September 8, 2024
You and I are amazing creatures, capable of learning a seemingly endless amount of patterns (ideas, skills, facts) to help us navigate our worlds more effortlessly […]
May 8, 2024
Our minds are beautifully efficient. Some days, I find it hard to appreciate this, especially when I'm tired or overloaded. But even so, there is so much unconscious work going on under the surface that it's baffling how the most seemingly simple feelings and actions come to life.
February 4, 2024
I’ve been distracted lately by thoughts on the pace of local development and how this will inevitably affect the future of our lives and livelihood. Sometimes, […]
October 20, 2023
In yoga philosophy, vairagya is the practice of softening our held viewpoints. Our mind is a powerful tool for predicting the cause of whatever experience we […]
September 20, 2023
I was out for dinner with a friend the other night, and we reflected on the feeling of September’s “new year”; a transition period between Labour […]
August 20, 2023
I was woken up this morning by the crash of thunder that cracked over the roof. I jumped up and looked out the front window at […]
May 8, 2023
The practices of yoga, developed over thousands of years, help us to understand ourselves, our relationship with others, and the greater whole. Yoga explains that the […]
April 9, 2023
We sense what is changing; it’s impossible to do otherwise. Sameness is dull, and our attention falls away because we are curious creatures, avid to learn. […]
March 9, 2023
Life is replete with stressors; as the Buddha said, life is dukkha. Right here and now, I can bring to mind a few situations that I’m responsible […]
January 9, 2023
What comes to mind when you reflect on 2022? I think of a year that has recalibrated my sensitivity toward degrees of change. It seems that […]
February 22, 2022
“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it […]
December 14, 2021
Help those in need of support from the flooding in the Fraser Valley this past November. This season we’re raising money for local families affected by […]
June 8, 2021
There’s a time-test idea in yoga that I want to share with you today called samskara. Even after a year that has illuminated our ability to make […]
May 10, 2021
On Saturday May 15th, we are offering by-donation yoga and pilates to raise money to support India’s COVID crisis. 100% of donations go to the Covid-19 […]
May 9, 2021
Dear fellow Challenger, It was great to see so many of you at the Challenge Kick-Off class and through the weekend. If you missed the Kick-Off […]
February 9, 2021
by Karen Andersen “As is the breath, so is the mind.” ~Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā With all the moving parts of our inner being and outer world, […]
