Author Archives: sweetwatersanctuary

Late spring rains have not only brought wildflowers, but also opened our hearts to the simple, yet potent reminder of impermanence. As we move rocks from a slide at the bottom of the land up to a small, roadside crater … Continue reading →

bees came for honey flowers giggled as they undressed themselves for the taking the sun smiled – the second birth from the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur Sprig arrived riding the Pineapple Express this year 🙂 This “atmospheric river” is … Continue reading →

Sweetwater Sanctuary cookbook project While we continue to host small groups of volunteers on the land as is possible, we notice that often subtle, yet powerful moments of sangha connection occur over shared meals after a hard day’s work. From … Continue reading →

After the land shakes, stirs, burns and slides, all that appears is a dry ash dispersing. Yet even the barren gradually reveals a most vibrant new growth… softer, more delicate and tender. At first seldom, and like how the fires … Continue reading →

Lo Sar Bzang! (Happy New Year) The year of the earth dog is inviting us to feel our ground as we build a strong foundation for Sweetwater Sanctuary’s next manifestation. As we practice together to find our balance for the … Continue reading →

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end” – Seneca Happy New Year! We welcomed 2018 with a healthy dose of karma yoga practice this month. Between the 7.25″ of rain that have fallen so far, thirteen yogis and … Continue reading →

“This mandala, this sacred universe, which is who we are, is always ready to fall apart. This realization – knowing that there is no singular self in each of us, and instead we are this complex, beautiful, living mandala – … Continue reading →

*The following is a guest post from Karma Yogi Alysha Graham (Ashland, OR) following her visit in October, 2017. Thank you Alysha!  I fell in love with Sweetwater before I arrived.  The intense raw beauty that is Big Sur was … Continue reading →

“Nirvana is not some kind of beautiful, celestial garden filled with peaches and mangoes, a place where everybody is walking around with beautiful halos. It is not a place where everyone is in a constant state of bliss. It’s not … Continue reading →

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” – Ecclesiastes 3:1 Last week sangha members Alysha (Oregon) and John (Colorado) joined us on the land for several days of karma yoga practice. … Continue reading →