photo elizabeth truant

WOMEN'S RETREAT — Kootenay Boundary and Kokanee Region meet at the Yasodhara Ashram, yoga retreat and study centre, at Crawford Bay, for a time of prayer, study, meditation and relaxation.

On May 1-3 a group of Anglican women from the Kootenay Boundary and Kokanee Region gathered at the Yasodhara Ashram, yoga retreat and study centre, at Crawford Bay, for a time of prayer, study, meditation and relaxation. The group had representatives from as far away as Rock Creek and area, Grand Forks, Rossland, Trail and Nelson. At this beautiful setting on Kootenay Lake, Sister Nancy Hurren — Master of Arts in Spirituality led the weekend retreat. She shared her love of prayer and her knowledge of Christian Spirituality. She presented on several spiritual mystics and writers from various time periods — Old Testament, New Testament, Medieval, the Celts and contemporary.

Peri Best lead the music and singing, to gather the group into each session and set the tone for the theme. Martha Fish, assisted by Carol Wade coordinated the very successful weekend and those attending returned home refreshed with new insight.

photo elizabeth truant

BABBLING — Yasodhara Ashram, yoga retreat and study centre, Crawford Bay.

Well Worn Path

Well worn path, soil is rock and hard packed.
I am no longer sustained on this path.
I seek another path. I seek another way.
I see it, I hear it.
It speaks to me about life.
It is the babble of the water calling,
"I will sustain you. You will be reconstituted. You will live again.
You will feed and nourish".
Well worn path the trees and grass and moss have left you;
They follow the path of the babbling water.
You are not dead.
Your roots seek the life provided by the babbling water.
Grow, seek, grow.
The trees, the grass, the moss, once sustained by you
Were cut down, cleared away.
But they will not die; cut down, cleared away, but alive.
They seek and have found the path of the babbling water.
Again they will grow and sustain life.
Hard packed well worn path, you once sustained life.
Follow the calling of the babbling water.
Return to your ways of nourishing and sustaining.

Carol Wade May 2, 2009

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photo iwan ruoss

LORDS OF THE DANCE — The members of Christ Church, Cranbrook, Youth Group presented to the church, a pentych depicting the five verses of the song "Lord of the Dance." The panels were painted under the guidance of local artist, Melba Hanson.