A conversation about health and wellness, from the yogic perspective
Swami Maheshananda Saraswati is an eminent yoga teacher who has devoted nearly two decades to learning and teaching the philosophical and practical aspects of Yoga and Tantra.
He travels internationally to conduct seminars and workshops on a wide range of yoga topics and is currently presenting in Nanaimo and elsewhere on the Islands. (more…)
In the second of a three-week series, From Compassion to Action, we talk with some of the volunteers who are making a difference in our community about their experiences, thoughts, and observations. We’re joined by Canadian Red Cross volunteers Linda Sampson and Jennifer Jenkins and by Habitat for Humanity volunteer Jim Eagles.
National Volunteer Week is an annual volunteer recognition and awareness-raising event in Canada and the U.S. (more…)
A look at men’s health and wellness
The men’s movement, and its North American rise in the 1990s, is closely linked with poet Robert Bly’s book Iron John. Bly said in 1991 that he’d at first thought, “My male side was developed, and my feminine side was not developed…. [But] what I developed is the shallow form of the masculine, and what I need now is to develop the deeper form of the masculine….” What is currently happening among men in our society? What are the challenges? What is being learned?
Today, an international organization, The Mankind Project, and its New Warrior Training, provides an “intense, transformative men’s initiation which invites men to forge a deep conscious connection between head and heart.” Local participants have just completed a weekend training. (more…)
In the first of a three-week series, From Compassion to Action, we talk with some of the volunteers who are making a difference in our community about their experiences, thoughts, and observations. We’re joined by long-time Morrell Nature Sanctuary volunteers Bob Dadds, Flo Dadds and Norm Swanson. (more…)
As national volunteer week approaches, we focus on volunteerism…and speak with organizers and some of the volunteers in our community. What is the reality? What are the hopes? What are the trends? (more…)
