Hello, I’m Elena, a stubborn Italian who always sees the positive side in everything and that, much more importantly, I will help you to do the same.
For this reason I am not “just” a yoga teacher and teacher trainer Yoga Alliance.
When you decide to be accompanied by me, you find yourself in a strange mix of yoga, positivity, laughter, realism, reiki and, why not, a bit of magic. Imagine a mix of Joey from F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (well, laughing with him wasn’t difficult), a Captain America, (who also saw good sides to Thanos’ snap) and Gandalf from Lord of the Rings, as an entirely female team.
My path to yoga has been very particular to say the least: …I started out on a bet with a friend.
Well, yes, I thought yoga wasn’t for me, at the time I liked physical “sports” more, so I didn’t understand what was interesting about yoga for someone who did climbing… but he offered me, in case I didn’t like it, a dinner at Verbier’s most expensive restaurant so… how could I say no?
…Too bad I’m still waiting for that dinner 😂😂😂
From that moment, and thanks to my curiosity, I went from one course to another, from one workshop to another, from one Teacher Training to another to try to get a complete … holistic idea of the practice of yoga, which, yes, is not just a sequence of movements… Indeed, it is much… much more!
The two Teacher trainings that characterize me the most are theIyengar style and the Traditional Tantra.
The Iyengar style is fantastic because it starts from the physical side to go deeper, it’s a physical style, where you stay in the positions long enough to hear the muscles scream 😅 but where we can better understand the physical blockages that we can have and as a result, solve them, work on posture and alignment and then move better at all times.
The teachers who have helped me most in this style, and who continue to do so, are undoubtedly Glenn Ceresoli and Lisa Nicholas.
(I can’t put the complete list of all my teachers in every style… I don’t have enough space😉 but if you want to know about them, don’t hesitate to ask )
The Traditional Tantric style… it’s quite the opposite. I’m not saying the body isn’t important here too, but we play much more with the energies… Hey, I told you I was a bit of a Gandalf.
Aside from the jokes, playing with energy allows you to have more energy yourself.
You’ve definitely heard of “prana” the vital energy, and that’s exactly what we do with traditional tantra.
We use the energies around us to increase the energies within us thanks to mantras, yantra, yagna and more..
For this style, I have to thank especially Ra Lalita Dasi and Guruji Rajkumar Baswar who with their family made me rediscover that the world… …is much more than what we see with our eyes…
The good thing about having both trainings? First I can use Iyengar yoga to get rid of the physical blockages and align the spine, and once the spine is free, the energies will flow better to finally unveil the best version of yourself.
What are you waiting for? Don’t you want to go beyond what you thought was your best?
Call me!