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The Virgin Knows

A thrilling novel about art theft and recovery, but ultimately, a story about many things: sibiling loyalty, passion, nurturing, devotion. Of separation, grief, abandonment and berievement. Of discovery, rediscovery and explorations Of relationships and generations caring for each other

7 STEPS TO PRIME YOUR HOME YOGA PRACTICE

Seven make-sense, easy steps (# 5 is "wash your feet ) for getting on your mat and doing yoga, particularly for Iyengar yoga practitioners.

TWO BRILLIANT FRIENDS – review of Elena Ferrante’s MY BRILLIANT FRIEND

My Brilliant Friend is a literary work about women and friendship that is not chick-lit, the first in a planned trilogy; it fictionalizes childhood and adolescence in Naples, Italy, during the 50s, chronicling the vicissitudes of Lila and Elena’s friendship; at the same time allegorizing the modernization of Italy.

12 STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR DOWNWARD-FACING DOG (Adho Mukha Svanasana )

For yoga teachers and advanced/intermediate students, particularly Iyengar yogini: 12 Steps to improve your downward-facing dog

5 STEP IYENGAR YOGA WARM-UP

Follow these five easy steps to empty your mind and enlighten your energy before beginning your Yoga practice.

15 Steps for Refining Your Sarvangasana

Senior Iyengar instructor Dassa Oppenheimer's 15 Steps for refining Sarvangasana (shoulderstand).

MORE ON QUIETING THE BRAIN FROM SENIOR IYENGAR TEACHER

Addition to the article on TEN STEPS TO QUIET THE BRAIN: POSITIONING THE EYE IN ASANA, PRANAYAMA, PRATYAHARA defines the difference between brain and mind.

TEN STEPS TO QUIET THE BRAIN: Positioning the Eye in Asana, Pranayama, and Pratyahara

Senior Iyengar teacher Dassa Oppenheimer instructs yoga students how to quiet the brain by relaxing the eye.

How to do Pratyahara, the Least Known Yoga Pratice: Five steps, Five senses.

5 steps to Pratyahara, the least known and practiced of the eight limbs of yoga, as taught by Dassa Oppenheimer

How to Do a Proper Shavasana (corpse pose)- 10 STEPS

Ten important steps for doing a proper shavasana, corpse pose, as taught by Dassa Oppenheimer to her Cambridge, MA, students.

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Uccellacci e uccellini: his father myth

Pier Paola Pasolini's film Uccelacci and Uccellini can be read as a reenactment of an ideal father-son relationship. A relationship that he was denied.

IN THE GARDEN OF PAPA SANTUZZU

Sicilian American literature. Review of Tony Ardizzone's novel, In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu.

Interviewing Dario Fo: 1997 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

Christine Palamidessi Moore posts blog about interviewing with Dario Fo in the 80s...before he decided to run for mayor of Milan.

IYENGAR YOGA AND THE SACRUM: a mind-blowing epiphany

An epiphany: Getting down in forward bend without rounding the shoulder has a lot to do with fifth sacral vertebrae.

CONVERSATIONS WITH EMILE DE ANTONIO

Christine Palamidessi Moore's interviews with leftist filmmaker Emile De Antonio.

Woodstock Update: Tinkering on Tinker

Palamidessi Moore writes about how things are the same and different in Woodstock.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI FILM: Teorema (from 10/7/08)

Teorema, the only commercial film Pasolini made, exhibits "British-ness" in its style and stars and Italian sexuality.

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