Student of Yoga

Passionate about classical studies and fine arts from an early age, I have traveled to over 60 countries alone delving into yoga, Eastern philosophy and meditation with annual trips to the UK, India, the US and recently New Zealand.

Spiritually oriented from a very young age and actively involved in different charities, projects, and orphanages in Italy and abroad I grow up in my grandmother’s spiritual community, linked to the nuns of Mother Teresa of Kolkata, consequently I was introduced to traditional yoga by my aunt Franca Maria Plutino when I was 20 years old.

Since  I was little the main question was:  what happens when we die?

In my busy 30s while working in the field of fashion between London and Milan, not satisfied with my job as a designer and life in general, I jumped and fell in love with the study of traditional yoga thanks to Manuela Toso, a student of Swami Yogeshwaranand Saraswati, founder of the Yoga Niketan Parmarth Ashram in Rishikesh.

In 2006 I traveled for the first time in China and Southeast Asia, consequently to South India. The experience that changed my life was at Rahaman Maharishi Ashram in Tamil Nadu an Hindu philosopher and yogi whose position on monism (the identity of the individual soul and the creator of souls) and Maya (illusion) has a great contribution to the yogic philosophy and the technique of vichara (self-“pondering” inquiry).

During 3 years of exploration, I spent time in remote holy sites, received traditional education at yoga āshrams, and lived in Varanasi – one of the oldest Cities in the world – where I deepened my study of Hatha Yoga with RavindraJi, a Brahmin priest who used to teaches at the Pancharatman Mandir in Assi Ghat.

During my time in India, I have attended:

In 2009 an immersion course at the  Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Center by Sharat Arora a direct student of B. K. S. Iyengar. 

In 2010, a Vipassana meditation course by Goenka, after taking refuge in Buddhism with H.H the Karmapa in Sarnath;

In 2011 I directly studied with His Holiness the 14^th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and again in 2022 I followed 3 days of Teaching on Nagarjuna’s Commentary of Bodhichitta at the Kalachakra Teaching Ground in Bodhgaya;  His Holiness also conferred the Blessing of 21 Tara;

In 2018 I took part in Mingyur Rinpoche  and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche teaching in Bodhgaya;

In 2021 I studied an online course  “The Hindu and Tibetan rivers of  Buddhism” by Prof Tenzin Robert Thurman – at Columbia University USA