Carmela Cattuti Creative

I have been on the path of writing a trilogy for several years now, and it has been an excursion with many twists and turns with a massive journey of self-discovery. My first novel, Between the Cracks: one woman's journey from Sicily to America, was an homage to my great aunt who experienced the 1908 earthquake in Messina, but as I wrote the book I discovered there was more to the story. Her influence on three generation of Americans jumped out at me like a jack-in-the-box. M

I have practiced yoga since 1980 and started teaching in 1994. In those years the majority of my students were women. Men have come late to yoga, not because of disinterest but because it was considered a feminine practice. Men did not want to be considered girly or incapable of doing more rigorous exercise. That is changing, particularly for older men. Men who are now in their 50's and 60's would never have considered going into a yoga class 20 years ago. Today they are comf

Greetings Yoga Teachers and Yoga Practitioners, Do you get bored with teaching or practicing the same yoga sequences day after day? This can effect our enthusiasm for yoga and after a while our interest will dwindle. Yoga is a practice we want to sustain throughout our lives. It brings us youth, vitality, and a pathway to the divine and the universe. The universal energy yoga connects us to is seminal to our growth as human beings, so we want to continue to evolve our practi