Press and Notes

Published in Percorsi Yoga, YANI yoga notebooks, July 2024

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement...

Published in Percorsi Yoga, YANI yoga notebooks, January 2023

Contentment is one of the prescriptions (Niyama) indicated among the preliminary practices in some classical yoga texts that outline an eight-stage practice...

A reflection and dedication honoring Patañjali's foundational sutras, which guide our practice toward mental stillness and non-violence.

A selection of dedicated yoga teachers who have been continuing their practice and study with me regularly for over ten years across Europe.

Rossella Baroncini – published in the quarterly magazine Yoga Therapy Ireland No. 72, Summer 2018

The energy of Vanda Scaravelli’s teaching is still alive. Her message is rich in a transformative power that is still expanding and reaching many lives...

Emina Cevro Vukovic in Yoga Journal Italy | June 2008

If a talented director wanted to make a historical film about the early steps of yoga in Europe, I would suggest telling the story of Vanda Scaravelli...

Published in Percorsi Yoga, YANI yoga notebooks, July 2024

Nell’arte dell’insegnamento dello yoga il silenzio ha un ruolo molto importante, almeno quanto la chiarezza delle parole, che non devono essere troppe, devono essere quelle giuste per lasciare agli allievi il piacere della scoperta e per non anticipare la loro percezione...

My experience, in the tradition of Vanda Scaravelli (Published in Percorsi Yoga, YANI yoga notebooks, January-February 2008)

I view the yoga tradition as a river that, for thousands of years, many streams and springs have nourished along its course toward the great ocean, but the primary source...

We met on Clare Island. On the teacher-student relationship and “nature” in yoga. (Published in Yoga Therapy Ireland magazine, Spring 2014)

When we want to reconnect more deeply with our Life, we often go in search of a place where we can be in closer contact with nature...

Rossella Baroncini (Yoga Therapy Ireland No. 28, Winter 2006)

I happened to be one of Vanda Scaravelli's direct students. I studied individually under her guidance for the last seventeen years of her life...

Melanie Wilsher (Yoga and Health Magazine 2005)

At my last yoga retreat, I invited Rossella to lead a class, introducing three fundamental principles, “three friends in one”: breath, gravity, and the extension rhythm of the spine...

“When ‘the tiger’ becomes your friend…” Published in Dansk Yoga NYT – 2007

There is a deep beauty within our body that, covered by layers and layers of dust, wants to find a way to be free and shine in the sun...