About

We have shared our home for ten years. Either renting out the upper apartment to a group or sharing the whole house with each of us taking private rooms.

 

Our home has five levels. The lower apartment has a full kitchen, sunken living room, two private bedrooms, each on their own floor, and a bathroom that has a glass block window to let in natural light.

 

Our home has five levels. The lower apartment has a full kitchen, sunken living room, two private bedrooms, each on their own floor, and a bathroom that has a glass block window to let in natural light.

The common areas including outdoor areas are ideal for yoga, sitting sessions, or having a meal. Large rooms, high ceilings – gallery lighting, garden, 2 decks, big windows, stainless steel appliances.

Our home is informed by best practices in conscious communities/retreatcentres from the world of yoga, meditation, and Buddhism, but here it is a little more relaxed.

Our practises are to keep it clean, tidy, considerate, home improvement, quiet, accountable, friendly, holistic healthy.   Achieving these reflects same principles in Zen and Advaita/Yoga Vedanta, but here it’s more about the doing, keeping a good home that reflects some deeper awareness and positive values.

• There is an option to share food cost, or bring your own and sit together to have a meal, maybe some flowers on the table.  We encourage cooking for others. All holistically healthy foods.

It is a meditative atmosphere for those who like that. Lots of warm silence. It is ideal. If everyone who lives here is a daily meditator and practitioner of Yoga,, but not required, as long as you enjoy, and can contribute to that kind of vibe.

We offer a silent meditation twice a month and we meet once a month to talk about house things.

Our home might be a good fit
if you like:

– a clean, functional, quiet, warm environment 

– simple (zen) Buddhist values 

-insight meditation

-the eight limbs of yoga

-whole organic foods, healthy oils low salt and lots of leafy greens

– a clear and specific system of doing things, not very demanding but consistent, with   time for yourself, but some community contact

-building alternatives to our failing systems

– potential of a “second family” feeling.

If you think this is for you, we are seeking long-term residents, and invite you to come practice with us or have a meal..

Our home might be a good fit
if  you don’t prefer:

-cramped quarters
-unfriendly or indifferent relations at home

-chemical colognes,

-glyphosate white flour, over seasoned food  and unhealthy oils 

-leaving things messy or unclean,

-loudness, and hearing other peoples’ media

-heavy drinking and recreational drugs,

-pharmaceuticals

-competitive sports culture

-gender politics

Room for rent, shared accommodation, room rental, downtown Toronto, conscious community, intentional community, zen, Buddhism, yoga, meditation.