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(1972--1974) My first teacher, Sarah Kirton, who asked me to teach her class at The Gables of Ojai. This photograph was taken in Upper Ojai, at a place called "High Winds," near the land that later became the Ojai Foundation.
Biography
Suza Francina was born in 1949 in The Hague, Holland, and is of Dutch-Indonesian heritage. A yoga teacher since 1972, she is the author of four bestsellers on yoga for people at midlife and older: Yoga for People Over 50 (Devin Adair, 1977); The New Yoga for People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for People at Midlife and Older (Health Communications, Inc., 1997); Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause: A Guide to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Health at Midlife and Beyond (HCI, 2003); and The New Yoga for Healthy Aging: Living Longer, Living Stronger, and Loving Every Day (HCI 2007). She is a contributing author for many other books.
Suza's new book, Fishing on Facebook: A Writing Yoga Memoir, will be released in February 2012. Fishing on Facebook is the first in a planned series of "writing yoga" memoirs.
Suza lives in Ojai, California, where she is a former mayor and long-time community activist. She considers her social and ecological activism to be an essential part of her daily-life yoga practice. The mother of a grown son and daughter, she is a passionate animal advocate whose family also includes several dogs and cats.
www.suzafrancina.com
www.Suzaji.com (Suza's Writing Yoga Memoirs Blog)
