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Yoga Teacher, Author, Animal Advocate
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 is a contributor to Yoga Journal, LA Yoga, Yoga Vidya, and other yoga magazines. Her articles on a wide range of topics appear in print publications and web sites world wide. She is one of 45 storytellers in
Sixty Seconds: One Moment Changes Everything by Phil Bolsta ( April, 2008).
Suza's new book,
Fishing on Facebook: A Writing Yoga Memoir, will be released in March, 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)
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