WHEN YOU FIND YOUR PLACE WHERE YOU ARE, THE PRACTICE COMES BY ITSELF<\/p>\n<\/div>
Rossella Baroncini (Yoga Therapy Ireland winter 2006 issue n.28)<\/em><\/p>\n It happened that I was gifted to be one of Vanda Scaravelli\u2019s pupils. I studied directly under her guidance for the last seventeen years of her life. I met her when I was just twenty six, she lived very close by me in Fiesole. I often saw her walking in the woods, without knowing her. I saw something very beautiful in the silence and the way she was with nature. Something very different from others \u2013 a total non attachment \u2013 she was a free spirit. I knoked to her door and she opened it. At that time I knew very little about yoga but very soon I started to practice, as she said \u201cwith infinite time and no ambition\u201d.<\/p>\n There is a mistery in the teacher \u2013 student relationship that is as the same time necessity and freedom.<\/p>\n Now yoga is for me simplicity and a deep reconnection with nature, with the forces that sustain our life. Probably it is what our era needs, to go beyond division, to find unity not only with other human beings but with the whole planet earth. With yoga we could find a new way to make peace with our bodies, without imposing, starting from where we really are, cultivating the open attitude of a biginner mind.
\nConscious breathing puts us in that innocent state of silence in which we could listen to our own body and the body itself is going to give us the answer, in the right moment.
\nIn this way yoga practice becomes a friendly meeting of body and mind and beauty comes towards us from deep inside.
\nOpening our bodies to the action of gravity we discover that by undoing the beauty of \u201cwhat is\u201d emerges, the spine re-awakens and spreads strenght and unity through the whole body, focusing the mind in the right movement.
\nTo be in contact with gravity, breath and spine means to be in contact with the new, and the new is coming every instant \u2013 that is a way to let go what we no longer need and to be more creative in our life with an open mind and no prejudice.
\nProbably, with our daily practice we could give a little contribution to the blossoming of joy,.
\nIn this approach, teaching cannot be captured and closed in a definition, in a \u201cmethod\u201d, it is just being ourseves.
\nOnly with a fire you can start another fire and it takes infinite time and no ambition. The three friends: Breath, Gravity and the Beautiful Spine are there for that \u2013 to let you be your own teacher and your own student , to enjoy your practice and let the flower of love opens his petals in your chest. \u201cWhen you find your place where you are the practice comes by itself\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rossellabaroncini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}