebrate Hanumān Jayantī, or Hanumān’s birthday. The date traditionally falls on the full moon of the lunar month of Chaitra in…
Recipes From the Centre Kitchen’s Archives
Periodically we like to share some of our popular recipes from both of the centre’s books: Salt Spring Island Cooking, published in 1989 and The Salt Spring Experience, published in 2001. Today’s focus is on sweet treats. I hope you…
News from the Centre
April 2019 “I thank you God for this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a beautiful blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.” ~ e e cummings…
Living a Balanced Life
We live in uneasy times. Perhaps it has always been so, but with global news at our fingertips we’re aware of disturbing events as they happen. How can we live a balanced and peaceful life in the midst of the…
What’s in a name? Learning that Babaji may have been right all along.
Learning that Babaji may have been right all along. by Sarah Archana Russell Using a small white board and dry erase maker he asks me to write down my date of birth. I write ‘June 27 1985’. He looks down…