Living in Community
As mentioned in this month’s Centre update, the subject of community is in the air. In the many years since Dharma Sara Satsang Society began forming as a community, we have learned a lot about what makes a community work…
A Seasonal Cleanse
As the summer season begins to merge into fall (cooler nights, shorter days, crops drying out), it’s time to consider a seasonal rebalancing program. The change of season is a traditional time in Ayurveda for a few days of resetting…
Asana of the Month: Utkatasana (chair or powerful pose)
Utkatasana, chair or powerful pose I am always drawn to bring utkatasana into my classes – so much so that some of my students once gave me a thank you card with a stick figure in chair and plank pose…
Meet our YTT Grads – Bryan Eknath Hill
What motivated you to begin practicing yoga? How did yoga come to be a part of your life? I was supporting someone I loved to find a way to heal. He didn’t care to return to the class but I…
Meet our Karma Yogis: Crystal DeShazo
I had just returned from an adventure in California, teaching yoga and soaking up the sun. In September I started driving up the coast to Canada to visit family, not knowing what I was going to do next. When I…
Meet our Karma Yogis: Geraldine Hutchings
I’m sixty-six years old, officially retired last year. I decided that I wanted to travel extensively while I’m still able to do it. I felt I was stagnating while living in Vancouver, following my routine but not meeting new new…
Meet our Karma Yogis: Annie Richard
Before coming here I was working as a technician in a community college, in a sustainable agriculture program in Peterborough, Ontario. I did administrative tasks on the computer, grew food on campus and took care of the greenhouse; I basically…
Meet our Karma Yogis: Jutta Marie Christensen from Copenhagen, Denmark
I woke up one morning; it was cold and snowing outside and I just knew that it was time. I wanted to change something, wanted to find something. It wasn’t because I didn’t like my job or the way I…
Meet our Karma Yogis: Jeff Fisher
I was looking for an experience in which I would have an opportunity to live and work in the same place with people who were also interested in living and working together. Before I came here, I was working in…
Sharada’s August update
Hello everyone, I hope you’re enjoying summer wherever you are. We are in the midst of our annual hot, dry summer on Salt Spring Island. We wait all year for the sun and heat, and then suddenly, it arrives. The…