Mary Schmich...the journalist    

Peets on North Ave. & Sheffield

16 March 08/Sunday 2 p.m.  

“The time you invest in yoga actually makes more time in your life by slowing it down long enough so that you understand what you need to do and how to do it.” 

“It’s important for the yoga community to embrace part-time yoga instructors.  Paying work that engages you beyond the studio reveals different aspects of life, your life, & the lives of others which will embellish your teaching in the yoga studio.”

“Advantages to being older ?    ...you react less to experience  and instead you are more apt to create your own experience.”

Born in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of eight children, Mary grew up in Georgia, attended high School in Phoenix, and earned a B.A. from Pomona in Clairemont, CA.  After spending a year and a half in France, she attended journalism school at Stanford.  Mary came to Chicago in the early 90’s to work as a Tribune columnist.  On New Years Day, 1994, she gave herself the priceless  gift of a yoga class and has never looked back.  Her first classes were in the now defunct Wild Onion Yoga and she was a part of the early days of Moksha when Daren opened his first studio in a little warehouse off North and Sheffield.  Mary teaches at various studios in Chicago, writes a popular column for the Chicago Tribune, and also writes the comic strip ‘Brenda Star’.

Favorite Asana:  Half Moon
Favorite Book:  A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry