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Hi!
I'm Melissa
I decided to create my own little space on the web to tell and share my experience, my journey into yoga.
I encountered yoga in 2017, when I started practicing Ashtanga and it immediately became part of my life.
What pushed me towards the search for yoga was the intention to bring calm and tranquility into my life and to improve its quality, to choose a path towards wellbeing and spirituality.
In 2019 I then decided to undertake a deeper training path, becoming a Yoga Alliance certified teacher.
I hope, with my contents, I can be of help to all those people who would like to start practicing yoga or who are looking for ideas and advice.
Something about me
How it all started
I was looking for something, but I didn’t know exactly where to start. I thought yoga could help me somehow and so I started looking for videos on youtube.
I found all kinds of material and started practicing, and day after day I felt that what I did made me feel good, but I still wasn’t completely satisfied, so I continued to explore the various possibilities and proposals of youtube until, by chance, I came across a video of Kino MacGregor. I didn’t know who she was yet, but I had the feeling from the first moment that I had found what I was looking for. It was precisely at that moment that I had my first approach to the ashtanga method and began to gradually build my practice.
In 2019 I participated in my first teacher training and from that moment on I have never stopped studying, exploring and putting myself out there.
I followed training courses in mindfulness, pranayama, yin yoga and adjustments. I participated in various workshops and intensives with Kino MacGregor, David Robson, Jelena Vesic, Doug Swenson. I tried my hand at Tibetan bells following a path with a Tibetan master. I trained in yoga anatomy, from a scientific and therapeutic point of view.
I like to learn and explore, even with yoga styles, even if I always return to ashtanga, which was my first love, the beginning of this whole incredible journey.
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My inspirational quote
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
— K. Pattabhi Jois —