Our Centre Community: Sudha Soleil
Sudha Soleil (aka Theota Makortoff) It was summer of 1976. I was 25, single and ready for change. I planned to change my birth name, Margaret. I liked my name, but I found that when people called me by Margaret,…
Our Centre Community: Satya Gauthier
Where to start? Fast track forward to when I was first introduced to the Salt Spring Centre. It was Heather Martin, my midwife then, as I was pregnant with Sammy, who brought me from Vancouver to satsang one Sunday in…
Our Centre Community: Shyam (Sean Crabtree)
For as long as I can remember, Salt Spring Centre has always been my home away from home and held a very special place in my heart. My childhood community I was born on Saltspring Island in a tipi on…
Our Centre Community – Gabriel Vinod Rose
Babaji and the places he inspired have always been a part of my life. My parents, Chandra (Pamela) and Allan Rose, were active participants in the Vancouver Satsang, and we, along with my brother Joseph (Ramesh), visited the Salt Spring…
Our Centre Community: Darryl Jagannath Janyk
I am an original West Coaster. I grew up in Coquitlam (a suburb of Vancouver) back when it was still rural. The natural world was always a fascinating playground to me. As a child there were few fences and the…
Our Centre Community: Raven Hume
In 1991, I was living in Vermont as an undergraduate student and college hockey player when I started to hear tell of “a yogi who was living up in the hills nearby.” My friends would return from visiting with him…
Our Centre Community: Padma Diana Bridges
My grandmother was my first guru. I learned rhyming prayers to bless everyone I knew each night, that doing good leads to happiness and mischief to sadness. I couldn’t hide anything from her because she was a gifted psychic. She…
Our Centre Community: Piet Suess
Dear Salt Spring Centre of Yoga, I am truly blessed to have you in my life – to have known you growing up and to call you home when I am there. Some time in 1981 the property was purchased…
Annual Retreat this weekend: Drop-in info and Office closure
Annual Community Yoga Retreat August 1-5, 2013 Dear Members and Friends of Dharma Sara Satsang Society, We would love to have you attend the Annual Community Yoga Retreat! On-site registration is open: Thursday, August 1: 2pm-7pm Friday, August 2: 9am-7pm…
Our Centre Community: Mark Om Prakash Classen
The first time I saw Babaji, I was seventeen years old. I was in high school, eating from the Hare Krsna Cookbook, doing hatha yoga using Richard Hittleman’s books, and reading Autobiography of a Yogi and Be Here Now. I…