Hi, I am Ken Greenebaum, and these are the photos from my December 1999 trip to Italy to study yoga with Dona Holleman. I traveled with John Nordlinger and Kim Lacy and visited Verona, Venice and Milan as well.
Please email me if you have comments or corrections for this page (especially if you were among the group at Dona's)
- On the road to Soiano:
- John's rental 1.6 Litre Opel with which we terrorized the countryside.
- Our first view of Lake Garda on the way to Dona's from Milan (taken from the speeding Opel). We actually got quite lost from here but explored the lovely town of Salo before making it successfully to Soiano.
- Dona Holleman's Villa El'anor Soiano Del Lago
The room John, Surata, Michael and I shared.
- After lunch we would have a few hours to explore between morning yoga and our evening yoga. This day Kim and I explored the local Castle (which we snuck into to get the photographs)
- The neighbor's exotic pets!
Lake Garda from Desenzano
- View of Dona's property and olive trees. I don't know how much wonderfully fresh olive oil I consumed during my visit!
- The neighbors
- These would be a panaramic view from Dona's if I would stitch the photos together. Too bad it was overcast the day I took the photographs (you can't make out the granduer of the alps or even see lake garda!)
- Desenzano
- John on the way to class one morning
- Dona on her balcony
- Sunrise. It was either overcast for many of our first days or we were in meditation during sunrise. I was happy to finaly snap these photos.
- Moonrise the day before the big moon
- John racing the Opel
- Baby a bordo!
- Desenzano
- Wonderful alleys.
- Carrying the produce home from the market for Giovanna to turn into wonderful meals.
- Giovanna and Teresa
- Sutata coaching John on yoga.
- John, Surata and Giovanna wonder what that could be (with Charlie the Penguin looking on from the couch.
- What is that? A Christmas tree? How could that be? Did Yael ever figure out how it happened?
- Chocolate Christmas ornament portraits:
- Teresa Caldas
- Giovanna Schender
- Yael Galili
- Kim Lacy
- Dona Holleman
- Emily Furman
- John Nordlinger
- Michael Calignano
- The communal dinner table with Dona at the head. We spent many pleasant moments together around this table.
- Yael's Posture Lessons
- Giovanna cooking something wonderful.
- Night of the big moon
World famous stained glass: