I lead an annual Pre-Holiday Yoga and Wellness Day Retreat at Crystal Creek Studio in Issaquah, Washington. The studio and house where the retreat takes place sits on a mountain. It is a green peaceful getaway, less than an hour drive from Seattle. The studio looks out over trees and [...]
Every year, I celebrate Winter Solstice a little early by leading a yoga retreat the first full weekend of December! I spent this past weekend with a group of lovely yogis. We did some very long rejuvenating yoga sessions and beautiful walks on the beach. The full moon graced [...]
Another wonderful retreat last weekend, the Sicilian Heritage and Hatha Yoga Retreat, was held at Ocean Shores, Washington. We hosted a fabulous group and offered homemade Sicilian food. I was inspired from my recent trip to Sicily. Our yoga weekend at the coast was one filled with great group dynamics, [...]
Our guide Graziella recited a poem, written by an anonymous poet in ancient times, which describes the legend of how Sicily came to be. She recited it first in the Sicilian dialect and then translated it into English. I cannot find the Sicilian words, but it was the loveliest of [...]
In 1958, Domenico Modugno, singer from the small Sicilian island of Lampedusa, wrote the famous song Volare. My guess is that most everyone knows the song, right? But what most people outside of Italy don’t know is that the original title of the song was Di Blu, Dipinto di Blu, [...]
