Elizabeth Reninger has worked as a baker, a bookseller, a teacher of feminist theory, a research assistant and (currently) a yoga/qigong instructor.   She holds a Masters degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin/Madison and in Chinese Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College).  She is an ongoing student of Eastern philosophy and a lover of flowers.  Teachers who have inspired her include Thich Nhat Hanh, Leslie Temple-Thurston, Richard Freeman, Ponlop Rinpoche and Chalanda Sai Ma.

Elizabeth's thoughts about her poetry....

 "My poems most often have their origin in the delight and mystery and wisdom I find within the natural world… and how these processes, these movements of the elements, can be mirrors to the sort of intra-psychic transformation described by the world’s great mystical traditions (Yoga in its Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Sufi varieties). It is through poetry that I explore the playful relationships between mind and body and spirit and world… with the hope of – in some small way, through the view that my work offers – bringing to them a greater balance, clarity and freedom.”