• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Writer, Speaker, Researcher

  • Home
  • About
  • Books
  • Upper Columbia River
    • Sinixt Advocacy through the years
    • Updating the Columbia River Treaty
    • Notebooks
    • Maps
  • Other Work
    • Articles
    • A 6,000 Mile Search for Beauty
  • Contact
  • Blog

Articles

Ascent was an award-winning yoga magazine that published my 10-part series on yoga ethics, all of which you will find here. As well, a selection of my studies of landscape and human history of southeastern B.C. and northeastern Washington, originally published in the North Columbia Monthly.

Gravity and Water’s Wild Card

August 5, 2016 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Most summer afternoons, I settle into a natural hollow at the base of a sizable cedar tree beside Laird Creek. The creek burbles and runs, curling over cobbles, carrying water downhill. Lying back, I watch the tree’s cool branches spin and whorl above my head. Sometimes, I fall asleep, lulled by the joyful noise that […]

Filed Under: Articles, North Columbia Monthly

Self-awareness and Yoga

December 2, 2008 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Originally published in ascent magazine, issue 40, winter 2008. What is my path toward & away from this earth? In the final installment of the yamas & niyama series, Eileen Delehanty Pearkes examines svadhyaya, self-study.

Filed Under: Articles, Ascent

Child-rearing as an Act of Devotion

October 1, 2008 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Originally published inascent magazine, issue 39, autumn 2008. How do we surrender all of our efforts & actions to the divine? Eileen Delehanty Pearkes questions isvara-pranidhanat, in the 9th of a 10-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas…

Filed Under: Articles, Ascent

Can Meat-eaters practice Non-violence?

August 1, 2008 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Originally published in ascent magazine, issue 38, summer 2008. Can a meat-eating person practise non-violence? Eileen Delehanty Pearkes looks at ahimsa, in the 8th of a 10-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas.

Filed Under: Articles, Ascent

Wisdom of the Pines

May 1, 2008 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Originally published in ascent magazine, issue 37, spring 2008. As an ecological epidemic sweeps through the mountains of British Columbia, is anyone speaking the truth? Eileen Delehanty Pearkes listens to the trees in the 7th of a 10-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas.

Filed Under: Articles, Ascent

Yoga and Purification

December 2, 2007 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Originally published in ascent magazine, issue 36, winter 2007. Eileen Delehanty Pearkes hikes into the fire zone & fights the urge to quit with tapas, self-discipline & purification in the 6th of a 10-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas.

Filed Under: Articles, Ascent

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

About Eileen

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

Recent Posts

  • Journey Home
  • Salmon River Dreams
  • Emergence Takes Time
  • Lighting a Flame
  • The Sense of an Ending

Subscribe to new posts

Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Copyright © 2023 · Author Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in