By Kashi Interfaith Ashram

“It is rare when I find myself flying between two snowcapped mountains, but this was the case in May when Swami Dhumavati and I were on a small ten seater seaplane completing our trip to Hollyhock, Cortes island, 100 miles north of Vancouver, ” said Swami Durga Das from Kashi Interfaith Ashram in Florida.

Hollyhock was the venue for the annual Holistic Centers Gathering, which included 60 leaders representing 40 centers from around the world. “HCN prides itself on the spirit of collaboration. Kashi has been a member for three years and I am inspired by the work we are achieving collectively ‘Changing the planet one center at a time.'” [Read more…]

By Dan Hines

“…The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better…and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed—be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization—will be unavoidable.”

Vaclav Havel (in an address to the U.S. Congress, 1990)

Dan Hines will be leading a pre-gathering workshop at Hollyhock 8-12 May: A Hidden Wholeness: Leading from Within. He shares his reflections here as we invite you to join us. [Read more…]

During our next Centers Gathering we’ll be holding a global meditation on Wednesday 15 May, with the intention to synchronise our many human heartbeats as one – to find our true rhythm – and then bring ourselves into resonance with the heartbeat of Gaia.

The meditation will be live streamed from Hollyhock, Canada and linking up with Findhorn, Scotland. We invite all centers to participate and to extend the invitation throughout your networks. More details will be announced soon.

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