What is it you really want?
What is it you want? If you got the thing you want, what would that give you? How would you feel – relaxed? peaceful? happy? Maybe that’s what you really want, and the thing you’re hoping for is just a…
Soup, Beautiful Soup – Recipes for Fall
Ayurveda has always stressed the importance of serving freshly cooked meals, using fresh ingredients, and cooking with a sense that we are feeding the divine within ourselves. To have the means and the skills to feed ourselves is such a…
Asana of the Month : Pincha Mayurasana (Forearm Balance)
Pincha Mayurasana (pin-cha my-your-AHS-anna) aka Feathered Peacock or Forearm Balance pincha=feather mayura=peacock Yogi/blogger J. Brown recently wrote a brave piece dethroning the King and Queen of yoga – Salamba Sisasana (headstand) and Salamba Sarvangasana (shoulderstand). Though he discussed the very real…
News from the Centre (September 2014)
Hello everyone, As I write this, the sky is cloudy, and although there may yet be many days of sunshine, fall is definitely in the air. Just a short while ago, we were in the midst of YTT and ACYR…
Kitchen Sadhana
Babaji once wrote, “The main aim of life is to attain peace. On the land, we are doing various things, but underneath it, that is our main aim.” The generosity and wisdom of this statement has been feeding me for…
Balancing Vata Dosha in the Fall Season
September brings us the change of season – summer turning to autumn. Evenings become chillier; winds rustle the drying leaves and bring them floating to earth. A bounteous harvest fills the kitchen with rich, earthy smells of fresh fruits and…
Our Centre Community: Glenda Saraswati Garcia
Beckoned by a Teacher and a Community You might think that the remote, cold, north of Saskatchewan is a most unusual place to find a yoga Guru, but in the winter of 2008, that’s exactly what happened to me. At…
Asana of the Month: Upavista Konasana
Upavista Konasana Wide Angle Seated Forward Fold I love forward bends! We know forward folds relax and calm the mind and body, and this pose is no exception. This asana creates the openness to really let go and decompress from…
Reflections on the Centre’s Yoga Teacher Training Program: Ginny & Kim
Ginnys’s Reflections on the Centre’s YTT Program “I feel…” were the only words I could get out before the tears took over. Finally I managed to add “I can’t even get out the word ‘blessed’!” It was the closing circle at…
News from the Centre (August 2014)
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine and warmth (and heat) of the summer. Here at the Centre the summer season seems to be flying by. The first part of July was full and rich, with the first…