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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
by Tracy Chetna Boyd “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” One thing I can say with a high degree of certainty, is that human beings are complicated. The pairs of opposites are…
Anuradha in the flowers “Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because…