• Finding Clarity

    Behind every great yoga teacher is a mentor. If thunderous cheers and outpourings of affection from stude ...

    Behind every great yoga teacher is a mentor. If thunderous cheers and outpourings of affection from students are any sign of greatness, Gloria Latham makes the ranks. Just returning to her Semperviva ...

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  • The Power of Passion

    To watch Arlene Van den Berg dance is to watch poetry of the body in movement. Sensual and mesmerizing, i ...

    To watch Arlene Van den Berg dance is to watch poetry of the body in movement. Sensual and mesmerizing, it is as if her hips have a life of their own, responding to the rhythm of ancient drum beats; s ...

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  • Retooling Not Retiring

    "Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have ...

    "Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." –Georgia O'Keefe, famed American artist Hudson Mack may not ...

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  • Heart-Driven Hippy

    If there is one word that sums up the irrepressible Valdy, it is “energy.” The smiling, impish, red-suspe ...

    If there is one word that sums up the irrepressible Valdy, it is “energy.” The smiling, impish, red-suspendered septuagenarian is constantly on the go. By his count, Valdy has played an average of 200 ...

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  • Attached to Nature

    An elephant with a deeply creased grey hide, flapping ears the size of blankets, and menacing tusks loome ...

    An elephant with a deeply creased grey hide, flapping ears the size of blankets, and menacing tusks loomed before me. The dry heat and dust of Africa rose around us. I was nervous and felt vulnerable, ...

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  • Passionate Purpose

    Adrianne Dartnall is 64, looks 50, laughs like a 20-year old, and works like a person who is driven by an ...

    Adrianne Dartnall is 64, looks 50, laughs like a 20-year old, and works like a person who is driven by an inspirational mission. She and her partner, Rick Lennert, are equally at home speaking to 400 ...

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  • Creating a Life She Loves

    Barbara Risto, the publisher/owner of INSPIRED Senior Living has walked the path of a caregiver, multiple ...

    Barbara Risto, the publisher/owner of INSPIRED Senior Living has walked the path of a caregiver, multiple times. She is a testament to being thrust into caregiver roles, as so many are; and also being ...

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  • Going for Everything

    Being the founder and CEO of the world's largest fitness club owned by a single individual doesn't happen ...

    Being the founder and CEO of the world's largest fitness club owned by a single individual doesn't happen overnight. And it doesn't happen by accident – unless it does. David Patchell-Evans, affection ...

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  • Finishing is Winning

    We drive past them on the way to appointments without a second glance. We share space with them on bike p ...

    We drive past them on the way to appointments without a second glance. We share space with them on bike paths and walking trails with little more than casual nods. They go largely unnoticed until the ...

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  • All the Write Moves

    Glancing back, it is often surprising to realize how life’s journey can turn on simple, but critical, eve ...

    Glancing back, it is often surprising to realize how life’s journey can turn on simple, but critical, events. One such event happened for Donna Randall, 59, while she was employed in the Institutional ...

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  • Make No Apologies

    Simon Chang approaches fashion like he approaches life – with style, grace and perpetual passion. He love ...

    Simon Chang approaches fashion like he approaches life – with style, grace and perpetual passion. He loves what he does. And he loves women. This holds true for all the stages of their lives, particul ...

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  • Life Layers

    Marjorie Horne poses before the “Spirit of Sail,” but by the time this sculpture was erected in 1978, the ...

    Marjorie Horne poses before the “Spirit of Sail,” but by the time this sculpture was erected in 1978, the waterfront in downtown Kelowna was old-hat to Marjorie. Her family moved to the valley communi ...

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  • At Home in Africa

    “Do you want to go to Africa or get married?” And, with that Bob and Helen Nation embarked on a life plan ...

    “Do you want to go to Africa or get married?” And, with that Bob and Helen Nation embarked on a life plan that continued from the day they graduated university to today as a retired couple living in D ...

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  • Happiness Personified from a Simple Buddhist Monk

    Jolly, alert and openly affectionate at every opportunity, Tenzin Gyatso His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama ...

    Jolly, alert and openly affectionate at every opportunity, Tenzin Gyatso His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama enters rooms enveloped in a cocoon-like, perfectly coordinated security squad. But, despite hi ...

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  • Peppering the Planet with Finger Labyrinths

    Last year marked the first time the “Gathering” of The Labyrinth Society (TLS) was held in Canada. TLS is ...

    Last year marked the first time the “Gathering” of The Labyrinth Society (TLS) was held in Canada. TLS is an international organization whose mission is to support all those who create, maintain and u ...

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