Sicily is my happy place! And here I am getting ready to lead two retreats back to back. The retreats are always unique, always feel fresh to me. Week One begins TODAY. We will go to the airport in a few hours to meet everyone and take them to [...]
My maternal grandmother, La Mama Anto' gave light to a child nearly every three years or so. She repeated this pattern ten times. To give light to a child is a Sicilian expression meaning "to give birth". By the time her tenth child was born, my grandmother's eldest child [...]
I will let the slideshow of the Yoga and Hiking in Sicily say it all! The slideshow is set to the music of Carmen Consoli called Madre Terra, Mother Earth. Carmen Consoli is from Catania, Sicily and has a soulful voice that is as rich as the Sicilian soil. Turn [...]
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 [...]
I love Italian films and attend Seattle's Cinema Italian Style fiIm festival every November. My only regret with the Seattle's film festival is that I have to teach during the week and I miss out on viewing many of the festival's featured films. And I can't stay up late at [...]
