Culture Archives - Yoga by Fran Gallo https://frangallo.com/category/culture/ Yoga by Fran Gallo Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:32:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/frangallo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/cropped-making-vector-wip-favi.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Culture Archives - Yoga by Fran Gallo https://frangallo.com/category/culture/ 32 32 56610905 The Cost of a Smile https://frangallo.com/the-cost-of-a-smile/ https://frangallo.com/the-cost-of-a-smile/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:32:15 +0000 https://frangallo.com/?p=21807 My friend Giorgio Modica of Modica, Sicily, passed away on January 24. On his death notice, his family wrote Fu Angelo. Translation: He was an angel.  In his youth, Giorgio immigrated to Toronto, Canada, where he lived for many years. He loved Canada, but he yearned to live out his later years in his beloved [...]

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]]> https://frangallo.com/the-most-beautiful-hands-3/feed/ 20 21705 For The Love Of Trees https://frangallo.com/for-the-love-of-trees/ https://frangallo.com/for-the-love-of-trees/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:58:40 +0000 https://frangallo.com/?p=21683 Happy Valentine's Day! Last week, the 100+ year old maple tree in front of my yoga studio was cut down and removed. The tree was healthy, perhaps too healthy for its own good. Its ever growing roots had lifted the sidewalk.  I witnessed a young man trip and fall on the lifted-by-roots uneven pavement. I [...]

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]]> https://frangallo.com/for-the-love-of-trees/feed/ 5 21683 Yoga & Culture in Greece, Group One Slideshow https://frangallo.com/yoga-culture-in-greece-group-one-slideshow/ https://frangallo.com/yoga-culture-in-greece-group-one-slideshow/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:41:21 +0000 https://frangallo.com/?p=21293 Group One has already left Greece. I took a few days to rest fully and in less than an hour I will meet up with my second group and begin the second retreat here in Greece. I am, somehow, managing to film short yoga sessions for the yogis back home, too. Greece is lovely as [...]

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