The Yasodhara Ashram’s residents’ devotion to Swami Radha is palpable, always. Although we do not interact with most, we have our ‘house mother’, Swami Jyotihananda, who greets us in her housecoat at our lodge to make sure everyone gets in safely in the dark. She is a warm and friendly presence throughout our stay; mostly … Read more
October 24, 2005 The last hours of daylight has me driving up the Kootenay Lake road from Creston to Kootenay Bay through pea soup fog, with intermittent openings of late day, gray sky, gray water, late October stillness and quiet. Of course, being one of the fortunate few of the thirty participants registered for Sharon … Read more
I irrigated my nostrils last night with my pseudo-neti-pot. It is an efficient tool, although it looks rather alarming, like a massive syringe. It got some hoots at my last teacher training course. Everyone wanted to see me shoot the water up my nose. I did it cautiously, with just the right umph to shoot … Read more