just breathe

Ashtanga Yoga and meditation offer two complementary ways to cultivate clarity and balance. Through breath and movement, Ashtanga builds strength, focus, and steadiness. Through stillness, meditation helps us recognise the natural awareness beneath our thoughts and emotions. Together they teach a simple truth: Calm is not created — it is uncovered. These ancient practices support modern life by improving concentration, reducing stress, and helping us respond rather than react. Whether in the workplace or on the mat, they offer a grounded way to reconnect with ourselves and move through life with presence and resilience.

Mind

In the yogic view, meditation is the disciplined training of the mind, guiding it to quiet the restless stream of thoughts. By learning to observe mental activity without attachment, we begin to recognize the subtle patterns that shape our perceptions and actions. A trained mind becomes clearer, steadier, and more receptive to insight.

Body

From a yogic perspective, the body is of utmost importance for our holistic well-being, for it is within the body that the mental and spiritual realms find their dwelling. The body is our first field of practice — the place where breath, sensation, and awareness meet. Through āsana and conscious movement, we learn to listen, to align, and to cultivate stability and ease

Spirit

Spirit, or the deeper Self, is not something separate from body and mind; it is the essence that permeates both. Yoga teaches that when the body is steady and the mind is calm, the luminosity of the inner Self can be perceived. This is the journey from the gross to the subtle, from fragmentation to wholeness, from identification to awareness.

I am an Ashtanga yoga practitioner, explorer, and Italian designer, weaving sustainability and eco-design into every gesture of my work. After years moving through the creative constellations of London and Milan, among artists, ateliers, and theatres, I heard a quieter call — one that asked not for more form, but for deeper meaning.
Today my life unfolds in the study and transmission of yoga and meditation, alongside the academic exploration of ancient civilizations. These are not separate paths, but one continuous breath shaping my teaching and my way of creating — a life guided by awareness, integrity, and intimate listening.
I offer this journey to those who feel the tremor of awakening within, and who wish to meet themselves and the world with greater tenderness, courage, and harmony.
Simona

Girls-en-route

A Lifelong Journey​

I was born on the Mediterranean coast, in the lands of ancient Magna Graecia, where the philosophical legacy of Pythagoras and the Italic mystery traditions still permeates cultural memory.
I grew up traveling with my parents, encountering diverse cultures long before I could fully conceptualize them. By the age of sixteen, while studying at the Liceo Classico in Reggio Calabria and cultivating a strong foundation in the humanities and the arts, I was already exploring Great Britain and Europe with curiosity and independence. At eighteen I left home to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Design — a decision that marked the beginning of decades of professional development, intercultural immersion.
Before devoting myself fully to yoga, I built a career in luxury fashion and international theatre.These formative years refined my aesthetic sensibility, discipline, and ability to collaborate within complex creative systems.
Over time, my focus shifted from shaping materials to cultivating contemplative practice.
I immersed myself in Asian traditions always in the role of a student, learning not only from formal institutions but through lived experience — particularly from the women who welcomed me into their homes, rituals, and daily lives, offering access to embodied knowledge and cultural continuity.
I am currently writing my first book, a reflective narrative that weaves together travel, spiritual apprenticeship, design, and the study of ancient civilizations. Through this work, I aim to articulate a lived philosophy of practice, transmission, and feminine lineage across cultures, offering both personal testimony and a contribution to contemporary discourse on contemplative education.

One by One

Mysore Venezia from October 2025

Simona Nucera
Every Monday till Friday

5:30 to 10:00AM

Yoga

Aṣṭāṅgayogaḥ
अष्टाङ्गयोग:
The Eight Limbs of Yogaḥ

Simona in setu bandhasana