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Dentro L’Etna

Sicily Yoga and Hiking Retreat is in full-swing and there is no time to blog...will post these photos of our exhilarating trek up Etna.  Climbing Etna was tough, but we did it!  It is one of those bucket-list activities that we dream of doing.  Yes, we did it!  We were [...]

Yoga and Hiking in Sun-Kissed Sicily

Yes, our yoga and hiking retreat in sun-kissed Sicily will be taking place very soon.  I am excited about this yoga retreat coming up and wanted to include some of the trip's highlights! Temperatures look to be in the 70s for the week ahead. Many of my readers know that [...]

Storm (Hice Storm)

It was a stormy blustery weekend at the coast, tempestuous, complete with sideways ice-cold rain and hailstones. Rick’s impromptu spoonerism created a great new word, a noun, an appropriate description of what was falling from the sky: “hice”, a mixture of hail and ice. And the new word stuck just [...]

2018-04-10T23:25:47-07:00April 10th, 2018|friends, Health, Little Renaissance, nature, writing|

Spicin’ It in Kerala

Written yesterday: Yesterday we went to the Spice Plantation. Our guide was so informative. We walked around and he showed us the various spice plants. He taught us remedies and recipes to make the most of the spice's healing properties. He also identified birds, which were flying overhead, hanging out [...]

2018-01-16T05:03:40-08:00January 16th, 2018|Culture, Health, India, nature, Travel|

Celebrating Winter Solstice

I know we are still days away from the Winter Solstice, but this weekend, we had our annual Winter Solstice Hatha Yoga Retreat, always held the first weekend of December. For me, this time of year is an opportunity to seek light, a time to put up Christmas lights and [...]

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