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Mar.10.2013
Today is the second anniversary of the devastating quake and tsunami that destroyed much of the beautiful coast in Tohoku, Japan. I had the honor of visiting the area last year and sharing yoga and healing with the people in temporary housing. Their spirits are unwavering, and their struggle...
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Feb.19.2013
When Donald Richie arrived in Japan in 1946, the Japanese had been our enemies. Beyond that, their customs and behavior were utterly foreign. They ate raw fish. They bowed. They used chopsticks. The gap between east and west was quite wide. Through his writings, and by introducing...
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Mar.06.2012
On February 28th, 2012, an excerpt from "Jet Black and the Ninja Wind," the YA novel-in-progress by Leza Lowitz and Shogo Oketani about a kick-ass female ninja who fights to save her ancestral home in Tohoku and its indigenous tribal treasure, was published in the anthology...
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Dec.15.2011
If you're like me, you make a new year's resolution and you fail. Well, it's that time of year again!
Every year, people make resolutions to start yoga, lose weight, change their diet, begin meditating and become healthy. And every year, they fail miserably.
And that's a good thing, says...
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May.09.2011
Two months have passed since the massive 9.0 earthquake struck Japan, triggering a tsunami and nuclear disaster. Last Saturday, I attended an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo, and wrote about my experience. Gina Misiroglu of Redroom helped me place the story in The Huffington Post--a huge thanks to Gina...
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Apr.06.2011
2:46pm, March 11, 2011. Tokyo, Japan.
I’d just finished a yoga class at my studio in downtown Tokyo and walked down the street to have lunch at Ootoya, a favorite cafe. I’d just placed my order when the building started to shake. I was on the second floor of a five-story concrete building built...
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Leza Lowitz seeks to share the inner landscape of her yoga journey and to inspire others to take this same journey from individuation to unity. She accomplishes this by capturing the spirit of yoga with strong images and simple free verse firmly grounded in the experience of practice in mind, body, and spirit. This is not the yoga of the hip and trendy, but the yoga of a true seeker-an ordinary woman who has discovered her Self through movement, and has found acceptance and grace through allowing her body and soul to unfold with yoga.
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—Pacific Rim Review of Books
About Leza
Leza Lowitz is a poet, fiction writer, editor and co-translator of Japanese. Lowitz is the recipient of numerous honors for her poetry, fiction, and translations, including the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Best Book of Poetry...
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USHA Foundation
YogaAid
PETA
RoomtoRead
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