Welcome.

I’m Suzan Colón, author of Cherries in Winter: My Family’s Recipe for Hope in Hard Times (Doubleday), Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physical (Simon & Schuster), medKNITation (Winding Road Stories) and other books.

I was a Senior Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, where I edited Ms. Winfrey’s interviews with spiritual leaders such as Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, and others. At O, I wrote about my own spiritual path, not through visits to a mountaintop but by being present to daily life.

Before that, I studied Yoga and Yoga philosophy (Raja Yoga) at various ashrams. What I learned again was that feeling true to yourself doesn’t occur in “perfect” conditions, but at rush hour on a city subway. That’s when you find your spiritual balance!

In 2008, when the economy collapsed and all seemed lost, I searched for a book that would give me hope. I couldn’t find one, so I wrote one. Thousands of people told me that Cherries in Winter helped them get through that difficult time and other challenging events in their lives.

Years later, I wrote about a life-changing experience in my book Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physical. Readers (many of them not into traditional Yoga) used the 30-day program in the book to feel more connected with themselves, which helped them connect with others.

In this time of social media and AI (ai yi yi), our need for connection, with others and with our true selves, is only growing. I hope to contribute to that by writing about what I’ve always written about—the extraordinary spiritual experiences we have in our ordinary lives.

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