About Fran

I’ve lived in Seattle since 1991. I grew up in Indiana and am the first born American in my family.  My family immigrated to the USA just before I was born. I grew up bilingual, speaking Sicilian and English. I love teaching Hatha Yoga. I also love gardening, writing, cooking, and hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

My husband Rick and I built a home/sanctuary in Ocean Shores, Washington in 1999 and we held weekend yoga retreats there for twenty years.  We called our coastal home Little Renaissance. We sold it September 2019 and now live full time in Seattle in a small lovely condo directly across from Green Lake.

Now my focus is on my Seattle teaching, continuing to offer retreats within the US and abroad, and launching my new Hatha yoga studio in the heart of the Green Lake area of Seattle (6869 Woodlawn Ave NE, Suite 100, Seattle, WA 98115). My studio is called Yoga by Fran Gallo and it is a gem of a studio. During this period of pandemic, I was offering only online live streaming of yoga classes. But I am now starting to teach in-person classes in the studio, too. Most classes are hybrid so I can simultaneously teach in-studio and online. So happy!  I love to travel and I speak a few foreign languages.  I see life as a continual learning process.

I have been teaching hatha yoga since 1996 and love the community I am a part of through my yoga practice and teaching.  I have met the most wonderful people through yoga.

This blog provides me an opportunity to share my thoughts on various topics of interest and to reflect on the intricacies and preciousness of daily life.

Topics in my blog include:

• yoga
• health
• hiking
• nature
• photography
• cooking
• life stories
• my Sicilian heritage

When you subscribe to my blog, you will enjoy quality writing, infused with my heart and soul. I hope you’ll enjoy reading my blog entries. Here is the link to sign up for classes, both Zoom online livestream and in-studio classes: https://frangallo.com/class-schedule/

Namaste, Fran    www.FranGallo.com