Spiritually oriented from a very young age and actively involved in different charities, projects, and orphanages in Italy and abroad, I grew 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, my main question has been: what happens when we die?

In my busy 30s, while working in the field of fashion between London and Milan, I was 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 to China and Southeast Asia, consequently moved to explore India. The experience that changed my life was at Rahaman Maharishi Ashram in Tamil Nadu, a Hindu philosopher and yogi whose position on monism (the identity of the individual soul and the creator of souls) and Maya (illusion) greatly contributed to yogic philosophy and the technique of vichara (self-inquiry).

During three 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 taught at the Pancharatman Mandir in Assi Ghat.

During my time in India, I 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.
• Between 2011/16, I directly studied with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and again in 2022, I followed three 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 2016, I started to practice Ashtanga yoga at KPJAYI in Mysore with Sri Sharath Jois and have been studying there yearly since. During these years, I have followed the teachings of Dr. M.A. Ph.D. Jayashree (Yoga Sutras, ślokas) and Professor M.A. Narasimhan (Philosophy and Classical Yoga), Lakshimsha Bhat (Chanting and sanskrit).
• In 2018, I took part in teachings by Mingyur Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in Bodhgaya
• In 2021, I studied “The Hindu and Tibetan Rivers of Buddhism,” by Prof. Tenzin Robert Thurman at Columbia University, USA.

These experiences have profoundly shaped my understanding and practice of yoga and meditation, and I am dedicated to sharing this knowledge with others who seek to evolve spiritually and consciously for a better lifestyle.