About once every six weeks, sometimes more often, I meet with a powerful group of women to explore books on spirituality and/or to have a unique experience with the vast theme of Spirituality. Before the holidays at the end of 2016, I hosted my group's Spiritual Book Club. We hired [...]
When I first started practicing Hatha Yoga 26 years ago, my teachers always included at least two or more opportunities to pair up with a fellow yoga student in class in order to explore a given posture more deeply. I've always been comfortable working in pairs. If there was someone [...]
In the memoir, Poser: My Life in 23 Poses, author Claire Dederer talks about how my yoga classes often have a theme related to the seasons. Claire was my yoga student for years, and wrote a book about her life and, in part, about me/my teaching, so she would know [...]
Winter Solstice comes early to Little Renaissance. Every year, we celebrate a Hatha Yoga Winter Solstice Retreat on the first weekend of December at Little Renaissance. We celebrate early before the busy-ness of the holiday season takes hold. Winter Solstice is a time of quiet firelight, a time to [...]
I am back home now. I woke up in the middle of the night trying to figure out which city I was in. Was I in Kyoto, Koyasan, Osaka, or Miyajima? Or was I in Tokyo or back in Tsukiji at Kazuko's apartment? Gradually, I figured out I was back [...]
