Suza Francina is the author of The New Yoga for Healthy Aging: Living Longer, Living Stronger and Loving Every Day (Health Communications, Inc. 2007), 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 People Over 50: A Comprehensive Guide for Midlife and Older Beginners (HCI, 1997) . She is a graduate of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco, a certified Iyengar yoga instructor, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. She has over thirty years of experience in the fields of yoga and exercise therapy and is a consultant for research studies about yoga.
Suza’s interest in yoga and health began many years ago when she worked as a home health care provider for elderly and convalescing people. This gave her the opportunity to observe firsthand the mental and physical changes that often occur in the later years of life.
Suza’s first book, a completely different Yoga for People Over 50, was published in 1977. Suza’s writing has appeared in numerous magazines, including AARP, Yoga Journal, LA Yoga, Prevention, Yoga Life, Yoga for EveryBody, Yoga Vidya, Let's Live, Senior Life, and numerous books, including Women’s Health Care: A Guide to Alternatives, The Holistic Health Handbook, American Yoga, The Arthritis Cure Fitness Solution, Living Your Yoga, The Rodale Book of Building Stronger Bones for Life, and Prevention's Complete Book of Walking. Her own books have been published in several languages, including German, Russian and Portuguese. She is a monthly columnist for Eldr magazine and www.Eldr.com
Suza was born in 1949, in The Hague, Holland, and is of Dutch–Indonesian heritage. She lives in Ojai, California, a valley widely considered one of the most beautiful and sacred places on Earth. She is a former mayor of Ojai and a spokesperson for sustainable lifestyles.
Suza specializes in classes and workshops for people beginning yoga at midlife and older. She offers group and private classes in Ojai, and teaches yoga internationally to people of all ages in a wide variety of settings.
When not writing or teaching, Suza enjoys walking, bicycling and practicing yoga outdoors, in nature. She is the mother of a grown son and daughter and feels fortunate to live where she is surrounded by trees, birds, crickets, rabbits, and frogs, with a family that includes several dogs, cats, and other sentient beings.
