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Svoboda, Marie (1920-2012)

Marie Svoboda, Seattle’s pioneering grande dame of yoga, opened her Queen Anne studio in 1969. It was a bold move for one of the city's few leotard-clad women then offering yoga classes at community...

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Wagoner, David (1926-2021)

David Wagoner, considered the dean of Pacific Northwest poets, was already embarked on a promising literary career when his mentor, the legendary Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), called in the winter of ...

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3 Timeline Entries

Yoga master Pierre Bernard moves to Seattle in 1906.

In 1906, yoga groundbreaker Pierre Bernard (1876-1955) moves to Seattle, where over the next several years he will establish four schools to introduce the physical practice of hatha yoga and complemen...

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Poet David Wagoner moves to Seattle in September 1954.

In September 1954, David Wagoner (b. 1926), who will become known as the dean of Northwest poetry, drives his 1950 Chevy coupe from Indiana to Seattle to assume a position teaching at the University o...

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Marie Svoboda closes her Seattle yoga studio on February 28, 1998.

On February 28, 1998, Marie Svoboda (1920-2012), Seattle's pioneering grande dame of yoga, closes her Queen Anne yoga studio after teaching roughly 15 classes per week there for 30 years. The narrow, ...

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