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Highlights

Discover yourself in the calm atmosphere of RADHA. COME TO RADHA VANCOUVER IN MAY! On TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY start the day with Hatha at 9:30 or come after work for our 5:30 class. If you have time in the late afternoon Wednesday, come to our FREE guided meditation from 4:30 to 5:00.

We accept & sell PASSPORT TO PRANA passes and GREEN ZEBRA coupons. Come to RADHA to get a taste of what we have to offer.

PAY-AS-YOU-CAN classes If in need, PAY-AS-YOU-CAN. Classes are available to all!

YOGA classes 13 drop-in classes/week, including a deeper exploration of Hatha with Hidden Language Hatha Yoga.

KUNDALINI classes at 7pm Tuesdays. Classes begin on April 17 from 7-9pm. Please call for more info or to register for the Spring term.

SATSANG Sunday 7:30 - 8:30 pm. Ongoing every Sunday. FREE! Come and join our community in devotion and chanting.

WORKSHOPS Come to our 2 hour workshops every second Saturday from 10:00 - 12:00 pm. Bring a journal.

Saturday, May 26: Sacred Dance - Experience your body as a spiritual tool as you enter into the dance as prayer.

COOKING CLASSES Sign up for Rooted Nutrition's cooking classes. Come to the last 2 classes for the year on Saturday May 19 & Sunday May 20, for Seaweed and Cheese, from 1-4pm each day.

Gem Salsberg, a previous Radha chef and our current photographer and yoga student, is a talented artist whom we are proud to know! We would like to take this opportunity to introduce her stunning work to our blog readers:

This body of work explores the essential role and relationship between dominant Canadian culture and nature, with a local focus on British Columbia’s Pacific coastline. These paintings arise from my questions about Canada’s historical and contemporary relations with the natural environment, First Nations peoples and the government of Canada. If a government makes decisions and functions as a business, how then would such a government relate to the natural environment? Is it possible that such a system could view the natural environment as a business competitor?

I explore these concepts and ideas through my art practice. It seems appropriate to focus on local issues when approaching such vast and often daunting questions. An issue of extreme controversy in B.C. is the large-scale open-net salmon farming being aggressively implemented along the B.C. coastline. As has been proven in Europe and abroad, open-net fish farms can damage and systemically destroy wild fish runs and local ecosystems (see David Suzuki’s article Fishing for Salmon Answers). Learning about these issues stirred me to wonder why our government would court, condone, protect and support the implementation of a business that has been proven in international waters to destroy ecosystems.

One afternoon while painting, it occurred to me that what is being done to our wild salmon travels directly parallel to what happened to the North American buffalo at the turn of the century. Colonizers well understood the cultural relevance of bison to many First Nations communities. Also relevant was the fact that people capable of sustaining themselves from the land could essentially continue to maintain cultural independence and be able to support system’s of self-governance. These significant facts informed the political decisions that motivated the systematic slaughter of bison to near extinction. Do such foundations continue to inform and shape contemporary political decision-making? There appears to be a vast similarity as we watch our wild salmon being replaced with farmed fish, just as the buffalo were replaced with cattle.

I do not have the answers. I simply paint, question, explore and reveal. I am not a political scientist or an ecologist. I am a citizen of this land as well as an artist, a part of this country’s story and as such it is my place to explore and to question. Being an artist is simply not simple. In fact, it’s one small part ecstasy and one huge part trouble. We are not merely the creators of entertainment or makers of decoration. Being an artist for me is to question and understand our world, to reveal the hidden as well as the inexplicable. As I paint, new insights arise. I experience moments of clarity and chromatic understanding. My purpose in this project is to integrate the potential in art and creative thinking to instigate and activate awareness and cultural change. Primary colours for primary and vital concerns.