Skip to content

Jessinia Ruff

Yoga

  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
  • Offerings

Category Archives: Travel

Amplified Nervousness

A voice lilts with each phrase of the Qu’ran, pausing on certain words and then suddenly dropping off at the end of a verse. Silent pauses give way to a foreign tongue of Arabic words knit together by a scribe who has spent his life memorizing the book. Bismillahi rahmani rahimi.

Posted byjruff0808October 5, 2017June 4, 2018Posted inTravelLeave a comment on Amplified Nervousness

Hamam Child

The nervous laughter echoed down the streets of Meknes as we walked to our unknown fate at the hamam. The baths of Morocco, a common practice for women and men here and a challenge for Americans.

Posted byjruff0808October 5, 2017June 4, 2018Posted inTravelLeave a comment on Hamam Child

Atay bi Nana

A silver teapot with floral engravings sits on the counter in my Seattle apartment overlooking Lake Union. Picking up the metal teapot evokes memories of my time in Morocco. My thoughts smile at the memory of haggling the price from 600 dirhams down to 70 dirhams at a little shop in the marketplace. The medina’sContinue reading “Atay bi Nana”

Posted byjruff0808October 5, 2017June 4, 2018Posted inTravelLeave a comment on Atay bi Nana
Jessinia Ruff, Create a website or blog at WordPress.com