by dyanaw | Sep 20, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Novels, Philosophy, Yoga
Galiano Island is a wild slip of land grown up between mainland Canada and Vancouver Island. Punyashri and I arrived by ferry, an hour’s journey, ploughing through dark space and water, getting closer, excitement rising; we were almost there. Our New Zealand lives...
by dyanaw | Sep 10, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Sailing, Yoga
Sailing into the full catastrophe of living. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be driven by an overwhelming desire for spiritual experience most of your life? Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tramping, sailing, making love, sitting...
by dyanaw | Sep 5, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Philosophy, Sailing, Yoga
Fly over any city and see millions of people doing much the same thing in much the same way. The house may be large or small, expensive or cheap, but the desires and pressures and options will be similar. Fly over any Pacific island and the lives below are very...
by dyanaw | Aug 25, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Novels, Philosophy, Sailing, Yoga
I need to calm down, reef my sail, meditate. Cross-legged in the saloon with a cushion in the small of my back, I sink behind my tumbling thoughts, behind my compulsive activity, behind the entrancing glamour of living. I follow my breath slowly down into a still...
by dyanaw | Aug 15, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Philosophy, Sailing
The science of yoga claims that all experience is a combination of the qualities of the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and space. We know the world and ourselves as the ever-changing fluxing of these elements. As much as I can be present to all the changing...