Last week, I visited the Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts de Québec with a friend. Her art is powerful, raw, and luminous all at once. One part of the show was a video that touched me so profoundly. Niki...
It happened slowly, so quietly, I almost didn’t notice. No fireworks, no dramatic turning point. Just a gentle shift. I was sitting in a little restaurant in a very vegetarian area of India, sharing a meal with a friend. At one point, she said, “I...
On June 01, I am turning 60. Most of us don't like to talk about ageing. I found it very interesting as we are all ageing. We cannot avoid it, and why not ageing with Grace? Why not make it the best time of our lives? Ageism is everywhere...
Within the midst of the slowdown, I find myself having time and space daily to listen, observe, reflect, try to learn and understand what we as a global community are currently experiencing. One of the things that I have observed during our Covid-19 “retreat” was an...
Yoga offers many techniques to direct our focus to the vibration of peace that resides within each of us. An excellent practice for this is Ajapa Japa, a sadhana that dates from the Upanishads but was brought to the modern world by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. ...
My first yoga classes fresh out of high school were in the Sivananda style. Sivananda Yoga is a classical and holistic approach to Hatha Yoga that has not been modified or watered down and is still taught the same way as Swami Sivananda taught in...
We all know how certain sounds can be soothing, such as the voice of a mother comforting her baby, and how certain noises can be frightening and make us feel ill at ease, such as thunder and lightning. The sounds of Mantra Chanting are definitely...
During my last holiday, while I was traveling in India, I had the great pleasure of reading a fabulous novel called Shantaram, written by Gregory David Roberts. The opening paragraph of that book had a powerful effect on me. “It took me a long time...
Dear all, Embracing a yogic lifestyle and a meditation practice doesn’t mean that your will be happy ever after… Sadly there are some modern yogis and seekers who cling to their practice to provide them with a false sense of security, a guarantee that they will...