For over two decades, Leza Lowitz has been bringing together the worlds of yoga and creativity, sharing her experience in over a dozen books and in Yoga Journal, Shambhala Sun, The Best Buddhist Writing 2011, The Huffington Post, The Japan Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Her award-winning poetry has been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Burmese and Farsi.
Lowitz lives in Tokyo with her husband, the writer/translator Shogo Oketani, and their young son. They own the popular Sun and Moon Yoga studio. She is co-founder and co-director of Tibetan Heart Yoga Japan, the Yoga Classics Input Project of Japan, and Global Family Project Japan.
“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.”
