Shai Kaplan and Justine Fisher
Breath between Two Worlds: The Extraordinary Journey of Shai Kaplan

Shai Kaplan was a direct student of B. K. S. lyengar, who encouraged her to introduce the healing power of therapeutic yoga to the healthcare system. Collaborating with Reuth, Shaare Zedek, and Soroka Medical Centers in Israel, Shai is now expanding AnuYoga globally, bringing the benefits of lyengar Yoga to countries across the European Union.

Since 7 October, AnuYoga has focused its efforts in Israel on meeting the critical needs of war-affected patients including families of hostages, freed hostages, injured soldiers, and wounded civilians with the transformative impact of therapeutic yoga in recovery and resilience.

Justine Fisher was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She currently lives and works in Watermill, NY, where she creates large-scale oil paintings that blend abstraction and figuration, landscapes and domestic interiors, and the real and the uncanny. Working within these liminal spaces, Fisher builds numerous gestural layers of color, form, and texture to create works that draw from traditional genres, art history, her own personal experiences, and the natural world to investigate the complexity of human nature, intellect, and desire. Justine received her MFA in 2013 from the New York Academy of Art, her BFA in 2010 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her BA in Art History in 2007 from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions organized by Weosky Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2013); New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (2013 and 2012); Sotheby’s, New York, NY (2011), and Phillips de Pury, New York, NY (2010).