January 2017 We had been together since winter, 2014. A year and a half later, summer 2015, found us at Kripalu taking a teacher training in partners/couples yoga. There had been a recent hiatus in our relationship of about 4 months. When we reunited it was tentative and some wounds had not been completely healed.…
Summer 2016 In 1992 when I first read Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth a few ideas that had been swirling around in my feminist consciousness suddenly came together. Who decides what is feminine? Who decides what feminine beauty is? Back then the answer was not so obvious but today it is: women themselves do. Today…
April 2016: new studio directors recognize the founders of Yoga on the Park The Joannes met as young mothers in Franklin, Quebec, when Joanne Ransom was pregnant with her first child and Joanne Gormley was chasing a two-year-old daughter through the apple orchards on her sister’s property. Later in Montreal, as single moms they quickly became…
June 2018 Summer mornings…energizing, Gentle yoga…body bliss, Warm friends…mind’s rest… A studio with a view. My view started 50 years ago, Sitting at the reception desk At Cinema V. This year, I invited students to use The park as their focal point… The park has always been there, A soothing green, A model for…