Story Street Writers
Michele Alouf is a founding member of Story Street Writers and holds an ALM in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard. When she’s not working on her first novel, What Lies in Orange Skies, she can be found in her kitchen trying to cook, read, and balance in tree pose without getting burned. Her work is published in New World Writing Quarterly, Vestal Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, Bridge Eight, Drunk Monkeys, and other publications. Michele previously owned a yoga business and wrote for a local magazine. She has two grown children and lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, John, and her mini Goldendoodle, Coco "Mo."
“Yoga begins right where I am—not where I was yesterday or where I long to be.”
–Linda Sparrowe
When training to become a yoga teacher, one of the first lessons I learned was to stress the value of “just showing up on your mat.”…