PHYLLIS PILGRIM

was born in Tampico, Mexico of an American mother and a Scottish father who worked for the Shell Oil Company. Later transferred to Borneo and Java, they were captured by the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. Five-year-old Phyllis along with her mother and younger brother were interned in civilian internment camps for 3½ years until 1945. The family survived, returned to England where Phyllis started her education and gained a degree in Geography from London University. She taught Geography in high schools in London and Barbados for 24 years. She married a Barbadian in London and has a son, Owen from that marriage. Phyllis left Barbados in 1981 to work as a yoga teacher at Rancho La Puerta, in Tecate, Mexico where she still teaches and directs the “Specialty and Spirit Week” programs. She lives in San Diego.